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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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Open Source: Projects to Watch (hint: OpenStack and Docker)
We've been seeing a lot of activity around open source projects lately. It isn't that they haven't existed before, but there is an increased focus on open source software that is proving to be a power… Read More
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SuperMicro Teams with Nexenta for Unified Storage Offering
SuperMicro is becoming a standard name in the enterprise data center, despite what many would have anticipated. Much like how Toyota built on a new model of delivery and timed their rise to the fore o… Read More
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Monkeying with Infrastructure: How Netflix Dealt with EC2 Reboots
As we've seen recently in the news, the shellshock vulnerability, also know as Bash bug, has become a new issue for servers around the world. Outside of that, there was also a Xen Security Announcem… Read More
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Gridstore Hyper-V-based Hyperconverged Solution Hits The Market
Hyper-V admins take note: there is a new solution on the market for you! This week, Gridstore announced their Hyper-V-based hyperconverged infrastructure solution. Far from being just a “me tooâ… Read More
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MARVIN (aka EVO) Revealed! VMware Becomes a Hyperconverged Hardware Provider
There has been a lot written in the last week as VMware unveiled its new hardware offering EVO:RAIL and the upcoming EVO:RACK which will be available in the coming months. This is an interesting step… Read More
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VMware Unveils Upcoming VAIO I/O Filters
As many announcements are flying around during VMworld 2014 in San Francisco, storage is getting some serious focus as VMware moves to extend optimization for storage on vSphere using the upcoming VAI… Read More
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SimpliVity Puts the S in Cisco UCS; Announces New Relationship
This is a big day for the team at SimpliVity as they announce a new relationship with Cisco to provide the SimpliVity PCIe Accelerator Card and OmniStack feature set on Cisco UCS C240 M3 Series Rackm… Read More
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Mesa: How Google Handles Big Data
As a guitarist, the first thing that comes to mind when I hear the word Mesa is Mesa Boogie amplifiers. They delivery one of the most bone rattling level of sound and tone of anything in the industry… Read More
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Welcome VMware to the Jersey Shore: vCHS Opens a New Jersey Data Center
This is definitely not the reality show that you would expect, but it is a strong move by VMware to continue to expand their vCloud Hybrid Service footprint by opening up their latest data center in t… Read More
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OnMetal: Single-Tenant Cloud the Rackspace Way
Rackspace has announced something that will be exciting many customers where may have been on the fence about multi-tenant cloud and the concerns that they have around them. Today on the Rackspace bl… Read More
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VSAN and Disconnecting Hosts: Be Careful How You Remove Host Resources!
There are a lot of people testing the waters with VMware VSAN, and one of the challenges with bringing a new technology on board is understanding the management processes to keep it running. Shared-no… Read More
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When Zero Trust is a Good Thing: VMware NSX Security
As firewalls and security management become more integrated with virtual environments, there are big changes happening in how we design, deploy, and manage these products. VMware NSX is neatly integra… Read More
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Marvin: VMware Hyper-Converged Platform?
This is no paranoid android, but it may be making some of VMware's converged and hyper-converged hardware partners a little paranoid. With the very recent trademark application, VMware may be signa… Read More
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Pure Storage and the Missing Power Button
Over the years we have all had exposure to hardware for storage environments that was explicitly built to handle operational failures from the environment by adding redundancy high availability featur… Read More
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Atlantis Updates ILIO for VMware VSAN
Atlantis Computing has launched its next iteration of their ILIO suite for VMware VSAN. This is an interesting product that I have had a chance to discuss with the creators when at Virtualization Fiel… Read More
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VMware vCenter Heartbeat Officially Flatlined
While the reasoning may not be fully known yet as to why it has happened, VMware has chosen to mark the vCenter Server Heartbeat product as EOA (End of Availability) as of June 2, 2014. It has been no… Read More
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Breaking News: Scott Davis, Former VMware CTO, Joins Infinio as CTO
While everyone was watching WWDC yesterday to see what announcements were coming out, something was happening in the world of virtualization storage that had my attention in a much greater way. As… Read More
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The Dawn of Managed Cloud - Rackspace and the Upcoming Gartner MQ Report
I won't be the first one to say this, but in the enterprise adoption of cloud I feel that this is where things may go: "Managed cloud is the new cloud" As Gartner prepares to publish their Magic Q… Read More
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VMware vCHS is getting a pay-as-you-go makeover
For fans of the VMware vCloud Hybrid Service (vCHS) model, you may have heard that there are some changes coming for the platform. There is continuous integration and continuous deployment already act… Read More
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