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Dell's Acquisition of EMC Likely to Spur Investment in Alternative Hypervisors

Hardware vendors, seeing the threat of a Dell/EMC partnership, will likely turn to KVM.

Nested Virtualization In 'Early Preview' on Windows 10

It's a new feature for Hyper-V.

Data Analytics for Your Network

Corvil is in the crowded room of analytics companies that can help you make sense of your infrastructure.

SDN Dev Tool Seeks to Counter Competing Controllers

A research project has unveiled a full IDE for creating applications using software-defined networking, seeking to help developers deal with the variety of competing controllers being used in the upstart virtualization technology.

Manage vSphere 6 Security Policy Via ESXCLI

New settings allow you to change account lockout and password complexity rules in minutes, saving huge amounts of time.

VMware Purchases Mobile Vendor Boxer

Boxer, a consumer-focused company, will be incorporated into AirWatch, its enterprise mobility manager.

5 Rules For Avoiding Datacenter Disruption

Vendors want to sell you the "new." But ripping-and-replacing the "old" can lead to catastrophe.

Dell's Heavyweight Move

Buying EMC opens the enterprise door much wider.

ONF Advances Vendor-Neutral SDN Skills Certification

The Open Networking Foundation furthered its vendor-neutral skills certification program for software-defined networking, announcing the availability of beta examinations.

Design and Configuration of vSphere Fault Tolerance

Don't gamble on your infrastructure's resilience. Make sure you have redundancy built in.

Dell Reportedly In Talks To Buy EMC

What VMware's future would be in that scenario is cloudy.

The Day the MacBook Died: A True Backup Story

The El Capitan upgrade wrecked Dan's laptop. Fortunately, he was prepared. Are you?

VMware Alerts Users About 3 Critical Vulnerabilities

The security flaws affect both vCenter Server and ESXi.

VMworld Survey: Software-Defined WAN Is 'Next Wave'

Riverbed Technology said a survey taken at the recent VMworld conference pointed to strong interest in software-defined networking and identified software-defined wide-area-networking as the "next wave of network innovation for remote and branch office locations."

Azure Resource Manager Promises Better Container Orchestration

Microsoft says it will make it easier to create and manage clusters of Docker hosts.

Beware the 'Piecrust Promises' of Potential Partnerships

They're often not what they seem.

Many New Azure Services Coming to the Cloud

A Web event detailed the coming attractions.

VM Component Protection in vSphere 6

This new feature makes outages and data loss much less likely.

The Volkswagen Scandal as Cautionary Tale

Monitoring your networks can help find out what they're doing that you don't even know about.

Analyst: Future Datacenters Will Be Software-Defined, but Take It Slow

Beyond mere software-defined networking, the future of the enterprise datacenter itself will be defined by total infrastructure virtualization, research firm Gartner Inc. said today. But for now, only advanced companies with the prerequisite vision and expertise should try to get a jump on that future.

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