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Change: Moving to the Cloud

December 26, 2012
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CloudComputing

The Virtualization Practice will be moving from our internal virtual environment and cloud configuration to an external hosted cloud configuration, at least temporarily. However, what we have found is that not all clouds are alike (we all knew that), and that some of our processes were not cloud friendly but what does it mean for…

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Garantia Data Launches Redis & Memcached Service for Azure

December 24, 2012
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Agile Cloud Development

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.

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Big Data Operations Management

December 21, 2012
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PerformanceManagement

If you are running business critical or performance critical applications in shared (virtualized or in a public cloud) environment then you might need big data operations management. If your environment is large enough to make monitoring into a big data problem, then choosing a product from a vendor like CloudPhysics, Reflex Systems, Splunk or Xangati…

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News: Red Hat Acquires ManageIQ – Another Cloud Management Acquisition

December 21, 2012
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CloudComputing

By acquiring ManageIQ, Red Hat has thrown its hat into the ring as a vendor of a suite of software comparable to the VMware vCloud Suite. This has broad ramifications for Microsoft and for legacy vendors of management software.

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Moving to the Cloud: When Does It Make Sense?

December 20, 2012
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CloudComputing

On 12/18, I had an interesting twitter conversation with Mark Thiele (@mthiele10) about moving to the cloud based on cost. There is a cost perspective to consider as cloud services can be very expensive. When does it make sense to go to the cloud, I think there are two scenarios to consider when talking about…

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End User Computing: Using just a Tablet

December 18, 2012
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DesktopVirtualization

Recently I have been trying to lighten my conference going load. To do that, I have been thinking about ways to do without my laptop and all the accessories for it, which got me thinking about what it takes to completely use such a device; to fully embrace the next generation of end-user computing using…

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Cloud API: In-Security?

December 14, 2012
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VirtualizationSecurity

The 12/13 Virtualization Security Podcast featured George Reese CTO on enStratus as our guest panelist. We discussed Cloud API security or more to the point the lack of real cloud API security. To paraphrase George: Some got it, others do not. So what makes up a good cloud API? how can we fix broken cloud…

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It Is Time To Expand The Virtual Playing Field

December 12, 2012
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CloudComputing

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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Will Cisco Buy Citrix in Reaction to VMware’s SDDC Strategy?

December 10, 2012
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DataCenterVirtualization

If Cisco were to acquire Citrix, it would immediately boost Cisco's business via the integration of Netscaler into Cisco's product line. It would further significantly strengthen Cisco's hand in positioning vs VMware SDDC strategy. It would also pretty much cement the position of VMware and Cisco as two competing vendors of Software Defined Data Centers.

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