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Entries with Label: Virtualization

“Practical Use” Fills the Gap Between Idea and Implementation

POSTED BY Robert Klotz AT 11:18 AM 0 COMMENTS
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Monday, February 02, 2009

It’s no longer a question of if you will deploy virtualized environments but when you will deploy them. In fact there are many technologies at this same point somewhere between idea and implementation, including WAN optimization, security consolidation technologies, Microsoft initiatives and contract administration consolidation. These solutions will cross the chasm into main stream deployment mainly because they reduce costs and increase efficiencies.

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Practical Green IT

POSTED BY Robert Klotz AT 8:28 AM 0 COMMENTS
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Wednesday, February 11, 2009

As many companies have pushed its benefits, and positioned their solutions as helping to achieve "Green IT", the topic has come to represent many things to many different people. It is certainly one of the most hyped IT terms of the past two years. It offers important environmental benefits such as reduced footprint and carbon emissions, and it saps less of the energy supply. Green IT initiatives can help improve an organization's relationship with its community. While many would argue these reasons are important enough to address on their own, there is another reason that has made Green IT so attractive to the public and private sector alike: It reduces costs, and it can increase efficiencies.

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Emphasizing Virtualization Security

POSTED BY Chris Healey AT 11:09 AM 0 COMMENTS
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Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Perhaps companies figure so much attention has been given to virtualization that if it was not secure they'd hear about it in the press. Because it appears that at many organizations virtualization security has been "back-burnered."

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On the Path to the Cloud… Walk Before You Run

POSTED BY Robert Klotz AT 7:35 AM 0 COMMENTS
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Monday, April 13, 2009

Every now and then a new technology concept really takes off as marketing gurus at some of the largest companies put their collective mindshare and budget behind the next big idea. Web 2.0 was one such term, social media is another. Cloud Computing is the next big idea.

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Getting Ready for Cloud Computing

POSTED BY Robert Klotz AT 10:16 AM 0 COMMENTS
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Thursday, June 18, 2009

IBM's new announcement around its Blue Cloud offerings is an example of a vendor who is struggling to re-work its existing products into the cloud and provide new services on top of them, to capitalize on the market buzz.

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Ensuring Security in the Virtualized Environment

POSTED BY Robert Klotz AT 1:41 PM 0 COMMENTS
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Friday, January 08, 2010

With virtualization more and more prevalent in your IT infrastructure, this is a good time to ensure your virtualized environment is meeting the same high standards for security that you have set for your non-virtual infrastructure.

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