Why is VMware turning its back on per-VM licensing with the release of the vCloud Suite bundles?
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ITIL as a Service
Beetil is rapidly making a name for itself with a SaaS-based service management offering that delivers a readily accessible pragmatic approach to ITIL.
Licensing your Private Cloud
Both Microsoft and VMware have revamped their product suites and therefore their licensing once more and how you buy will dictate how you license (as always). It has taken a bit of time for all the information to percolate through to each corporate site and all the issues to be addressed. As we did before, let us look at licensing. We will look at first the old model of Hyper-V vs VMware vSphere vs Citrix Xen vs RedHat KVM. Then in a follow-on article we will look at the new cloud suite models.
DaaS Service Level Agreement Immaturity Can Hamper Technology Adoption
Only 2% of IT shops are committed to adopting DaaS by 2014. While DaaS technology is maturing, the same cannot be said for the service offerings themselves.
The Consolidation Continues: VMworld 2010
Continuing the trip down memory lane with the Class of VMworld 2010
New Breed of Replication Receiver Clouds
There is an ever increasing number of data protection providers creating replication receiver clouds as they team up with cloud service providers. This could herald the end of on premise tape use for some enterprises, leaving tape to be used primarily by cloud providers. There are major benefits for Quantum, Zerto, Veeam, and others to form replication receiver clouds, but these clouds are not just or storage anymore. They could be purely for storage, but this is not a big win for the cloud service providers. So why would cloud service providers be interested in being a storage endpoint for data protection? Why are they concerned with backup and offering it as a service?