Recent Articles
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Solving the Thorny Issue of QOS in Virtualized Applications
Porting existing applications that reside on a traditional physical infrastructure to a virtualized environment in the cloud sounds like a great idea, but the reality is that shifting apps to the cloud may come with a decrease in application performance. Ensuring quality of service of those applications is important to keep them running at expected…
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Study: Virtualization, Cloud Management Can Be Tricky
Network Instruments announced the findings of its fourth annual State of the Network Global Study. The study’s findings suggest a need for IT organizations to monitor performance and identify potential trouble spots as organizations move to cloud-based projects, virtualization, and unified communication initiatives. The report concluded these technologies, while being adopted, present “enormous” troubleshooting challenges…
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Cisco Unveils Virtualization Experience Infrastructure
Networking communications giant Cisco announced a wide-ranging desktop virtualization system and solutions comprising collaboration, borderless networking and data center technologies from the company and an ecosystem of virtualization vendors. Named the Cisco Virtualization Experience Infrastructure (VXI), the system design integrates Cisco’s Collaboration, Data Center Virtualization and Borderless Networks architectures with desktop virtualization software and devices.…
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Physical Appliances Replaced by “on-Demand”
Physical Appliances Replaced by “on-Demand” When it comes to private clouds, Gartner says traditional silo-ed security deployments on physical appliances won’t cut it. Instead, delivering security solutions through a service model will help security controls to adapt and protect information and workloads where needed. Exposure of Security APIs Gartner says RESTful APIs (open representational state…
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Avaya Launches Virtual Enterprise Network Architecture Platform
Enterprise communications systems, software and services provider Avaya Data Solutions launched a new data networking platform, Virtual Enterprise Network Architecture, designed to deliver a simplified end-to-end connectivity solution between users and their content. The Virtual Services platform is a hardware platform that delivers high levels of performance, scalability and high-speed port density and the Ethernet…
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Business Exposed to Virtual Data Storage Risks, Survey Finds
While nearly 90 percent of IT professionals surveyed at VMworld 2010 reported their organizations are storing data in a virtual environment, a third of respondents admitted their organization has not updated or they do not know if it has updated its data loss and/or business continuity plan to account for new storage mediums such as…
