Large enterprises that have moved toward a virtualized network infrastructure are now beginning to look at adopting private clouds—a trend that is moving from hype to actual deployments this year, says Tom Bittman, a vice president and analyst with Gartner Research.
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Speed, Agility, Not Cost Reduction, Drive Cloud
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IT Spending: Innovation Talk Vs. Survival Walk
“Our six year old servers are so out of date that you even can’t run hypervisors on them. Now you want me to spin up private cloud?” As I was going over the latest InformationWeek Reports research on IT spending, I was amazed to find that the top categories for project spending are largely for what you’d think of as the yesteryears of IT basics: storage, network, and server updates. Yes, the long winter of spending freezes and cuts seems to be over (see our forthcoming report for the details), y
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Microsoft Wins Its Largest Cloud Rollout Yet
Microsoft has secured its largest cloud engagement to date, a deal to provide online software and services to 7.5 million students and professors across technical colleges maintained by the All India Council For Technical Education (AICTE).
Microsoft will deliver to AICTE its Live.edu suite of online tools, which include Outlook Live, Office Live, and 25 GB per user of SkyDrive cloud storage. “In many cases these students didn’t have services like this before,” said Anthony Salcito, Microsoft’s VP for worldwide education, in an interview. “Many of the schools are very remote and it’s hard to physically deploy software to those campuses and schools; that’s one of the benefits of the cloud.”
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vMotions a Killer App for 10GbE at Vonage
Every year since the first Global 2000 company installed VMware, server virtualization has been at the core of more data center architectures. Vonage is one major corporation that is now making the leap, and their architects shared with me how 10GbE is playing a key role in how they handle vMotions.
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Egnyte Launches Aggressive Campaign to Poach Box Customers
When it comes to cloud storage and file sharing, Dropbox seems to be the undisputed champion on the consumer side. But, for business customers looking for a more robust cloud storage service and better management tools, Box is a clear leader. Egnyte wants to change that, though, and it’s going for the jugular with its Box Buster Buyout program.
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Unlocking WAN Optimization Security
In this second installment of a three-part series on WAN optimization (the first examined visibility), Network Computing looks at the security tools that protect a network so it can deliver data, video, voice, cloud applications and all the other traffic it needs to send on its way.
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The Dodgy World Of Vendor’s Customer Case Studies
This week I’ve had a couple of vendors who are heavily promoting their customer case studies. In the last ten years, I’ve been on all three sides of the customer case study game and it’s worth pointing out the harsh realities. In my view, customer case studies are a deeply flawed metric for product evaluation since the process around them is highly distorted if not plain dodgy.
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EMC Unveils More Flexible IT Bundling
These days, companies basically have two options for bringing new information technology into their data centers. They can acquire all the servers, storage, networking and software from different vendors, try to put it all together and make it work, or they can buy one big appliance that’s simpler to set up but is of a fixed configuration. EMC is offering a third option that combines the best attributes of the previous options, which it calls VSPEX.
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Clock Is Ticking on XP–Time to Start OS Migration
Tick, tick, tick, tick. That sound you hear is the clock winding down on the life of the Windows XP operating system. As of today, you have less than two years left until Microsoft will no longer support the OS. Two years may sound like a long time, but if you haven’t even begun to consider migrating from Windows XP to Windows 7, the pressure is on.
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Cloud Storage Rewriting SAN’s Future
Cloud storage solutions are all the rage and are dropping in price, increasing in performance and threatening SANs as the primary means of storing data in the enterprise.
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