Many networking vendors offer virtualized appliances that can run in a hypervisor. Now more vendors moving those appliances into public clouds.
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Silver Peak, F5 Put Virtual Appliances in Amazon Cloud
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SSDs In the Data Center: SLC Out, MLC In
A new generation of flash controllers means less-expensive MLC-based SSD drives are coming to the data center market.
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VMware Launches Software-Defined Data Center
VMware announced Monday that it has integrated its virtualized environment software with its cloud management products, putting into one box the software that generates virtual machines, applies cloud management, and introduces performance and capacity management to the resulting environment.
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SDN: 5 Things CIOs Must Know
Software defined networking promises to pull today’s network into the virtual age, but CIOs have to separate speculation from reality. Here’s five observations to help guide IT leaders’ thinking.
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A Ruckus Over WLAN Testing
A competitive review of WLAN products at Syracuse University stirred up controversy because of a vendor’s involvement in the tests. But the real question is, are they testing the right things?
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Google Counters Amazon’s Storage Price Cuts
On Nov. 26, Google cut its standard storage prices by 20% and announced a new form of storage, Durable Reduced Availability, available for $ .07 a month per gigabyte.
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Windows RT vs. Windows 8 Pro: Choose the right tablet for work
There is a diverse array of tablet options to daze and amaze shoppers this holiday season. Microsoft has a solid contender with its current Surface tablet, but it runs the more limited Windows RT operating system that was designed for use with ARM-based processors. I’ve already examined how the Surface RT beats the iPad, and how the iPad beats the Surface RT, but how what about tablets that run the more powerful Windows 8 Pro OS?
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Alcatel-Lucent’s SDN Strategy Downplays OpenFlow
Alcatel-Lucent has announced its SDN roadmap for the coming year. The company plans to offer a RESTful interface in two of its OmniSwitch product lines before it adds support for OpenFlow.
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Check Point Rolls Out Managed Security Services
Check Point’s ThreatCloud offerings include managed security and event analysis for its IPS gateways and incident response to help customers cope with an attack.
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Five ways the iPad beats the Surface RT
This isn’t the first year that tablets are a hot gift item, but it is the first holiday season that enough serious contenders make the buying decision tougher. Following my reasons you should consider the Microsoft Surface with Windows RT over the Apple iPad, here are features and benefits that give the iPad an advantage over the Surface with Windows RT.
1. Heft
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