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Registrations for HP Discover continue – and it’s not too late
HP Discover is in Las Vegas between 11th June to the 13th and it’s set to be a great event with some great content as well as opportunities to leverage from the hands on labs, the sessions and on site communities. The core reasons for attending HP Discover are: Keeping up to date with HP [...]
VMware to Announce vCloud Hybrid Service
http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/vmw-vcloud-hybrid-webcast-043013.html PALO ALTO, Calif., April 30, 2013 — VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced that Pat Gelsinger, CEO, and Bill Fathers, senior vice president and general manager, Hybrid Cloud Services Business Unit, will present at a VMware-sponsored live webcast to unveil a new cloud service on Tuesday, [...]
Talking about SMB’s, cheapseats, club class and enterprise grade
http://www.zdnet.com/why-vmware-needs-to-focus-on-smbs-7000012969/ Thinking of VMware’s dominance in server virtualization made me wonder how the company approaches small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and it occurred to me that the focus is really on enterprises. Are SMBs an afterthought for VMware? No, says VMware but yes, say analysts and SMBs. Given that VMware has only begun to focus [...]
Recognizing commodity is a reality and ‘go live checks’
Chris called me up, he remains a happy man walking around sunny (but cold) Canary Wharf and is now leading the Windows operations team for a multinational, we continue to keep in touch discussing what’s going on and he emailed me a single line question. We’re building medium’s do you bother with production checks anymore? [...]
To P2V or not to P2V – the questions and benefits
I was having a chat with a colleague a debate really. He’s a project manager working in IT for one of many multinational organizations in the City of London delivering a P2V project, this is the process of virtualizing your servers, migrating the operating system, application and data from a physical server to a virtual [...]
EMC and VMware talk about their Pivotal Initiative
EMC and VMware made some announcements around their Pivotal Initiative which involves a re-alignment of teams to better address and deliver to its customers in the cloud space. The announcement is below on the VMware blog. http://blogs.vmware.com/console/2012/12/the-pivotal-initiative.html On December 4, 2012, EMC and VMware shared information on the newly formed Pivotal Initiative. Q: What is [...]
VMware vCloud Suite 5.1 announced
http://www.informationweek.com/cloud-computing/infrastructure/vmware-launches-software-defined-data-ce/240143004 By Charles Babcock, InformationWeek December 03, 2012 09:30 AM VMware announced Monday that it has integrated its virtualized environment software with its cloud management products, putting into one box the software that generates virtual machines, applies cloud management, and introduces performance and capacity management to the resulting environment. Dubbed VMware vCloud Suite 5.1, it [...]
VirtualSharp for next generation automation in Disaster Recovery space
http://www.virtualsharp.com/ REDWOOD CITY, CA – November 28, 2012 – Today at VentureBeat’s CloudBeat 2012, VirtualSharp Software, the leading provider of next generation automated Disaster Recovery solutions for private and public clouds, announced record momentum for ReliableDR a year after launching version 3.0 at VentureBeat’s CloudBeat 2011. Disaster Recovery is a mandatory part of Business Continuity [...]
Moving a rack server quick reference guide
I put together this quick reference guide about moving a rack server for my brother who’s working on a data center exit project (migrating servers from one data center to another) as a point of reference, do change it to suit your needs, I have made some assumptions which might not apply to all servers. [...]
Hudson streamlines operations with HP storage and servers
HP.com LONDON, UK, 15 October 2012 — HP announced today that global talent solutions company Hudson has streamlined operations and improved business continuity with HP storage and servers. With a global presence of more than 2,000 employees operating in approximately 20 countries, Hudson (NASDAQ:HSON) offers highly specialized professional recruitment, talent management, recruitment outsourcing and related [...]
