By Virtualization News  Deep Virtual Server Monitoring: CPU ready, Memory Balloon, Memory Zero, and many more granular Metrics, monitor Physical, Virtual, and Cloud: Services, applications, servers and more. Onsite/remote datacenters, hybrid environments, outsourced infrastructure, Real World Cast Savings: Pe... Nov. 12, 2009 01:15 PM EST Reads: 482 |
By Virtualization News  See for yourself why Citrix XenDesktop with HDX Technology is the clear choice for desktop virtualization. If you’re considering making the smart move to a virtual desktop solution, don’t settle for less than the best.
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By Virtualization News  Citrix Essentials for Microsoft Hyper-V adds advanced capabilities to Hyper-V to create, integrate, manage and automate virtual datacenters at half the cost of other solutions. Hyper-V delivers immediate benefits to organizations of any size or budget while Citrix Essentials provides t... Nov. 11, 2009 06:00 PM EST Reads: 415 |
By Virtualization News  Consolidation through server virtualization is a powerful agent for datacenter change, but shrinking your server footprint is just a part of the value that server virtualization brings to your IT organization. This paper explores the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of server virtualizati... Nov. 11, 2009 06:00 PM EST Reads: 391 |
By Liz McMillan  NComputing Inc. announced that it has won a massive computerization contract from Employee State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) alongside Wipro for deploying 31,000 NComputing virtual desktops in ESIC offices and clinics across the country. ESIC will use 31,000 NComputing thin-client wor... Nov. 11, 2009 03:45 PM EST Reads: 669 |
By Pat Romanski  “The industry is at an inflection point that is perhaps more significant than at any juncture in North American telecom history,” says Rob Chimsky, inCode Telecom Vice President and CTO. “Incremental revenue is shifting from voice to data. However, threats from new competitors offerin... Nov. 11, 2009 02:00 PM EST Reads: 1,481 |
By Liz McMillan  Netlist, Inc. launches HyperCloud, the world's first 16GB, 2 virtual rank (vRank) memory module for servers. A double-data-rate three, registered dual in-line memory module (DDR3 RDIMM), HyperCloud maximizes server utilization to improve datacenter application performance. HyperCloud a... Nov. 11, 2009 01:45 PM EST Reads: 783 |
By Yeshim Deniz  Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP) announced the release of its updated guidelines "Bessemer's Top 10 Laws of Cloud Computing and SaaS." The material can be found in a condensed form as an Op-Ed in the Sandhill.com newsletter and in its entirety on BVP's website at www.bvp.com/cloud. Byro... Nov. 11, 2009 01:45 PM EST Reads: 616 |
By Roger Strukhoff  The reality is that technology CEOs - least of all flamboyant ones - aren't in the trenches getting things to work for customers, and Wang's nuts-and-bolts presentation was meant to re-assure anyone who was listening that the company will support all types of cloud initiatives. Meanwhi... Nov. 11, 2009 08:00 AM EST Reads: 1,659 |
By Cloud News Desk  When enterprises and data centers evaluate cloud technologies and various solutions move their applications to the cloud computing paradigm, there are many important decisions to consider, such as Will the applications be portable? Are there significant code changes and workflow change... Nov. 11, 2009 07:45 AM EST Reads: 1,685 |
By Salvatore Genovese  Shavlik Technologies released findings of a comprehensive survey designed to gauge market drivers for new virtualization and cloud computing initiatives in corporate IT environments. The survey found that data, server and licensing consolidation and disaster recovery functionality are ... Nov. 11, 2009 06:45 AM EST Reads: 567 |
