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New Software-Defined Networking Tool Announced

Open Virtual Network is aimed at users of Open vSwitch and the OpenStack cloud platform.

Fastest AWS EC2 Instances Hit General Availability

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Inc. this week launched its newest EC2 instance category, C4, based on the Intel Haswell processor.

XenServer 6.5 Released

The latest iteration promises dramatic increases in I/O speeds.

Survey: Not So Fast on this SDN Thing

Amid the software-defined networking (SDN) hype and wide-ranging predictions about huge growth and imminent industry transformation comes data from a new Piper Jaffray survey indicating prognosticators may be a little too optimistic -- at least in terms of timing.

Report: Cloud Spending Nearly a Third of All IT Infrastructure Spending

The figures come via IDC's new quarterly cloud infrastructure tracker.

Red Hat Certification Caps Big SDN Year for Big Switch Networks

Big Switch Networks Inc. capped off a big year in the software-defined networking (SDN) industry by announcing its flagship networking fabric was awarded certification for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5, laying the groundwork for OpenStack cloud computing implementations.

Fedora 20 Has Enhanced Cloud, Virtualization Support

“Heisenbug” adds ARM as its primary architecture and enhances cloud and virtualization support.

Oracle Revs Up Exalogic Elastic Cloud

Performance tops the list of improvements.

Gigamon Offers Network Insight

New traffic analysis tools help enterprises and service providers monitor, manage, and protect networks.

DaaS on Cisco UCS Now

Cisco strengthens partnership with VMware via Desktone technology in Cisco UCS platform.

Password Manager Makes Move to the Cloud

Lieberman Software makes version of its Enterprise Random Password Manager available on Windows Azure.

F-Secure Offers Small-Footprint Security for VMs

Do you have to choose between security and performance? F-Secure says no.

Greenbytes Improves on VDI Scalability, Performance, Cost

Greenbytes promises to bring the "personal" experience to the virtual desktop.

Verizon Turns to F5, Makes Play for Enterprise Cloud

F5 adds network traffic and security management services to Verizon Cloud.

Zenoss Simplifies Management for Hybrid Environments

New ZenPacks extend management and monitoring of hybrid infrastructures to include Windows Azure and Windows Server.

vCloud Eraser Obliterates Data with Certainty

Complete, auditable erasure for VMware vCloud Director users.

Automate Job Scheduling with ActiveBatch

New tools and services help companies make the leap to automated, cross-platform job scheduling.

Google Compute Engine Makes Official Debut

Pay-as-you-use Google Compute Engine is a complement to the Google App Engine service.

Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack 2013 R2 Supports Office 2013 Virtualization

Latest release adds a modicum of virtualization features, including ability to virtualize Office 2013 Pro for those who have a Volume license.

Palo Alto Networks, VMware Join Forces for Cloud Security

Joint work will automate and centrally manage network security across physical and virtual domains.

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