There's a dizzying selection of storage solutions out there. Which one is right for you? The answer will often be "more than one."
- By Dan Kusnetzky
- 06/30/2015
Microsoft's virtualization platform has matured into a solid, dependable workhorse. Here's a primer for getting the most out of it.
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- 06/29/2015
Of course disaster recovery is important for any datacenter; but it's even better to not have to recover from a disaster.
Pluribus Networks, on a mission to advance software-defined networking, has teamed up with Red Hat and Super Micro Computer to demonstrate a converged infrastructure package.
To understand what HA solutions best fit your environment, you need to understand their history and how they've evolved.
- By Dan Kusnetzky
- 06/25/2015
Digging into Azure IaaS, migrating LOB systems and more.
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- 06/24/2015
Microsoft demos a container app that works on both Linux and Windows.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 06/24/2015
Two new products may speed up development time, but do they lead to lock-in?
- By Dan Kusnetzky
- 06/22/2015
A new vSphere feature lets multiple virtual machines share a PCI card.
A demo project at this week's Open Networking Summit aims to pave the way for implementing next-generation networking technologies in telecom carriers' central offices, using open standards software and commodity hardware to replace proprietary, fragmented systems.
The company says its new product does not compete with Microsoft's Active Directory.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/17/2015
Proof of concepts are popping up all over the young software-defined networking (SDN) landscape, with the latest being the first large-scale deployment of the Open Networking Operating System in a live nationwide network.
Two new products that may encroach on offerings from VMware and Microsoft.
- By Dan Kusnetzky
- 06/16/2015
Pluribus Networks is putting its Pluribus Open Netvisor Linux OS on the hardware giant's Open Networking switches in a software-defined networking partnership.
Is Using Virtual Volumes the equivalent of getting hit by Mike Tyson?
Its just-released Magic Quadrant for enterprise mobility management also places Citrix, MobileIron high.
Things are moving smartly forward in the world of upstart, disruptive networking technologies such as software-defined networking and network functions virtualization, as open source stewards in both camps have come out with new software releases.
It offers hyperconvergence for up to four servers.
- By Dan Kusnetzky
- 06/09/2015
Those systems are using energy but doing almost no work.
NEC Corp. today announced two new switches ready for software-defined networking applications in big datacenters run by telecommunications carriers and service providers.