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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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Papers

The Future of ERP – Moving at the Speed of Change

If we look back a generation, business tended to be static. While it is undeniable that innovation occurred, it tended to at a much slower pace. While Henry Ford’s manufacturing and distribution models certainly marked disruption for the horse and buggy industry, this was a change that took decades.

Channel Strategies for Success in the Cloud Age

Cloud Computing is perhaps one of the biggest shifts in the technology industry in a generation. Alongside the technology shifts involved in Cloud, there is also a significant change in the way technology will be supplied, implemented and delivered going forward. While this shift offers real benefits to consumers in terms of reduced costs and increased agility

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Ben Kepes is a business leader, a technology evangelist, an entrepreneur, and a commentator. Ben covers the convergence of business and technology.

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