By Cloud News Desk  SYS-CON's 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, held on November 2 – 4, 2009, in Santa Clara, attracted more than 50 sponsors with over 2,200 delegates, a record attendance. The three content-packed days emphasized value with a rich array of sessions led by exceptional s... Nov. 10, 2009 10:00 PM EST Reads: 3,193 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Microsoft and the government of Taiwan are going to set up a cloud research center before the end of the year. It should help local contract manufacturers develop cloud devices and services. Quanta, for instance, intends to start churning out cloud servers at some point. Microsoft mean... Nov. 10, 2009 05:45 PM EST Reads: 762 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Google Thursday open sourced its Closure JavaScript tools – a compiler, a cross-browser, server-agnostic library and a bunch of precompiled templates – in the name of making web apps easier to build. Recall that Gmail, Google Docs and Google Maps are JavaScript-intensive applications. ... Nov. 10, 2009 05:00 PM EST Reads: 1,582 |
By Yeshim Deniz  Citrix's new, aggressive program enables businesses to easily identify the best virtualization solutions for use with XenDesktop and their IT environment. The open architecture of XenDesktop 4 gives customers the confidence to make the switch to virtualization and their program include... Nov. 10, 2009 04:30 PM EST Reads: 617 |
By Liz McMillan  Wyse is launching support for VMware View 4 with integrated support for PCoIP across its line of existing thin clients, including immediate support for Wyse thin clients based on Microsoft Windows XP Embedded and Windows Embedded Standard. Wyse will also support PCoIP on its line of Li... Nov. 10, 2009 04:30 PM EST Reads: 802 |
By Fuat Kircaali  Cloud Expo is the new PC Expo, Comdex or InternetWorld, and will be the next global IT event for the decade starting with 2010. This year's West Coast conference had 1,700 pre-registered delegates on the Friday before the conference opened. More than 500 additional registrations came i... Nov. 10, 2009 02:15 PM EST Reads: 2,460 |
By Reuven Cohen  ECP is a carrier-class architecture & cloud hosting platform which supports the deployment of very large public cloud infrastructure for service providers. The platform has been designed to span multiple federated data centers in disparate geographies around the globe handling hundreds... Nov. 10, 2009 01:30 PM EST Reads: 639 |
By Cloud News Desk  The past month has seen an unprecedented concentration of Cloud-related articles, events, tweets, and - above all - product launches, partnership announcements and M&A moves. So is Cloud Computing, after three years, finally coming to the boil? Here, by way of allowing you to judge for... Nov. 10, 2009 01:00 AM EST Reads: 2,559 |
By Maureen O'Gara  The new widgetry features multi-cluster support and enhanced concurrency management to improve scaling so users can seamlessly overlay their Eucalyptus cloud on top of virtually any existing IT infrastructure, regardless of size or configuration. Eucalyptus is meant for implementing an... Nov. 9, 2009 09:30 PM EST Reads: 1,294 |
By Yeshim Deniz  EMC today announced a range of new products, solutions and services designed to enhance the value of the VMware View(TM) 4 desktop virtualization solutions. These offerings provide organizations with new technology capabilities, along with consulting services and actionable guidance to... Nov. 9, 2009 09:00 PM EST Reads: 587 |
By Ellen Rubin  The talk at the Cloud Computing Expo this week in Santa Clara was all about enterprise cloud adoption. Is it real? Is it already happening? If so, who’s doing it, which applications are they running and which clouds are being tested? To a large extent, cloud computing is a victim of it... Nov. 9, 2009 08:30 PM EST Reads: 2,284 |
By Reuven Cohen  Enomaly is proud to announce the general availability of The Enomaly Elastic Computing Platform (ECP) Service Provider Edition 3.0.3. Enomaly is proud to announce the general availability of The Enomaly Elastic Computing Platform (ECP) Service Provider Edition 3.0.3. ECP is a carrier-c... Nov. 9, 2009 08:00 PM EST Reads: 1,394 |
By Pat Romanski  Citrix Systems today launched the new Citrix Ready Open Desktop Virtualization program to further accelerate large-scale enterprise virtual desktop deployments with Citrix® XenDesktop™. The Citrix Ready Open Desktop Virtualization program includes more than 10,000 products from over 20... Nov. 9, 2009 06:15 PM EST Reads: 1,106 |
By Maureen O'Gara  VMware figures to push virtualization onto more desktops with the release next week of its next-generation View 4.0, advertised as the only purpose-built desktop virtualization solution in the industry.
