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Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Veloxum, VMTurbo update virtualization management wares

How IT pros cheat on certification exams | Will cloud backup services finally put tape backups in trash can?

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Veloxum, VMTurbo update virtualization management wares
As enterprise IT organizations expand their use of virtualization, increased visibility into what's happening across the virtualized data center becomes exceedingly important. Problems such as virtual machine sprawl, I/O bottlenecks and orphaned VMs, after all, are due as much to lack of visibility into the virtualized infrastructure as anything else. Read More


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How IT pros cheat on certification exams
Incidents of cheating on IT certifications are on the rise, a trend that experts say is an outward sign of the desperation felt by out-of-work and under-employed IT professionals. Read More

Will cloud backup services finally put tape backups in trash can?
While technologies exist to vastly improve backup and recovery processes, many enterprises have delayed modernizing their backup infrastructure. Now a confluence of factors - greater storage demands, the need for faster disaster recovery, and the availability of cloud-based backup services - is spurring action. Read More

Cisco grapples with transition as routers and switches lag
Cisco is in the throes of a companywide transition away from the switches and routers that form the bedrock of its business toward new markets to fuel future growth -- and the shift is affecting Cisco's revenue. Read More


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F5 Networks gunning for even more data center control
Cisco owns networking, right? Not when it comes to the rapidly growing Layer 4-7 switching market. There, F5 Networks has managed to garner nearly 50% market share, while Cisco's share has actually declined. John McAdam, F5's CEO, attributes the company's success to having won ownership of certain strategic control points in today's consolidated data centers. Read More

Avaya extends 'private cloud' capabilities to campus networks
Avaya is taking its data center architecture to the enterprise campus, with the goal of creating "private clouds." Read More

Yahoo to open-source cloud-serving engine
Yahoo is developing an internal cloud-serving engine to boost its own productivity, and intends to release the code as an open source this year. Read More


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This report by Forrester Research discusses how to handle IT complexity using application performance management converged with Complex Event Processing to produce a closed-loop automation solution for application management. Learn More

A year later: Has Oracle ruined or saved Sun?
The company irks open source advocates but is steadfast in upgrading Sun-derived technologies. Read More

Sentiment analysis comes of age
Sentiment analysis is not a new concept. Business, marketing and investment strategists have long been scanning newspapers, industry publications and the like to scope out how the public, consumers and influential pundits view a particular company, brand or product. Read More

Debating the pros and cons of software patents
Free Software Foundation argues that software patents infringe on individual expression and present a roadblock to innovation. Read More

Obama sets $126M for next-gen supercomputing
President Barack Obama has included funding in his 2012 budget proposal for development of the next generation of supercomputers, an exascale system. Read More



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