Virtualization & Cloud Computing News

Netelligent Introduces Desktop as a Service (DaaS)

Netelligent Introduces Desktop as a Service (DaaS)

Netelligent, a leading provider of cloud and managed services, today announced a partnership with Desktone, Inc., the pioneer of Desktops as a Service (DaaS), to offer cloud-hosted virtual desktops. Netelligent will leverage Desktone’s DaaS Platform, along with Cisco’s® Unified Computing System (UCS) and NetApp storage systems, to deliver full-featured virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) as a [...]

The vNEST: Home Virtualization Lab, Part 2

The vNEST: Home Virtualization Lab, Part 2

This will be part 2 of the building home virtualization lab blog I wrote couple of years ago. I haven’t had much time over the past few months to write due to a very busy work and family schedule. In addition to that, I went through a few VCP certification exams and also in that [...]

Hitachi Announces Compute Blade Server With an Open Architecture

Hitachi Announces Compute Blade Server With an Open Architecture

Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE:HIT) (TSE:6501), today announced that it has expanded its portfolio of Hitachi Compute Systems with the addition of the new Hitachi Compute Blade 500. The new blade server is the first Hitachi Data Systems product to incorporate the latest Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600. The [...]

Intel SSD 910 Series Delivers High Performance and Reliability for Data Center Tiering and Caching

Intel SSD 910 Series Delivers High Performance and Reliability for Data Center Tiering and Caching

Intel introduced today the Intel® Solid-State Drive 910 Series (Intel® SSD 910 Series), a super high-performing SSD to address rigorous data center storage demands driven by cloud computing, virtualization and online transactions. PCIe-based 400GB and 800GB Intel SSD 910 Series provides extreme performance, endurance and reliability for rigorous data center demands. Intel SSD 910 Series [...]

Datalink Deploys Virtual Data Center Infrastructure at Cook County Health and Hospitals System

Datalink Deploys Virtual Data Center Infrastructure at Cook County Health and Hospitals System

Datalink, a leading provider of data center infrastructure and services, today announced that it has completed the deployment of a new, nearly $3M unified virtual data center infrastructure for the Cook County Health and Hospitals System (CCHHS) of Cook County, Illinois. Servicing the operational needs of nearly two dozen CCHHS facilities across the Chicagoland area, [...]

Diesel Direct Moves Enterprise IT Systems to the Cloud With Virtustream

Diesel Direct Moves Enterprise IT Systems to the Cloud With Virtustream

Virtustream, Inc., a leading cloud solutions provider, today announced that Diesel Direct, Inc., a leading national supplier of on-site diesel mobile refueling, has deployed its IT infrastructure on Virtustream’s enterprise cloud platform, xStream. To address significant business growth and increased customer demand, Diesel Direct migrated its critical IT systems, including proprietary business management systems and [...]

McAfee Management for Optimized Virtual Environments Offers Businesses Intelligent Security

McAfee Management for Optimized Virtual Environments Offers Businesses Intelligent Security

McAfee today announced a new agentless deployment option for McAfee Management for Optimized Virtual Environments (MOVE) AV solution which provides comprehensive defenses against all types of physical and virtual attacks through a single high-performance console. In addition, McAfee MOVE AV is designed to integrate with VMware vShield™ Endpoint and offers businesses standardized security across all [...]

Citrix Unveils Next Phase of CloudStack Strategy

Citrix Unveils Next Phase of CloudStack Strategy

Citrix today unveiled the next phase of its strategy to accelerate the broad adoption of open, interoperable cloud computing. As a key part of this strategy, the company’s popular CloudStack™ solution will become the first cloud platform in the industry to be submitted to the Apache Software Foundation, home of the world’s most successful open [...]


 
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