A quick look at a quartet of key virtualization and cloud-building tools in the Microsoft portfolio.
Your virtualized infrastructure can be a bit more complex than traditional client/server systems; thus, it requires new thinking when testing and eventually implementing your DR plans. Second in a series.
- By Eric Beehler
- 02/07/2012
BDR in the cloud takes some new thinking -- and understanding of the nuances that make that plan different from what you know in the physical world -- and lots more testing to ensure a recovery goes right. First in a series.
- By Eric Beehler
- 02/02/2012
Three vendors, three opinions on what drives their solutions. In this second of a series, Doug Barney talks with Lloyd Bloom, senior product manager of CloudSleuth at Compuware Corp.
A hands-on look at using App Controller and Virtual Machine Manager for private cloud deployments.
Three vendors, three opinions on what drives their solutions. First up is Brandon Hoff of Emulex, on the keys to the cloud and WANs that his company's solutions take advantage of to more easily move workloads among hybrid clouds.
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Profitable firm aiming for $200 million in 2012 revenues.
Bruce Hoard interviews the Quest CTO to find out how the acquisitions of ChangeBase and VKernel will impact customers.
Do you have a demand for testing hardware to support new projects and updates? A virtual test lab could fit the bill.
- By Thomas Vater, Andreas Rynes
- 11/01/2011
Maintaining control and security are essential when building out virtualized datacenters.
- By Eric Beehler
- 11/01/2011
More and more x86 workloads are returning to the big box. It makes perfect sense, too, as it's the big box where the cloud had been conceived decades ago.
Dell Compellent SAN delivers agility, ease of use to Scott County, Minn. and it could save them $60K/hour in the event of a disaster.
A Q&A with the tech chief on what keeps the company looking above the cloud.
Jim Curry, general manager of Rackspace Cloud Builders, is having a good time giving the people what they want.
The VMware CIO runs internal projects and test-drives new products.
ADCs serve a new generation of business applications, with specific benefits when implemented in virtualized and cloud-based environments.
- By Eric Beehler
- 09/01/2011
The company is charging full-speed into the cloud -- and showing it has what it takes to dominate an industry.
With their growing pains behind them, the Microsoft hypervisor and management suite have become formidable competitors.
A Q&A with Paul Prince, CTO of the Dell Enterprise Product Group.