Industry

Cloud Ping-Pong: Passing VM Workloads from Cloud to Cloud Will Hurt

root — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 11:45:37 -0700

Douglas Gourlay wrote an excellent post yesterday over on Cisco’s Data Center blog about what doesn’t work in the current cloud model. He had two great points. Point one: And the most important point, about Cloud Computing is that it is in the cloud. and the cloud is the Internet.

Sanbolic Optimizes Melio FS, Adds Virtualization Support

tludwig — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 09:45:26 -0700

Back in June, I wrote about Sanbolic and Melio FS as a workaround for the “one-VM-per-LUN” limitation that Hyper-V’s Quick Migration imposes. By running Melio FS on a Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V host, users could put multiple VMs in the same LUN and still use Quick Migration. At the same time, Sanbolic was also announcing that they were supporting the use of Melio FS, their clustered file system, inside Windows Server-based VMs running on VMware ESX.

Marathon to Bring EverRun VM to Hyper-V

tludwig — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 09:45:25 -0700

Today, Marathon Technologies announced an expanded development and marketing agreement with Microsoft Corporation designed to bring fault tolerance and high availability to a wider audience. As I understand it from talking to the folks at Marathon, the ultimate goal of this new agreement will bear fruit in two key areas:

Another look at Dell’s green datacenter

root — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 06:45:48 -0700

After my post The green datacenter went live earlier this week, I was quickly contacted by Dell's analyst relations folks. The thought that I didn't have a complete understanding of what they were trying to get across and kindly offered to schedule a conversation with Dr. Albert Esser, Dell's VP of power and infrastructure solutions. In other words, they thought I was wrong and needed to be brought up to speed quickly. Don't worry about me, however. The folks from Dell were friendly and very knowledgeable about datacenter issues.

Sun Gets Further Behind Clouds With Q-Layer Buy

root — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 06:45:36 -0700

Acquisition of the middleware provider should make it easier to provision and deploy cloud services on the fly.

Network bandwidth calculators: What will be my WAN's link speed?

root — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:45:26 -0700

Use this recommended bandwidth calculator to calculate network latency and your WAN's link speed. Our network administration expert says this tool can simulate 1,000 users in your environment.

The Growing Appetite for Virtualization

root — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:45:52 -0700

Energy conservation, improved performance and reduced cooling costs are just a few of the benefits of virtualization and consolidation.

The Tasty Baking Co. is making a major IT overhaul. In the process, innovations in server virtualization and storage consolidation are saving the company considerable dough in energy costs and on many other fronts.

Saving money with used network hardware: Tricky but doable

tludwig — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:45:45 -0700

Buying used network hardware is a good way to save some money and to extend the life of your infrastructure, but it's tricky. It can sour your relationships with your key vendors, and finding good support for the equipment is a challenge. But the right strategy can be a goldmine in these tough times.

VirtualLogix Appoints Glenda M. Dorchak as CEO

tludwig — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:45:37 -0700

VirtualLogix, Inc. today announced the appointment of Glenda M. Dorchak as chief executive officer. With more than 15 years of executive experience in the technology industry, Ms. Dorchak will lead VirtualLogix in extending the benefits of real-time virtualization to a broad range of computing devices.

Targus Implements Expand Networks' WAN Optimization Technology

tludwig — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:45:37 -0700

Expand Networks (News - Alert) specializing in application acceleration solutions over the Wide Area Network (WAN) announced that Targus has implemented its WAN Optimization technology for improving applications running on the MPLS WAN. Expand Networks’ technology will maximize user productivity by placing them in virtual proximity to the application and datacenter services.