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.
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