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Virtualization Draws Record Crowd to VMWorld 2010
Plenty of IT events during the last two years have been "ghost towns," in the words of at least one respected IT analyst, Charles King, and he's right. However, this year's seventh annual VMworld conference and expo at San Francisco's Moscone Center belied that is far from that image. More than 17,000 people roamed the show floor, crowded technical meetings, and heard VMware executives and their industry partners talk about their technology "road maps" in general sessions. Virtualization continues to be a huge topic of discussion. Following are some snapshots of various parts of the show, which ends Sept. 2. (All photos by Chris Preimesberger, eWEEK) - ... (Read Full Article)
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VMware and Novell announces availability of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
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VMware and Novell announces availability of SUSE Linux Enterprise ServerTrading Markets (press release)VMware, a provider of virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions, and Novell, a provider of intelligent workload management, have announced the ...and more » (Read Full Article)
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Virtualization: Critical component of hurricane planning
As the hurricane and two tropical storms slide across the Atlantic ocean towards the U.S., I can't help but think about the impact virtualization can have on disaster planning and recovery. If we... (Read Full Article)
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Wound Care Goes ToThe Cloud
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GWR Medical decided more than a year ago that instead of spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to upgrade and maintain its own IT infrastructure supporting its wound care therapy business, it would instead pass the baton to Verizon. That's when GWR Medical made the move to the cloud. (Read Full Article)
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VMware Expands Cloud Infrastructure Strategy, Introduces New Products to Drive IT as a Service
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VMware, Inc. announced six new products and services that help enterprises and service providers achieve the benefits of cloud computing while maintaining the control and freedom of choice they require. IT as a Service is the transformation of IT to a more business-centric approach, focusing on outcomes such as operational efficiency, competitiveness and rapid response. This means IT shifts from producing IT services to optimizing production and consumption of those services in ways consistent with business requirements. This changes the role of IT from a cost center to a center of strategic value. “Enterprises are embracing a new model of infrastructure to deliver IT as a Service through hybrid cloud computing,” said Raghu Raghuram, senior vice president and general manager, virtualization and cloud platforms, VMware. “The products and services we are launching today provide a comprehensive enterprise architecture that will deliver the agility and economics of the cloud with the ... (Read Full Article)
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Multi-tenancy: why you should care
SaaS buyers shouldn't settle for the limited horizons of single-tenancy. Multi-tenancy is the ideal architecture to make the most of the cloud environment, because it continually evolves to keep... (Read Full Article)
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Critical Testing Criteria: Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
VMware, Microsoft, Citrix and others have forged ahead in making virtual desktop infrastructure a viable choice for centrally managed, highly configurable use cases. Here are “three Cs” to consider when testing a virtual desktop product: components, capacity, capability. Components include both the services and underlying physical components, capacity is the number of virtual desktop instances that can be supported by your host systems and capability now includes feature-rich graphics and peripheral device support along with the usual desktop and line-of-business applications. - 1. License costs In addition to the “three Cs” one of the most important testing criteria is licensing costs. None of the competing vendors make it easy to do an apples-to-apples comparison, so youll need to do some noodling to get a price per-desktop, per-year figure. It makes a difference ho... (Read Full Article)
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VMware's Maritz Predicts Hybrid Cloud Future
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Private clouds inside the enterprise will trade workloads with similar, VMware-based public clouds rendering physical data centers "quite fluid," according to CEO Paul Maritz.
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VMworld 2010: Virtualization, the Matrix, and the VMware/Microsoft Rivalry
Ten highlights from VMworld, the massive virtualization conference. (Read Full Article)
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Suse Linux for VMware Ships
Virtualization and cloud capabilities are touted in the joint Novell-VMware announcement. (Read Full Article)
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Will Public Cloud Open up a Can of Worms?
