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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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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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Virtualization, Cloud Computing Drive Ethernet Networking Space: IDC
Revenues in the Ethernet switching space jumped 32.7 percent in the second quarter, thanks to the growing adoption of such technologies as virtualization, cloud and VOIP, IDC said. - Virtualization, cloud computing and VOIP continue to drive the adoption of Ethernet networking, according to market research firm IDC. In its Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Networks Tracker report released Aug. 23, IDC analysts found that second-quarter revenue in the Ethernet switching space had g... (Read Full Article)
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IBM Applies the BigFix to Security and Compliance
Displaying the fruits of its recent BigFix acquisition, IBM has announced new software to deliver greater security and compliance to thousands of laptops, PCs and servers globally. - Displaying the fruits of its recent BigFix acquisition, IBM has announced new software to deliver greater security and compliance to thousands of laptops, PCs and servers globally -- automating some of the most time-intensive IT tasks. IBM closed its BigFix acquisition in July 2010. BigFix softwa... (Read Full Article)
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How to Use Virtualization to Save Money and Improve Service Quality
Just when you think you've trimmed any semblance of fat remaining in your IT budget, an economic downturn comes along, requiring you to find new ways to further reduce spending. You can target some of the usual suspects such as travel and training or, as Knowledge Center contributor Mark Settle explains here, you can explore virtualization as a means of achieving significant IT cost savings while also improving productivity and quality of service. - Our IT organization began its virtualization and automation journey with a limited number of key objectives. We wanted to obtain the maximum return on existing investments in server and storage resources and become more responsive to the needs of our software developers. We were pleasantly surprised... (Read Full Article)
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Survey: Infrastructure-as-a-Service Adoption on the Rise
According to a new report from the Yankee Group, enterprise adoption of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IAAS) is growing rapidly. Indeed, 24 percent of users surveyed are using IAAS, with 37 percent more planning to in the next 24 months. - According to a new report from the Yankee Group, enterprise adoption of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IAAS) is growing rapidly. The Yankee Group report, entitled “Is IaaS Moving Beyond Just Cloud Fluff?,” shows that 24 percent of large enterprises with cloud experience are already using IAAS, and an... (Read Full Article)
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Highlights from Linuxcon 2010
This week in Boston, the Linux Foundation held the second annual Linuxcon, a gathering of the developers, administrators, end users, and executives that call Linux home. All told, the conference touched on nearly every corner of computing—an indication of how broadly Linux has spread. Check out these highlights from the conference. - ... (Read Full Article)
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PCI Council Outlines Proposed Changes
The PCI Security Standards Council's proposed revisions for PCI DSS include additional guidance and clarifications to existing requirements in areas such as data discovery and virtualization. - The PCI Security Standards Council released a document Aug. 12 outlining proposed clarifications to be added to the future version of industry regulations. The PCI SSC document highlights several revisions slated to appear in the 2.0 versions of PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Stan... (Read Full Article)
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Cloud Computing Is More Likely for Low-Risk Systems: Report
Three out of five companies are adopting cloud computing technologies, including private clouds and lower-risk technologies, says a new report. In an e-mail interview with eWEEK, outsourcing expert TPI explains the results of its study. - Almost four out of five companies are discussing and evaluating how to take advantage of cloud computing technologies, according to a report by Houston-based outsourcer TPI. Seventy-eight percent of 140 IT managers surveyed by TPI fit in this category, yet a smaller number are actually adopting ... (Read Full Article)
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Dell Launches New Security Appliances for SMBs
The Dell-branded Unified Threat Management product line for network security centers on a new do-it-all appliance, the Dell J-SRX Gateway, that plugs into an IT system to handle multiple layers of security, including antivirus, antispam, and intrusion detection. - SAN FRANCISCO -- Dell, already a go-to IT vendor for a great many small and midrange businesses, on July 28 introduced some new network and endpoint security appliances for SMBs co-developed with OEM partner Juniper Networks. The Dell-branded Unified Threat Management product line for network ... (Read Full Article)
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Share Ranks Cost Cutting, Virtualization as Top IT Concerns
Cost management and virtualization were identified as the top issues concerning enterprise IT organizations in a recent SHARE survey of more than 160 IBM customers. Also, IBM plans to showcase its new zEnterprise mainframe at the SHARE conference in Boston August 1-5. - What are the most pressing issues facing enterprise IT organizations? Well, cost management and virtualization were identified as the top issues concerning enterprise IT organizations in a recent survey of more than 160 IBM customers. The complete results of the survey, conducted by SHARE, will be ... (Read Full Article)
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Forrester: Us It Spending to Ramp in Second Half of Year
Forrester expects that IT spending in the United States will ramp up in the second half of 2010. Overall, spending will be 9.9 percent more than in 2009, a jump from the 8.4 percent Forrester predicted in April. - Forrester Research analysts are increasingly optimistic about the growth of IT spending in the United States and across the world in the second half of 2010, despite the European economic problems that have caused other analyst firms to reduce their expectations for the rest of the year. In a July ... (Read Full Article)
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Virtualization, Cloud PCI Compliance Tips for Your Enterprise
Adoption of virtualization and cloud computing is not slowing down, and neither are the challenges facing businesses looking to migrate to the cloud. At the top of the list for many firms is maintaining security and compliance when moving from physical to virtual and cloud environments. Though an update of the PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) regulations is forthcoming and the PCI Security Standards Council has a special interest group looking at virtualization and how that maps to PCI, the council does not plan to release separate guidance on cloud computing. This means that businesses looking at the cloud may not get much detailed guidance on what to do. However, there are multiple sources for those searching for advice. With that in mind, eWEEK has compiled a list of the most important steps your business can take to make sure PCI compliance does not fall to the ... (Read Full Article)
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CA Unveils Virtualization, Cloud Management Apps
CA Technologies in May took the wraps off of its CA Virtual portfolio of virtualization and cloud management products. CA is releasing some of those offerings, as well as a new one for managing user privileges. - Two months after unveiling a host of new virtualization management solutions at their CA World 2010 show, company officials are now releasing the offerings. CA Technologies on July 19 announced the general release of four products in the CA Virtual portfolio that were talked about at the event in M... (Read Full Article)
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VMware's Roadmap Directed Squarely at the Cloud
Virtualization leader's chief cloud manager assesses current market trends and explains to eWEEK why the company's acquisition of Gemstone will become strategically important as time goes on. - Having pretty much conquered the world of data center virtualization software for the present time, VMware now wants the IT galaxy to view it as more than simply an important middleware provider. It wants to be seen as two new things: a first-rank cloud computing platform provider, and as a vendo...
