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Datadobi Migrates Your On- and Off-Premises Data Quickly and Securely
Sure, you can use a free, vendor-supplied utility to upload data from your on-premises environment to the cloud. But should you? That’s a question you can answer with a hearty “you betcha!” if y… Read More
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Algoblu Introduces ‘Network Element Virtualization’
“Network Element Virtualization”: It sounds impressive, doesn’t it? In fact, it is impressive, and this new technology from Algoblu can transform your network operations. As Edward Qin, Chief… Read More
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Infrastructure-as-Code Made Easy with env0
Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC): it’s one of those phrases many in IT are aware of, but few actually understand at a deep level. In (very) brief, IaC is a way to deploy and manage cloud infrastructure… Read More
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Managing Applications at the Distributed Edge Cloud with Avassa
Edge computing is, of course, a form of cloud computing. But it can be helpful in a way to think of edge computing as the polar opposite of cloud computing. And understanding that can be a big help in… Read More
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Xilinx Unleashes the Power of the Smart NIC
Network Interface Cards, or NICs, are like car tires: they rarely get any attention, but they’re absolutely essential for operation. It’s easy to even forget they’re attached, since they’re so… Read More
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Juniper To Focus on ‘Experience-First Networking’
IT folks who sit through presentations of new vendor products tend to roll their eyes when they hear certain buzzwords. And none is more overused than “game-changer.” According to many vendors, ev… Read More
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VMware Peers into Multi-Cloud Future at VMworld 2021
It’s clear that leveraging the public cloud is now table stakes for many IT organizations, no matter the size. The next frontier to conquer, and one that VMware took aim at during the keynote sessio… Read More
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‘VMware Edge’ Promises To Bring Order to Distributed Chaos
VMware looks at the IT infrastructure world and sees disorder everywhere. And “VMware Edge,” a product suite announced at VMworld 2021, aims to bring order to the increasing state of disorder.… Read More
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Nasuni Provides a ‘NAS in the Cloud’
You know you need to be in the cloud. There are so many advantages in terms of scalability and availability, data resilience, backup and disaster recovery, and so on. But getting to the cloud can be s… Read More
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HotLink Offers DRaaS to Reduce Your DR Blood Pressure
I recently wrote about a product that leverages public cloud resources such as Amazon Web Services to provide backup and recovery for on-premises workloads. Another such solution is HotLink’s DR Exp… Read More
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Big Data is Coming After Your Data Center And That’s a Good Thing
There’s a nasty little irony in the world of IT. While business units seek IT’s assistance in creating and leveraging data-based metrics programs to provide deep level analytics into how to impr… Read More
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Introduction to Openstack Storage Systems
Openstack is a word on many people’s lips. The Project is just over three years old, but you can feel how it has already gained mindshare and convinced important companies and people to get behin… Read More
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NSX: VMware's Network Hypervisor Explained
At VMworld 2013, VMware announced important updates to their flagship product line (see my post Top 10 Most Important Features of vSphere for more info). A major part of the VMworld keynotes were d… Read More
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How to Build a Private Cloud with OpenStack & RackSpace
RackSpace is a cloud provider that runs everything using OpenStack cloud software. Their software, OpenCenter, makes deployment easier. In this article I'll run through the initial install. The downlo… Read More
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Cloud
Installing an OpenStack Private Cloud using Ubuntu 12.04
OpenStack is open source software that allows companies to create public or private clouds. It’s one of the most popular, if not the most popular, implementations of cloud today. To see more ab… Read More
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