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New engine to power Xangati's performance monitoring product
The latest version of Cupertino-based Xangati's virtual dashboard product will boast a new performance management engine and the ability to work with...
MIT business school grapples with virtualization
MIT's Sloan School of Management has embraced virtualized desktops as a way to meet user needs and streamline operations, but the IT staff accepts...
Citrix boosts VDI offering with products, acquisition and details at cloud-based future
Citrix Systems is upgrading XenDesktop, acquiring Virtual Computer, introducing a new type of hardware-assisted thin client and initiating a cloud...
Cloud providers touting multi-hypervisor support
When Tata Communications, the Indian telecommunications company, rolls out its infrastructure as a service cloud offering in America in the coming...
Red Hat releases OpenShift source code
Open source software distributor Red Hat has released the source code for its OpenShift platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering, allowing developers to...
VMware to offer enterprise application portal
VMware will offer enterprise software that allows employees to access all their desktop Windows applications and online services from a single...
HCL CEO Vineet Nayar: Outsourcing is dead, and there's nothing innovative in cloud technology
The customer always comes first. Except when it comes to HCL, the $6 billion Indian outsourcing make that co-sourcing giant led by CEO Vineet Nayar,...
How to Virtualize Mission-Critical Applications
Enterprises are virtualizing more and more of their workloads. The benefits are well-known: consolidation and infrastructure efficiency; faster...
SMB Adoption Of Virtualization to Outpace Enterprises: Survey
According to a recent survey conducted by disaster recovery and data protection solutions provider Acronis, small and medium sized businesses (SMBs)...
Amazon woos enterprise with Virtual Private Cloud
Amazon Web Services is attempting coax businesses into the cloud by touting the security credentials of its Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).
Amazon CTO: startups lead the way in Big Data analytics
Startups and small companies are stealing a march on some of their larger enterprise counterparts in their use of Big Data by employing analytics at...
Users find Microsoft System Center 2012 simplifies virtual systems management duties
Switching from VMware to Microsoft's Hyper-V virtualization environment is saving money for two businesses that are also using Microsoft's System...
Vyatta speeds up its software-based routing with vPlane
Virtualized router pioneer Vyatta plans to increase the performance of its software by 10 times or more later this year, eyeing large data centers...
Virtualization performance management: Myths and realities
Performance management has become the key element in maximizing any virtualization initiative, but many myths have emerged that, left unchecked, can...
Microsoft takes virtual battle back to the 1970s with sardonic ad campaign
Vests? Check. Big hair and aviator sunglasses? Check. A not-particularly subtle suggestion that a major rival is behind the times? Check and mate.
How to Avoid the Perils of Virtualization and Cloud Stall
Virtualization and cloud computing offer the promise of cost savings, efficiency and flexibility, but organizations must plan their transitions...
Reducing VDI cost by exploring alternatives to centralized VM storage
One of the most significant cost elements with VDI is the centralized storage required for maintaining virtual machines. Hypervisor vendors argue...
Microsoft boosts virtualization capabilities in Desktop Optimization Pack
Microsoft is boosting the virtualization components of its Desktop Optimization Pack suite of IT management tools.
Cisco, EMC, VMware unite behind big data, cloud training initiative
As the IT silos come down, tech pros need to beef up their skills to stay relevant and maximize the business benefits of cloud computing,...
Dell agrees to buy thin-client company Wyse Technology
Dell has signed an agreement to acquire thin-client hardware and software company Wyse Technology, to expand its desktop virtualization offerings,...
HCL CEO Vineet Nayar: Outsourcing is dead, and there's nothing innovative in cloud technology
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