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Survey: Firms Struggle to Keep Pace with SDN, Other Networking Changes

Network analytics firm Kentik recently published a study on network management, finding that firms are struggling to keep pace with new developments in the industry.

Creating a Custom Windows AMI in AWS

Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) are the mechanism that makes it possible to create Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) virtual machine (VM) instances -- here's how to create a custom Windows AMI.

VMware Tools 10.3.0 Recalled

Last week VMware Inc. recalled VMware Tools 10.3.0 due to a "functional issue with 10.3.0 in ESXi 6.5."

How To Use the vCenter Server Appliance Management Interface (VAMI)

See how to access the VAMI and use some of its features to perform basic administrative tasks, including monitoring your VCSA and applying patches and upgrades, among others.

Microsoft Touts SDN in Windows Server 2019

The company is featuring software-defined networking functionality front and center in a 10-part blog series about the top networking features in its upcoming flagship server OS release.

Tips & Tricks To Secure and Optimize Azure VMs

A look at secure ways of accessing your Windows or Linux VMs, plus Azure Security Center, Azure Backup, optimizing networking for VMs, automating creation of VMs, and tips and tricks for managing VMs running in Azure.

Dell's 'Hyper-Converged, Software-Defined' IoT Surveillance Solution Aims for Simplicity

Dell announces new Internet of Things (IoT) offerings that include more automation and intelligence

VMworld 2018 Shows VMware Focus on SDN

Announcements at this week's VMworld conference in Las Vegas can be seen as a microcosm snapshot of the general industry trend away from hardware-centric solutions to the software-defined, a sweet spot for VMware's virtualization offerings.

ThinPrint's Endpoint Print Management Initiative Aims To Deliver 'Missing Piece' in UEMs

This week at VMworld 2018 in Las Vegas, endpoint print management provider ThinPrint Inc. announced its Endpoint Print Management initiative, which is aimed at filling "the hole left by unified endpoint management systems."

AMD Debuts High-Performance VDI Solution for Datacenter Workloads

This week at VMworld 2018 in Las Vegas, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) debuted its Radeon Pro V340 graphics card.

VMworld 2018: VMware Extends Edge Computing Strategy

After a bevy of announcements during day one of its VMworld conference that featured edge and IoT technologies, VMware today unveiled new offerings as part of its effort to extend its hybrid and multi-cloud environments to the edge.

NVIDIA and VMware Announce Tech Preview of vMotion for GPU Live Migration

At VMworld 2018 in Las Vegas, NVIDIA and VMware Inc. announced the technology preview of vSphere vMotion for NVIDIA GPUs with VMware vSphere 6.7 update 1, with general availability expected later this year.

New Dell EMC PowerEdge MX Offers SDN Workload Support

Dell EMC recently launched PowerEdge MX, new hardware that supports both traditional and emerging workloads, such as software-defined networking and storage, plus artifiical intelligence, machine learning and Internet of Things (IoT) workloads.

VMworld Keynote Highlights AI Ensuring Better Security

With an emphasis on artificial intelligence and machine learning, CEO Pat Gelsinger discussed innovations in networking and security, framing new announcements in the context of four "technology superpowers," which he categorized into the areas of cloud, mobile, AI/ML and Edge/AI.

VMware Cloud on AWS Now Available in Asia-Pacific Region with New and Updated Features

VMware Cloud on AWS in now available in the Asia-Pacific (Sydney) region and includes new capabilities for migrating enterprise datacenters and applications to secure cloud services.

VMworld 2018 Preview: Rethinking the Limits of Innovation

Chris Wolf, vice president and chief technology officer of Global Field and Industry at VMware, previews what's in store this week at VMworld 2018 in Las Vegas.

How To View vimtop Data in PerfMon

Vimtop is a valuable tool that can be used to ensure that your VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) remains as performant as possible. When it's coupled with a monitoring tool such as PerfMon, it's easy to spot trends or anomalies that are affecting your VCSA.

How To Use JSON Files to Configure AWS Services

Here's a quick refresher on how JSON files work and how you can use them to configure AWS services.

Viewing vimtop Data in a Spreadsheet

Monitor the health of your VMware vCenter Server Appliance by transforming it into a format that can be viewed in an Excel chart.

Dell EMC Says New Switch Eases Shift to Software-Defined Networking

Dell EMC unveiled a new switch that it says embraces the world of modern networking, which is seeing an architectural shift toward technology disaggregation and SDN.

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