Virtualization
News articles
Cisco, Walgreens Team Up on Virtual Doc Visits for Employees
Wed, November 30, 2011 - Cisco and Walgreens are setting up a healthcare center for as many as 43,000 Cisco employees and their family members that will offer virtual physician visits via video conferencing and other Web 2.0-enabled tools.
CIO Q&a: How Citrix Supports More Workers with Lower IT Budget
Tue, November 29, 2011 - Citrix CIO Paul Martine is the poster child for everything that Citrix markets to other CIOs.
Finestra Manages Virtual Desktops with Panache
Mon, November 28, 2011 - If Finestra Virtual Desktops (free/donationware) hadn't crashed on me once or twice, it would've scored at least a half star higher than the 3 stars that I gave it. It's that elegant and suited to the task. The program allows you up to 100 virtual desktops (four's plenty for most folks), has a host of options so that you can control which programs open on which desktop, etc., and even makes great use of the Windows 7 live window thumbnails.
7 Hot Storage Startups to Watch
Tue, November 22, 2011 - From storage for virtual machines to cheap all-flash hardware, here are seven movers and shakers in the network storage market today.
VMware Fusion Update Lets Users Virtualize Leopard, Snow Leopard
Fri, November 18, 2011 - On Thursday VMware released Fusion 4.1, an update to its $50 virtualization software ( Macworld rated 4 out of 5 mice ) that adds numerous small improvements--and a huge, unheralded change that could provide Mac users with much more flexibility when it comes to running old versions of Mac OS X.
Survey: Mobile, Virtualization Biggest Security Challenge
Wed, November 16, 2011 - Increased use of mobile devices, especially smartphones, in addition to the transition to virtualization, are key factors weighing on enterprises trying to sort out security strategy and budgets, according to a survey of 688 information and security managers.
One Company's Move to Go Virtual Leads to I/O Constraints
Fri, November 11, 2011 - Austin Radiological Association is a quarter of the way toward virtualizing its server and desktop infrastructure, but the move has placed a strain on its networked storage and slowed application performance.
DataDirect Network Releases Array with Massive 40GB/Sec Performance
Thu, November 10, 2011 - DataDirect Network's new SFA12K series storage array represents a new high-water mark for networked storage performance with the ability to scale to 6.7 petabytes in two racks and offer up to 40GB/sec performance.
Accenture Launches Private-Cloud Service for SAP Customers
Wed, November 09, 2011 - The on-premise cloud option is based on the FlexPod architecture that combines NetApp storage with Cisco's UCS
Virtual Machine Cloud Replication and Restoration to Boom
Tue, November 08, 2011 - Over the next two years, about 30% of midsize businesses will be using a recovery in the cloud service aimed at replicating and restoring virtual machine instances, according to Gartner.



