Virtualization Infrastructure


A Full Menu of OpenStack Choices

Most major vendors have an open source cloud solution. But they take very different approaches, so you need to be a picky eater and find the right restaurant.

Container Standards Effort Is On the Fast Track

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation is led by a Docker engineer.

Disaster Recovery: Not Dead Yet

In the age of virtualization, many think high availability trumps disaster recovery. Think again: It's more necessary than ever.

VMware Announces Revenues of $1.6 Billion for Second Quarter 2014

License income experiences strong rise as well.

Dell Adds To Its VDI, Cloud Offerings

New thin clients are part of a "vWorkspace" upgrade.

Backup and Replication with vSphere 6.0

Licensing changes and feature upgrades close the competition gap.

Replicate Your vSphere 6.0 Infrastructure in the Cloud

Using Ravello Systems to create proof-of-concept upgrades.

Dell EqualLogic OS 8.0 with vSphere Virtual Volumes

A wide range of storage arrays have been made available with the release.

Azure Site Recovery Now Handles VMware Workloads

Microsoft pitches it as a "unified solution for workload-aware disaster recovery."

The Limitations of Appliance Servers

Do you need what vendors are selling?

Whatever Happened to the VDI Revolution?

Maybe, muses Jon Toigo in the return of his column, it failed through lack of interest, rather than poor technology.

Mirantis Unveils OpenStack Cloud Appliance

The company hopes to differentiate its offering by highlighting its expertise with the open source cloud platform.

Decision Points for Your Hypervisor Choice

Trying to select one and only one hypervisor to create virtual environments can be a fool's errand.

Public Cloud Spending To Grab One-Third of All IT Dollars in 2015

Within four years, predicts IDC, that number will increase to nearly half of all infrastructure spending.

Avoiding the 'I/O Blender' Effect

Condusiv takes aim at Windows I/O requests to optimize virtual workloads.

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