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  • Dell dumps OpenStack and VMware for public cloud, focuses on private clouds

    Dell has dramatically shifted its cloud computing strategy, canceling plans it once had to launch a public cloud service based on the OpenStack open source platform, and discontinuing a VMware-based public cloud it already has on the market.

  • How VMware will try to shake up the cloud market this week

    There have been rumors and speculation. There have been whispers and rumblings. But this week VMware is expected to release details about its plans to launch a public cloud offering, the central part of its new hybrid cloud strategy.

  • Dell 'refining' plans for OpenStack-powered public cloud

    Fresh off the acquisition of a company that specializes in helping customers manage resources across multiple public clouds, Dell said it is "refining" its own plans to build a public cloud based on OpenStack.

  • VMware launches dual persona feature for Verizon smartphones

    Through a deal with Verizon, VMware is going to offer the ability for employees to download a app that allows their companies to run a standardized corporate version of Android OS on their phones along side their personal version.

  • Facebook to design an open source switch

    As part of the Open Compute Project (OCP), Facebook's network engineering team is leading a project to develop an open source networking switch.

  • Betfair selects VMware vCloud to speed app development

    Online betting exchange Betfair has implemented VMware?s vCloud as its attempts to redefine its IT department as a ?service broker, delivering virtualised environments to its agile development team through software defined data centre tools.

  • The cloud's the limit for new Arista, Brocade and HP switches

    Cloud scaling will be all the switching rage at this week?s Interop. Three major vendors last week took their platforms deeper into and then beyond the data center, outdueling each other on server access density and software programmability, two key attributes needed for the virtualized goldmine called the cloud. And in so doing, they have raised the bar and perhaps set the stage for one of the more anticipated announcements in SDN switching from Cisco spin-in Insieme.

  • VMware sells WaveMaker assets to Pramati

    A little more than two years after purchasing Java tool vendor WaveMaker, VMware has sold the assets of the company to the Pramati software engineering firm.

  • HP refreshes data centre core and aggregation with SDN switches

    HP this week refreshed its switch line and fortified its SDN portfolio with three new systems and a router, along with management and provisioning software extensions.

  • Pivotal puts PaaS in the spotlight

    In launching Pivotal, the partnership of EMC, VMware and GE is attempting to refocus the conversation in the market about how a new generation of applications that use big data will be built.

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  • Why software-defined security is essential in a virtualised environment

    Virtualisation is widely accepted to be the most effective way to improve efficiency and reduce running costs in the data centre. But the issues of security and compliance within a virtualised environment continue to make many enterprise IT managers nervous about the technology.

  • Project Moonshot can spur widespread VDI deployments, says Carrenza

    HP gave the long awaited official launch for its Project Moonshot hyperscale system yesterday, as one of the customer trial participants highlighted the opportunities the high density servers can bring to cloud service providers.

  • HortonWorks: The Hadoop company everyone wants to be best friends with now

    During the past few years Neustar, an $830 million publicly-traded data analytics company, has undergone a dramatic business transformation, and it's been powered almost entirely by Hadoop.

  • Will BlackBerry win back the enterprise with Balance and BES10?

    The launch of BlackBerry 10 in January was seen by many as a make-or-break moment for the company formerly known as RIM. With diminishing market share and apparent confusion over whether it wanted to be a consumer brand or a corporate brand, media and analysts alike were sceptical that BlackBerry would be able to make the splash it so desperately needed.

  • Where to turn when VMware stops supporting Lab Manager in May

    The date is coming soon: VMware will stop supporting its Lab Manager product in May, and where VMware is leaving a hole in the market, other vendors are looking to step in.

  • VMware one-ups Microsoft with vSphere 5.1

    The race for virtualisation dominance between Microsoft and VMware has become more interesting with VMware's recent release of vSphere 5.1. We obtained vSphere around the same moment as the final release of Windows Server 2012, whose newly included virtual switch and enhanced Hyper-V features were designed to clobber VMware.

  • Red Hat: Most companies are still not cloud-ready

    Most companies are still not very cloud-ready, and need to work on virtualising and automating their processes before pursuing a cloud strategy in earnest.

  • Scale Computing CTO: Big Data demands scale-out storage

    The only reason that scale-up storage is still so predominant in the enterprise is because most business applications were built to run on scale-up architecture, but as demand grows for big data applications, enterprises will increasingly be looking to adopt a scale-out model.

  • Real examples of Big Data benefits

    There is big hype being generating around the topic of Big Data, but there is no doubt that data volumes across global enterprises are ramping up exponentially.

  • How the cloud changes the virtual desktop landscape

    While cloud computing and virtualisation, along with a focus on small and midsize businesses, are expected to be major trends at this year's VMworld show, the virtual desktop infrastructure players are looking to make some news this week as well.

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Dell Software?s vRanger is a veteran of the virtualisation specific backup market. It was the first agent-less, off-host backup solution available for VMware environments, as well as an assortment of other firsts like restoration of virtual machine (VM) images and individual file data from a single backup.
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IBM solutions for cloud and virtualisation in enterprise environments

The benefits of virtualisation, from accelerated service delivery and resource optimisation to reduced costs for IT resources, have spurred many organisations to move toward a virtual infrastructure. However, the nature of the virtual environment, which calls for a vast network of shared resources, has created a new set of management complexities that can impede business service delivery?and that are best handled by adding cloud-computing capabilities to the virtualised infrastructure. Download this white paper to find out details on the IBM open standards-based offerings for VMware and other virtual environments, focusing on key capabilities for discovery, monitoring, capacity planning, provisioning, storage, security and financial management.
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Quest vRanger 5.3 brings enterprise-class VMware protection to SMB

Quest continues to evolve its VMware-focused backup and recovery solution for SMBs. vRanger 5.3 now offers deduplication and enhanced vSphere 5 support?while increasing performance and robustness.
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Desktop modernisation

On the one hand, there is the need to keep the existing desktop environment efficient, secure and running. On the other hand, there are workforce demands to use new devices and applications, to increase productivity. How can you address both of these requirements? The answer is... Desktop modernisation.
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Backup and recovery of large scale VMware environments

ESG research indicates that expanding virtualisation is a top IT priority. However, ESG believe that most organisations will struggle to expand virtualisation deployments without first improving virtual machine backup and recovery.
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