Data Center Management Tools
KVM Cloud: Red Hat wins another cloud vendor in Netherlands
By Tarry Singh at 11 June, 2010, 3:25 am
Interesting to note why virtualization vendors need to have the VM numbers from all their partners. Oxilion said it has been working for more than a year to put together the technology for its Virtual Data Center public cloud, and while not naming names, said that other alternatives were too costly and “the traditional proprietary [...]
Read More >>2010: Outsourcing Market to rely on contract renewals; Global Sourcing Advisories to play crucial role
By Tarry Singh at 12 May, 2010, 1:34 am
While many analysts and research firms are currently in a flux-state and saying what everyone is saying. I wanted to share some data here to explain why the year 2010 will be defining. There is a lot of talk and FUD being created as to the end of global sourcing or slower uptake and maybe [...]
Read More >>VMware’s SpringSource buys an IMDB vendor GemStone
By Tarry Singh at 7 May, 2010, 9:56 am
This is expected part of their strategy to build the cloud solutions within the private cloud jacket. In Memory databases are great for homogeneous financial applications and have never been tested or tried out in complex, not-generally tested and tried out workloads. But it is for sure that the apps that are slowly being built [...]
Read More >>HDS aligns its unified computing strategy with Microsoft; takes on Cisco/EMC
By Tarry Singh at 20 April, 2010, 1:29 am
With Hyper-V as a bold statement in its partnership, HDS is making clear that it does not want to be left behind. HDS has now signalled it is entering the lists against the VCE coalition and its V-Blocks (VMware, Cisco and EMC), HP and its Matrix, IBM and Oracle with its app-to-storage integrated stack. Dell [...]
Read More >>HP Networking emerges; ProCurve and 3Com to be rebranded
By Tarry Singh at 20 April, 2010, 1:24 am
As HP moves closer to absorbing its giant EDS acquisition, its real all-round play emerges. With HP Networking, it goes directly after Cisco which lacks system integration, data center outsourcing and other services market presence. Cisco is still working on its Acadia initiative which still only involves software/hardware vendors like VMware and EMC, which certianly [...]
Read More >>Extreme Networks Introduces Direct Attach Architecture to Increase Data Center Performance and Reduce Network Tiers
By Tarry Singh at 19 April, 2010, 1:02 pm
ANTA CLARA, CA, April 19, 2010 — Extreme Networks, Inc. today announced its innovative “Direct Attach” architecture for data centers, a network architecture designed to bring virtual machine switching back into the network and out of the server. Extreme Networks Direct Attach data center architecture is an evolutionary approach that allows Virtual Machines (VMs) to [...]
Read More >>VMware unveils its hybrid cloud vision
By Tarry Singh at 26 March, 2010, 12:17 am
While this is your private version which VMware already had running for its current customers and channel partners, it now wants a piece of public cloud and thus challenging the might of Amazon, Google and others who don’t use VMware’s product for public consumers. But it is very wise for VMware to start leveraging its [...]
Read More >>Unified Consumer Experience in homes by Apple with HDTV plans; US market alone $31 Billion!
By Tarry Singh at 24 March, 2010, 4:53 am
Apple is indeed in unique position to get into a lot more than what is detailed in the article and thus ending up jeopardizing many big players such as Cisco, Tandberg (which Cisco wants to buy), Wii etc etc Let’s look at all other possibilities that puts Apple in this unique position 1. Online SOHO Experience [...]
Read More >>Custom vBlock for Voddler: Cisco UCS, RHEV with KVM and IBM XIV storage!
By Tarry Singh at 12 March, 2010, 2:55 am
Voddler gives us all two simple things to take away home: – Get the best of breed and make your own High-Density Mix – Understand your business, listen to your own staff and avoid sales pitches Voddler would be a perfect candidate, you might think, for the pre-integrated stacks of servers, storage and management software [...]
Read More >>Google to power cloud computing with its own super fast network; 100 times faster than Verizon, AT&T!
By Tarry Singh at 10 February, 2010, 3:58 pm
Like I said to a buddy once: “I you want it to happen, you gotta go ahead and do it yourself”. Feb. 10 (Bloomberg) — Google Inc. is planning to build high-speed fiber-optic broadband networks in the U.S. to offer Internet speeds that are more than 100 times faster than what Verizon Communications Inc. and [...]
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