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Greenbytes Addresses VDI IO Without Changing Your Storage

December 27, 2012

By Joe Jessen

Implementing virtual desktops has often required a different thinking about storage and is heavily focused on lowering number of IOPS to provide the best desktop experience. Greenbytes appliances target to reduce costs and improve user performance.

Big Data Operations Management

December 21, 2012

By Bernd Harzog

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…

News: Red Hat Acquires ManageIQ – Another Cloud Management Acquisition

December 21, 2012

By Bernd Harzog

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.

Virtualizing Business Critical Applications – The Performance and Capacity Sizing Problem

December 17, 2012

By Bernd Harzog

The process of virtualizing business critical applications should start with using a modern APM tool to establish a response time and throughput baseline for the application while it is still on physical hardware. That baseline should then serve as the reference SLA once the application is virtualized. Performance needs to be defined as response time…

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

December 10, 2012

By Bernd Harzog

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.

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

December 4, 2012

By Andrew Wood

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…

Threats and Risks in the Cloud

November 29, 2012

By Edward Haletky

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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