James Brown tries out OpenStack Express, and is impressed.
It's a BYOD world, and organizations know it. Here are the things that worry them the most.
- By Natalie Lambert
- 09/12/2014
StoreVirtual is one of the most popular virtual storage packages out there. Here are a handful of things you can do to get the most out of it.
Is it easy to set up VMware's hyper-convergence appliance? James Brown finds out.
It's not about the swag anymore.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/05/2014
An expert weighs in on how to decide that you need more bandwidth.
- By Greg Shields, Don Jones
- 08/04/2014
A SolarWinds survey finds a radically different IT landscape than what existed a few short years ago, and much has to do with virtualization and cloud computing.
- By Lawrence Garvin
- 08/01/2014
Infrastructure is evolving for the better, making the job of the admin easier in the long run. Here are five ways it's evolving to work at the VM level.
- By Mike Matchett
- 07/21/2014
Even in the cloud, backup myths proliferate. Here are seven of the most common.
On vSAN, MARVIN, and storage shinola.
- By Jon William Toigo
- 07/09/2014
Users consider lots of freely available cloud apps necessary to get their jobs done. Those same apps give IT anxiety with the security implications that those apps bring when attached to the organizations networks. Are those concerns real or imagined?
Lack of management is at the heart of most cloud storage struggles. So why is it that most of the conversation veers away from that topic?
- By Jon William Toigo
- 06/19/2014
vSphere Mobile Watchlists might make your job a bit too easy. All that really means is that it'll free you for other, more important jobs.
With Microsoft discontinuing Forefront Threat Management Gateway some time ago, there hasn't been a solution in the cloud world that has stepped up to the plate. Here's why I believe ADCs have done the job adequately.
- By Bhargav Shukla
- 06/10/2014
Develop more critical thinking of the product pitches you get every day from the growing number of cloud services vendors and you'll begin to see that the real issues are often in what's not mentioned in vendor marketing.
- By Jon William Toigo
- 06/05/2014
A few review-like words for Lab Guide's Autolab.
One thing that is a must for most organizations is to join the vCenter Server to Active Directory. A few words of advice to do this smoothly.
- By Rick Vanover
- 05/28/2014
Get back the storage that once belonged to you with this tip for quick datastore reclamation.
The numbers being tossed around by storage analysts are not adding up in this weirdest of dimensions.
- By Jon William Toigo
- 05/14/2014
Some handy tips to save space and keep Hyper-V VMs from bogging down the rest of your systems.
- By Rick Vanover
- 05/13/2014