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Citrix Synergy 2014: Templeton Highlights Citrix Workspaces

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.

Developer Explains How To Design a Software-Defined Networking App

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.

From Red Hat Summit: Docker Collab, PaaS Marketplace

Red Hat details its work with Docker to streamline app delivery, and plans to launch an OpenShift Marketplace.

System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2: What's In It That's Worth It

There's nothing revolutionary in this release, but there are enough improvements that the rollup is a must-have.

Developer Details How He Built Software-Defined Networking App

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.

As Nadella Heads Redmond, Guthrie Moves Into the Cloud

With Microsoft's former head of the Cloud & Enterprise division stepping up, Microsoft has named Scott Guthrie to replace Satya Nadella.

Microsoft To Focus on Mobile, Cloud First (Nadella)

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.

Clouds Form on Microsoft Q2 2014 (And It's a Good Thing)

Microsoft's cloud vision is having a positive impact on the company's financials, according to the latest earnings filing.

5 Reasons DR Will Be Easier in 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.

Build an IT Lab for Virtual Machines

Do you have a demand for testing hardware to support new projects and updates? A virtual test lab could fit the bill.

Transforming Private Clouds

Maintaining control and security are essential when building out virtualized datacenters.

Mainframe Clouds Roll In

More and more x86 workloads are returning to the big box. It makes perfect sense, too, as it's the big box where the cloud had been conceived decades ago.

SAN, Saving: Dell and Virtualization Come to Scott County

Dell Compellent SAN delivers agility, ease of use to Scott County, Minn. and it could save them $60K/hour in the event of a disaster.

What Drives VMware CTO Stephen Herrod? Customers, Challenges, The Cloud

A Q&A with the tech chief on what keeps the company looking above the cloud.

OpenStack Aims to Please the 'Open' Cloud Crowd

Jim Curry, general manager of Rackspace Cloud Builders, is having a good time giving the people what they want.

The Ultimate Insider: An Interview with VMware CIO Mark Egan

The VMware CIO runs internal projects and test-drives new products.

The ABCs of Application Delivery Controllers

ADCs serve a new generation of business applications, with specific benefits when implemented in virtualized and cloud-based environments.

VMware Is on Track To Dominate the Cloud

The company is charging full-speed into the cloud -- and showing it has what it takes to dominate an industry.

Dynamic Duo: Hyper-V and System Center

With their growing pains behind them, the Microsoft hypervisor and management suite have become formidable competitors.

Rolling out $1 Billion of Virtualization

A Q&A with Paul Prince, CTO of the Dell Enterprise Product Group.

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