Nicira is a start-up right out of the Silicon Valley playbook with a $1.26 billion ending, in just five years. VMware's decision, announced Monday, to buy this network virtualization company will likely be cited as a starring example of ...
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When Apple switched to Intel processors, Windows switchers as well as Mac users who needed to run the occasional Windows app rejoiced. That's because the chip switch was soon followed by the release of virtualization software that would ...
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PeakColo,a leading enterprise-class IaaS Cloud service provider to service providers,announced today the addition of its seventh cloud node in Chicago,Illinois.PeakColo will partner with PlusOne,a Chicago-based data center service ...
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Alcatel-Lucent’s enterprise division this week jumped into the SDN market with a strategy to fortify products to enhance network programmability and virtualisation. The company is augmenting its Application Fluent Network strategy ...
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VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure) is one of the hottest technologies going, and there are nearly as many ways to deploy it as there are companies providing the solutions. Some VDI solutions are server-based, running on "big iron" in a ...
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Xen.org, home of the open source Xen hypervisor, today announced the final speaker line-up and agenda for its annual Xen Summit North America conference. The event will be held, August 27-28 in San Diego, California and is co-located with ...
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The Windows version of Crisis, a piece of malware discovered in July, is capable of infecting VMware virtual machine images, Windows Mobile devices and removable USB drives, according to researchers from antivirus vendor Symantec. Crisis ...
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FalconStor Software today announced the latest version of RecoverTrac software, offering users fully automated recovery of IT services in any data center environment. FalconStor's RecoverTrac 2.5 software introduces new GUIs that reduce ...
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Paving the way for more server-side use of JavaScript, platform-as-a-service (PaaS) provider Engine Yard has added the Node.js library to its collection of hosted Web application tools. The service, which Engine Yard first offered as a ...
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IBM has started to roll out a new processor for its Power family of servers, a project that will start with higher-end systems and eventually reach the midrange and low-end boxes. The new Power7+ chip has a higher clock speed than its ...
From the moment he walked in the door at BancVue in December 2010, Sunny Nair knew he wanted to move the financial services software company from Microsoft's Hyper-V to VMware's virtualization technology. The company was having trouble ...
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Today marks the official release of VMware's vSphere 5.1, and despite the point release, there's much more to this version than minor updates and bug fixes. In fact, this is a release that would have been comfortable wearing the number 6. ...
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4t Networks is pleased to announce that the Cloud hosting provider now additionally offers easy-to-use, customizable Disaster Recovery services, so that your business will be protected with a viable plan when disaster strikes. 4t ...
Cloud hosting company 4t Networks is pleased to announce that it is partnering with Semaphore Co to provide customers with flat-fee Disaster Recovery assessments. Though disaster can happen to anyone at any time, with causes ranging from ...
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4t Networks have developed a simplified way to handle disaster recovery and backup by utilizing Veeam. Veeam gives you a cohesive data protection strategy, so your data will be safe even during a disastrous event. Disasters can be caused ...
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