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Free Training, Exam for Converged Infrastructure

James Brown tackles the VCE certification.

Midokura Open Sources Software-Defined Networking Product

MidoNet is used chiefly for SDN on the OpenStack cloud platform.

The Death of Virtual Machines? Not so Fast

Dan argues that containers are great, but not always the right choice.

Big Data Infrastructure Decisions: Data in Motion vs. Data at Rest

The best solution depends on what your data is doing.

IDC: Public Cloud Spending to Hit $127 Billion by 2018

That represents a six-fold increase over 2014 sales.

Linux Distributors Are All Over the Cloud

Red Hat and SUSE fight to be King of the Hill for cloud services.

The Increasing Importance of Container Security

"Perimeter security is kind of done for," says one expert.

IBM Partners with SUSE and MariaDB to Expand Choice

Increasing compatibility and making upgrades less painful are keys to the strategy.

Internet2 Achieves SDN-Enabled Milestone

Enabled by emergent software-defined networking (SDN) technology, the nonprofit Internet2 organization announced "the first nationwide, multi-tenant SDN-powered virtualized network capability."

Virtual Machine Security Ramped up for Microsoft Azure

"Real-time protection" against malware is promised for the cloud platform.

Splunk Enterprise 6.2: Diving into Operational Logs

Making sense of all that data.

Red Hat Offers Startups a Free Cloud Platform

The OpenShift Startup Program provides free hosting and technical support.

Are Containers the Beginning of the End of Virtual Machines?

As Docker rises in importance, the idea of the traditional VM is being challenged.

Gartner Explodes 10 Cloud Myths

One popular myth is that the cloud should be used for everything.

Big Switch Starter Kits Provide SDN Onramp

Kits for company's Big Cloud Fabric include bare-metal switches, software-defined networking software, support and guidance.

5 Tips for Working with the Scale Computing HC3 Hyperconvergence Appliance

Is this all-in-one virtualization box a good choice for an SMB?

CTERA: Companies Are Getting VDI Wrong

Does CTERA's answer get it right?

Eclipse Moves Into the Cloud

Well known among developers for its Java-based integrated development environment, supporting vendors for the latest venture include IBM, Red Hat and SAP.

APIs and the Art of the Lock-In

While they seem great at first, they might lead to a prison from which you can't escape.

Microsoft's Scale-Out File Server Overcomes SAN Cloud Barriers

There are no SANs in the cloud because the venerable storage technology just doesn't scale to that level. But there are ways around it, and Microsoft shops should start with the company's Scale-Out File Server.

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