Hewlett-Packard's new four-socket blade and rack servers for virtualized environments will provide more processing cores and memory in a tighter space so that virtual machines can be deployed more quickly, the company said on Tuesday. The ...
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There are a number of emerging and proposed standard protocols focused on optimizing the support that data center Ethernet LANs provide for server virtualization. Several of these protocols are aimed at network virtualization via the ...
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VMware announced today that its vSphere cloud operating system will now come natively with EMC's Avamar backup and recovery software, which also includes data deduplication capability. Additionally, EMC announced its VFCache PCIe server ...
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While newly-discovered malware that attacks VMware virtual machines is no cause for undue concern, users can take some basic steps to protect apps and data, says security firm Trend Micro. Earlier this week, advanced analysis of the ...
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Slough-based logistics company Crossflight has implemented an EMC VNX mid-range storage array to support its virtual server environment and has reaped savings of 50% on power and cooling costs. The company chose EMC over HP, IBM and ...
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Despite a highly virtualised server infrastructure and a consolidated data centre, London School of Economics and Political Science was not finding all the IT efficiencies it needed. Turns out its existing virtualisation management tool ...
Juniper Networks has unveiled an update to its vGW Virtual Gateway product line to target service providers looking for better security on a larger scale. The vGW series works at the hypervisor level, putting firewall, antivirus and ...
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NetApp has topped-and-tailed capacities in its midrange filer family, introducing the FAS3220 and FAS3250. Both products come with clustered NAS, unified storage (NAS and SAN) and flash cache acceleration capability. The FAS3220 and ...
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AMD recently deployed a 6TB NAND flash storage array into a virtual server test environment and got some amazing results, says Fred Abounader, a performance systems engineer at the chip maker. In virtualization benchmarking tests, the ...
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While several of the largest storage vendors, such as EMC, Hewlett-Packard and NetApp, have entered into agreements with server, software and networking vendors to offer bundled products, purpose-built products are just beginning to emerge. ...
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4t Networks encourages Texas companies to prepare themselves for hurricane season with a disaster recovery and backup plan. 4t Networks' disaster recovery plan transfers your VMware virtual machines, over a virtual private network, to the ...
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4t Networks is offering 50% off of disaster recovery setup from now until November 30th, which marks the end of the 2012 hurricane season. Use the code HURRICANE2012 when you set up your disaster recovery system to receive the discount. ...
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With hassle-free pricing from 4t Networks, your disaster recovery services have just gotten even simpler. All you have to do is select your number of virtual machines, diskc space, and bandwidth, and your price is generated. It can all be ...
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Microsoft has ditched the 30-day grace period, a trademark of Windows 7, in the retail copies of Windows 8, mandating that users provide a product key during setup. The change runs counter to previous practice by the Redmond, Wash. ...
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PeakColo, a leading enterprise IaaS cloud computing service provider to service providers, announced the addition of Ms. Laurel Burton as Vice President of Marketing. As Vice President of Marketing, Ms. Burton will oversee all aspects of ...
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