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

Red Hat Cloud 101

In a remarkably short time, cloud computing has emerged as a hugely important evolution in the way that businesses and individuals consume and operate computing. It’s a fundamental shift to an operational model in which applications don’t live out their lives on a specific piece of hardware and in which resources are more flexibly deployed… Continue reading Red Hat Cloud 101

Benchmarking a Scalable and Highly Available Architecture for Virtual Desktops

The benchmark results represent a greater than ten-fold (10x) decrease in the per-Desktop costs of SAN-based, high-availability virtual desktop infrastructures (VDIs) FORT LAUDERDALE: DataCore Software, the premier provider of software-based storage virtualization solutions, today announced benchmark results and a research paper which together represent the first practical architecture for SAN-based vDesktops (virtual desktops) in real-world… Continue reading Benchmarking a Scalable and Highly Available Architecture for Virtual Desktops

The Next Generation HP ProLiant Server Line: A Powerful Platform for Virtualization

Server Virtualization

Seeking to lower power and cooling costs, simplify administration and conserve data center floor space, businesses of every size are rapidly virtualizing their physical infrastructures. As a result, demand is greater than ever for server hardware capable of handling virtualization workloads with maximum efficiency. The next generation of HP ProLiant servers and blades offers the… Continue reading The Next Generation HP ProLiant Server Line: A Powerful Platform for Virtualization

F5 and the 8 Ways to Virtualization

F5 pioneered the concept of breaking up data center virtualization technologies into eight unique categories within the data center. Any virtualization products or technologies implemented in the data center will fall into one of these eight categories. With this paper, F5 discusses how it has implemented these same technologies within its own product line, helping… Continue reading F5 and the 8 Ways to Virtualization