Dan's Take


Acronis Unveils Backup 12.5

Is the new point upgrade a solid offering?

The Unsexy, But Necessary, Work of Network Monitoring

An update on Ipswitch products WhatsUp Gold and MOVEit.

On-Premises Cloud-as-a-Service

HyperGrid touts HyperCloud's 'subscription economics.'

MapR-XD Converged Data Platform Offers Cloud-Scale Data Fabric

A place to put all your "data stuff."

Applying 'Software Defined' to Mainframes

A breakthrough or marketing hype? Analyzing a startup's claims.

NComputing Offers Raspberry Pi 3 Thin Client

It may find a home in Citrix shops.

Veeam Talks Vision

The company points to the future while recognizing its limitations.

Veeam Announces New Products

Supported environments are limited to Windows and Linux, however.

Red Hat Positions Ansible as the Automation Platform for the Enterprise

But is there a place for legacy systems?

Why Batch Processing Is Still Critical to IT Operations

An updated product emphasizes its continuing importance.

Red Hat's New Products Emphasize Cloud Computing, Containers

The company made a barrage of announcements at its recent Summit show.

The Ongoing Quest to Migrate Mainframe Workloads

Heirloom Computing offers an option that may work for some environments.

Red Hat Rolls Out Version 4.1 of KVM Platform

Enterprise environments should take a look.

4 Customer Care Myths That Could Kill Your Company

Don't become the next United Airlines.

Robin Systems' Container-Based Virtualization Platform for Applications

Interesting and useful technology, with a continuing disagreement over definitions.

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