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Cyber Security Report Highlights Progress, Future
The White House released a progress report about efforts to secure the country's critical networks against cyber-attack. But in addition to spotlighting what has been done, the report also mentions some things to come. - A progress report from the White House shed some light on the governments ongoing cyber-security efforts as well as what officials have planned for the future. The report comes 14 months after Pres. Obama released the results of its 60-day cyber-security review and declared cyber-security a natio... (Read Full Article)
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17 Promising Storage Companies Flying Under the Radar
We read on a regular basis about large, successful data storage companies such as EMC, NetApp, Compellent, Xiotech, 3PAR and Isilon Systems and the storage divisions of IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Hitachi Data Systems, Oracle and Fujitsu. After all, they make news and get the headlines. Many of them started out small and were managed well enough to survive in a cutthroat international storage market. In this slide show, eWEEK has compiled a list of up-and-coming independent storage companies that have the potential to grow up and be an EMC or NetApp someday& if they don't get acquired first. - ... (Read Full Article)
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Gets SP1 Flexibility
Review: eWEEK Labs encountered a few snags testing SLES 11 with SUSE Linux Enterprise 11's Service Pack 1, especially involving KVM and Hyper-V, but Novell is doing a good job of maintaining SLES as a leading enterprise operating system that should be evaluated by any organization that employs virtualization. - With the first service-pack update to its SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11, Novell has stuck with its philosophy of appealing to as many different server constituents as possible, with a particular focus on assuming as many different virtualization host and client roles as possible. Between the ... (Read Full Article)
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Top 20 Risks Facing U.S. Tech Companies
With the economy still in flux, U.S. tech companies have a lot of concerns. With that in mind, professional services firm BDO created a list of the top 20 risks and concerns tech companies have in 2010. The information is based on risk factors listed by businesses in various filings with U.S Securities and Exchange Commission. To compile the list, BDO used data from the 100 largest publicly traded technology companies in the United States. These risk factors are short-term issues that could negatively affect business. This eWEEK presentation is a countdown from No. 20 to No. 1, although some rankings were tied as percentages. Does your company or IT department have similar concerns? - ... (Read Full Article)
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Novell Delivers Log Management Software Appliance
Novells new Sentinel Log Manager 1.1 software appliance simplifies compliance and improves security by streamlining deployment and facilitating IT transparency through data collection, search and reporting capabilities. - Novell recently announced the availability of Novell Sentinel Log Manager 1.1, making the new log management solution available as a software appliance. Novell has long been a proponent of software appliances, which are basically pre-configured combinations of an application, middleware and ope... (Read Full Article)
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Identity Management Projects Require Proper Planning
Many organizations are launching identity management projects, and avoiding common pitfalls means taking certain steps up front before deployment begins. - Identity management projects are on the menu for many businesses, and like all IT projects, planning is key. Among the most commonly cited challenges is correctly-sizing the project and not biting off more than you can chew, experts told eWEEK. To avoid that, step one involves doing a little homew... (Read Full Article)
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10 Best Practices for Data Center Consolidation
Virtualization for consolidating servers and storage arrays isn't just a smart idea anymore& it's a de facto data center best practice. As enterprise data center managers and CIOs/CTOs update their legacy systems, they are using virtualization as a way to get better utilization out of their existing servers and storage arrays and to cut down on the number of machines taking power out of the wall. For the record, virtualization software shifts conventional single-purpose application servers to a pool of computing power that requires fewer servers, enabling notable performance gains and reducing the electrical energy used to run them. However, there is a lot more to consider than simply virtualization when it comes to consolidating a data center. The information in this slide show was compiled by Nlyte Software in Menlo Park, Calif., which provides data center infrastructure management (DCIM) software and services for intelligent capacity planning. - ... (Read Full Article)
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VMware Security Appliance Marketplace's Top 5 Rated Appliances
The VMware appliance marketplace for secure content and threat management products is a site to visit for suggestions and trial copies. eWEEK Labs sifted through the top rated products to distill the following collection of security tools that can run as virtual appliances in a VMware environment. Although some of products were outdated and more than a few of the top rated products are miscategorized we present here a cleaned up listing of the top ten rated applicances. - ... (Read Full Article)
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How to Choose the Best IT Monitoring Solution for Cloud Infrastructures
Outsourcing, software as a service, virtualization and cloud computing are ushering in an era in which enterprises distribute increasingly critical IT assets and applications across multiple service providers and platforms. These changes are rendering legacy monitoring tools virtually useless. Here, Knowledge Center contributor Gary Read provides a list of seven criteria enterprises should consider when evaluating IT monitoring solutions that will enable them to extend monitoring from their data center to the cloud. - Economic pressures, scalability demands, advances in innovation, and the need to squeeze every bit of value available out of IT resources are all driving an enterprise computing paradigm shift. This shift centers around cloud computing and its promise to provide organizations with the ability to exp... (Read Full Article)
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