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Horizon Suite: VMware Inches Towards The Virtual Workspace

February 21, 2013

VMware took one small step towards the realization of its desktop strategy with the launch of Horizon Suite yesterday, but failed to to make a giant leap.

AppSense Live in the Now: DesktopNow Now More Than Just a Name Change?

February 15, 2013

By Andrew Wood

Now, this isn't a question of how many times can I get now in the title in some sort of unusual Now Bingo game. In January, AppSense, quietly went about re-branding its Management Suite (consisting of Management Center, Application Manager, Environment Manager and Performance Manager) as AppSense DesktopNow although it's all official now.

Virsto: Software Defined Data Center: Tip of the Iceberg

February 13, 2013

By Edward Haletky

VMware buying Virsto is a big move and after considerable discussion a logical step for VMware in many technical areas as well. We previously mentioned that Virsto would add to VMware's existing in Software Defined Data Center (SDDC), but there is more to this than just SDDC, which I believe is the end goal. Getting…

Virtualizing Business Critical Applications: Data Protection

January 25, 2013

By Edward Haletky

A major aspect of virtualizing any business critical application is data protection which encompasses not only backup, but disaster recovery, and business continuity. It is imperative that our data be protected. While this is true of all workloads, it becomes a bigger concern when virtualizing business critical applications. Not only do we need backups, but…

Virtual Future in our Virtual Designs

January 8, 2013

By Steve Beaver

Is it time to plan for the virtual future in our virtual designs? Happy New Year and welcome to 2013!! What a year 2012 turned out to be for virtualization and/or cloud computing in general. Microsoft Hyper-V, RedHat and VMware have all made quite a few enhancements with the hypervisor and we have finally gotten…

Nivio – Has Someone got Desktop-As-A-Service for Small Business Right?

January 3, 2013

By Andrew Wood

Nivio have announced a DaaS solution aimed at SME space. Offering access to Microsoft Windows on any device, rentable applications, and data storage in the cloud, it sounds as if Nivio's service could be just the ticket for the tablet wielding small business user. What are Nivio doing that is different? Will this model be…

Garantia Data Launches Redis & Memcached Service for Azure

December 24, 2012

By Mike Norman

In a sign of the changing times, Garantia Data (an in-memory noSQL database service specialist) has launched a service to provide the Redis and Memcached No-SQL databases as a service to users of Microsoft Windows Azure.

It Is Time To Expand The Virtual Playing Field

December 12, 2012

By Steve Beaver

It is time to expand the virtual playing field. Since the release of both Hyper-V 2012 and vSphere 5.1, there have been an abundant amount of posts comparing the two hypervisors in a head to head fashion. All the different charts, graphs, and tables point to the fact that when comparing maximum values head to…

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