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Microsoft: Proactively monitoring cloud operations with Microsoft Azure Stack

September 8, 2017

Introduction As an Azure customer, you enjoy its capability to deploy and manage workloads across many different services and regions. You are responsible for managing those Azure resources, including monitoring for problems. However, the underlying hardware and software supporting Azure (e.g. Azure’s physical hosts and network) are managed and monitored by Microsoft engineers. Azure Stack […]

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Citrix: Why Cloud Makes Sense for Mobility

July 25, 2017

When speaking with prospective customers, a question that always comes up is “What data is stored in the Cloud?” From a security and privacy perspective, this is a big concern, which is understandable. But more often than not, once we show the architecture of our XenMobile Cloud Service, their minds are set at ease. With the […]

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VMware Helps Customers Maximize Hybrid Cloud Investments with New vRealize Cloud Management Platform

June 7, 2017

New VMware vRealize Operations 6.6 Introduces Automated Workload Balancing to Proactively Optimize Application and Infrastructure Performance; New Native Operations Management for Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Solutions Powered by VMware vSAN; New VMware vRealize Automation 7.3 Enables DevOps-Ready IT with Enhancements for Containers and Configuration Management Solutions; Deepens Integration with VMware NSX for Day 2 Operations and Improves […]

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Oak Ridge National Laboratory Delivers Accessible, Powerful Supercomputing Environment with Red Hat OpenStack Platform

May 12, 2017

Red Hat’s open cloud technologies help extend supercomputing access to broaden scientific and computational research with CADES Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), a multiprogram science and technology laboratory managed by the United States Department of Energy, is using Red […]

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Microsoft: Post notifications to Microsoft Teams using PowerShell

November 3, 2016

Microsoft Teams, announced earlier today, is a new platform for chat based communication. I was very happy to see the Connectors available including many popular CI/CD related tools. The Connector configurations allow for an easily pluggable extension for Microsoft Teams to integrate notifications in to discussions. This creates an opportunity to integrate datacenter and cloud […]

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VMware Validated Design for SDDC – Cloud Operations with vRealize Operations Demo Video

August 30, 2016

The VMware Validated Design for SDDC is a blueprint for the private cloud that results in an SDDC that is consistent, thoroughly documented, extensively tested from end-to-end, and continuously validated to incorporate new releases of software components. Once an SDDC has been deployed, its ongoing performance and health must be continually monitored, and administrators must […]

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VMware Validated Design for SDDC – Cloud Operations with vRealize Log Insight Demo Video

August 30, 2016

The VMware Validated Design for SDDC is a blueprint for the private cloud that results in an SDDC that is consistent, thoroughly documented, extensively tested from end-to-end, and continuously validated to incorporate new releases of software components. VMware vRealize Log Insight provides centralized log aggregation and log analytics. It increases the operational visibility, facilitates troubleshooting […]

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Leading Organizations Use VMware vRealize Suite as Foundation for Multi-Cloud Management and IT Automation

August 18, 2016

VMware vRealize Suite Enables Businesses From Any Industry to Seamlessly Scale Across the Public and Private Cloud and Streamline IT Processes, Allowing Businesses to Transition From Operational to Innovative VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) today announced that California Natural Resources Agency, Fannie Mae and IHS Markit are among the thousands of customers that have adopted the […]

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VMware on End Point to Ops: Securing the Mobile Balancing Act

April 27, 2016

IT professionals today are at the crux of a critical business intersection, where greater productivity through mobility crosses comprehensive security to protect business assets. The keys to optimizing both routes without being a roadblock for the other is a shift in mindset and the right perspective. Mobility, multi-cloud operations, and practical DevOps were the prevailing […]

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NEW! ControlUp Insights – Introduces Collective Analytics for Hybrid Clouds

April 22, 2016

New Platform Delivers Interactive Reports that Empower IT Administrators With Unprecedented Visibility and Control of Hybrid Cloud Workloads ControlUp, the leading provider of IT ops analytics, today announced the release of ControlUp Insights, a new, innovative SaaS offering that provides collective analytics, interactive historical reports and control of hybrid cloud applications. For the first time, […]

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Red Hat: ManageIQ Acquisition Podcast with Bryan Che – Episode 164

January 9, 2016

In episode 164, Douglas Brown interviews Bryan Che, General Manager, Cloud Business Unit at Red Hat. Bryan and Douglas discuss Red Hat’s recent acquisition of virtualization / cloud management solution vendor ManageIQ. Bryan walks us through why they acquired ManageIQ, how it fits in to Red Hat existing portfolio, how it competes with the competition, […]

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What’s New with VMware vCloud Architecture Toolkit

August 20, 2015

Recently, we announced few changes to the VMware vCloud® Architecture Toolkit (vCAT). These changes come as VMware expands and diversifies its product portfolio, especially with regards to cloud operations and hybrid cloud products. This new version of vCAT focuses on helping to guide our partners in defining, designing, implementing and operating VMware-based cloud solutions. That’s […]

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New StorageCraft Cloud Services calms storminess of backup, disaster recovery with full network recovery options

March 31, 2015

It is World Backup Day, but one must ask the question: What good is a backup if data or an IT system is unable to be recovered? Fortunately, for IT professionals, StorageCraft Technology Corp. today released the latest generation of the award-winning StorageCraft® Cloud Services™, which provides fast and reliable offsite backup storage and disaster […]

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