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
Let's take a look at Hyper-V's virtual machine network enhancements: Single Root -Input Output virtualization, Dynamic Virtual Machine Queuing & RSS.
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- 03/06/2013
vSphere Replication is all too easy, as long as you take it one step at a time.
- By Ken Werneburg
- 03/04/2013
You have many options for deploying virtual machines. But here's one method you should become familiar with, as it'll help you when the other options become obsolete.
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
VMware wants you to start getting used to the vSphere Web client. One way to do that is to start using the vCSA.
New innovations like automated tiered storage, thin provisioning, continuous snapshots and remote replication has companies reconsidering VDI.
- By Lazarus Vekiarides
- 01/28/2013
Much like a human lifecycle, each virtual machine goes through one that needs to be managed from birth to end of life. Here are some tools to consider.
What appeals most to businesses about application modernization and cloud computing delivery models is the ability to help enterprises become more efficient by reducing costs and increasing the flexibility and productivity of their IT environment.
Organizing IT operations into four groups can bring an IT organization into alignment with how businesses acquire IT services in a cloud computing world.
- By Travis Greene
- 01/09/2013
Why is SimpliVity's CEO so confident that OmniCube will be a success? Maybe it's from the run of successes he's had, starting many years ago as an Israel Defense Special Forces commander, where he deployed technology to enhance the intelligence apparatus of his country.
At too many companies today, getting reliable and 100 percent recoverable virtualization backup for the entire infrastructure is more art than science.
In this first of a series on Hyper-V, Paul reviews tips for configuring virtual and physical processors for optimum performance.
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- 12/21/2011
Pricing for cloud services needs to be a bit more structured and transparent for anyone to take cloud computing seriously.
Virtualization is a major planetary body in the enterprise IT universe, impacting servers, storage, desktops and more. On the same trajectory is video conferencing infrastructure, and they'r ready to collide.
- By Tom Toperczer
- 12/15/2011
There is a common belief that the future of IaaS clouds will be dominated by telcos. That belief is wrong for many reasons.
- By Boris Renski
- 12/01/2011
You want a piece of Jon Toigo? Be my guest.
With the introduction of vSphere 5, VMware created the concept of vRAM pools and added this as a critical component of purchasing a vSphere license.
The variety of cloud security strategies leaves users with interesting and diverse choices.
My list of features to help me narrow my buying decisions after the DR vendor has made its pitch.