Plagued by frequent unplanned outages in a relatively simple SAN environment, a Texas health care facility turned to Virtual Instruments to provide the requisite insight and visibility for its new, much larger and complex virtualized SAN infrastructure. Continue reading to learn more. Published by: Virtual Instruments
The pioneer of multi-vendor/multi-GPU graphic solutions, LucidLogix today announced ground-breaking GPU virtualization software designed for Intel… Read more at VMblog.com.
What do Virtualization and Cloud executives think about 2011? Find out in this VMblog.com series exclusive. Contributed Article By Josh Beil,… Read more at VMblog.com.
DataCore Software, an early pioneer and now a leading provider of software-based virtualization solutions empowering storage, today highlighted what… Read more at VMblog.com.
VMware has released a new paper titled Configuration Examples and Troubleshooting for VMDirectPath . The paper contains details around configuration… Read more at VMblog.com.
RES Software, the proven leader in dynamic desktop solutions, today announced a growing number of new solution providers throughout the United States Read more at VMblog.com.
SYS-CON Events announced today that Layered Technologies, a leading worldwide provider of on-demand and cloud computing IT infrastructure, has been named “Silver Sponsor” of SYS-CON’s 8th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 6–9, 2011, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
Layered Technologies is a leading global provider of managed dedicated hosting and on-demand virtualization/cloud computing services. By providing high-quality technology, infrastructure and support, Layered Tech enables clients to eliminate capital expenses and save on operating costs while focusing on core business issues. Layered Tech’s scalable infrastructure powers millions of sites and Internet-enabled applications including e-commerce and software as a service (SaaS). Their clients range from leading-edge Web 2.0 startups, to large enterprises with advanced data security and compliance requirements and whose applications must remain available and secure at all times.
The new Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) updates HDS’ flagship platform. The “3D scaling” enables users to independently scale performance, scale capacity and scale wide, integrating legacy assets and allowing the VSP to ultimately scale to multiple data centers. Read on for IDC’s analysis of the Hitachi VSP. Published by: Hitachi Data Systems
Most of the information about Cloud Computing today comes from vendors. As a result, it skews toward purchasing software and hardware, and away from making balanced decisions in the enterprise.
The Enterprise Architect must counterbalance vendor spin and place Cloud Computing into the proper context: among the many deployment options available, with its own unique advantages and disadvantages.
In his session at the 8th International Cloud Expo, Jason Bloomberg, Managing Partner and Senior Analyst at Enterprise Architecture advisory firm ZapThink LLC, will outline the primary issues an EA must consider in order to make appropriate decisions about various Cloud-based options, how to put together a Cloud roadmap, and how best to communicate the position the Cloud should take in the greater context of agile Enterprise Architecture.
theodp writes “If virtual desktops are so great, asks Jonathan Eunice, then why isn’t everyone using them? However encouraged folks are by the progress virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) has made, and however enthused they may be about extending the wins of server virtualization over into the desktop realm, you don’t see analysts and developers eating the virtual desktop dog food. And even the folks you meet from Citrix, Microsoft, Quest, VMware, and Wyse — the people selling VDI — use traditional ‘fat’ notebooks. So, are you using virtual desktops? Why, or why not?” I wonder how long the abbreviation VDI will stick around.
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