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- Avocent - don't forget the underlying infrastructure
- It's clear to me that as organizations use various forms of virtualization technology to increase performance, scalability, reliability, optimization and the like, they also ought to be on top of what the underlying physical infrastrucure is doing or not doing. Outages seen by an end user may come from a...
- Tags: Datacenter Management, Avocent Corp., Data Centers, Virtualization, Manufacturing, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-03-04
- Datacenter Management Optimization with Microsoft System Center
- Microsoft® System Center lowers the cost of delivering datacenter services through integrated, end-to-end management of physical and virtual environments. The System Center datacenter solutions provide a range of capabilities specifically designed to ensure the health and performance of datacenter services, while maximizing the use of datacenter resources. This is delivered...
- Tags: Datacenter Management, Data Center, Optimization, Microsoft Corp., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Automating Datacenter Management: Consolidating Physical and Virtualized Infrastructure
- The deployment of virtualization technology for datacenter consolidation, cost reduction, and improved agility continues to accelerate datacenter adoption, spanning server, and storage, application, and client environments. Increasingly, IT organizations are adopting heterogeneous hypervisor environments, increasing complexity and the need for management. Virtual computing teams, operations executives, datacenter managers, and server...
- Tags: Datacenter Management, Data Center, Infrastructure Inc., International Data Group, Data Centers, Cloud Computing, Storage, Storage Management, Virtualization, Utility Computing, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2008-04-01
- Balancing Site Goals and Service Goals in Datacenter Management
- A shift is witnessed from large mainframe computing to commodity, off-the-shelf clusters of servers. The cluster paradigm allows organizations to acquire resources at a fine granularity, scaling the cluster to provide the resources necessary for increasingly-powerful simulations, multimedia rendering, and web farms. As yesterday's clusters grow into today's data centers,...
- Tags: Datacenter Management, Data Center, Duke University, Data Centers, Mainframes, Storage, Servers, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2007-12-01
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- What's next for Microsoft's Azure cloud platform?
- So MS is going cloud...Well, well, isn't this interesting. Does MS concede that the era of packaged client software is over? Again, MS is the follower and not the leader, and again, MS is following Google to the clouds. My prediction is that this will be a field day...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Corp., Azure, server
- Discussion threads 2009-11-18
- Five reasons to deliver a virtual service, not a virtual server
- What began as an interesting technological experiment has now become an opportunity for IT to shape its future, says Fortisphere's Lilac Berniker Commentary - As virtualization becomes an increasingly commonplace technology in the datacenter, the breadth of stakeholders in the virtual environment is growing. ...
- Tags: Information Technology, Workload, Virtual Server, Server, Strategy, Management, virtualization, Lilac Berniker Fortisphere, Special to ZDNet, Lilac Berniker Fortisphere, Special to ZDNet
- News items 2009-10-29
- News to know: L.A. goes Google; AMD-Galleon; Cisco-ScanSafe; Ubuntu; Amazon RDS
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Larry Dignan: WSJ: AMD's former CEO was a Galleon tipster Sam Diaz: Cisco continues its buying spree with...
- Tags: Tom Foremski, Ubuntu, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Dana Blankenhorn, ScanSafe, Mary Jo Foley, Amazon.com Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Data Centers, Microsoft Windows, Tablets, Internet, Databases, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Operating Systems, Software, Notebooks & Tablets, Enterprise Software
- Blog posts 2009-10-28
- School District Virtualizes Aging Servers, Saves $200,000
- Based in Louisville, Jefferson County Public Schools is the largest school district in the state of Kentucky. Operating in an economic downturn, the district felt pressure to reduce costs without affecting classroom learning. The IT department responded by looking for a solution to contain server sprawl, standardize a disparate server...
- Tags: Information Technology, School District, IT Staff, Data Centers, Strategy, Servers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management
- Case studies 2009-10-16
- News to know: Dell; Xerox, Android, NewEgg, Win7, Windows Mobile,
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Andrew Nusca: Dell Latitude Z 16" thin-and-light revealed; Lamborghini angles hide boardroom muscle Gallery: Hands on with the Dell...
- Tags: Xerox Corp., Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Storage, Andrew Nusca, Newegg.com, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Sam Diaz, Dell Latitude, EC, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Notebooks, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets
- Blog posts 2009-09-29
- Microsoft IT Strengthens Security With Data Loss Prevention Solution
- To safeguard data stored in and transmitted from Microsoft offices and portable devices around the world, the Microsoft IT Security team used the Active Directory service to manage data-access rights and early versions of RSA Data Loss Prevention DLP products to locate sensitive data. This solution required IT staff to...
