Of course disaster recovery is important for any datacenter; but it's even better to not have to recover from a disaster.
To understand what HA solutions best fit your environment, you need to understand their history and how they've evolved.
- By Dan Kusnetzky
- 06/25/2015
Digging into Azure IaaS, migrating LOB systems and more.
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- 06/24/2015
Is Using Virtual Volumes the equivalent of getting hit by Mike Tyson?
In this first installment on moving to a hybrid cloud, our fictional company decides on the cloud provider and creates the infrastructure.
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- 05/22/2015
How to leverage Security Assertion Markup Language to pass authentication information to Salesforce.
Load balancing in the virtual world is often misunderstood. Learn the different methods and which one you should use in a given situation.
Qumulo demonstrates its new file system, the heart of its software-defined-storage product.
There are wrong ways and right ways to prepare for your tests. Here are some of the right ways.
The Microsoft hypervisor gets a major makeover. See what's on the way.
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- 02/06/2015
VMware has added a lot of value to the open source, private cloud platform.
How does the new, all-flash version compare with VSAN 5.5?
Analyst Tom Fenton says the flagship VMware product has a host of upgrades that should please admins.
2015 is no longer on the way -- it's here. What do some leading virtualization and cloud industry experts expect to see this year?
As Docker rises in importance, the idea of the traditional VM is being challenged.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/29/2014
There are no SANs in the cloud because the venerable storage technology just doesn't scale to that level. But there are ways around it, and Microsoft shops should start with the company's Scale-Out File Server.
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- 10/24/2014
The open source Infrastructure-as-a-Service project has rocketed to prominence. Where does it go from here?
An analyst spends a day asking questions and getting answers.
This time, we look at automation, cloud and mobile services and a few other things that will have IT pros redefining the roles they play in the organization.
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- 06/18/2014
What exactly is convergence and what is making vendors scramble to get included in this category?