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                    Don't gamble on your infrastructure's resilience. Make sure you have redundancy built in. 
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    What VMware's future would be in that scenario is cloudy.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    The security flaws affect both vCenter Server and ESXi.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    Riverbed Technology said a survey taken at the recent VMworld conference pointed to strong interest in software-defined networking and identified software-defined wide-area-networking as the "next wave of network innovation for remote and branch office locations." 
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft says it will make it easier to create and manage clusters of Docker hosts.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- 10/01/2015
 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    A Web event detailed the coming attractions.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    This new feature makes outages and data loss much less  likely.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    It may hold the key to getting a handle on unstructured  data.
                    
			            - By Jon William  Toigo
- 09/24/2015
 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    The best part? They're free to use.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    VMware's enterprise mobility management suite will integrate  with Azure Active Directory.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    The VDI product never took off in the enterprise.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    Rethinking metadata has led INFINIDAT to new ways of virtualizing storage.
                    
			            - By Dan  Kusnetzky
- 09/22/2015
 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    The service already has more than 200,000 images.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    Ultimately, for this attendee, the show is about relationships.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    Brocade Communications Systems this week came out with a new software-defined networking (SDN) controller and associated applications based on the OpenDaylight Lithium release. 
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    Univa updates Grid Engine to work with containers.
                    
			            - By Dan  Kusnetzky
- 09/18/2015
 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    Security is still seen as the chief concern for most admins.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    As storage changes, Microsoft has kept up  with its latest offerings. See how fast it can be with this hands-on test.
                    
			            - By Paul  Schnackenburg
- 09/16/2015
 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    Hyperconvergence means fewer appliances and simpler datacenter networking.
                    
			            - By Dan  Kusnetzky
- 09/15/2015