What the Internet of Things offers is this huge opportunity to build intelligent applications that can actively optimize and direct just about any system that is dynamically programmable. Here are the five types of things that are soon likely to be “sensorized” in your IT shop.
- By Mike Matchett
- 04/30/2014
What's so smart about SSDs? Plenty. Here's what you need to know when deploying them in your VMware virtualization practice.
- By Rick Vanover
- 03/24/2014
Have a fallback plan and learn how to use OVF to migrate VMware VMs.
It's always a good idea to make sure your hardware firmware and BIOS is updated prior to a major undertaking such as upgrading a server for hypervisor work. Besides, it's not that hard to do in the first place.
- By Rick Vanover
- 02/26/2014
It's read-only, but it's a big enough boost in speed to matter.
- By Rick Vanover
- 01/16/2014
Disaster recovery will take on more importance in the next 12 months, as we virtualize more and make our mission-critical work more vulnerable to potential loss.
- By Doug Hazelman
- 01/01/2014
In this first of a series on Hyper-V, Paul reviews tips for configuring virtual and physical processors for optimum performance.
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- 12/21/2011
Pricing for cloud services needs to be a bit more structured and transparent for anyone to take cloud computing seriously.
Virtualization is a major planetary body in the enterprise IT universe, impacting servers, storage, desktops and more. On the same trajectory is video conferencing infrastructure, and they'r ready to collide.
- By Tom Toperczer
- 12/15/2011
There is a common belief that the future of IaaS clouds will be dominated by telcos. That belief is wrong for many reasons.
- By Boris Renski
- 12/01/2011
You want a piece of Jon Toigo? Be my guest.
The variety of cloud security strategies leaves users with interesting and diverse choices.
With the introduction of vSphere 5, VMware created the concept of vRAM pools and added this as a critical component of purchasing a vSphere license.
My list of features to help me narrow my buying decisions after the DR vendor has made its pitch.
Not the same ol' "Free Tools" session; we cover new tools that have come out since VMworld.
Socialcast is the "Facebook" for the internal communications crowd. And it's a VMware product.
There are no one-size-fits-all storage solutions, so I've come up with some basic questions to ask the vendors who will be trying to get your attention.
- By Dave Bartoletti
- 10/05/2011
The Bromium cofounder and former Citrix CTO views his public battles as an essential element in his strategy to bring technology to the people by making sure they understand it.
These virtualization vendors will be getting more than your attention in the coming months.
All three of the most popular virtualization hypervisors are available in free editions: Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2, VMware vSphere Hypervisor and Citrix XenServer.