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.
- By Dan Kusnetzky
- 07/24/2015
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation is led by a Docker engineer.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 07/24/2015
In the age of virtualization, many think high availability trumps disaster recovery. Think again: It's more necessary than ever.
- By Jon William Toigo
- 07/23/2015
Research firm Gartner Inc. won't be publishing any "Magic Quadrant" reports for software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) technologies, "because SDN and NFV aren't markets."
License income experiences strong rise as well.
For the most part, they run on the same software stack as the paid version of their products.
New thin clients are part of a "vWorkspace" upgrade.
- By Dan Kusnetzky
- 07/21/2015
Citrix, Oracle, Red Hat and others are "Niche Players," according to the report.
Licensing changes and feature upgrades close the competition gap.
Using Ravello Systems to create proof-of-concept upgrades.
DataGravity builds its comprehensive analysis right into its appliances.
- By Dan Kusnetzky
- 07/17/2015
A wide range of storage arrays have been made available with the release.
Microsoft pitches it as a "unified solution for workload-aware disaster recovery."
Do you need what vendors are selling?
- By Dan Kusnetzky
- 07/14/2015
Maybe, muses Jon Toigo in the return of his column, it failed through lack of interest, rather than poor technology.
- By Jon William Toigo
- 07/13/2015
The company hopes to differentiate its offering by highlighting its expertise with the open source cloud platform.
- By Dan Kusnetzky
- 07/10/2015
Cisco this week invested in a Parisian new-generation networking company as part of a broader initiative to bolster French digital businesses, but some see the move as a long-range strategic positioning against SDN/NFV competitors.
Trying to select one and only one hypervisor to create virtual environments can be a fool's errand.
- By Dan Kusnetzky
- 07/08/2015
Within four years, predicts IDC, that number will increase to nearly half of all infrastructure spending.
Condusiv takes aim at Windows I/O requests to optimize virtual workloads.
- By Dan Kusnetzky
- 07/07/2015