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A New Approach to Virtualization Management at VMworld 2012
Being a VMworld veteran, I knew what to expect going into this year’s event. Along with educational sessions and stimulating peer conversations, there would be announcements about licensing changes and...
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VMware’s bid to join OpenStack and the Nicira acquisition
About a month ago, VMware has applied to join the OpenStack foundation. According to Eric Knorr at Infoworld, this may have taken some by surprise, because as Knorr puts it: “VMware is embracing a...
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Microsoft is trying to be all things to all people
Microsoft’s new version of Windows Server is, unsurprisingly, cloud focused. Even less unsurprisingly, “cloud focused,” to Microsoft, means Azure focused. I think Microsoft is coming late to the cloud...
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The Old Ways Won’t Work in the Virtual Datacenter
Recently, over at InfoWorld, Paul Venezia writes a compelling article called “Why virtualization breaks monitoring systems.” It’s an interesting read, and shows that traditional monitoring systems...
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Droid Army Invades Sandia: Megadroid Studies Network Disruption
According to ArsTechnica, Sandia National Laboratories has linked together 300,000 virtual machines together to test the effects of network disruption. Essentially a self-contained network in and of...
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Video Conferencing in 2013
The recent changes in video conferencing have been staggering. Changes such as virtualization of the infrastructure, BYOD, and the cloud all have a big impact to video conferencing. This fast paced...
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The Hierarchy of Services
Bob Dylan said it 40 some years ago: “you gotta serve somebody.” And this is the nature of IT. No matter what component you examine within any IT infrastructure it is providing a service to some...
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Tale of the Tape: CenturyLink/Savvis vs Citrix
In the 4th Fight of the UCC (Ultimate Cloud Championship) we see two contenders from different backgrounds. You may ask why I matched these two up. CenturyLink/Savvis come from the Telco and...
View ArticleData Center Trends Driving Underlying Technologies
The data center has seen dramatic changes over the last several years. Virtualization, high speed internet links, and increased processor capability have completely changed the business model as well...
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Can I Autodiscover My New Home?
I made a big change during the summer of 2014. I packed up my family and finally moved to Austin, TX. Now, I’d like to talk about how awesome Austin (and the BBQ) is, but I’ll save that for later....
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