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New Flash Module From Hitachi Delivers Superior Performance, Capacity and Reliability for Enterprise Workloads

New Flash Module From Hitachi Delivers Superior Performance, Capacity and Reliability for Enterprise Workloads

Hitachi Data Systems Corporation (HDS), a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., (TSE: 6501), today unveiled Hitachi Accelerated Flash storage. This new flash module is built specifically for the most demanding enterprise-class workloads. Hitachi Accelerated Flash storage features a custom-designed, rack-optimized form factor and innovative flash memory controller technology from Hitachi, Ltd. These features let [...]

VKernel Supports Growing Microsoft Hyper-V User Base With New Free Tool

VKernel Supports Growing Microsoft Hyper-V User Base With New Free Tool

VKernel, now part of Dell Software, and the award-winning provider of enterprise-class capacity management and performance monitoring products for virtualized data centers and cloud environments, announced today the availability of VKernel’s highly regarded free tool, vOPS Server Explorer, as a Hyper-V virtual appliance. vOPS Server Explorer assesses virtual machine performance, efficiency and capacity in a [...]

NCR Introduces Cloud-based Managed IT Domain Service

NCR Introduces Cloud-based Managed IT Domain Service

NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR) today launched Managed IT Domain Services, an innovative managed service for telecommunications carriers and technology manufacturers (OEMs), which enables support for remote monitoring and management of enterprise customers’ IT domains, through cloud-based IT infrastructures. The total service supports applications, cloud, network/WAN, security, server, storage and virtualization. More than 3,000 products from [...]

New Parasoft Service Virtualization and Cloud/API Testing Solutions Help IT Identify and Resolve Change Impacts

New Parasoft Service Virtualization and Cloud/API Testing Solutions Help IT Identify and Resolve Change Impacts

Cloud Expo 2012 Parasoft announced from Cloud Expo that they will be showcasing the latest release of their service virtualization and cloud/API testing solutions. With today’s highly distributed enterprise systems, it’s challenging for dev/QA to access much of the system behavior required to exercise the application under test. To help organizations ensure the security, reliability, [...]

F5 Solutions Combine with VXLAN to Support Software Defined Networking

F5 Solutions Combine with VXLAN to Support Software Defined Networking

VMworld Europe 2012 BARCELONA, Spain: F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), today at VMworld® 2012 Europe announced support for VXLAN functionality, enabling organizations to seamlessly support software defined networking (SDN) initiatives by combining VMware and F5 solutions. F5® BIG-IP® products can natively take advantage of the benefits of [...]

Dell Expands Cloud Client Computing Solutions for VMware View, DaaS

Dell Expands Cloud Client Computing Solutions for VMware View, DaaS

VMworld Europe 2012 BARCELONA, Spain: Dell today is announcing a host of new and enhanced industry-leading cloud client computing solutions that provide organizations with the broadest choice in how to implement, manage, deploy and access virtual computing environments using VMware. Coming on the heels of recent cloud client computing developments, Dell, the market leader in [...]

Official Describes DoD Cloud and Joint Information Environment

Official Describes DoD Cloud and Joint Information Environment

The Defense Department is working to improve its ability to share information, not just between the services, but also with its industry partners and other government agencies, the Pentagon’s deputy chief information officer for information enterprise said Sept. 28. The planned Joint Information Environment is a central piece of the information-sharing solution, Dave DeVries said. [...]

How to upgrade VMware VDS using vSphere Web Client 5.1

How to upgrade VMware VDS using vSphere Web Client 5.1

This how-to will go through steps on upgrading virtual Distributed Switch in VMware vSphere 5.1. I wanted to test and enable some of the new features in the new Vmware vSphere 5.1, particularly those related to VDS, such as LACP and Health check so decided to perform an upgrade on vDS in my home virtualization [...]


 
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