Cloud Computing


The Internet of Things and Beyond: 5 Things We’ll Be Tracking for a Better Tomorrow

What the Internet of Things offers is this huge opportunity to build intelligent applications that can actively optimize and direct just about any system that is dynamically programmable. Here are the five types of things that are soon likely to be “sensorized” in your IT shop.

Cloud Business Up, Up and Away for Citrix, Microsoft

The cloud business is more than just hype and hot air, as Citrix and Microsoft both report positive earnings in latest financial filings.

Next-Generation HP XP7 Storage Now Available

Through a combination of virtualized technologies, HP XP7 Storage purports to provide six 9s of uptime, providing customers with constant access and continuous disaster recovery protection.

Java Cloud Service Gets a Fix

Oracle's recent fix follows up an array of patches that were rolled into its quarterly Critical Patch Update.

Moka5 Launches M5 LivePC 'Vanguard'

Vanguard release uses client-side virtualization technology to enable Windows and Macs to run fully configured and secure.

vSphere Rakes It In for VMware

Revenue for the virtualization company continues to build on the strength of its hypervisor technology, but there's growing interest in its cloud services.

Intronis Expands Cloud Backup, Recovery Solution

Spring Release '14 adds physical imaging, Hyper-V support to backup repertoire.

Consumption-Based Cloud Servers Offer Savings to Linux Users

Eliminate manual provisioning and reduce disaster recovery costs? ElasticHosts says it's two of the big benefits of its new Elastic Containers cloud servers.

VMware's Horizon 6 Unifies End User Computing

The company's sixth generation virtualization platform for unifying end-user computing has competitors taking notice.

Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter 2.0 Allows Migrations to Azure VMs

New version of the VMware-to-Hyper-V conversion tool allows VM migrations right up to the cloud.

Google Details New Software-Defined Networking Stack

Google yesterday announced its new software-defined networking technology powering its internal services is available to users of its Cloud Platform.

Alcatel-Lucent Completes Software-Defined Networking Portfolio with New Access Switch

The Enterprise division of Alcatel-Lucent today announced its entire portfolio now supports software-defined networking (SDN) with the introduction of a new access switch and more network capabilities.

Firmware, BIOS Updates: Your First Step To Upgrading Windows Server 2012 R2

It's always a good idea to make sure your hardware firmware and BIOS is updated prior to a major undertaking such as upgrading a server for hypervisor work. Besides, it's not that hard to do in the first place.

ActiveBatch 9 Improves Job Scheduling for IBM AS/400 and System Center Configuration Manager

Eliminate custom scripts and platform-specific tools.

SafeNet Simplifies License Management in Virtual Environments

Software vendors can now track, control, and manage the use of their virtualized applications.

Firefly Secures at the Speed of Virtual Networks

Juniper Networks introduces Firefly Suite, security for virtualized environments.

Intronis Integrates with Continuum for Cloud Backups

The Continuum Remote Monitoring and Management platform offers comprehensive information on Intronis backups.

TwinStrata Lets You Use the Cloud for All Storage Needs

New TwinStrata CloudArray version supports NFS versions 3 and 4, file sharing, secure bulk upload to the cloud, and cloud-to-cloud migration.

SHI Adds Zetta.net DataProtect to Its Cloud Offering

SHI customers get enterprise-grade cloud backup and disaster recovery.

VMware, Google Take On the VDI World

VMware beefs up its End User Computing plans via a partnership with Google that makes inexpensive Chromebooks hard to pass up as hardware upgrade options for enterprises.

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