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Microsoft System Center 2012 Final Release Available
Explore zdnet.com (Apr 2 2012)
Microsoft volume licensees are reporting they are able to download what seems to be the final versions of the System Center 2012 system-management products. Microsoft seemingly has released to manufacturing its systems-management suite of products, known as System Center 2012, and is making them available for download by its volume-license customers...
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VMware CTO: Virtualization is 'Swiss Army knife' of IT
Explore zdnet.com (Mar 22 2012)
Examining where virtualization is presently, Steve Herrod, VMware CTO, posited that if you look globally at all servers, 50 percent are running virtualized. But to go any farther, Herrod argued that we need to consider two key needs: performance and availability of service levels...
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Gartner's Top 5 Server Virtualization Trends for 2012
Explore zdnet.com (Mar 21 2012)
Server virtualization is a maturing but still very dynamic market, and there are several key trends reshaping server virtualization in 2012, and affecting the advice we are giving to our clients.
Gartner today elaborated on those key trends...
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Hypervisor comparisons: It's harder than you think
Explore zdnet.com (Mar 18 2012)
Look at the “Hypervisor Comparison Table” below to see a few factors in a comparison matrix that I’ve devised for you. You can see that there’s little difference in technical specifications among the five major technologies shown. There are no “runaway” winners when comparing on this scale...
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Dear Hyper-V fans, I'll Take That Apology Now
Explore zdnet.com (Mar 16 2012)
If you used VMware, you wouldn’t have to reboot your vulnerable systems after patching for the RDP Worm today. Sure, you’ll still have to patch all of your Windows VMs that ride on top of your VMware hosts but at least you don’t have to patch and reboot the VMware host systems. Wait, I think I actually might have mentioned this very possibility in my follow-up article to the Great Debate: Hyper-V vs. VMware with Jason Perlow...
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Great Debate: Hyper-V or VMWare?
Explore zdnet.com (Mar 9 2012)
Opening Statements.
Hyper-V: We are witnessing the disruption of virtualization hegemony.
VMWare: Microsoft is a minority player.
Read the arguments for and against and see how the audience voted...
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Citrix, VMware Duel Over Cloud Visions
Explore zdnet.com (Feb 17 2012)
Sameer Dholakia, group vice president and general manager of cloud platforms at Citrix, said VMware is gunning to be a cloud infrastructure monopoly. A Citrix executive this week took direct aim at VMware, which is dominating the virtualization space, and said there’s a big risk of cloud infrastructure lock-in...
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Why You Can't Resist The Cloud
Explore zdnet.com (Jan 27 2012)
While many are still digging in their heels against moving to the cloud, they’re finding it harder and harder to do so. Not only because the business case becomes stronger every day, but also because cloud platform providers are acting to address the objections that used to slow or stymie adoption...
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Accommodating BYOD And Other IT 'Myths'
Explore zdnet.com (Jan 25 2012)
Last month, Cisco published a survey that found many IT and HR departments have started considering encouraging the BYOD trend, among others, as competitive advantages when hiring young professionals, in particular. However, this might actually be a myth, according to a new study published by Avanade, a business technology solutions and managed services provider...
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Microsoft's New Private Cloud & System Center Strategy
Explore zdnet.com (Jan 5 2012)
Mark your calendars, private cloud fans. On January 17, Microsoft is holding a webcast to “lay out the new System Center 2012 vision.”
Among the System Center products making up the 2012 family are System Center Configuration Manager 2012, which is going to enable Microsoft to manage iPads and other non-Microsoft devices; System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 ; and a hybrid on-premises/cloud management portal known as Microsoft System Center App Controller 2012 (codenamed Concero)...
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Consumerization: The New Colossus Driving IT Crazy
Explore zdnet.com (Jan 3 2012)
Consumerization drives IT people crazy but it's also driving the brave new world of bring your own device. Join the revolution or get left behind...
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What's New in dynaTrace Version 4
Explore zdnet.com (Nov 17 2011)
dynaTrace version 4 combines application performance management with user experience management, that is the ability for IT administrators to gain a view into the entire end-to-end performance of applications...
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1/3 of Enterprises Plan to Switch Virtualization Platforms
Explore zdnet.com (Nov 2 2011)
The vast majority of enterprises are using a mixture of hypervisors and more than one third of those companies plan to switch their primary virtualization engine in the next year.
