While attending VMworld this year in San Francisco, I had the opportunity to sit in on a briefing with EMC about its XtremIO flash storage array at Tech Field Day Extra. In my humble opinion, flash is going to be the way forward in the world of storage, especially as the cost of flash drives …
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VMware Acquires CloudVolumes: What It Means for the Future of VDI
With its flexibility and power, CloudVolumes is a cornerstone technology; it does more than just offer incremental improvements to its current Horizon Suite. Instead, it should be seen as something with which to create entirely new products that have the potential to significantly improve the lot of enterprise IT administrators everywhere.
One OpenStack to Rule Them All: Bare Metal to Clouds
At VMworld 2014, VMware announced its easy-to-install OpenStack distribution, VMware Integrated OpenStack. This got me thinking, as normally OpenStack refers not just to the OpenStack distribution but to a specific underlying hypervisor as well, usually KVM. However, we know that OpenStack works equally well on KVM, vSphere, Hyper-V, and Xen, as it is more of …
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What Is Micro-Separation in NSX 6.1?
One of the announcements of VMworld 2014 was a new version of NSX, which has been given a minor update to 6.1 from 6.0. I will delve into the nitty-gritty of what this release offers in a later post, but for now I’d like to draw your attention to a bit of marketese that VMware …
Why Virtualized Email Is Safer than ActiveSync Email on Your Personal Devices
If you’re reading this article, there’s a good chance that you own a smartphone and maybe a tablet or two and that you use ActiveSync to retrieve your corporate email through your personal devices. But did you know that both you and your Exchange administrator have the ability to remote wipe not only your email …
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Data-Aware Services: Oh, the Places We Could Go!
I have written many times about the need for application-centric data protection and data-centric security. But what these both require is that our data protection, security, management, and networking are data-aware. We use applications, but we thrive on data. The more data we have, the more chance we can make use of it, which has …
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