This feature brief is primarily intended to assist technical personnel as they design and implement Backup Exec and the Agent for VMware Virtual infrastructure, and make related decisions. Additionally, the business value of the Backup Exec Agent for VMware Virtual Infrastructure (referred to commonly as the VMware Agent in this document) and the licensing of… Continue reading Technical tutorial for virtual systems backup and recovery
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Virtualization technology news on virtual machine products, hypervisors and new products in the virtualization industry.
Defense officials seek balanced cloud computing solution
Defense Department officials are looking to balance efficiency, effectiveness and security while moving away from the department’s decentralized network of computer servers and data centers and into “cloud” computing, the DOD’s deputy chief information officer said Sept. 7. “We must balance all three,” said Robert J. Carey, who is also the deputy assistant secretary of… Continue reading Defense officials seek balanced cloud computing solution
Hitachi Data Systems Announces Acquisition of BlueArc
Powerful Combination Gives Customers Highly Scalable, Reliable and High-Performance Solutions to Store and Manage the Explosive Growth in Unstructured Data Hitachi Data Systems Corporation (HDS), a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., today announced a significant milestone in its strategy to give customers seamless access to all data, content and information with the acquisition of… Continue reading Hitachi Data Systems Announces Acquisition of BlueArc
Desktop Virtualization in K-12 Schools
Desktop virtualization is a strategic investment, solving many of the critical technology hurdles facing K-12 school districts today. It can alleviate problems around strategic direction and resource allocations by improving the end-user PC experience, reducing computer maintenance and support for IT staff, and decreasing the costs of services. IDC Government Insights has noted accelerating deployments… Continue reading Desktop Virtualization in K-12 Schools
Strong Growth Continues in the Worldwide Disk Storage Systems Market
Worldwide external disk storage systems factory revenues posted year-over-year growth of 12.2%, totaling just over $5.6 billion, in the second quarter of 2011 (2Q11), according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker. For the quarter, the total disk storage systems market grew to just shy of $7.5 billion in revenues,… Continue reading Strong Growth Continues in the Worldwide Disk Storage Systems Market
Small Businesses Gain Agility, Cut Costs with Server Virtualization
Twenty-five percent of small businesses boost IT ROI with virtualized servers; 73 percent of those without virtualization are investigating or planning to virtualize CDW LLC, a leading provider of technology products and services to business, government, education and healthcare, today introduced the CDW Small Business Virtualization Roadmap, a technology adoption guide that also reports survey… Continue reading Small Businesses Gain Agility, Cut Costs with Server Virtualization
Information Security, Virtualization, and the Journey to the Cloud
According to ESG research, virtualization technology investments top the priority list in 2010 as nearly 60% of large and small organizations will increase their spending on virtualization technology. Why? Because its optimization and efficiency benefits are measurable and real. Given this, many firms plan to expand their use of virtualization by increasing the number of… Continue reading Information Security, Virtualization, and the Journey to the Cloud
VMware View 5 with PCoIP Improvements Verified Through Liquidware Labs Stratusphere UX
Significant improvements to protocol performance and bandwidth utilization validated through benchmarking measurements of Stratusphere UX solution at VMworld 2011 Today at VMworld 2011, Liquidware Labs, the leader in desktop transformation solutions, announced that the latest version of its award-winning Stratusphere UX™ desktop virtualization solution will be integrated with VMware View™ 5. With the integration, users… Continue reading VMware View 5 with PCoIP Improvements Verified Through Liquidware Labs Stratusphere UX