Research firm Forrester Research released “The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Data Virtualization, Q1 2015” report to look at the data virtualization vendors and how they have improved their security, scalability, big data, data discovery, data quality, and cloud capabilities. The research company describes enterprise data virtualization as, “The integration of any data in real-time or near-real…
The mobile, cloud and analytics services are turning the mobile device into a powerful business tool that lets companies quickly use them for sales, marketing and employee productivity. Now that mobile devices are becoming the chosen tools for business work, IBM wants to help IT departments to ensure mobile devices can serve all users. Developing…
There is no doubt that Software Defined Networking (SDN) can bring tremendous value to IT organizations. There is also no doubt that in the current environment, SDN is only suitable for early adopters. Given the immaturity of current API standards and products, any IT organization is looking to implement in the short term SDN should…
Fusion-io, a world leader in flash-based memory management, introduces a solution for increasing the performance of flash in virtual server environments. With an update of ioTurbine software, Fusion-io offered up to 40 times increased performance for applications in VM environments, doubling the number of VMs and unloading of SAN solutions. Compatible with the Fusion-io ioCache…
Cloud storage provider Datacore Software released the results of its third annual survey of the state of virtualization, which cut the adoption of virtualization strategies by organizations due to storage-related costs and I/O performance issues. The State of Virtualization Survey Storage survey, suggests that businesses are willing to virtualize their mission critical applications, but higher…
Economic difficulties damaged western European market performance of global software, while Russia, USA, China, Latin America and other regions continue to evolve positively. However, according to IDC, 2012 marks the beginning of a growth period with more conservative than those recorded in 2010 and 2011. Software applications are the fastest growing segment, with a rise…
AMD has decided to consolidate its data centers offering by partnering with its longtime partner Hewlett-Packard. HP will help cut the infrastructure of AMD, while increasing network capacity and performance. The first step is to reduce the number of data centers. AMD currently has twelve data centers down from eighteen in 2009. The company plans…
Cisco recently presented the result of a global survey conducted in 2011 on the perception of IT managers on the significance of enterprise presence of the tablet-mobile devices. Cisco partnered with Redshift Research to do the study on 1500 IT manager and executive respondents from the US, UK, Canada, France, Spain and Germany. They were…
Nutanix, a Cloud storage infrastructure startup announced today the launch of its flagship product Nutanix Complete Cluster, which it claims is “the industry’s first truly converged server and storage infrastructure for enterprise-class virtualization that removes the need for network storage.” With its Complete Cluster, a high-performance hardware plus software solution, Nutanix is trying to revolutionize…
When most people think of virtualization, they think primarily, or at least initially, of one-off server consolidation projects. However, almost 60% of organizations also obtain long-term benefits from greatly improved flexibility and agility. For example, provisioning virtual machines (VMs) rather than physical machines effectively eliminates roadblocks like procurement, racking, stacking, and cabling. This allows a…