Virtualization

Fri, February 03, 2012 - Is there strength in numbers? The deal VCE recently struck with BMC suggests that a consortium of companies layering in best-in-class technology might be a more effective approach to win large-scale government and enterprise customers in the private cloud space, writes CIO.com's Rob Enderle.

Mon, December 19, 2011 - For IT, 2011 was a transitional year. A lot of big things were on the horizon ( data center as a service, for instance), but few of the profound concepts jelled. The consumerization of IT arrived in full measure, and cloud computing stopped being science fiction. Will the changes that take place in 2012 be more concrete? Here's my list of likelihoods for the new year.

Wed, October 12, 2011 - Virtualization has made inroads into many data centers. If your company isn't already using it, here's why it should.

Thu, September 15, 2011 - With Windows Server 8, Microsoft has outdone itself, from a revamped UI to hundreds of new features, including vastly improved virtualization management

Fri, July 22, 2011 - With the explosion of job-specific data center appliances, it is common today to find several appliances monitoring a single resource. A typical scenario, for example, is three appliances monitoring the same connection, with one monitoring flows, another doing performance analysis and a third providing intrusion detection functionality.

Tue, March 08, 2011 - Make smart use of your smartphone to keep in touch with your project team.

Mon, March 07, 2011 - While virtual servers have proven a boon in the data center, they don't address the challenge of incrementally adding server capacity and automatically distributing load across them. As a result, the responsiveness and availability of a highly utilized Web application, such as Microsoft SharePoint, can deteriorate when the virtual machine it runs on is out of capacity.

Tue, February 22, 2011 - There are many security issues to consider when selecting virtualization cloud products for your organization. Gregory Machler suggest questions to ask when you're examining your choices

Thu, July 22, 2010 - Communication is the most important tool for virtual-team success.

Thu, June 24, 2010 - In a recent column, my Security Manager's Journal counterpart, Mathias Thurman, wrote about securing virtual desktop environments. My company is going through the same exercise of evaluating VDI as a replacement for traditional desktops. As Mathias pointed out, the concept of virtualizing the applications that run on the system does not substantially change the threat landscape, nor does it modify the countermeasures we put in place to protect against those threats.