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PernixData – Launches a Flash Hypervisor for Virtual Data Centers

August 5, 2013

Business

Chief technology officer, Flash memory, PernixData, Scalability, Solid-state drive, SolidFire, Virtual machine, VMware

Is there anyone who isn’t aware of just how supercharged solid state storage is? Only a week or two ago SolidFire picked up a whopping $31M in funding that investors are betting will return a handsome amount as increasingly…

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AppZero – Another Take on Application Portability

May 3, 2013

Business

AppZero, cloud computing, Greg O'Connor, Microsoft Windows, Portable application, Servers, Virtual application, Virtual machine

If there is one thing that gets enterprise folks riled up, it’s those sitting in the gallery talking about cloud bursting and application portability in general. To the excited blog posts announcing the latest solution to the application portability…

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Overcoming the Perils of Licensing with CiRBA

January 30, 2013

Business

Andrew Hillier, CiRBA, License, Microsoft SQL Server, Servers, Site Management, Virtual machine, VMware

The efficiency that virtualization brings is good and all, but there still exists issues around licensing costs. Essentially having a virtualization product, and making licensing changes to optimize a customer’s costs are two very different things. CiRBA, a provider…

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Apprenda Introduces Free Public-Cloud Hosted Version of Its PaaS

September 17, 2012

Business

.NET Framework, Apprenda, Business, Cloudfoundry, Heroku, platform services, Sinclair Schuller, Virtual machine

In the seeming ever increasing rush towards so-called polyglot PaaS, or PaaS-providers supporting every language under the sun, there has been a single lone voice that has consistently been saying polyglot is a failed methodology. New York based Apprenda…

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Scale Out vs Scale Up – ProfitBricks Aims to Challenge the Current Thinking for IaaS

September 7, 2012

Business

Central processing unit, cloud computing, google, InfiniBand, ProfitBricks, SQL, Virtual machine, VMware

One thing that few people argue about in the move to the cloud is the accepted view that the best way to achieve scale is by throwing together lots of lightweight commodity machines with relatively low specifications, and stringing…

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Sumo Logic Delivers VMware Product

August 23, 2012

Business

Data, Log management and intelligence, Mac OS, Operating system, Sumo Logic, Virtual machine, VMware, VMworld

In the lead up to next weeks VMworld event, the product and partnership announcements are coming thick and fast. This morning it is the turn of Sumo Logic who are announcing that their log management and analytics product covers…

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VMware Acquires Nicira–Quick Analysis

July 23, 2012

Business

cloudcomputing, data center, DynamicOps, Nicira, OpenStack, SpringSource, Virtual machine, VMware

Yet another day of massive news with today’s blast coming from VMware who are acquiring Nicira, a five year old veteran of software defined networking (SDN). This follows closely on the heels of VMware’s acquisition of DynamicOps, a heterogeneous…

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NextAxiom Looks to Solve Application Integration

April 27, 2012

Business

Boomi, Business logic, Service-oriented architecture, SnapLogic, Virtual machine, Web Service

NextAxiom, a company founded over a decade ago, is pushing hard to create what it calls a silo-free enterprise. It’s take on this hallowed territory is that by enabling intelligent information flow between discrete information silos, organizations will be…

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Uptime Offers Monitoring and Capacity Planning for VMware

October 25, 2011

Business

capacity planning, cloud computing, Monitoring, network, Software as a Service, uptime, Virtual machine, VMware, VMware vSphere, Website monitoring

As we move into a world where organizations make more and more usage of heterogeneous infrastructure resources, providers that offer those same organizations tools to ensure the performance of those resources will become more and more important. Into that…

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Abiquo–Another Player in the Infrastructure Management Space

October 4, 2011

Business

Abiquo, cloud computing, Hypervisor, Open source, OpenStack, Virtual machine, VMware, VMware ESX

It seems like every day I get a briefing from a vendor whose elevator pitch goes something along the lines of “We enable enterprises to manage their infrastructure – on-premise or cloud in a consistent and flexible way by…

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