Dan's Take


Disaster Recovery With OneCloud

Backup to Amazon Web Services is good; but what if you use another cloud provider?

The Death of Virtual Machines? Not so Fast

Dan argues that containers are great, but not always the right choice.

Linux Distributors Are All Over the Cloud

Red Hat and SUSE fight to be King of the Hill for cloud services.

IBM Partners with SUSE and MariaDB to Expand Choice

Increasing compatibility and making upgrades less painful are keys to the strategy.

Splunk Enterprise 6.2: Diving into Operational Logs

Making sense of all that data.

CTERA: Companies Are Getting VDI Wrong

Does CTERA's answer get it right?

APIs and the Art of the Lock-In

While they seem great at first, they might lead to a prison from which you can't escape.

IBM Sells Its Chip Business

Does the sale hint at problems for Big Blue's server business?

EventTracker 7.6: Digging into Details for Intrusion Detection

Finding security problems isn't easy, with all the information generated by a typical datacenter. It's worth your time to investigate solutions.

The 7-Layer Virtualization Model

A deep dive into all forms of virtualization.

Veeam Unveils Availability Suite v8

The company also repositions itself as more than backup and recovery at its event. Will it be successful?

Can a Hewlett-Packard Divided Against Itself Stand?

The success -- or failure -- of the move will depend in large measure on HP leadership.

Lucidworks Fusion and the Never-Ending Search for Insight

Leveraging the power of the Apache Solr project for crunching Big Data.

All Aboard the OpenStack Train

Everyone, including suppliers, wants a part of OpenStack. But are their motives pure?