The update to Puppet Labs’ IT automation software, Puppet Enterprise 2.0, includes cloud provisioning, change monitoring and management orchestration, and is intended to attract a wider audience, says CEO Luke Kanies. He believes the addition of a graphical user interface should make the software more accessible and attractive to organizations looking to provision new applications and respond to infrastructure changes faster.
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Puppet Seeks Wider IT Automation Market
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Dome9 Offers Cross-Platform Cloud Security Management Service
Start-up Dome9 Security’s SaaS offering provides centrally managed, cross-platform, native security controls for cloud-based infrastructures. The hosted service provides security for public and private cloud infrastructures, as well as for dedicated and virtual private servers (VPSes).
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Anue Network Monitoring Switches Handle 40G Networks
Anue Systems is releasing what it says is the first network monitoring switch that is intended to help manage networks of up to 40 Gbit. Network monitoring switches perform tasks such as filtering out only a particular type of network traffic and then routing it to a network monitoring tool specifically intended to manage that traffic but that might not have the capacity to handle and filter that volume of traffic itself.
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Windows Server 8 Set To Change Storage Paradigms
Windows Server 8, the forthcoming followup to Microsoft’s Windows Server 2008R2, sports, what some may term as revolutionary changes to how enterprises leverage their investments in storage. If one word could sum up what Windows Server 8 is all about, it would be “virtualization”. Virtualization of servers, virtualization of desktops, virtualization of cloud services and last, but not least, virtualization of storage.
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The Acquisition Square Dance Continues
This week’s acquisition of high-end NAS vendor and long time OEM supplier BlueArc has me thinking about how various tech companies do acquisitions and how those acquisitions affect
the products we put in our data centers. As my linear algebra professor used to say, it should be obvious to even the most casual observer that companies handle acquisitions differently.
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Is it Already Time To Reinvent the Cloud?
Although cloud computing persists as a top priority for CIOs, cloud is still in its infancy and already is undergoing significant revisions to improve its value proposition for more discerning customers. They are increasingly expecting cloud services providers to deliver solutions with the ability to make major operational and financial impacts on strategic areas of the business.
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Bringing IPv6 To A Venue Near You
IPv6 is happening, worldwide. Interest groups of all sizes are needed to help spread knowledge and best practices about the implementation projects we will all eventually face.
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Desktop Virtualization Today and Tomorrow
A new Forrester Consulting study commissioned by Dimension Data finds that the number of virtual desktop deployments will grow from 27 to 46 percent in the next two years. While vendors and pundits have been predicting a VDI explosion over the next few years, we’re still waiting. According to the study, most organizations’ existing deployments touch less than 500 employees today, but they have plans to scale these deployments to thousands — and ultimately tens of thousands — of users over the next two years.
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Is it Already Time To Reinvent the Cloud?
Although cloud computing persists as a top priority for CIOs, cloud is still in its infancy and already is undergoing significant revisions to improve its value proposition for more discerning customers. They are increasingly expecting cloud services providers to deliver solutions with the ability to make major operational and financial impacts on strategic areas of the business.
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Probing The State Of The Flow Record Data Market
When it comes to network monitoring, probes appear to be an endangered species in large organizations, according to a new study from Enterprise Management Associates (EMA). Conducted on behalf of Lancope, Inc., a vendor of NetFlow-based solutions, the research examined the usage, priorities, and practices surrounding network-based flow data records, also known as Flow Record Data, including NetFlow, sFlow, jFlow and IPFIX.
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