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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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12 Step Program to Enter the Cloud

December 6, 2012
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VirtualizationSecurity

On the 11/29 Virtualization Security Podcast Omar Khawaja the global managing principle at Verizon Terremark Security Solutions joined us to discuss Verizon's 12 step program for entering the cloud. This 12 step program concentrates on the IT and Security admins working together with the business to identify all types of data that could be placed…

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Cloud Foundry and the Pivotal Initiative

December 5, 2012
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CloudComputing

VMware's Cloud Foundry has been festering for the best part of a year now. It smells a little bit of lack of courage, and a lot of lack of focus. The body is still warm, but I fear EMC/VMware may have already snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.

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The Pivotal Initiative – EMC and VMware’s Application Strategy

December 4, 2012
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CloudComputing

The Pivotal Initiative is is a bold bet to reinvent how applications are built and upon what platforms they run. While VMware has revolutionized data center operations, and public cloud vendors like Amazon, Microsoft, Google and the OpenStack cabal have revolutionized Infrastructure as a Service upon demand, the future of how applications are built, deployed…

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Windows 2012 Hyper-V – the hypervisor for your Cloud? Part III

December 4, 2012
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DataCenterVirtualization

Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V in your private cloud, specifically in a Microsoft Windows VM environment, can be delivered for cost effectively. With 2012 Hyper-V, any Microsoft edition has the exact same virtualization and fail-over clustering features & scalability. The key market play here is in the increased functionality that Microsoft has introduced however, Microsoft not…

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Information Superhighway

November 30, 2012
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CloudComputing

I can remember back in the day when we connected to the Internet via a modem and were charged by the minute while accessing the “Information Superhighway”. Now, the Internet and really, the network it runs on, has pretty much become invisible to the naked eye. Just as we expect the lights to turn on…

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Threats and Risks in the Cloud

November 29, 2012
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CloudComputing

There are threats to the cloud and there are risks within the cloud. A recent article from Tech Target Search Security blog spurred several thoughts. The main claim here is that there are not enough people who can differentiate threats and risks enough to talk to business leaders who may know very little about security,…

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SAML to the Rescue: vCenter Single Sign On

November 28, 2012
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VirtualizationSecurity

VMware vCenter 5.1 implemented a new security feature, Single Sign-On (SSO), that uses the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) to exchange security tokens. This combats an extremely well known and prevalent attack within the virtualization management trust zones: SSL Man in the Middle (MiTM) attacks. However, vCenter still supports the old SSL methods as well…

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Windows 2012 Hyper-V – the hypervisor for your Cloud? Part II

November 27, 2012
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DataCenterVirtualization

Is Windows 2012 Hyper-V ithe hypervisor for the cloud. We consider Aidan Finn's comparison of Windows 2012 Hyper-V to VMware VSphere and Citrix XenServer to help you decide what technologies can be used to configure your own private cloud services.

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