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Symantec to expand cloud-based software – Reuters Symantec’s hosted storage services, which consumers and businesses access over the Web, are among its fastest-growing products. Salem said companies were originally hesitant to use the Internet to transmit sensitive information, but are…

Read more Green IT News Roundup – Tuesday, May 19

by Pedro Hernandez on May 19, 2009 · 0 comments

…a.k.a: something to do during the Twitter (planned) outage of ’09. If you’ve been curious about vSphere, particularly what the private cloud-building platform means for your storage infrastructure, then the VMware Communities Roundtable has just the audio webcast/podcast for you….

Read more Webcast: What's New in VMware vSphere 4: Storage

by Pedro Hernandez on May 13, 2009 · 0 comments

That technology companies wage marketing wars is nothing new. Microsoft vs. Apple, Intel vs. AMD… the list goes on. The virtualization market hasn’t been affected by the FUD bug, largely because the market is viewed as VMware and everyone else….

Read more Have the Virtualization Wars Begun?

by Pedro Hernandez on May 11, 2009 · 0 comments

Complaints about the lack of visibility into virtual environments are nothing new. It goes without saying that many IT shops will remain reluctant to move more apps onto virtual servers until they have their concerns addressed. You know what that…

Read more Ixia Puts Virtual Server Environments to the Test

by Pedro Hernandez on April 29, 2009 · 0 comments

Well, that didn’t take long. VMware made a splash last week by outlining its private cloud vision. Today, Microsoft got in on the act. During the Microsoft Management Summit this week, Microsoft reiterated the role of cloud computing and virtualization…

Read more Microsoft Also Envisions Cloudy, Virtualized Future

by Pedro Hernandez on April 29, 2009 · 0 comments

Go green: Turn off your computer with your iPhone/iPod Touch – CrunchGear Why didn’t any of us think of this? The creator of a VLC controller app for the iPhone has just released a clever little app that turns off…

Read more Green IT News Roundup – Thursday, April 23

by Pedro Hernandez on April 23, 2009 · 0 comments

While there is still a lot of work to be done in getting businesses to change their one-app-per-box ways, VMware is already looking at the horizon and chasing clouds. VMware unveiled vSphere 4, which the company is billing as the…

Read more VMware Pursues Private Clouds with vSphere 4

by Pedro Hernandez on April 21, 2009 · 1 comment

HP is smoothing out SAN storage management for VMware shops with new Left Hand P4000 SAN hardware, Virtual SAN Appliance Software and the new StorageWorks SB40c Storage Blade. When deployed in conjunction with the new P4000 hardware and PSA software…

Read more New HP Left Hand Line Makes SANs Virtual Server Friendly

by Pedro Hernandez on April 20, 2009 · 0 comments

If the IT departments within most businesses were honest with themselves, they would realize that few of their employees require a full-blown, stand-alone tower or workstation to get their work done. So why incur the energy, management and maintenance costs?…

Read more HP Fattens Thin Client Portfolio

by Pedro Hernandez on April 16, 2009 · 1 comment