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It might look like VMware is approaching solution sprawl, but there's some precision and orchestration among its breadth of offerings. Before you head to San Francisco and VMworld 2014, here's a look at the current state of datacenter solutions as VMware sees it.
- By Eric Beehler
- 07/25/2014
Microsoft's cloud platform has a lot to offer -- too much, in fact, to fit into one or two articles. This final part focuses on media management, disaster recovery and Active Directory.
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- 07/22/2014
Users are demanding access to increasingly larger sets of sensitive corporate resources on any device from anywhere, any time. Your challenge is to make it look easy. Citrix, VMware and Microsoft have been developing strategies that can help you meet that challenge head on.
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?
The IT skills you have are not the skills you will need -- working with Microsoft Azure means having to relearn ways to get the job done more efficiently in the cloud.
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- 05/21/2014
Taneja Group calls the evolution "hyperconverged," but most are calling it "infrastructure in a box." Also: Take a converged infrastructure survey and win a GoPro!
- By Michael Domingo
- 05/14/2014
Surviving 8:05 a.m.: One school district's journey implementing VDI.
- By Christa Ayer
- 05/13/2014
Citrix Workspaces, a new suite that is likely to replace XenApp and XenDesktop down the road for most users, gets a thorough looking-over by attendees at this year's Citrix Synergy event taking place in Anaheim, Calif. this week.
- By Michael Domingo
- 05/07/2014
Andy Pearce last week posted about how he designed a proof-of-concept software-defined networking (SDN) app, which turned out to be a nontrivial assignment, even for a veteran networking developer with 20 years of experience.
Red Hat details its work with Docker to streamline app delivery, and plans to launch an OpenShift Marketplace.
- By John K. Waters
- 04/15/2014
There's nothing revolutionary in this release, but there are enough improvements that the rollup is a must-have.
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- 04/14/2014
Programming software-defined networking (SDN) applications is no trivial task, even for veteran networking developers, judging from the experience of Andy Pearce, who in a webinar today shared his ups and downs in developing an example app.
With Microsoft's former head of the Cloud & Enterprise division stepping up, Microsoft has named Scott Guthrie to replace Satya Nadella.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/05/2014
Very soon after Satya Nadella was named Microsoft CEO, he laid out the company's vision in a speech before customers, partners and Microsoft employees in which he quickly outlined the company's "mobile first/cloud first" message.
Microsoft's cloud vision is having a positive impact on the company's financials, according to the latest earnings filing.
- By Michael Domingo
- 01/31/2014
Disaster recovery will take on more importance in the next 12 months, as we virtualize more and make our mission-critical work more vulnerable to potential loss.
- By Doug Hazelman
- 01/01/2014
Do you have a demand for testing hardware to support new projects and updates? A virtual test lab could fit the bill.
- By Thomas Vater, Andreas Rynes
- 11/01/2011
Maintaining control and security are essential when building out virtualized datacenters.
- By Eric Beehler
- 11/01/2011