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Once upon a time, (in December 2011 actually) Citrix Systems acquired Cloud.com and its CloudStack software infrastructure platform. Citrix loved its citizens and said that CloudStack should be free and open for all the people in the land and so gave it to the Apache people. Meanwhile, neighbours in the OpenStack encampment had a big party and invited lots of vendors to contribute and show that multiple open cloud platforms could all exist together and live happily ever after. The big people at VMware and Amazon didn't always take that much notice of what was happening down in ...

Cloud computing is everywhere these days and is becoming increasingly vital to any IT strategy. Forrester forecasts that the global cloud market will grow from $40.7 billion to more than $241 billion in 2020. We’ve compiled a list of the top cloud influencers and thought leaders that we’ve followed since the cloud’s inception...

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“VMware Cloud Infrastructure Suite is really more of a marketing term. Those of you know our products deeply know that they don’t fit this well together as they need to. Some of them have multiple databases, some don’t look the same, some install differently, and what I can’t stand that is Site Recovery Manager doesn’t currently work with vCloud Director. So, what we are basically able to say is that we created and acquired companies that led to a lot of individual products that don’t work well enough together yet.”..

The tight hold VMware has enjoyed in the server virtualization market will continue to erode this year as Microsoft's momentum increases and others, including Citrix and KVM, become serious contenders, industry observers say...

CEO Paul Maritz was asked about competitive challenges and in particular about OpenStack. OpenStack is an open source cloud platform that now enjoys the support of IBM, AT&T, Cisco, Dell, Yahoo and HP among other big name tech vendors. Maritz said. "Despite the strong industry support for OpenStack, he isn't worried. "OpenStack at this point compared to the vSphere environment is still relatively immature," Martiz added. "And we continue to believe that our greater, nearer-term challenge will probably come from Microsoft."...

Some IT pros will move from VMware to Hyper-V when new virtualization management tools in Microsoft’s System Center 2012 and a new version of Hyper-V hit later this year. Though switching hypervisors can be a challenge, some say that the cost savings make it a worthwhile move...

Did you consider the security implications? It’s very easy to assume that when outsourcing an application, you’re paying someone else to worry about data loss, along with the other issues of data centers, servers, licensing, administration and whatnot.

This is a dangerous assumption. It is still your data, and you are responsible for its integrity. Customers, regulators and shareholders will not care that your infrastructure wasn’t technically compromised. They trusted you, and you let them down.

So what can you do make sure that the right security measures are in place in a third-party’s applications & infrastructure ...

Mike Sargent, general manager, Enterprise Management, CA Technologies said, “We are pleased to be working with Prelert to provide our customers with a new dimension of predictive management so they can easily attain even higher levels of IT operations efficiencies that drive better business outcomes.”

One of the common questions that every IT manager asks on a regular basis is, “Why is my application so slow today when everything was fine yesterday?” APM is the only way to truly answer that question, and it is one of the must-have tools for every IT manager. With this APM imperative in mind, the following are 10 capabilities every IT manager should look for when choosing an APM solution...