
As our virtualization environments continue to grow with VMware,
Hyper-V, and Xen Servers we need to take a new look at the management
capabilities...
0 replies - 2932 views - 03/28/13 by Tommy Patterson in Articles

I recently reviewed server shipment projections from a leading
analyst firm that concluded about 10 million units will ship per year
over the next three...
0 replies - 1622 views - 03/25/13 by Greg Ness in Articles

Things are starting to pick up after the holidays; some good links for your weekend reading this week.
VM Depot:
This is a new service for Windows Azure...
0 replies - 976 views - 01/15/13 by Larry Franks in Articles

When travel and talk to companies about the cloud, one of the common
questions I get is about how to choose which applications to move to the
cloud –...
0 replies - 1367 views - 01/11/13 by Ben Kepes in Articles

Processing Limitations Wreak Havoc on the Contestants
We talked about memory restrictions in part 1 of this series, but lets now shift our focus to CPU...
0 replies - 1364 views - 12/20/12 by Tommy Patterson in Articles

Thoughts From the Mind of a Previous VMware Admin (aka Game Master)
Do you ever feel like your Windows server is not performing well in
the VMware...
0 replies - 2088 views - 12/19/12 by Tommy Patterson in Articles

This is a brief step-by-step tutorial using GGTS on how to create a web service by getting information from an Oracle 11g database and exposing the data to...
0 replies - 7072 views - 12/09/12 by Brad Rippe in Articles

At HP’s Discover event here in Frankfurt today, the company will be announcing a private PaaS offering, built on top of Stackato, the PaaS which is...
0 replies - 2997 views - 12/06/12 by Ben Kepes in Articles

Let’s settle two things from the outset – firstly, PaaS is (I believe) the future of cloud services and will be the area for growth in the coming years....
0 replies - 2645 views - 11/30/12 by Ben Kepes in Articles

The first version of the Scripted code editor has been released this week on github and is also downloadable as a package from VMware. Although Scripted is a...
0 replies - 683 views - 10/11/12 by Pieter Humphey in Announcements

Over the past few evenings, I’ve been playing with SQLIO, to get an
idea of how SSD compares to a couple of servers (one quite old, one a
bit newer) that...
0 replies - 3232 views - 09/28/12 by Nick Haslam in Articles

At VMworld back in August, one of the small number of announcements made revolved around “end user computing”, VMware’s
term for all the different...
0 replies - 2098 views - 09/24/12 by Ben Kepes in Articles

Are More than 1/3rd of Cloud Developers Using Azure?The Cloud Development Survey (which Evans Data Corporation runs every 6 months among a select group of...
0 replies - 4063 views - 09/14/12 by Allen Coin in Articles

elasticsearch is an open source distributed RESTful search engine built on top of Apache Lucene.
Like any service or component in your architecture,...
0 replies - 4191 views - 09/04/12 by Robin Bramley in Articles

In my previous post, I shared the engineering thoughts behind Application Director and how it is a strategic solution for IT to get ready for PaaS. We talked...
0 replies - 729 views - 08/24/12 by Stacey Schneider in Announcements