Wednesday, July 23, 2014 - Posts : @VMblog

Open Data Center Alliance Accelerates Enterprise Path to Software-Defined Networking with New Usage Model Publication

The Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA), the global organization where members work together to advance the deployment of enterprise cloud solutions and services that are interoperable, secure and free of vendor lock-in, today published version 2.0 of its master usage model on software-defined networki... Read More...

Posted Wednesday, July 23, 2014 7:23 PM by David Marshall | 0 Comments
Filed under: Network Virtualization

Egnyte Expands Virtualization Services with Windows Hyper-V

Egnyte, the leading provider of an enterprise file-sharing platform built from the cloud down, today announced it has extended the platform’s virtualization offerings to include support for Windows Hyper-V. Egnyte’s flagship hybrid solution Storage Sync integrated with Hyper-V enables customers to a... Read More...

Posted Wednesday, July 23, 2014 7:17 PM by David Marshall | 0 Comments
Filed under: Storage

Technology Gurus Don Jones and Greg Shields Join @Pluralsight

Pluralsight, a global leader in online training for technology and creative professionals, today announced the addition of two expert course authors, veteran IT specialists Don Jones and Greg Shields. Jones and Shields will contribute to Pluralsight’s rapidly growing library, focusing their expertis... Read More...

Posted Wednesday, July 23, 2014 7:09 PM by David Marshall | 0 Comments
Filed under: People

Arise Virtual Solutions Shrinks Application Recovery Times to Minutes with Actifio Sky for Branch Office Data Management

Actifio, the copy data virtualization company, today announced that Arise Virtual Solutions Inc., the leading global provider of virtual, work-at-home business process outsourcing (BPO) and crowdsourcing solutions, has deployed Actifio Sky to ensure data accessibility, and business resiliency across... Read More...

Posted Wednesday, July 23, 2014 7:21 AM by David Marshall | 0 Comments
Filed under: Cloud

@Flexiant Continues Innovation with Release of Flexiant #Cloud Orchestrator V4.2

Flexiant today announced the release of Flexiant Cloud Orchestrator V4.2. With V4.2, Flexiant tightens its integration with Parallels Automation and Parallels Cloud Server, extends its software defined networking (SDN) capabilities to the VMware platform and adds official support for VMware vSphere ... Read More...

Posted Wednesday, July 23, 2014 6:58 AM by David Marshall | 0 Comments
Filed under: Cloud

Cloud Driving On-Premise IT Commoditization

As companies continue to evaluate cloud as an option and alternative to paying for and maintaining an on premise IT environment, it becomes clear that the economics of moving to the cloud are very dependent on things like scale, existing IT staff expertise, security and availability requirements, et... Read More...

Posted Wednesday, July 23, 2014 6:52 AM by David Marshall | 0 Comments
Filed under: VMBlog Info, Cloud, Contributed, Virtualization and Beyond

Virtual SANs vs. Good old SANs: Can't they just get along? #Webinar

Dark forces in the IT industry like to polarize popular opinion; most recently they argue for keeping all the storage in the servers using virtual SANs, leaving nothing external. These sudden mood swings, while attracting a young cult following, lose sight of lessons learned over the past 20 years.... Read More...

Posted Wednesday, July 23, 2014 6:43 AM by David Marshall | 0 Comments
Filed under: Webinar

Q&A: Interview with Octoblu Talking Internet of Things (IoT), Protocols and Communication

With the latest buzz going on around the Internet of Things (IoT), I wanted to find out more about what was happening in this space; and to do that, I was able to meet up with a new company just coming out of stealth mode, Octoblu. And I was fortunate to be able to speak with Geir Ramleth, the comp... Read More...

Posted Wednesday, July 23, 2014 6:41 AM by David Marshall | 0 Comments
Filed under: VMBlog Info, Interviews