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IT and risk managers want to know, if they take advantage of cloud opportunities, what are the real impacts to their business for security, compliance and manageability? Will my applications perform the same way? Will I need to hire or retrain people? These unknowns are causing some businesses managers pause. They’re attracted by the promise of lower cost and greater agility but nervous about the implications of cloud. People often ask me: Will public cloud open up a can of worms? The answer is, it depends how you go about it. Let’s discuss a few primary concerns that must be addressed before businesses can take their first confident steps into the public cloud. Manageability. If you’re consuming services in a hosted environment, that gives you a much lower operating cost, but does the physical distance from the environment add complexity? You certainly don’t want to have to create separate processes ... (Read Full Article)
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With Clouds Everywhere, It Is Bound to Rain
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I was pondering the weather in Northeast Wisconsin this morning, it’s gloomy and oppressively hot. Between heat and humidity, I’d say it felt more like the US’s Pacific Northwest than the Midwest. And it’s been image that way all summer. We’ve been plowed under with 80+ percent humidity for months, and every once in a while the temperature dips to remind us that we’re in Wisconsin. It is the last day of August, tomorrow is September, when cool and wet is supposed to start converging upon us. It will be a relief after months of hot and humid. But the one thing we’ve had plenty of this summer? Rain. Lots and lots of rain. Like I said, Pacific Northwest. read more (Read Full Article)
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Maritz: Security improves and the role of the OS changes with virtualization
VMWare CEO Paul Maritz talks about the changing forces caused by virtualization, including the potential to improve security and the shift away from the OS as the center of innovation. (Read Full Article)
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Identity Management in Cloud Computing
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Web-services research and protocol applications have been around and in use for quite some time now. With the potential Capex and Opex savings enterprises can potentially realise from utilizing a cloud computing service model, there should also be added focus on ensuring that security is properly implemented either in authentication or authorization. Cloud Computing, with its foundation in the world of virtualization, can take advantage of key aspects of web service implementations and security practice; but only to a point. Web service policies are based on a static model that is known, defined, regulated and contained. However, with Cloud Computing, these dynamics change. We can assert that within the cloud environment we deal with a heterogeneous digital ecosystem that is dynamic in nature. read more
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VMWare launches six new vCloud products
VMWare is turning up the heat on its competitors with a host of new virtualization products for the cloud.There are six new products that will be officially introduced at VMWorld today, and they are VMWare vCloud Director and the vShield security products portfolio, including VMware vShield Edge, VMware vShield App and VMware vShield Endpoint.vCloud Director, [...] (Read Full Article)
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Private Clouds: Not as Easy as it Looks
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A strange dichotomy is forming around the emerging market for private clouds. Despite, or perhaps because of, the relatively slow uptake of the technology so far, vendors continue to introduce ever-more-simplified cloud startup packages. At the same (Read Full Article)
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HP and VMware to Accelerate Private Cloud Computing
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To help customers better control and manage the physical and virtual aspects of cloud infrastructure, VMware and HP are creating an integrated, comprehensive cloud infrastructure solution combining the new VMware vCloud Director with the HP BladeSystem Matrix and HP Cloud Maps. The HP Cloud Map for VMware vCloud Director can be directly imported into customers' Matrix environments to rapidly deploy new VMware vCloud infrastructure. Through the integration of Matrix and VMware vCloud Director, customers can easily scale virtualized resource pools to quickly adjust to changing business demands. The integration will be available as a technology preview by the end of the year. read more
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Novell Makes Cloud Security Service Generally Available
Novell has made its cloud security service available following successful beta trials.
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Security-As-a-Service Growing
When you ask IT professionals if they use cloud computing or software-as-a-service, most start by saying "no". But if you ask some follow up questions, you will quickly find out about "that one application" that is a SaaS application.
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Hybrid Cloud Computing Best Practices
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Hybrid Cloud Computing Best PracticesChannel InsiderThe approach provides companies with control over mission critical functions and legacy operations while moving more portable applications to a cloud model. ...and more » (Read Full Article)
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Citrix Buys VMLogix
Citrix plans to announce Monday that it will buy VMLogix as part of a larger push to offer more self-service tools and address concerns like vendor lock-in facing enterprises using the cloud.
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Organizing Sensitive Data in the Cloud
What does a cloud vendor do to properly segment various types of sensitive data within its cloud? Gregory Machler discusses how to capture the metadata you'll need.
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From M&A to R&D, Cloud is Driving IT Activity
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Still wondering if cloud computing is the real deal, if it will find its way to a data center near you? Whether they’re buying, building or buddying up, vendors are surrounding their core competencies with everything they’ll need to compete in an increasingly integrated IT market.
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Cloud Computing ‘Number Two’ Priority for CIOs, Says IDC
A majority of Australian CIOs are moving towards the cloud at a rapid rate, with cost effectiveness and reduced infrastructure being top-of-mind for IT leaders looking at SaaS.
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