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November 2013 - Posts
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HotLink is one of those companies that are always on the move and coming up with new ways to simplify IT management complexity. I've been fortunate to meet up with Lynn LeBlanc, the founder and CEO of HotLink, over the last two years in person at trade shows like Citrix Synergy and VMworld. And I'... Read More...
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In the IT industry, change is constant. The ebb and flow of disruptive technologies is a cyclical phenomenon, advancing in fits and starts across the IT landscape. Yet every so often a wide set of disruptions mature together, bringing with them the opportunity for wholesale IT transformation. In the... Read More...
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Software Defined Networks (SDN) made serious traction within the industry this year, evolving from trend to reality. SDN is all about increased agility and lower operational cost through automation and orchestration with the rest of the IT infrastructure, as well as increased visibility and control ... Read More...
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PHD Virtual Technologies, a pioneer in virtual backup and innovator of disaster recovery assurance solutions, announced today a free recovery time calculator to quickly and automatically calculate how long it will take to recover virtual machines and critical applications in the event of an outage o... Read More...
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New research from Virtual Bridges, Inc. reveals that the number of devices in the workplace is skyrocketing, changing the way people work and creating significant management and security challenges for IT professionals. Today, 80 percent of companies permit BYOD, with a majority employing VDI to man... Read More...
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"Flash Storage for Virtualization For Dummies", introduces you to the options that flash technology offers so you can meet the increasing demands on storage created by virtualization.... Read More...
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Pivotal CF, a commercially supported hybrid Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) based on Cloud Foundry, is now generally available as a standalone product that runs on VMware vSphere. Pivotal CF includes:... Read More...
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It’s so simple to add resources to a virtual machine to thwart performance issues that it’s easy to end up over-provisioning in the virtual data center. Similarly, with initiatives to increase virtual machine density and gain greater efficiency of virtualized infrastructure, it’s just as simple to h... Read More...
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Learn how Simpana 10 drives down data management costs and complexity with highly-automated, efficient processes built into a single, scalable platform. Policy-based operations and unprecedented capabilities such as parallel deduplication simplify data management within large scale environments.... Read More...
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While nesting a VMware ESXi hypervisor inside another VMware product like Workstation, Fusion, or vSphere may be possible, doing so in a production environment probably isn't the best solution (that's me trying not to use the word "crazy"), and it definitely shouldn't be considered a supported archi... Read More...
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In 2013, cloud security was discussed extensively by the industry, but major implementations of encryption in the cloud are still relatively immature. While security risks to data continue to increase, cloud and software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers are realizing end users will demand more robust s... Read More...
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The coming year will see an increasing demand from customers who want to run their data centers along "webscale IT" practices, but the challenge will be how to provide environments that work simultaneously for legacy applications and new cloud-native ones simultaneously. Whatever technologies are ch... Read More...
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Parallels has been around since 2000, and VMblog has been actively covering the company since the Website launched back in 2004. Parallels has deep roots in virtualization and cloud technologies, and the company has a number of solutions on the market. I had the opportunity to speak with James Bot... Read More...
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In response to PRISM and the general malaise created by NSA revelations, 2014 will see an outcry and demand for Safe Harbor-like regulations in the United States, just like the significant push for regulation seen in the European Union. This will impact what employers can and cannot do in terms of m... Read More...
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Confio Software, part of the SolarWinds family, announced today that its Ignite performance monitoring solutions have earned three distinctions in Penton Media's Windows IT Pro magazine annual awards program.... Read More...
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Info-Tech Research Group has recognized CommVault as a "Champion" in Content and Email Archiving in its latest Vendor Landscape Report. This industry report recognizes outstanding vendors in the technology marketplace based on an assessment of the strength of their offerings and their ability to del... Read More...
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We have lived through multiple cycles of technology moving towards centralized computing and cycles moving technology towards computing at the edge. So far, we have yet to see super computers managing all of our computations and feeding them to dumb terminals in our offices or at home. Similarly, we... Read More...
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For many IT organizations, 2014 is going to bring a renewed emphasis on refining their network and data center operations to ensure they deliver the best user experience possible. From our perspective, then, 2014 trends will include:... Read More...
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It's an interesting time to be in the enterprise cloud business. Countless cloud startups are developing intuitive products due to the low infrastructure costs and barriers to entry. End-users are eating them up. Dropbox just hit 200 million users - you can bet that wouldn't have happened if they ha... Read More...
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Exclusively for the virtualization community, Veeam is creating a new raffle of great prizes that will improve IT Pros daily working experience. 5 winners will get new gear from Veeam.... Read More...
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