The success -- or failure -- of the move will depend in large measure on HP leadership.
- By Dan Kusnetzky
- 10/06/2014
Leveraging the power of the Apache Solr project for crunching Big Data.
- By Dan Kusnetzky
- 10/06/2014
Everyone, including suppliers, wants a part of OpenStack. But are their motives pure?
- By Dan Kusnetzky
- 10/02/2014
Users consider lots of freely available cloud apps necessary to get their jobs done. Those same apps give IT anxiety with the security implications that those apps bring when attached to the organizations networks. Are those concerns real or imagined?
Lack of management is at the heart of most cloud storage struggles. So why is it that most of the conversation veers away from that topic?
- By Jon William Toigo
- 06/19/2014
vSphere Mobile Watchlists might make your job a bit too easy. All that really means is that it'll free you for other, more important jobs.
With Microsoft discontinuing Forefront Threat Management Gateway some time ago, there hasn't been a solution in the cloud world that has stepped up to the plate. Here's why I believe ADCs have done the job adequately.
- By Bhargav Shukla
- 06/10/2014
Develop more critical thinking of the product pitches you get every day from the growing number of cloud services vendors and you'll begin to see that the real issues are often in what's not mentioned in vendor marketing.
- By Jon William Toigo
- 06/05/2014
A few review-like words for Lab Guide's Autolab.
One thing that is a must for most organizations is to join the vCenter Server to Active Directory. A few words of advice to do this smoothly.
- By Rick Vanover
- 05/28/2014
Get back the storage that once belonged to you with this tip for quick datastore reclamation.
The numbers being tossed around by storage analysts are not adding up in this weirdest of dimensions.
- By Jon William Toigo
- 05/14/2014
Some handy tips to save space and keep Hyper-V VMs from bogging down the rest of your systems.
- By Rick Vanover
- 05/13/2014
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.
- By Mike Matchett
- 04/30/2014
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.
- By Rick Vanover
- 02/26/2014
It's read-only, but it's a big enough boost in speed to matter.
- By Rick Vanover
- 01/16/2014
We've come so far with this virtualized infrastructure in terms of everything else, so is the application the problem now?
- By Rick Vanover
- 01/06/2014
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) has long been hailed as the capability we should all be using.
- By Mike Matchett
- 01/06/2014
I'm not one to spout my own opinions or predictions.
- By Michael Domingo
- 01/06/2014
Disaster recovery will take on more importance in the next 12 months, as we virtualize more and make our mission-critical work more vulnerable to potential loss.
- By Doug Hazelman
- 01/01/2014