Virtualization
There's a real battle in the virtualization market as VMware positions itself as cloud computing's operating system. Meanwhile, Microsoft is gaining traction and players like Citrix and Red Hat are also a threat. Virtualization's main selling point---the ability to use more computing capacity and save on servers---resonates for obvious reasons.
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Applications have become very complex and highly distributed. Each application might be segmented and virtualized in different ways. This means performance management has become a major problem....
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ADARA Networks appears to be doing its best to do just about everything for everyone, everywhere, always. While an interesting concept, I have to wonder about a company trying to have such a broad...
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Today's modern data center is very complex. No supplier offers tools that can directly address everything there. This means that organizations are likely to need a combination of tools from...
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Suppliers have long looked for ways to create a competitive edge. Creating a memorable catch phrase or new buzz word can help them shape and guide industry interest. "Dark Data" and "Storage...
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Citrix has evolved from humble beginnings into a supplier that really can reduce its customers overall costs, deal with a herd of remote computing devices while making the environment manageable...
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Is a unified datacenter virtualization model practical?
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Oracle President Mark Hurd promises increased investments in the Chinese market, dismisses IBM's recently launched expert integrated system, and explains why Oracle's strategies are difficult for...
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Citrix aims to step up its mobile, cloud game
Citrix moved to bolster its mobile and cloud delivery tools at its Synergy conference.
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Amazon announces cloud expo this November in Las Vegas
Mark your calendars: Amazon Web Services will be hosting its first global customer and partner conference later this year.
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Behind latest systems integration boom: cloud, virtualization and government
Integration market to keep growing at 5% annual rate, fueled by cloud, virtualization, and government IT streamlining.
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OpenStack's prospects: Red Hat, VMware agree to disagree
OpenStack will either change the cloud computing universe or be a muddled mess. Red Hat and VMware execs square off.
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Tegile Systems storage virtualization and hybrid storage
Organizations using other virtualization technology, such as application or processing virtualization, need to consider how storage virtualization can improve their operations. Tegile Systems...
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Has 'cloud computing' become a redundant phrase?
Soon, any and all forms of computing will be taking advantage of a mix of network and local resources. Why bother to call it anything but 'computing'?
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VMware revamps end user portfolo, launches VMware View 5.1
The company revamped its end-user product portfolio including tools for centralized management and an effort called "Project Octopus" that aims to challenge Dropbox.
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VMware ESX source code 'leaked online'
A hacker, who this month accessed a Beijing-based electronics import and export corporation, has released code fragments of VMware's ESX virtualisation software.
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Linux Foundation to host CloudOpen to mitigate open source cloud war
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