BMC to be taken private; Out with Old – In with the New

May 8, 2013
By
BlindDinosaur

If BMC is taken private, the same fate will likely befall other legacy enterprise management software vendors like CA, and the management software divisions of IBM and HP. This will start the process of the replacement of these products by new ones built from the ground up for virtualization and cloud computing, and mark the…

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Dell Acquires Cloud Application Management Vendor Enstratius

May 7, 2013
By
ITasaService

Entstratius helps organizations manage applications across private, public and hybrid clouds, including automated application provisioning and scaling, application configuration management, usage governance, and cloud utilization monitoring.

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Automation Weaknesses

May 6, 2013
By
DataCenterVirtualization

Over the last few weeks I have been struggling with automating deployment and testing of virtual desktops for my own edification. This struggle has pointed out automation weaknesses which need to be addressed for automation and the software defined data center to succeed and not only be deployed from software but also self-healing and all…

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News: Splunk App for Enterprise Security Updated

May 3, 2013
By
Splunk100x30

Splunk is well known for analyzing data in large volumes either within a local Splunk installation or within the Splunk Storm their cloud service. However, there has been a general lack of security related capability within both these tools. Yes they can correlate some security data, but requires a bit of hands on work to…

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Medicine as a Service: Could this be the next cloud frontier?

May 2, 2013
By
CloudComputing

Medicine as a Service: Could this be the next cloud frontier? For the most of the last decade there have been a lot of hospitals and medical services groups that have been migrating their workloads from physical servers to virtual servers and now are expanding from just a virtual environment to a more of a…

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A Look at the Dell Active System 800

May 1, 2013
By
Dell100x30a

Taking a good look at the merits and drawbacks of the Dell Active System 800, Dell's entry into the converged infrastructure market.

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SDDC Application Performance Management

April 30, 2013
By
SDDC.Management.Stack.Reference.Architecture

SDDC Application Performance Management will be a critical part of ensuring that the applications that matter to your business are highly available and perform well in you software defined data center. Running rapidly changing applications on a highly dynamic software infrastructure will lead to intractable problems unless proper APM tools are deployed in your SDDC.

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Cyber Defense: Using Virtual Desktops?

April 29, 2013
By
DesktopVirtualization

There was recently a rather heated twitter discussion between @Guisebule, @VirtualTal, and @Texiwill (myself) about using virtual desktops as a part of cyber defense. While this could be true, there is a need to ensure you know where your virtual desktop(s) start and end, not only within the network, but your applications in use. In…

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How Will VMware Win Against Microsoft?

April 26, 2013
By
DataCenterVirtualization

A VMware win against Microsoft simply requires VMware to turn the pricing tables on Microsoft, and to leverage its highly differentiating functionality in its Software Defined Data Center strategy. VMware could re-establish technical dominance in the data center virtualization space as early as the end of this year by leveraging its software defined networking, software…

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