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Wozniak still aims to simplify enterprise storage

The latest bid to simplify data storage comes from a team that includes Steve Wozniak, a guy who knows a thing or two about making technology easier.

Alcatel-Lucent virtualizes WANs and routers

Alcatel-Lucent’s Nuage Networks SDN venture broadens product line to tackle enterprise WANs, an increasingly vital market for the technology.

What’s the difference between virtualization and private cloud?

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10 Best Practices for Cloud Business Intelligence: Enabling the Business

Business driven Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics represent a shift in the enterprise that is perfectly aligned with the value proposition of cloud-based analytic solutions.

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IT BlogwatchBy Richi Jennings

Amazon Web Services unveils a bunch of new cloud... stuff

AWS EC2 Container Service with Docker, Aurora MySQL clone... and Lambda functions? At Amazon's re:Invent shindig in Vegas, the company announces a host of new features for its public-cloud service. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers dig into...

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Amazon embraces Docker with new management tool

The Docker container virtualization technology is such a hit with users that Amazon Web Services has created a new management tool for handling large-scale Docker deployments.

Google updates cloud with new virtual technologies and price cuts

Google has embraced the Docker container technology and expanded the Firebase mobile development platform.

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Juniper virtualizes MX router to help companies more rapidly turn-up services

Juniper Networks this week introduced a virtualized version of its MX Series 3D edge router to fulfill carrier requirements for Network Functions Virtualization.

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10 Best Practices for Integrating Data

Data integration is often underestimated and poorly implemented, taking time and resources. Yet it continues to grow in strategic importance as customer data and touch points grow with the emergence of cloud, social and mobile

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Docker gets competition with new Joyent, Canonical containers

Spurred on by the success of Docker, platform services provider Joyent and Linux distributor Canonical have each open-sourced their container technologies.

Cisco slashing stake in VCE joint venture with EMC/VMware

EMC and Cisco confirmed morning that their VCE joint venture with VMware is headed into a new phase, with EMC taking control and Cisco cutting its stake.

How to add VirtualBox 4.3.14 to Linux Mint 17

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CoreOS: A lean, mean virtualization machine

No-frills Linux distro offers rapid deployment of VM instances.

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Samsung acquires flash caching software developer Proximal

Samsung has acquired Proximal Data, a developer of software that caches I/O in the server virtualization layer, to boost its SSD offering in the server market.

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10 Common Problems APM Helps You Solve

Practical advice for you to take full advantage of the benefits of APM and keep your IT environment performing at its peak at all times.

Big Switch rolls out SDN starter kits

SDN pioneer Big Switch Networks this week is expected to unveil “starter kits” designed for its Big Cloud Fabric product that began shipping in September amidst a stream of positive product reviews.

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Stealthy startup launches virtual CPU cores that hope to trounce traditional processors

Backed by a who's who list of big names in the chip industry, startup Soft Machines is launching a chip that spreads workloads out over a CPU's cores.

HP unveils cloud config manager

HP unveiled a network virtualization system for large enterprise and cloud providers designed to simplify network configuration.

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Microsoft to bring Docker to Windows Server

It's another giant step for the Docker virtualization technology.

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10 Considerations in Moving to a Cloud-Based Contact Center

This ebook offers ten key considerations when moving to a cloud-based contact center. What are your organization's business goals and requirements?

VMware again lets users run virtualized desktops locally with Flex

Employees get a desktop they can use without Internet access and IT keeps control of it

VCE rolls out an all-in-one system with EMC's all-flash XtremIO array

VCE is expanding its line of all-in-one cloud systems, adding one with all-flash storage and offering options for enterprises seeking an easier path to the cloud.

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Xen Project discloses serious vulnerability that impacts virtualized servers

Major cloud providers like Amazon and Rackspace were forced to reboot some of their servers in order to apply the patch

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How one user (successfully) managed the Amazon cloud reboot

Amazon Web Service’s reboot of its cloud servers left many users holding their breath.

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