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Legit Survey or Sales Pitch?

Not all IT surveys are disguised sales tools for a vendor's product, but enough are that you need to be on your guard.

Microsoft to Give Away Windows 10 to Current Users

The offer applies to users all the way back to Windows 7, and includes Windows Phone.

VMware Offers On-Demand Cloud with a Credit Card

The company provides $300 in free credits to test out the new service.

Fighting Vendor Lock-in, Brocade Offers Free One-Year License for SDN Controller

The latest move to help companies test the software-defined networking (SDN) waters comes from Brocade Communications Systems Inc., which yesterday announced a free, one-year license for its new Vyatta Controller.

vCloud Air Gets Disaster Recovery Capabilities

Also coming in 2015: advanced networking services.

Next Windows 10 Preview to Focus on Consumer Aspects

Among the new features is an expected second browser that will run alongside Internet Explorer.

The Mainframe Is Dead? Don't Tell IBM

Big Blue's newest System z monster shows the industry isn't all x86.

5 Ways the Sanbolic Acquisition Could Change Citrix

The VDI giant is evolving beyond its core competency. That's a good thing.

Report: SDN Needs Work at Higher Networking Levels

The emerging software-defined networking (SDN) technology needs to address higher-level networking functionalities in order to help enterprises realize their goal of reduced operating expenses, according to a report from F5 Networks Inc.

Citrix Unveils Workspace Cloud

The former Workspace Services gets a cloud makeover with a unified management UI.

New Software-Defined Networking Tool Announced

Open Virtual Network is aimed at users of Open vSwitch and the OpenStack cloud platform.

Fastest AWS EC2 Instances Hit General Availability

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Inc. this week launched its newest EC2 instance category, C4, based on the Intel Haswell processor.

XenServer 6.5 Released

The latest iteration promises dramatic increases in I/O speeds.

Citrix Acquires Sanbolic

The move helps shore up a weakness in the Citrix lineup.

Are Your Virtual Desktops Pets or Cattle?

Knowing the differences between the two will help you get a handle on what will work best for your environment.

Survey: Not So Fast on this SDN Thing

Amid the software-defined networking (SDN) hype and wide-ranging predictions about huge growth and imminent industry transformation comes data from a new Piper Jaffray survey indicating prognosticators may be a little too optimistic -- at least in terms of timing.

VDI: It's All About the Apps, Stupid

Dell knows about the importance of delivering applications to end users, since it's one of the biggest hardware manufacturers in the industry. Here's the company's take on the different ways it can be done.

The Rise of Shipping Container Datacenters

New computing assumptions require outside the box -- or, in this case, inside the box -- solutions.

Report: Cloud Spending Nearly a Third of All IT Infrastructure Spending

The figures come via IDC's new quarterly cloud infrastructure tracker.

Red Hat Certification Caps Big SDN Year for Big Switch Networks

Big Switch Networks Inc. capped off a big year in the software-defined networking (SDN) industry by announcing its flagship networking fabric was awarded certification for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5, laying the groundwork for OpenStack cloud computing implementations.

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