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Now that virtual machine software is rapidly evolving into becoming a platform , the next logical question seems to be: What kind of platform do we want it to be? Right now, both VMware and Microsof... More >
One thing that is becoming clearer as we watch the continuing development of the ecosystems being built on top of virtual machines is the reinvention of system services typically associated with seve... More >
Everywhere you go these days it seems like some vendor is going out of its way to make it easier for some else on the IT staff to do their job. Companies such as F5 Networks now make it easier for n... More >
For years now we have poured millions of dollars into making our network perimeters secure. The end result has been a massive sprawl of security appliances that are expensive to maintain and difficu... More >
One of the things that held back application development in the enterprise has been the cost of setting up and managing the infrastructure for the development and testing environment. But with recent... More >
The fundamental reason we invest in IT is to increase productivity. Accomplishing that goal these days is pretty much defined by how much integration we can achieve between disparate sets of data. Es... More >
By now just about everybody has seen the commercial in one form or another. An IBM employee describes how they are working on one cool project or another, ranging from solving global warming to makin... More >
There is a great debate going on in this country over the future of healthcare. No matter what side of that debate you may personally be on, just about everybody agrees that cutting the cost of deliv... More >
Nobody wants to wind up on the front page of the Wall Street Journal or the New York Times because of a security breach. Just ask any of the good folks that work at T.J Maxx or Heartland Payment S... More >
There is a conversation about the implications of data center convergence between the people that staff data centers today and the senior executives that foot the bill for those data centers that a l... More >
Just about everybody has some sort of disaster recovery plan in place, and most IT organizations have embraced virtualization to one degree or another. But one thing most IT sites have yet to do is ... More >
On paper the adoption of virtualization seems like a no-brainer. After all, typical server utilization rates are somewhere less than 10 percent, so the amount of money being spent on underused hardwa... More >
As someone who has covered IT in the enterprise for more than 25 years, it’s pretty fair to say that I have an ongoing passion for the subject at hand. Today we live in challenging economic ti... More >
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