A new release of CloudPortal Business Manager provides a platform for Anything as a Service.
Quite a few companies are mashing up server, storage, networking and even the hypervisor into turnkey solutions that can scale up or down as data center needs dictate.
- By Mike Matchett
- 03/20/2013
VMware integrated Nicira technology into new VMware NSX family of network virtualization services; company also creating hybrid cloud services unit.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/13/2013
Microsoft System Center 2012 can be used to provide IT as a service, especially in the deployment of application services. Here's how to set up service templates that can help you do it with consistency and repetitive predictability.
- By Angela Cataldo
- 03/11/2013
vSphere Replication is all too easy, as long as you take it one step at a time.
- By Ken Werneburg
- 03/04/2013
New partner incentives revolve around selling public and hybrid cloud services; also, partner competencies revamped to account for role-based learning and individual competency achievements.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/26/2013
New Vblock versions sized for midsized and remote office deployments; specialized version for SAP HANA in-memory database also available.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/25/2013
Virtualization and cloud architectures are driving great efficiency and agility gains across wide swaths of the data center, but they can also make it harder to deliver consistent performance to critical applications. Let's look at some solutions.
- By Mike Matchett
- 02/20/2013
Citrix melds mobile application management technology from recent ZenPrise acquisition into new offering.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/20/2013
VMware announced updates to its Horizon Suite, including a mobile component that provides for enterprise-grade device management.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/20/2013
Microsoft training module available for free for a limited time; provides look into/comparison of Microsoft virtualization solutions for those already familiar with VMware's solutions.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/19/2013
A report by enterprise cloud storage provider Nasuni shows Microsoft's cloud storage competes and sometimes bests the competition in performance and other criteria.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/19/2013
Microsoft has confirmed that Office 2013 and Office 365 will be generally available in March.
Cubby provides 5GB, with a professional version allowing syncing across devices without the cloud.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/06/2013
Microsoft recently lowered the price for its Windows Azure SQL Reporting Services, which is used for business intelligence-type applications.
Microsoft announced new consumer, student and small business editions, and is fortifying its connection through newer cloud connections.
Virtualization and cloud behemoth VMware followed up good news of rising revenues in its latest earnings report with some bad news on impending layoffs.
- By Michael Domingo
- 01/29/2013
New innovations like automated tiered storage, thin provisioning, continuous snapshots and remote replication has companies reconsidering VDI.
- By Lazarus Vekiarides
- 01/28/2013
Version 2 has deeper integration with VMware tools, including vCloud Director and Amazon EC2 support.
- By Michael Domingo
- 01/23/2013
Latest upgrade also adds MySQL Enterprise as a database repository option, plus a slew of new features and improvements.
- By John K. Waters
- 01/23/2013