The Cisco guys do a killer job on these tight, concise TechWise TV episodes… The one this Thursday is on Vblocks.  Hari is the main man in the VCE solutions squad in Santa Clara, and Vblock builder – a great resource to listen to, talk to and get to know. You can register here: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/ns340/ns339/ns638/ns914/html_TWTV/t...

A startup that moves VMware-based applications to the Amazon cloud and creates a secure tunnel between a customer's data center and the cloud service is launching a public beta trial Monday. CloudSwitch, recently out of stealth mode, moves existing applications from internal data centers to the cloud without rewriting the app or requiring changes in management tools.

By Rodos

I am seeing quite a few comments appearing regarding Cisco Overlay Transport Virtualisation recently so I figured it was worth commenting on.

The U.S. Air Force has contracted with IBM to design a cloud computing system secure enough to support defense and intelligence networks.

By Chris Hoff

There’s been a very interesting set of discussions lately regarding performance anomalies across Cloud infrastructure providers of late.  The most recent involves Amazon Web Services and RackSpace Cloud. Let’s focus on the former because it’s the one that has a good deal of analysis and data attached to it.

Greg Ness, senior director of the networking automation vendor, talks about managing infrastructure sprawl and offers insight into the standards-oriented Infrastructure 2.0 Working Group, of which Cisco is a member.

By Lori MacVittie (F5)

Kicking of the new year (and a new decade) with a lively debate on a
technological concept that is barely out of its infancy is always a
good thing. Fred Cummins over at HP recently penned “Pursuit of the Intercloud is Premature”
and caught the eye of several of us for whom Intercloud is near and
dear and, I think, provided a great way to start off the year by
declaring the concept of Intercloud “not yet worthy of concern”. 

A Heavy Reading report says high growth rates for carrier Ethernet appear secure as the technology is adopted across finance, healthcare, government, and other sectors.

New survey results point to virtualization as a key driver for WAN optimization deployments.

We found in testing that there's no magic formula for figuring out how many client sessions a specific server can support. The number of VDI instances that can be handled by a single server is a function of the server's memory, disk resources, the number of active cores.