What appeals most to businesses about application modernization and cloud computing delivery models is the ability to help enterprises become more efficient by reducing costs and increasing the flexibility and productivity of their IT environment.
Organizing IT operations into four groups can bring an IT organization into alignment with how businesses acquire IT services in a cloud computing world.
- By Travis Greene
- 01/09/2013
Why is SimpliVity's CEO so confident that OmniCube will be a success? Maybe it's from the run of successes he's had, starting many years ago as an Israel Defense Special Forces commander, where he deployed technology to enhance the intelligence apparatus of his country.
At too many companies today, getting reliable and 100 percent recoverable virtualization backup for the entire infrastructure is more art than science.
There's usually little enthusiasm for .1 releases. But this point release is not to be ignored, as it's packed with some important features.
- By Elias Khnaser
- 01/01/2013
A guide to the best companies and products in the virtualization market.
In this first of a series on Hyper-V, Paul reviews tips for configuring virtual and physical processors for optimum performance.
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- 12/21/2011
Pricing for cloud services needs to be a bit more structured and transparent for anyone to take cloud computing seriously.
Virtualization is a major planetary body in the enterprise IT universe, impacting servers, storage, desktops and more. On the same trajectory is video conferencing infrastructure, and they'r ready to collide.
- By Tom Toperczer
- 12/15/2011
There is a common belief that the future of IaaS clouds will be dominated by telcos. That belief is wrong for many reasons.
- By Boris Renski
- 12/01/2011
Joyent has signed on to VMware's Community Leads program to lend its Node.js expertise to that company's Cloud Foundry project.
- By John K. Waters
- 11/17/2011
Do you have a demand for testing hardware to support new projects and updates? A virtual test lab could fit the bill.
- By Thomas Vater, Andreas Rynes
- 11/01/2011
Maintaining control and security are essential when building out virtualized datacenters.
- By Eric Beehler
- 11/01/2011
Embotics combines all the bells and whistles in one slick, easy-to-use private cloud package.
The Desktone Cloud system gives admins full control of virtualized desktops, even in the cloud.
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.
You want a piece of Jon Toigo? Be my guest.
With the introduction of vSphere 5, VMware created the concept of vRAM pools and added this as a critical component of purchasing a vSphere license.
The variety of cloud security strategies leaves users with interesting and diverse choices.
Shared storage is one of the main enablers of enterprise features in virtualization.
- By Elias Khnaser
- 11/01/2011