VMware Remains King of Virtualization Castle
March 18, 2013Over the past seven years or so I’ve seen machine virtualization grow from a neat trick for server consolidation to a platform for agile data center management. Throughout that time there has never been doubt about who is number one … Continue reading
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Thin vs. Fat: The debate rages on…
February 11, 2013When faced with the task of building a “system,” the only way to go is to build the most appropriate solution for the situation. In some cases, that may be a fat architecture; in some cases, it may be a … Continue reading
Posted in Applications, News & Analysis, What's New in Research | Tagged 10Zig, Chip PC, desktop, desktop hardware, energy, fat, Fat client, green, hp, IGEL, Microsoft Terminal Services, Oracle, pano logic, Samsung, streaming, Sun Ray, thin, thin-client, vdi, virtualization, VMWare, Wyse, zero client | Comments Off
Development focus moves to utility infrastructure among server virtualization vendors
January 22, 2013As organizations increase the number of VMs they run per host and move virtualization into production workloads, they require greater management capabilities. Vendors included in Info-Tech Research Group’s Vendor Landscape all provide solutions to ease management and have moved their … Continue reading
Posted in Infrastructure, News & Analysis, What's New in Research | Tagged Citrix, Hyper-V, microsoft, Oracle, Red Hat, utility infrastructure, virtualization, VMWare, windows server | Comments Off
What is SDN? I hear so much about it!
December 10, 2012There has been a lot of buzz of a new concept emerging in the network community– software defined networking (SDN). SDN is glamorized as the network’s latest push towards a more streamlined and cost-efficient solution compared to the physical infrastructure … Continue reading
Posted in Infrastructure, What's New in Research | Tagged abstraction, API, Application, architecture, Brocade, Cariden, cisco, commoditization, control plane, controller, data plane, DDoS, decouple, hp, ibm, Infrastructure, interoperability, Juniper, layer 2, layer 3, microsoft, network, network architect, Open Networking Foundation, OpenFlow, OSI, physical, router, SDN, software defined networking, stack, standards, switch, traffic flow, utilization, virtual, virtualization, VMWare | Comments Off
Not here. Not now. Waiting for VMware Horizon Suite
September 13, 2012The theme of VMworld a week or so ago in San Francisco was “Right here. Right now”. Unfortunately the message for one of the most interesting announcements out of the conference – VMware Horizon Suite – was “Not here but … Continue reading
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