What's New

• The Disaster Recovery Assurance Paradigm Shift

  The cloud has shifted the frequency with which we need to test our systems' capabilities to come back from disaster, from months to right now and often. 06/17/2013 read more

• Red Hat OpenShift Public PaaS Is Finally Available

  After more than a year in beta, Red Hat this week used the annual Red Hat Summit in Boston to announce that its OpenShift-based public Platform as a Service (PaaS) is now available. 06/13/2013 read more

• Hewlett-Packard Releases Its OpenStack Cloud OS

  Hewlett-Packard this week used its annual Discover technology conference in Las Vegas to flesh out its cloud hardware, software and services portfolio. 06/13/2013 read more

• Logs are Easy To Find in the vSphere Web Client: True or False?

  Amazingly easy, once you realize where to look. 06/12/2013 read more

• Network Virtualization Key to IaaS Clouds

  Here's why network virtualization is a better fit than traditional networking for IaaS cloud deployments. 06/10/2013 read more

• Salesforce.com Finds Its ExactTarget: CMOs

  Salesforce.com this week made clear it wants to be a clear player in cloud marketing with its agreement to acquire ExactTarget for $2.5 billion. 06/06/2013 read more

• Investors Fuel OpenStack Integrator Mirantis with $10 Million

  Mirantis said it will use the funds to extend the capabilities of Fuel, a set of configuration and deployment libraries. 06/06/2013 read more

• ESXi is Hyper-V; Management Isn't

  These intensely competitive hypervisors by all appearances are the same. But it's the tools for managing their environments that make all the difference in the world. 06/05/2013 read more

• IBM Bags Cloud Service Provider SoftLayer

  In a move that will substantially extend its public cloud network, IBM on Tuesday said it is acquiring what is believed to be the largest privately-held IaaS provider. 06/04/2013 read more

• LogMeIn Jumps into Cloud Identity Management with AppGuru

  LogMeIn last week launched the preview of AppGuru, which lets IT centralize management of employees using cloud services. 05/30/2013 read more

• IaaS Field Widens with Google Compute Engine Release

  Google announced its Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering nearly a year ago, and at the time I asked: Will it sink or swim? It'll be apparent soon enough. 05/30/2013 read more

• VMware Enters Public Cloud as Dell Exits

  VMware this week revealed plans to launch its widely anticipated public cloud service just a day after Dell pulled the plug on its plans to provide multiple IaaS offerings. 05/23/2013 read more

• TIBCO Finally Jumps onto the Cloud Bus

  The longtime SaaS holdout is now taking its enterprise application integration middleware online with the launch of a SaaS-based version of app connectors. 05/22/2013 read more

• Any Time, Any Place: Citrix CEO Mark Templeton Takes Computing Where Users Need It

  An interview with a long-standing tech CEO before he addresses the mobility troops at the company's Synergy conference. 05/21/2013 read more

• Unlocking the True Potential of Hybrid Cloud

  Automation and orchestration is the key to moving a cloud between its private and public manifestations. 05/15/2013 read more

• Hidden Jewel: vCenter Server Status

  Getting an immediate health check on your virtualized environment means never having to say, "I did not know that." That's what vCenter Server Status does. 05/13/2013 read more

• SAP To Offer HANA In-Memory Database as Cloud-Based Service

  The move will allow customers to run the company's flagship ERP, CRM and NetWeaver Business Warehouse offerings as an elastic subscription-based SaaS. 05/09/2013 read more

• Hyper-V Deep Dive 8: Improvements in Migration

  One thing virtualization admins can't do without: VM migration. We look at improvements that Microsoft has made in this area to conclude our series. 05/08/2013 read more

• Dell Acquires Multi-Cloud Manager Enstratius

  Dell is extending its push into management of multi-cloud environments with this week's acquisition of Enstratius. 05/08/2013 read more

• Expanding VMFS Volumes: Do or Do Not?

  It's one of the things I don't recommend, even thought the feature is built into vSphere. Still, don't do it 05/06/2013 read more

• Amazon Web Services Kicks Off Certification Program

  The new AWS Global Certification Program seeks to provide training and validation for customers and partners implementing systems and apps in the Amazon cloud. 05/02/2013 read more

• GE Takes 10 Percent Stake in Pivotal PaaS for Its Industrial Internet

  Pivotal, the company spun out of VMware and its parent EMC, officially opened for business last week, announcing its Platform as a Service (PaaS) cloud and a $105 million investment from GE. 05/02/2013 read more

• CA Extends Cloud Push with Layer 7 Buy

  While CA is best known for its mainframe management software, app development, systems administration and identity management tools, it is also no secret that the company has assembled a strong portfolio of cloud migration and management wares. 05/02/2013 read more

• Hyper-V Deep Dive 7: New Storage Enhancements

  Storing VMs on file shares, CSV enhancements, guest Fibre Channel, and the new VHDX format: it's all about better ways to work with storage in this version of Hyper-V. 04/29/2013 read more

• Box Reaches HIPAA Compliance

  Box said organizations can now securely store health care information in its popular cloud-based document storage and sharing service, now that it complies with HIPAA and HITECH. 04/25/2013 read more

• Amazon Now Storing 2 Trillion Objects in S3

  In the latest sign that Amazon's enterprise cloud business remains the envy of every other service provider, the amount of data stored in Amazon Web Services (AWS) Simple Storage Service, or S3, is now 2 trillion. 04/25/2013 read more

• Easily Rescan All ESXi Host Storage

  Add a VMFS volume to a vSphere cluster. Just don't do it manually. 04/24/2013 read more

• IBM Proclaims SSD Flash Storage at a Tipping Point

  Big Blue pledges to invest $1 billion over the next three years to extend its flash technology and integrate it into its server, storage and middleware portfolio. 04/16/2013 read more

• Rackspace To Expand OpenStack Service via Global Partners

  On the eve of the biannual gathering of OpenStack developers and stakeholders, Rackspace said it is lining up partners around the world to build their own Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offerings based on the open source cloud platform. 04/16/2013 read more

• Hyper-V Deep Dive 6: Security and Disaster Recovery

  Let's look at what Microsoft's hypervisor offers by way of improvements to security and disaster recovery. 04/15/2013 read more