And despite the itch to consolidate, the vast majority of enterprises don’t really have a good handle on the scope of virtualization going on in their respective companies...
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Sins and redemption: IT project recovery in focus
Explore zdnet.com (Oct 23 2011)
Especially in the information technology world, we need to develop a culture and utilize technologies that allows us to find the root cause of problems as they occur and fix them at that time...and more »
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Is There Any Truth In Virtualization Advertising?
Explore zdnet.com (Oct 5 2011)
When suppliers try to tie their technology to misleading catch phrases, does it really work for them or just create more market confusion?...
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Virtualization is not evil. It's sarcastic.
Explore zdnet.com (Oct 5 2011)
Back in August during his LinuxCon keynote interview, Linus Torvalds proclaimed that “Virtualization is Evil.” I’m sorry to again disagree with the great Linus Torvalds, purveyor of truth, justice and the Linux way but alas, I do. Virtualization isn’t evil. It’s sarcastic. Sarcasm isn’t evil. And, I’m not being sarcastic when I say that.
Linus doesn’t like virtualization because it separates him from the hardware, which is why he built the Linux kernel in the first place. He wanted to “get his grubby hands” on things like I/O ports. Virtualization sarcastically denies the ...
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EMC's Tucci: Cloud has 'potential answers' to IT problems
Explore zdnet.com (Oct 3 2011)
Tucci cited that the average large enterprise is attacked in some form 300 times a week, adding that every customer he speaks with always says that’s a light estimate.
“As an industry, we have failed,” Tucci argued, noting that about three quarters (73 percent) of the average IT budget still goes to maintain IT infrastructure, rather than 27 percent going to investment in upgrade and change.
“We need to change the shape of this pie and the way it is sliced,” he added.
Enter the cloud...
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5 Themes For 2012 Technology Planning
Explore zdnet.com (Sep 29 2011)
As your company finalizes its technology budget for the 2012 calendar year, it might want to consider some new tips from market research firm Gartner for keeping IT infrastructure costs in check. That way, more of that budget can be dedicated to more meaningful investments focused less on maintenance and more on innovation...and more »
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VMware Fusion 4 - Windows on a Mac
Explore zdnet.com (Sep 14 2011)
VMware launches Fusion 4, Workstation 8ZDNet (blog)Summary: VMware launched its Fusion 4 on Wednesday. VMware's Fusion software, which is used to run Windows on a Mac, is in a dogfight with Parallels, which recently rolled out its Desktop 7 software...and more »
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Windows Server 8: The Ultimate Cloud OS?
Explore zdnet.com (Sep 14 2011)
While Windows Client is getting all of the attention at Microsoft's BUILD conference, a powerful Cloud enabled operating system waits patiently in the wings with Server 8.
It’s not fully known if “Windows Server 8″ is just a working title or if it is the actual product name, but what we do know is that it will be the Server OS that will replace Windows Server 2008 R2...and more>>
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Where should virtualization vendors focus their efforts?
Explore zdnet.com (Sep 11 2011)
Virtualization vendors have lost focus on the most important aspects of computing and continue to focus on the one aspect that isn’t important. Security, applications and infrastructure should be their focal points. (Read Full Article)
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Pittsburgh's IT success: Virtualized server and desktop synergy
Explore zdnet.com (Aug 30 2011)
Our next case study focuses on the City of Pittsburgh’s Information Systems organization and how they’ve deeply embraced virtualization at the server level and now increasingly at the desktop level. We’ll see how critical city services in Pittsburgh are being supported using VMware View 4.6 and the new View 5.0 version and how the beneficial synergy between virtualized servers and desktops is shaping up...and more>>
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Paul Maritz of VMware Looks Into The Crystal Ball
Explore zdnet.com (Aug 30 2011)
In Paul’s keynote presentation, I heard the foundation of VMware’s future strategy. VMware appears to be readying itself to do the following things:
* Take on IBM and the mainframe and replace the workloads they are currently supporting with herds of industry standard systems supporting private and public clouds. VMware is going to try to match the reliability, robustness, security and manageability of the mainframe with new system software. I’ve heard this song before. Fifteen years ago the open systems suppliers said nearly the same things. The mainframe is still part of every major data center.
* Ditto for ...
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