Cloud
Whoa! Data Center Madness Series Launches March 21st – Register Now!
March 13, 2017 | David Davis, vExpert, VCP/VCAP, CCIE
New from ActualTech Media, Nutanix and Intel! The Madness is moving from the basketball court to the cloud. It’s time for the ultimate data center showdown where opponents will go head-to-head debating the hottest methods IT pros are relying on … Read More
Don’t Miss Our 2016 Cloud MegaCast – JULY 27th!
July 14, 2016 | Melina Black
DISCOVER SEVEN HOT CLOUD SOLUTIONS IN ONE EVENT: BACK-TO-BACK
“The cloud” is a term that has been hijacked, twisted about, and regurgitated by many marketers with nary a thought to what it actually happening under the hood. Part of the … Read More
HotLink Offers DRaaS to Reduce Your DR Blood Pressure
February 1, 2016 | James Green
I recently wrote about a product that leverages public cloud resources such as Amazon Web Services to provide backup and recovery for on-premises workloads. Another such solution is HotLink’s DR Express, which for some time now has allowed the backup … Read More
Migrating to the Cloud – It May Not Be As Easy As You Think
November 19, 2015 | David Davis, vExpert, VCP/VCAP, CCIE 2
Enterprises know that there are financial and operational benefits to moving applications and workloads to the cloud, consolidating datacenters, migrating from hypervisor to hypervisor, and migrating to hyperconvergence. Those benefits include (but aren’t limited to) being able to only pay … Read More
Unitrends Boomerang Brings Affordable Cloud-Based DR to a Burgeoning Portfolio
November 13, 2014 | Scott D. Lowe, vExpert, MVP Virtual Machine, MCSE
This week, Unitrends unveiled their Boomerang service, which was made possible via the company’s acquisition of Yuruware in early 2014. Boomerang is a service that enables organizations to “simply and affordably move virtual machines (VMs) from VMware to Amazon Web … Read More
Review: Zetta.net DataProtect – Enterprise-Grade Cloud Backup & Disaster Recovery
October 20, 2014 | David Davis, vExpert, VCP/VCAP, CCIE
Enterprises of all sizes need the best data protection that fits their budget. Unfortunately, too many get bogged down with the complexities of running their own data protection infrastructure, offsite data storage, and disaster recovery solutions. Increasingly, the smarter choice … Read More
Review: SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor v. 6.1
April 7, 2014 | Scott D. Lowe, vExpert, MVP Virtual Machine, MCSE 2
Analysts, bloggers, and vendors today seem to be laser focused on IT infrastructure. Storage. Networks. Virtualization. The list goes on and on. At times, it almost seems that the world has forgotten about what are really the most important parts … Read More
Big Data is Coming After Your Data Center And That’s a Good Thing
March 5, 2014 | Scott D. Lowe, vExpert, MVP Virtual Machine, MCSE 3
There’s a nasty little irony in the world of IT. While business units seek IT’s assistance in creating and leveraging data-based metrics programs to provide deep level analytics into how to improve the business, IT, in many cases, has yet … Read More
Introduction to Openstack Storage Systems
February 4, 2014 | Paul Meehan, VCAP-DCA, CCNA 4
Openstack is a word on many people’s lips.
The Project is just over three years old, but you can feel how it has already gained mindshare and convinced important companies and people to get behind it. It’s evident from the … Read More
Microsoft Cloud OS Review: Datacenter Transformation Model
January 15, 2014 | Christopher Blay, MCSE, CCSK, CCDA
Enterprise IT infrastructure is rapidly changing with the introduction of tools for automating datacenter provisioning, monitoring and management. The modernization of traditional datacenters is putting pressure on the decision makers for both vendors and customers engrossed in these transformations. Out … Read More
Is CloudByte Really the Future of Storage?
December 5, 2013 | Lauren Malhoit, VCP, MCSE: Security, and CCNA
A few weeks back I attended Storage Field Day 4. One of the storage vendors we heard from is CloudByte. CloudByte is a startup that has been around for about three years. They are strictly a software company that works … Read More
NSX: VMware’s Network Hypervisor Explained
September 23, 2013 | David Davis, vExpert, VCP/VCAP, CCIE 3
At VMworld 2013, VMware announced important updates to their flagship product line (see my post Top 10 Most Important Features of vSphere for more info). A major part of the VMworld keynotes were dedicated to the new VMware NSX. I didn’t cover NSX … Read More
Asigra Introduces a Recovery-Based Backup Licensing Model
August 27, 2013 | Scott D. Lowe, vExpert, MVP Virtual Machine, MCSEWhile at VMworld, I attended a Tech Field Day presentation from Asigra, a cloud backup provider. Although the Tech Field Day crew has heard before about Asigra’s basic services, including the company’s agentless backup tools, this time around, Asigra wanted … Read More
How to Build a Private Cloud with OpenStack & RackSpace
July 4, 2013 | Lauren Malhoit, VCP, MCSE: Security, and CCNA
RackSpace is a cloud provider that runs everything using OpenStack cloud software. Their software, OpenCenter, makes deployment easier. In this article I’ll run through the initial install. The download is free.
They recommend that you deploy this using either three … Read More
The Future of Virtualization is Emerging… & it’s Cloudy
June 13, 2013 | Scott D. Lowe, vExpert, MVP Virtual Machine, MCSE
Scott’s latest musings on the “cloud-ification’ of virtualization. What strategy considerations should be on the table?Read More
Installing an OpenStack Private Cloud using Ubuntu 12.04
June 8, 2013 | Scott D. Lowe, vExpert, MVP Virtual Machine, MCSE 1
OpenStack is open source software that allows companies to create public or private clouds. It’s one of the most popular, if not the most popular, implementations of cloud today. To see more about the conceptual architecture, check out this page.
In … Read More
