Network World-SAN DEIGO--If the OpenStack Summit held this week is any indication,virtual networking is a hot IT topic. A panel discussion about virtual networking in the cloud featuring representatives from HP,Big Switch and Midokura was ...
Tags: SDN, Virtual Networking, Hybrid Clouds
Hosting companies purporting to offer cloud services are offering the same services that they were 10 years ago,but simply marketing them as cloud instead in a bid to make money,claims Flexiant founder Tony Lucas. "If you were to believe ...
Tags: Hosting Companies, cloud services, Flexiant, cloud computing
Reseller and cloud service provider, Mason IT has managed to avoid the use of costly storage area network (SAN) architecture, after deploying Nutanix for the cloud. Mason IT, which partners with Cisco, VMware, Juniper, Huawei and now ...
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At VMworld in Barcelona yesterday, VMware executives fleshed out the company's software-defined datacentre vision of storage virtualised from the server hypervisor. This will provide pools of data capacity in native virtual disk format ...
Tags: VMworld, server hypervisor, virtual disk format, data capacity
Hitachi Data Systems(HDS)today introduced a new version of its Hitachi Unified Storage(HUS)array that allows file,block and object-based data to be stored through a single management interface. The HUS VM(virtual machine)array is aimed at ...
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When transitioning workloads to virtual environments, one of the big drawbacks for data center administrators can be a loss of visibility. When a problem occurs, it can be difficult to get a handle on details like which users are affected ...
Tags: Applications, Splunk, USA, computer industry
Staying ahead of Microsoft itself,VMware has updated its Workstation desktop computer hypervisor so it can run Microsoft's soon-to-be-released Windows 8. VMware Workstation 9,available now,also includes the ability for users to access ...
Tags: Windows 8, VMware, Workstation desktop computer hypervisor
Computerworld-When the Government Employees Health Association(GEHA)overhauled its data center to build a fabric infrastructure,the process was"really straightforward,"unlike that of many IT projects,says Brenden Bryan,senior manager of ...
Tags: Data center, GEHA, Fibre Channel, Ethernet switches
Network World-With the revamped System Center 2012 suite of management tools,Microsoft has launched a powerful new weapon in the battle to control the virtualized data center and the cloud,both private and public. Although it's a totally ...
Tags: Microsoft, new weapon, Virtualization