What's New

• 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

• How To Manage vSphere from Workstation

  Here's a cool new trick I learned absolutely by accident when working with a Wordpress server. 04/24/2013 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

• A Role for Role-Based Monitoring in the Virtualization, Cloud Space

  Security monitoring must adapt to remain effective in the cloud and virtualization arena. That's where role-based monitoring comes in. 04/15/2013 read more

• Salesforce.com Aims To Simplify Mobile Development

  Salesforce.com believes while there's no shortage of mobile applications for consumers, the same can't be said for enterprise apps. 04/11/2013 read more

• Savvis Looks to HP's Moonshot for Big Data Offering

  Savvis may be the first major cloud provider to deploy Hewlett-Packard's new Moonshot servers for customers looking to lower the footprints of their datacenters amidst increasing capacity requirements. 04/11/2013 read more

• 5 Things To Not Do with vSphere

  What you do with one hypervisor might not translate well to other hypervisors. Here's what to avoid doing when working with vSphere. 04/10/2013 read more

• The Many Uses of VMware's Hand On Lab Infrastructure

  It'd be nice to see the company use it for VCP self-paced training next. 04/08/2013 read more

• Hyper-V Deep Dive, Part 5: NUMA, Scalability, Monitoring Improvements

  Now that you know what's new in networking in Hyper-V, let's look at scalability, NUMA and VM monitoring. 04/01/2013 read more

• Mirantis Adds Fuel to OpenStack

  In a move that promises to help organizations deploy standardized public and private clouds based on OpenStack, systems integrator Mirantis has released its configuration and deployment libraries called Fuel to the open source community under the Apache 2 license. 03/26/2013 read more

• Storage Race Continues with 16 GFC

  When choosing storage options, don't forget the fibre. 03/25/2013 read more

• Converged Infrastructure, or 'Where Did All the Silos Go?'

  Quite a few companies are mashing up server, storage, networking and even the hypervisor into turnkey solutions that can scale up or down as data center needs dictate. 03/20/2013 read more

• Why Did Oracle Buy Nimbula?

  Oracle last week said it has acquired Nimbula, a company launched in 2010 by some of the original developers of Amazon Web Services EC2. 03/20/2013 read more

• SunGard Adds SaaS-Based Business Continuity App

  SunGard this week released a Software a Service (SaaS) app designed to let less-technical operations personnel create and track their enterprise and disaster recovery and business continuity plans. 03/20/2013 read more

• Why IBM Might Be Interested in Rackspace -- or Not

  Just two weeks after IBM committed to build its cloud computing infrastructure software and services around OpenStack, the company may be looking to acquire a major IaaS provider, according to published reports. 03/19/2013 read more

• Hyper-V Deep Dive, Part 4: More Networking Enhancements

  Enhancements to the newest version of Hyper-V can affect the design of your networks. Here's a look at NIC Teaming and some new data center design options. 03/18/2013 read more