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As part of a wider effort to bolster the security of its cloud platform, Google this week unveiled a new dashboard-type solution to help organizations monitor their cloud environments.
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By Trevor Pott
A stagnant and feature-poor market has grown into a rich and vibrant ecosystem filled with a variety of offerings to meet any need.
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By Trevor Pott
Beyond management applications there are more practical concerns that need to be borne in mind when thinking about engaging in hybrid and multi-cloud IT deployments.
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By Trevor Pott
If you've been tasked with embracing the cloud, how exactly do you get there? Here's a rundown of the basic workloads to consider.
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Verizon and Colt have demonstrated what they say is an industry-first breakthrough in software-defined networking orchestration in which they made near-real-time changes to bandwidth in each other's production networks.
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By Trevor Pott
I can't tell you which monitoring solution is right for your mix of workloads and infrastructure, but I can tell you what to keep an eye out for.
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Microsoft this week described its plans to increase its number of cloud datacenter regions, expanding the global reach of its Azure and Office 365 services.
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By Trevor Pott
The level of attention to privacy, security and data sovereignty won't be easy. Companies that haven't already started down this path are potentially in deep, deep trouble.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton shows how to use an Ubuntu VM as a full clone guest on VMware Horizon.
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By Trevor Pott
With a mixture of backup methods, understanding the workloads to be protected and tackling technical debt, even the smallest organizations can achieve near-zero data loss.
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Microsoft recently added new Azure Virtual Machine sizes, with options for running isolated and GPU-based workloads.
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The Open Networking Foundation today announced next-generation software-defined networking interfaces and a new open source reference implementation for white-box switches to support them.
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VMware announced a wide-ranging initiative to simplify multi-cloud adoption and expand its Cloud Services portfolio.
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By Trevor Pott
Not all backup and DR solutions support all methods, and not all methods are appropriate for all workloads. Choose wisely.
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Brian Posey walks through the basic concept of a VPC.
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By Trevor Pott
Be sure to familiarize yourself with the limitations and capabilities of cloud DR.
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Hundreds of critical enterprise services were reportedly affected by an Amazon Web Services cloud platform outage on Friday.
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Implementations of SD-WAN, one of the hottest areas of software-defined networking, are growing rapidly and are primarily driven by security concerns, according to new research from Versa Networks.
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Microsoft has released its Azure Migrate planning tool for moving on-premises virtual machines and applications to Azure datacenters.
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By Tom Fenton
A relatively simple process, provided you know how to work around some of the "gothcas."
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By Trevor Pott
IT monitoring is largely broken up into network monitoring and everything else. Trevor Pott looks at the fundamental underpinnings of both network and server and application monitoring.
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By Trevor Pott
From vSphere Replication to SRM, Trevor Pott discusses disaster recovery basics.
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In a move widely seen as a direct challenge to current cloud-infrastructure leaders Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS), Google Inc. and Microsoft, Oracle Corp. announced plans this week to quadruple its current datacenter operations across Asia, Europe and the Americas.
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By Tom Fenton
If you're sitting on the fence about investing your time and your company's resources in containers, here are five reasons why doing so is a good idea.
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While not completely comprehensive, there are a number of different policy settings that are exposed through the Active Directory Administrative Center.