by Camberley Bates
Keeping up to date and building relationships has never been easy. With instant communication, 140 characters of information or the 800-word synopsis coming at us at light speed, one often finds they have little time to reflect or explore. Then we have relationships spread across the globe, networks such as LinkedIn and Facebook enabling three degrees of separation, making the reach very broad, but real relationships tougher to cultivate.
by Robert Gast
Propelled primarily by cost savings, the rapid rate of proliferation for virtualization technology is stunning. Moving resources to VMs has allowed IT departments to consolidate and better utilize computer resources. Like physical servers, the data on VMs must be safeguarded. That said, many methods for system protection that were tried and true in the physical world haven’t worked well in virtualized environments. Protecting VMs is not always as simple as backing up the virtual disk files, so special care must be taken.
by Anand Babu (AB) Periasamy
For a modern challenge like the explosion of unstructured data, a modern architecture is required. To be more specific, in order to address the unprecedented scale of data management that is required today, a cloud-like architecture that builds on the principles pioneered by the web giants is needed.
by Robert Gast
VMware vSphere 4 is the next generation of industry-leading infrastructure virtualization software that virtualizes servers, storage and networking, allowing multiple unmodified operating systems and their applications to run independently in virtual machines while sharing physical resources. The suite delivers comprehensive virtualization, management, resource optimization, application availability and operational automation capabilities.
by Lisa Crewe
Today, virtualization and cloud have created a new management paradigm that is calling for a total system management approach, and networked storage is at the center of it all.
