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Report: Microsoft Not the Major Security Offender on Windows

Third-party software dominates the vulnerabilities, according to Secunia.

LAG vs. LBT for vSwitch Uplinks in vSphere

Load balancing in the virtual world is often misunderstood. Learn the different methods and which one you should use in a given situation.

Oracle Demos Virtualized Carrier-Grade Performance

Oracle claims it has demonstrated for the first time that a virtualized environment based on network functions virtualization (NFV) can achieve carrier-grade performance.

DRaaS in the Clouds

Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service vendor OnApp touts its wares.

Storage: The Next Generation

Qumulo demonstrates its new file system, the heart of its software-defined-storage product.

Poll Snapshot: Backup/Disaster Recovery Lagging for Cloud, Virtualization

Companies are beginning to address those concerns, a Zetta survey finds.

Protecting Public Cloud Data

Connected Data Transporter 15 and 30 join a growing market of appliances for SMBs offering cloud security.

Juniper Contrail SDN Joins Mirantis OpenStack Party

Mirantis announced the integration of Juniper Networks Contrail, a software-defined networking overlay platform, into its "pure-play" OpenStack distribution.

Survey: Security Is Top Reason for Cloud Hesitancy

The poll revealed that 90 percent of companies are still wary of data protection in the cloud.

Flash Storage Arrays Continue to Advance

With so many options, like the StorTrends 3600i, it pays to choose wisely.

VMware App Volumes, Part 4: Updating an App Stack

Now that you've learned how to create and deploy App Stacks, you need to know how to update and patch them.

AWS Named Top Public Cloud for Software Development

Recently besieged by competitors in a series of recent surveys that indicate strong challenges to its longstanding cloud supremacy, Amazon Web Services nevertheless was recently ranked by Forrester Research Inc. as the top public cloud platform for software development.

Cisco Boosts Network Programmability

Cisco enhanced its portfolio of services provider solutions with increased programmability and virtualization features, furthering its application-centric vision of new-age networking highlighted by new technologies such as software-defined networking (SDN).

Data Storage Startup Provides Real-Time Analytics on Billions of Files

This first look shows how powerful Qumulo Core is.

Google Nearline Storage Challenges AWS

Google Inc. challenged established cloud services leader Amazon Web Services Inc. with last week's introduction of a beta Nearline Storage service for housing data that needs to be kept by enterprises but is infrequently accessed.

Juniper Expands SDN Capabilities, Starting with Silicon

Juniper Networks expanded its software-defined networking (SDN) capabilities with new silicon, switches and software.

Gartner: CIOs Need To Consider Cloud First

A new survey shows that many executives still prefer only what they know.

Controlling and Managing Universal File Access with ownCloud

Finding the right balance between access and security across firewalls can be tricky.

vSphere 6 Now Available

The latest revision has more than 650 upgrades.

SDN Initiatives Launched as Industry Matures

Several software-defined networking-flavored projects were announced at this week's Open Compute Project summit, while Telco Systems became the latest vendor to propose an initiative to bring more structure to the growing SDN and network functions virtualization industry.

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