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A Quick Look at Structure 2011

By on July 12, 2011 in Cloud Computing, Community Manager, Data Center, Database, Information Technology, Mobile and Wireless, Software, Storage, Telecommunication, Virtualization

This is a summary of Structure 2011, held recently by GigaOM in San Francisco. In this blog I report what I observed but without going into details. I plan to cover some of the subjects in more detail as time permits in future blogs. Similar conferences have sessions that run 50 to 90 minutes. Sessions [...]

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CapacityVIEW – Free VMware Tool

By on May 23, 2011 in Free Trials, Virtualization

CapacityVIEW is a free VMware assessment tool that is a must for all VMware admins. This powerful, free tool installs on your Windows desktop in minutes to provide quick diagnostics and alerts to the storage and server capacity and performance issues in your VMware infrastructure. It quickly exposes: • The number of VMs with performance [...]

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StorageVIEW – Free Tool Gives VMware Storage Visibility

By on May 23, 2011 in Free Trials, Storage, Virtualization

StorageVIEW is a free VMware assessment tool that focuses on providing visibility into the storage components of your VMware environment, such as: • Top five host/datastore paths with the highest latency • Listing of the associated VMs for these high latency paths • Throughput information for each VM in the high latency path It’s Free [...]

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VMware Backup, Archive, and Disaster Recovery: Next Generation VMware Data Protection

By on February 8, 2011 in White Papers

When VMware released its vStorage API for Data Protection (VADP), the company revolutionized data protection capabilities for virtual environments. Unitrends has incorporated support for VADP to provide seamless next generation support for VMware licensed ESXi and ESX environments for all of its backup appliances. The Unitrends backup solution enables VMware 3.5 and vSphere 4 backup, [...]

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Six Fairy Tales of VMware and Hyper-V Backup

By on February 8, 2011 in White Papers

Cinderella. Snow White. Hansel and Gretal. VMware host level backup works well with all deduplication strategies. These famous, and not so famous, fairy tales have one thing in common – they are fiction. In this paper we explore six fairy tales of VMware and Hyper-V backup. Like all fairy tales, our virtualization backup fairy tales [...]

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SharePoint Development and Virtualization Challenges – Part 2

By on October 7, 2009 in Community Manager, Enterprise Applications

In the first part of this series the situation of a SharePoint developer was described needing a recreation of the customer’s environment in order to implement a solution which runs on his staging server as well as on the customer’s production environment. You can create complex environments using a remote environment used by different developers [...]

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How to Move a Data Center in 35 Days – Week One

By on June 29, 2009 in Community Manager, Guest Bloggers

  Part of the Enterasys IT staff’s annual plan in 2008 was to consolidate our data centers into several strategic locations. The reasons for this consolidation included a need to reduce costs associated with multiple locations, as well as a company-wide campaign to reduce energy consumption. The Enterasys data center site in Boston cost more [...]

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VMware Takes Stake in Terremark – Furthering Competition With Google

By on May 28, 2009 in Community Manager

VMware has invested $20 million in Terremark, a sign the virtualization company is moving beyond its traditional market to become a cloud services provider. According to Network World, VMware and Terremark already have an existing relationship. VMware provides Terremark with its virtualization technology to power its enterprise cloud computing platform. The VMware platform allows Terremark [...]

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