- Tags: Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft IT, Microsoft Windows Active Directory, Directory Services, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Strategy, Security, Enterprise Software, Software, Management
- Case studies 2009-09-29
- ARM targets Intel with 2GHz multicore chips
- Great platform for next-gen OS developmentThis sounds like it would be a great platform for somebody to develop the next generation OS we so badly need as a replacement for all of the existing 20th century OSes we're currently using.Still primitive - OS has a long way to goI use...
- Tags: Operating systems, Keyboards, multi-core processor, Intel Corp., chip, operating system, keyboard, ARM
- Discussion threads 2009-09-16
- Cloud may complicate SOA load balancing act
- Shine your own light in the cloudLori is correct to suggest that the cloud can obscure what you see. Cloud offerings tend to be basic, covering CPU, bandwidth and storage, and are very much of a 'one-shape-fits-all' nature. This is a consequence of building the offering on multi-tenanted...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Lori, SOA
- Discussion threads 2009-09-09
- eBay names Sun veteran head of data center strategy
- EBay has appointed Dean Nelson, a Sun Microsystems veteran, to be in charge of its data center strategy. Nelson will be senior director of global data center strategy, architecture and operations. Nelson is founder of Data Center Pulse, a non-profit data center industry group. ...
- Tags: Strategy, Data Center, Sun Microsystems Inc., eBay Inc., Dean Nelson, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-09-08
- Doing the VMworld Dance Summary
- I found VMworld to be an excellent opportunity to meet executives of both VMware and its partners. I'm hoping to stay in touch with these companies so that I can help you stay up to date as well. Here are a few general observations about what I...
- Tags: VMware Inc., IT Decision Maker, Virtualization, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-09-03
- Live Webcast: Scale Up and Save: Best Practices for High-Density Virtualization & Consolidation
- Fast-paced and resource-constrained environments of today require IT decision makers to take fresh approaches in order to keep up with dynamic organizations. Join NEC and Intel in this live TechRepublic Webcast to understand market drivers for high density virtualization hosting. Discuss how leading edge...
- Tags: Webcast, Consolidation, Best Practice, NEC Corp., Intel Corp., Data Centers, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Virtualization, Utility Computing, Servers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- Webcasts 2009-09-01
- Updated software provides additional data center insight
- The team at nlyte Software formerly known as Global DataCenter Management must have despaired of me writing about them months ago. But I noticed the company has a new version of its software shipping, which I wanted to note for readers of this blog. First some background....
- Tags: Software, Data Center, Nlyte, Data Centers, Storage, Tools & Techniques, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-08-21
- OpenSource World/NGDC/CloudWorld Experiences
- I've been running from meeting to meeting at IDG World Expo's OpenSource World/Next Generation Datacenter/CloudWorld Conference at the Moscone Center in the heart of beautiful San Francisco (see OpenSource World/NGDC/CloudWorld.) Here are my initial impressions of the event: The event is significantly smaller than any I...
- Tags: IDG World Expo, Event, Vendor Area, Data Centers, Channel Management, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Marketing, Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-08-12
- VMware's vision: Clouds everywhere
- While I was making my way out to San Francisco for OpenSource World/Next Generation Datacenter/Cloudworld, VMware issued a press release stating that they were acquiring Spring Source, a supplier of Platform as a Service offerings. This, I believe, opens the door for VMware to offer a nearly complete, end-to-end solution...
- Tags: Solution, Data Center, Open Source, PaaS, Vision, Supplier, VMware Inc., Tool, SpringSource, Spring Framework, Data Centers, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-08-12
- Power Tool Administrator for Cloud Computing Environments
- Cloud Computing is rapidly evolving from a disruptive trend and industry buzzword to one of the fastest growing segments of the IT industry. The current economic recession is forcing enterprises to tap into the cloud to gain efficiencies while lowering infrastructure costs. But as more information is stored in the...
- Tags: Administrator, Data Center, Access Management, Tool, Weston Software, Data Centers, Cloud Computing, Security Administration, Virtualization, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Security
- White papers 2009-08-10
- Virtual Machine Software Blinders
- Is it me, or is it true that suppliers and organizations have become infatuated with the concept that virtualization is solely and only equal to the use of virtual machine software to create virtual servers or virtual desktops/clients/users? It seems that almost every time I speak with...
- Tags: Virtual Machine, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-08-07
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