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December 2011 - Posts
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With the increasing adoption of devices such as smartphones, tablets, touch sensitive screens and sub compact, ultra portable hardware, enterprises are going to realize that their employees are using these to access data and applications throughout the day. Android, Windows 7 (with the launch of Win... Read More...
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Virtualization, specifically client virtualization and VDI infrastructures, was one of, if not the most hyped technology of 2011. While Gartner has predicted that virtualization will be the highest-impact trend in the infrastructure and operations market through 2012, the reality is setting in that ... Read More...
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Storage has been slow to adopt change and still remains one of the most static elements of today's IT infrastructures. I believe this is due to a history of storage being driven from a hardware mindset. The storage industry, for the most part, has been controlled by a few major vendors who have been... Read More...
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2011 marked a significant year for cloud computing. More companies realized the efficiency benefits of moving to the cloud, and it became abundantly clear that this is no passing trend. In fact, with half of Gartner's top predictions for IT organizations and users for 2012 and beyond centered on the... Read More...
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The data center network is experiencing a major transformation to support server virtualization and cloud computing, convergence of data storage, application-to-application traffic and new high-performance applications. To address these needs, the data center network will become smarter and faster i... Read More...
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The past year saw the term "cloud" gain unprecedented visibility, moving it from the realm of tech into ubiquitous, consumer-friendly language. The cloud's growth in popularity, however, didn't necessarily translate into adoption-many enterprises and consumers alike both viewed the cloud with some a... Read More...
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The time when IT was just a support function to a few businesses around the world is over. Global politics and the global economy are being shaped by IT. For the IT leader to survive and sustain in this environment they must lead by consistently changing the strategies and re-create IT. This new era... Read More...
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DataCore Software, the industry’s premier provider of storage virtualization software, today introduced a new program for 2012 offering qualified cloud service providers (CSPs) rental access to its SANsymphony-V storage hypervisor. The program fulfills the intense demand to host advanced storage vir... Read More...
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In the holiday spirit, VMware has created a short video parody of “It’s a Wonderful Life,” highlighting an IT professional named Jimmy who has become apathetic about his job: “Every time I fix something, someone else submits a help ticket.” I'm sure many of us can relate!... Read More...
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JaguarPC, a market-leader in shared hosting, reseller web hosting, Virtual Private Servers (VPS hosting), and dedicated server hosting, announced today the implementation of the CloudLinux operating system (OS) to further improve server stability. Working alongside the policies and practices that Ja... Read More...
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For 2012 we have a pressure cooker - a mature WAN networking industry with billions of market cap tied up in it, battling it out over a well-known set of capabilities simmering in the pot. Customer demand is cranking up the heat, as cloud requirements for WAN optimization shift from proprietary netw... Read More...
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A few months ago I had the good fortune to hear VMware CEO Paul Maritz speak at a conference. Asked "which trends would you identify that will have the biggest impact on IT in the coming decade?" Paul identified two: cloud computing, and the transition underway in at the data layer - specifically me... Read More...
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If you've seen the movie "2012" or read any recent popular articles about the Mayan calendar, you know that 2012 already has its fair share of predictions! While I'm pretty confident that the world will still exist in 2013, I do think the space of networking will indeed undergo major changes in 2012... Read More...
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The explosion of APTs against high-profile companies and government agencies we saw in 2011 will become even more predominant in 2012. Organizations that come under fire from APTs will be at heightened risk, suffering tremendous credibility and financial loss.... Read More...
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As we say goodbye to 2011, it's been an incredible year of technology as the cloud continues to mature. Here are my predictions for 2012:... Read More...
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The super-prediction for networking in 2012 can be summarized in one word. Change.
The key drivers of this change - cloud and mobility - have steadily gained strength through 2011. Now, the datacenter is changing. The aApps are changing. And so is the way these apps are delivered and consumed... Read More...
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Public clouds have gained credibility in 2011 and have become a choice to fulfill computing needs at many companies. We have seen many of them deploy or migrate mission critical workloads to public clouds, while big IT players improve their offerings more and more. It is similar as when you see troo... Read More...
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The Merriam-Webster dictionary has five definitions for the word "cloud." None of them apply to IT, but the variability between "a visible mass of particles of condensed vapor" and "something that obscures or blemishes" is instructive to anyone working in the data center. In the past year, everyone ... Read More...
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The prominence of cloud computing as a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service pro... Read More...
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MokaFive, known for its innovative desktop-management solutions, announced today that it is providing an alternative to VMware ACE—a product that is being discontinued at the end of the year–at a 75 percent discount off of MokaFive Suite’s list price.... Read More...
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