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Riverbed Boosts Its Storage Solution for AWS

Riverbed Technology, which specializes in solutions that improve application and network performance, made several announcements recently aimed at storage, backup and recovery services for Amazon Web Services (AWS).

SDN Thrives as Outside Datacenter Disruptions Loom

One analyst paints rosy picture for software-defined networking as another warns of outside threats that could disrupt everything.

HP Buys Cloud Vendor Eucalyptus

The deal may signal a big shift in HP's cloud strategy

Microsoft Aims To Keep Pace with AWS in Cloud Price War

Top Microsoft cloud executive Scott Guthrie on Wednesday reiterated his company's commitment to match the Amazon Web Services (AWS) price cut for price cut.

VMworld 2014 News and Notes

Strange hotels, surging innovation highlight my week in San Francisco.

VMworld: VMware Talks Up Hybrid Cloud and Software-Defined Datacenters

VMware's Robin Matlock, Pat Gelsinger, Bill Fathers and Carl Eschenbach took the stage to urge IT to be "brave" when it comes to hybrid cloud adoption.

Surveys Point to Software-Defined Networking Growth

Two brand-new surveys show similar attitudes about the future adoption of SDN technology in the datacenter.

Unitrends UVB 8.0 Can Back Up, Restore vSphere, Hyper-V and XenServer

Formerly known as PHD Virtual Backup, it's the product of the Unitrend acquisition of PHD last year.

Forrester: Public Clouds Are Viable for Backup and Disaster Recovery

A study also found that most IT pros remain concerned about security and privacy of data backed up in the cloud.

Fast Provisioning with VMware vCloud Suite

For one health care organization, fast provisioning of development environments translates to a serious competitive advantage.

EMC Stakeholder May Want To Split Off VMware

EMC CEO Joe Tucci has resisted past attempts to do just that.

NEC, Meru Networks Lead Convergence of Software-Defined Networking and Wi-Fi

Companies to make OpenFlow-enabled products interoperable for unified wired and wireless network access.

Update for Veeam Management Pack Adds Support for Hyper-V

The release is integrated with System Center Operations Manager.

Microsoft Has a Healthy Q4

The Nokia influence dragged profits down, however.

VMware Reports Strong Q2 Earnings

Its AirWatch acquisition, although expensive, is apparently paying dividends.

Big Switch Unveils Flagship Datacenter SDN Fabric

Company seeks to combine software-defined networking benefits with less expensive bare-metal switches.

Reports: Next Update for Windows 8.1 on Track for August Release

Various Internet rumors are claiming that Update 2 will have new features and functionality.

Cisco Teases Software-Defined Networking Controller

APIC EM controller is key to company's answer to SDN.

Microsoft to Lay Off 18,000 Workers

Middle management, former Nokia employees will suffer the brunt of the cutbacks.

Microsoft COO: We 'Ate VMware's Lunch'

Kevin Turner takes aim at his company's biggest virtualization rival during a keynote at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference.

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