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Can Anything Stop EMC? January 31, 2012 
A bit over a year ago, the conventional wisdom related to enterprise IT vendors was fairly straightforward: Sheer size and depth of expertise gave end-to-end systems vendors unlimited access to the high ground. As markets recovered from the 2008 recession, enterprise customers would naturally stick with or gravitate toward large established players that could fulfill their every need.
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Virtualization and the Always-On Education Environment January 23, 2012 
Educators are using desktop virtualization in innovative new ways to enable "bring your own device" benefits for faculty and students. Let's look at how one IT organization has made the leap to allowing young users to choose their own client devices to gain access to all the work or learning applications and data they need -- safely, securely, and with high performance.
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Virtualization Meets City Hall January 09, 2012
The city of Fairfield, Calif.'s IT organization has leveraged virtualization and cloud-delivered applications to provide new levels of service in an increasingly efficient manner. Fairfield, a mid-sized city of 110,000 in Northern California, has taken the do-more-with-less adage to its fullest, beginning interestingly with core and mission-critical city services applications.
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EMC's Atmos Smooths the Path to Cloud-Based Storage as a Service December 06, 2011 
New enhancements to EMC's Atmos Cloud Delivery Platform are designed to ease the way enterprises and service providers implement and access public and private cloud storage. VMware vApp packaging should simplify installation, and improved visibility and reporting tools provide the means to expand cloud metering services and improve administrative reporting and controls
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Virtualization and Cloud Technologies: A Prescription for Healthcare November 14, 2011 
How can virtualized desktops and thin clients help with digital records management and healthcare industry compliance and privacy requirements? Let's find out how Rhode Island-based CharterCARE Health Partners has embraced private cloud and virtual desktop infrastructure to support its distributed, 579-bed community-based health system.
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Federal CIO Steps Up Data-Consolidation Pressure October 25, 2011 
The potential for saving money through data center consolidation among federal agencies is so great that the newly installed federal chief information officer has now challenged information technology managers to move further and faster to implement the Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative.
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Empowering Developers With Desktop Virtualization October 10, 2011
ADP Dealer Services is benefiting from expanding use of desktop virtualization. It's enjoying increased security, better management, and higher productivity benefits as it leverages desktop virtualization across its applications development activities. To hear more about their VMware View expansion experience, we're joined by ADP's Bill Naughton and Shane Martinez.
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VDI Planning Guide: Highly Available Desktops October 05, 2011 
A key advantage of virtualization is the ability to decouple an operating system from its hardware layer. This improves flexibility and maximizes uptime. Virtual server infrastructure commonly utilizes this flexibility to provide high availability, moving virtual servers between hosts.
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Cloud on the Fly - VMworld 2011 September 13, 2011 
VMworld 2011 occurred a couple of weeks ago, but the energized crowd of 19,000-plus attendees and the raft of VMware and partner announcements that accompanied it make it worth revisiting. Virtualization and cloud have become nearly synonymous. In fact, a few wily vendors tend to use the terms interchangeably, but there are clear and important distinctions between them.
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Parallels 7 Swings In September 09, 2011 
A new version of Parallels Desktop, the software that allows you to run multiple operating systems on your Mac simultaneously, was released this week. This latest edition of the popular virtualization software, which is on more than 3 million desktops worldwide, has more than 90 new and enhanced features, as well as a new mobile app that runs on the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.
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The Apache Web Server's Not-So-Secret Weakness August 30, 2011 
If you thought the hacks by Anonymous and AntiSec were bad, boy, are you in for a revelation. This past week brings news that the Apache Web server -- the one that powers the majority of the Internet and most websites -- has a vulnerability that can be exploited with relatively little effort.
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Is InfoSec Ready for Big Data? August 15, 2011
Over the past few decades, most IT shops have followed a somewhat similar trajectory: Starting from a centralized model, computing resources, much like the cosmological Big Bang, have exploded outwards to become ever-more-distributed and decentralized. This makes sense given market dynamics.
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Igniting the Mac-at-Work Revolution July 15, 2011 
In so many words, Steve Jobs recently discussed the tremendous opportunity ahead for Mac in the enterprise. With the introduction of iCloud, Apple's new service for seamlessly integrating content across devices, the company appears to be headed down the right path.
Consider the fact that organizations offering their workers a choice of platform -- PC or Mac -- stand to gain a significant competitive advantage.
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To VDI or Not to VDI? July 09, 2011
To borrow from Shakespeare, many companies find themselves asking "to VDI or not to VDI?" The first step to determine if Virtual Desktop Infrastructure is the right solution for your company is to identify exactly what VDI means for your organization. VDI actually encompasses several types of delivery, but it is most commonly associated with what Gartner classifies as hosted virtual desktops.
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Reeling Video Surveillance Into the Digital Age June 15, 2011 
Fans of "Law and Order," "CSI" and other popular crime shows have seen their fair share of video surveillance tricks -- but have you ever stopped to compare Hollywood surveillance footage to what you see on the 11 o'clock news? In the real world, still images or video from bank or convenient store robberies are often grainy with greenish hues -- terrible image quality for anyone looking for forensic evidence or identification.
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Hypervisor Fight Is Good for Customers, Good for FOSS June 10, 2011 
There have been many changes in the market and technology since Citrix acquired XenSource and a major stewardship stake in the Xen open source hypervisor four years ago. Red Hat's 2008 Qumranet acquisition and subsequent push behind the Linux-integrated Kernel-based Virtual Machine hypervisor has added to the disruption.
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