The gussied-up vSphere-based widgetry, a gateway to the desktop as a managed se... Nov. 9, 2009 05:15 PM EST Reads: 1,467 |
By Maureen O'Gara  This may not be the best time to mention this – given New York’s antitrust suit – but Intel’s share of PC processors was up marginally year-over-year in Q3 from 81.2% to 81.5% according to Mercury Research and AMD gained a tenth of point year-over-year to 17.8%, but lost 0.7% sequentia... Nov. 9, 2009 01:45 PM EST Reads: 653 |
By Virtualization News  F5 Networks, Inc. today announced that its ‘ARX® Select’ program for North American channel partners has strengthened F5’s Data Solutions business. The goal of the ARX Select program, announced in July 2009, is to reward F5’s best ARX partners for driving incremental business. The pro... Nov. 9, 2009 01:30 PM EST Reads: 446 |
By Maureen O'Gara  It says Traffic Server enables the session management, authentication, configuration management, load balancing and routing of an entire cloud computing stack. It’s supposed to offer fast, reliable and scalable access to cached online content and speed responses to requests for stored ... Nov. 6, 2009 05:00 PM EST Reads: 1,014 |
By Maureen O'Gara  The company says “extensive collaboration with large enterprise beta customers, such as Comviva, Host Europe, NTT Communications, Qualcomm and Swisscom, resulted in enhanced product capabilities designed to meet enterprise requirements for deploying and managing heterogeneous virtualiz... Nov. 6, 2009 05:00 PM EST Reads: 822 |
By Maureen O'Gara  It claims the widgetry, which lets Mac users run Windows and Linux alongside Mac OS X, is faster, smarter, easier and more powerful than previous generations. Unlike Apple’s own Boot Camp, which forces people to reboot between operating systems, Parallels users can switch between Mac a... Nov. 6, 2009 04:00 PM EST Reads: 1,319 |
By John Savageau  The Cloud Computing Conference and Expo in Santa Clara has come to an end, leaving a fair share of opinion, skepticism, and robust discussion for the period of incubation leading up to the next conference. Many companies have adopted “Cloud-something or other” as their new name, and a... Nov. 6, 2009 01:45 PM EST Reads: 977 |
By Greg Ness  As virtualization entered the data center it became an accidental standard bearer for network automation. The power of virtualization helped to drive a cultural (including x as a service) shift in expectations, just as Nicholas Carr was declaring war on traditional “old world” IT with... Nov. 6, 2009 01:30 PM EST Reads: 894 |
By Liz McMillan  Investors who are serious about maximizing returns and minimizing risks will find McWilliams' ongoing earnings season coverage, which began with his highly acclaimed State of Tech series and is now focusing on real-time earnings analysis, invaluable. To get the inside scoop and his det... Nov. 6, 2009 12:30 PM EST Reads: 819 |
By John Cowan  RASS and 6fusion USA, Inc. announced a partnership to co-deliver cloud hosted desktop and server applications on demand. The joint offering promises to improve existing performance and cost limitations for customers moving away from a traditional on-site application delivery model. RA... Nov. 6, 2009 11:45 AM EST Reads: 792 |
By Yeshim Deniz  A majority of executives polled by Deloitte (60.9 percent) believe cloud computing will be a transformative technology in the industry and can drive financial benefits, or at least be useful for certain kinds of enterprise services. The executives were polled recently during the Deloit... Nov. 5, 2009 04:15 PM EST Reads: 939 |
By David Deans  Worldwide spending on data center technology infrastructure and services exceeds $350 billion annually, according to McKinsey and Company estimates, with half of that spent on capital expenses and half on operating expenses. Nov. 5, 2009 03:00 PM EST Reads: 749 |
By Liz McMillan  Cisco's foray into the server market, the merger between Oracle and Sun Microsystem, the acquisition of Fujitsu Siemens Computers by Fujitsu, and the acquisition of Silicon Graphics International by Rackable Systems have stirred the equilibrium in the worldwide computer system industry... Nov. 5, 2009 02:00 PM EST Reads: 882 |
By NeonDrum News  SMA Solar Technology AG, listed in the TecDAX of the Frankfurt stock exchange since last year, is the world market leader in photovoltaic inverters, a central component of every solar system. With subsidiaries in eleven countries on four continents, the product and company communicatio... Nov. 5, 2009 01:15 PM EST Reads: 618 |
By Cloud News Desk  Vordel’s products provide governance, acceleration, integration, and security for SOA and Cloud Computing. Spike Reply has established a SOA Center of Excellence division to assist its Customers exploit the opportunities presented by adopting a SOA-based approach to their business proc... Nov. 5, 2009 01:00 PM EST Reads: 824 |
By Pat Romanski  Organizations who wish to use Cloud services in conjunction with their own SOA and those of their partners face major issues related to reliability and trustworthiness. One significant challenge is aggregating services from multiple domains including Public, Private and Community Cloud... Nov. 5, 2009 12:15 PM EST Reads: 794 |