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VMTurbo Operations Manager 3.0 ? Enabling Application Assurance across Any Virtual Infrastructure

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:36:00 0500

Today we are very excited to have announced the release of the 3.0 version of our Operations Manager product line. The release is certainly a major undertaking by our development team ? and delivers a host of important, new capabilities to our rapidly growing customer base....

VMware Asks Cloud Security Standards, Are they coming to a cloud near you?

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:09:00 0500

I was recently reading an article about cloud security standards and found it quite interesting of the struggles service providers are going through right now without official security standards. Standards are on the way from several industry groups including vendor back groups to help. But what is happening in the meantime is what I found interesting....

Big Data and SQL Server: Disruption or Harmony?

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:38:00 0500

The SQL Server relational engine matured a long time ago. There have been advances, of course, in performance, fault tolerance and high availability, not mention encryption, compression and file-system integration. And, yes, there's been support for XML, geospatial data and even a service broker. But these have been improvements on the margins. All these features are new flavors of icing; the cake has stayed the same....

Amazon Web Services hosts more than 762 billion objects in S3

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:41:00 0500

The total number of objects stored on Amazon Web Services nearly tripled between 2010 and 2011....

VMWare Seeks To Be Oracle Of The Cloud

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:24:00 0500

A decade ago Oracle was the model for building an enterprise software company....

VMTurbo Enhances Platform to Assure Application Performance Across Cloud and Virtualized Environments

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 03:16:00 0500

VMTurbo, the leading provider of intelligent workload management software for cloud and virtualized environments, today announced version 3.0 of its award-winning platform. VMTurbo Operations Manager 3.0 delivers cloud-scale management for the largest service provider and enterprise virtual infrastructures, expands heterogeneous hypervisor support to include Citrix XenServer and adds new application performance assurance capabilities. ...

Microsoft Calls on the Amazon Cloud

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 03:05:00 0500

An open source SDK for developing Windows Phone applications that connect to Amazon Web Services reached beta earlier this month. The Microsoft toolkit provides libraries (C# APIs) and sample code to enable Windows Phone developers to connect existing apps and new projects to Amazon Web Services....

CA Technologies Announces CA Private Cloud Accelerator for Vblock Platforms

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:00:00 0500

Stephen Elliot, vice president of product management, CA Technologies, provides a brief overview of CA Private Cloud Accelerator for VblockTM Platforms, a new solution that drives Business Service Innovation by enabling IT to provide rapid, predictable and secure provisioning and delivery of cloud infrastructure and critical IT and business services. This is the company's fifth solution certified for use with VCE Vblock Infrastructure Platforms, all of which are based on our Unified Automation ...

The Cloud Vendor Landscape ? The VMware Advantage According to the Taneja Group

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:41:00 0500

In a recent evaluation of ten of the leading cloud solution vendors (including Microsoft, Red Hat, Amazon, Rackspace and others), the Taneja Group determined that VMware stands out as the clear cloud leader due to its broad portfolio of virtualization and cloud management solutions, service provider ecosystem, and cross-cloud enabling tools and interfaces....

Virtualization, Cloud Having Little Impact On Databases

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:09:00 0500

Cloud computing has taken center stage over the last two years as the hot enterprise technology, but in the database realm, the public cloud and off-site hosted database services still represent too many unknown factors to truly have mass adoption. According to the co-author of the InformationWeek "State of Database Technology" report, the public cloud is so far having very little impact on enterprise databases....