Your vSphere infrastructure needs monitoring, and that's where vCenter Operations comes in. Let's take a look at how to work with it.
VMware's fledgling Cloud Foundry service experienced two brief outages last week, though the outages pale in comparison to Amazon Web Services' four-day outage that concluded early last week.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/03/2011
Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president of the .NET Platform at Microsoft, will move to Microsoft's Windows Azure group as part of a May reorg.
- By Michael Desmond
- 05/02/2011
Depleted resources, storage provisioning, virtual machine sprawl and excessive virtual hard disk files are some of the key challenges facing storage virtualization users.
I tried Xangati for ESX to find out why the tool was different from other virtual infrastructure performance-monitoring solutions. Here's what I found out.
Citrix has built a global company that wants to "play well with others" and has struck up some key partnerships in the process.
Veeam's latest streamlines processes and shines in vSphere environments.
What some folks (folks being Chris Wolf, Simon Bramfitt, Greg Stuart and Citrix's own Simon Crosby and Mark Templeton ) have to say about Citrix.
Deploying and configuring the Kaviza package is a breeze.
As a virtualization administrator, do you feel awkward building a physical server? 5 tips for making it less so.
- By Elias Khnaser
- 05/01/2011
Which is more perilous: fleeing the Soviet Union before the fall of communism or starting up a cloud-computing business with no venture funding? Igor Papirov has survived both.
Salesforce.com's Director of Platform Research offers his thoughts on his company running with the SaaS tag, as well as how virtualization and cloud computing are impacting business.
A detailed postmortem issued by Amazon Web Services on Friday details the cause of last week's massive cloud outage, which crippled numerous Amazon customers for several days and, for some users, resulted in permanent data loss.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/29/2011
Dell has announced that its recently acquired Boomi software will now include Java Message Service (JMS) connectors for middleware products from IBM, WebMethods, Tibco and Progress Software.
- By John K. Waters
- 04/27/2011
Starting in May, organizations with 10 or more users who want to use Google Apps for Business will need to pay subscription fees.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/27/2011
Telecommunications giant CenturyLink today said it has agreed to acquire Savvis, a provider of managed hosting and cloud services, for $2.5 billion.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/27/2011
Windows Server 2008 R2, Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 can only perform server virtualization using Intel's Core vPro processors if SP1 is applied.
Your vSphere infrastructure needs monitoring, and that's where vCenter Operations comes in. Let's take a look at how to work with it.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has restored service for a majority of its customers after an outage that began on Thursday left numerous organizations down for more than three days.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/25/2011
On Friday, Google gave a rare look into how it locks down one of the datacenters in its global network.