Startup Blue Medora Lands Series B Round for Cloud and Database Performance...
Article Written by David MarshallBlue Medora, a cloud and database management software startup based in Grand Rapids, Mich., recently closed on a Series B funding round of $8.6 million, led by St....
View ArticleVMware and AWS Team Up in Effort to Lock Down Hybrid Cloud
Article Written by David Marshall VMware has had its eye on the hybrid cloud for quite some time. And the company has signed numerous deals to try and get there, deals with Google, Microsoft, and IBM...
View ArticleGartner Magic Quadrant Names Tintri a Visionary for General-Purpose Disk...
Article Written by David MarshallThis week Tintri announced that it has been named a Visionary in Gartner Inc.'s 2016 Magic Quadrant for General-Purpose Disk Arrays. This is the third straight year...
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Zerto Announces General Availability of Virtual Replication Version 5.0 With...
Article Written by David MarshallToday Zerto announced the launch of the new Enterprise Cloud Edition with the general availability of Zerto Virtual Replication 5.0 (ZVR). Zerto states that ZVR is the...
View ArticleHow Retail IT can Address Challenges and Reach Big Data Potential This...
Article Written by David MarshallThis year, the National Retail Federation projects that 137 million consumers will shop between Thanksgiving Day and Cyber Monday. Retailers have stocked their shelves...
View ArticleNew Massive Community Initiative from StratoScale: The Private Cloud Wiki
Article Written by David MarshallMany organizations are using VMware, OpenStack and other technologies to take their clouds in-house, building private cloud infrastructures to reduce their costs and...
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Tintri Levels Up Data Protection and Disaster Recovery for its Enterprise...
Article Written by David MarshallVirtualization-aware storage provider Tintri is adding more data protection and disaster recovery to its platform and expanding its software suite with automated...
View ArticleBlue Medora Introduces Amazon Cloud Database Management Packs for VMware...
Article Written by David Marshall Blue Medora today announced Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora and Amazon DynamoDB management packs for vRealize Operations. The new Amazon management packs extend visibility...
View ArticleHPE Acquires SimpliVity for $650 Million, Another Proof Point for HCI
Article Written by David MarshallThis month, HP Enterprise (HPE) announced an agreement to acquire Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) vendor Simplivity for $650M. The acquisition highlights the...
View ArticleFree Hyper-V Backup using Vembu VMBackup
Article Written by David Marshall Microsoft Hyper-V is becoming a tough competitor for VMware vSphere ever since Microsoft unveiled Microsoft Hyper-V 2012 R2. And Hyper-V has been constantly...
View ArticleSneak Peek at SolarWinds NEW Correlation Technology -- PerfStack
Article Written by David MarshallFor years, VMblog has covered numerous technologies coming out of the SolarWinds think tank. Perhaps the best known or most covered technology thus far (for obvious...
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Amazon Corrects Massive AWS S3 Cloud Outage While Vendors React
Article Written by David MarshallLast Tuesday, parts of the Internet came to a grinding halt when the servers that powered them suddenly vanished. The disappearing server act came from servers that...
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What have we learned from the Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure outages?
Article Written by David Marshall In the past month both AWS and Microsoft Azure have experienced lengthy outages due to issues with the storage supporting the cloud. These outages have flooded through...
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Cloud Computing. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
Article Written by David MarshallCloud computing is absolutely one of those words that shows up on everyone's "Tech Buzzword Bingo" cards. Even so, that shouldn't and doesn't negate the fact that cloud...
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Microsoft Adds Nested Virtualization to Select Azure Virtual Machines
Article Written by David MarshallInteresting news out of Redmond -- Microsoft users will now be able to enable nested virtualization (or the ability to run a virtual machine within another virtual...
View ArticleIBM expands partnership with Docker to drive apps to the public cloud
Article Written by David MarshallAt DockerCon EU in Copenhagen, IBM announced that it is expanding its relationship with Docker. Together, IBM and Docker will be making it easier for clients to...
View ArticleE8 Storage Launches First Software Only Product to Power NVMe Storage Solution
Written by David MarshallToday, E8 Storage launched its new E8 Storage Software only product offering, available for a selected range of pre-qualified servers from vendors such as Dell, HP and...
View ArticleZerto Introduces Multi-Cloud IT Resilience Platform with Virtual Replication 6.0
Written by David Marshall Zerto releases its answer for those seeking a single platform for disaster recovery, data protection and workload mobility to, from and between multiple clouds for continuous...
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Google Announces Intent to Acquire Xively for $50 Million
Written by David MarshallGoogle has announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Xively, a division of LogMeIn, Inc. for $50 million.To better set the stage for the growing market...
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IBM Think News: Zerto Partnership Provides Data Protection for IBM’s...
In an announcement at IBM Think 2018, IT Resilience software provider Zerto said it is partnering with IBM Services to provide IBM Resiliency Orchestration DRaaS Solution customers fast, simple virtual...
View ArticleGoogle Cloud Introduces VPC Flow Logs to Cloud Customers for Network Visibility
Article Written by David Marshall Enterprise users of Google's cloud platform have a new option for logging and monitoring network traffic for security and performance issues. Google introduced VPC...
View ArticleVMware and Google Preview a New Plugin Unlocking More Hybrid Cloud Scenarios
Written by David MarshallVMware and Google have announced a preview of a new Google Cloud Platform (GCP) plugin for VMware vRealize Orchestrator, and support for GCP resources in VMware vRealize...
View ArticleExabeam Adds to Flagship Behavioral Analytics Product with Updated Case...
Written by David Marshall Exabeam has added to their flagship behavioral analytics product, introducing an updated case management module. The addition of case management functionality into Exabeam...
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Gartner Says Public Cloud Revenue to Exceed $200 Billion in 2019
Written by David MarshallIn its latest forecast for the worldwide public cloud services market, analyst firm Gartner said it expects revenue to continue to grow by 17.3%, topping $206 billion next...
View ArticleScale Computing and APC by Schneider Electric Launch 'Micro Data Center in a...
Written by David MarshallScale Computing has partnered with APC by Schneider Electric to deliver a Micro Data Center in a Box solution.By utilizing Schneider Electric's award-winning Micro Data Center...
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VMware vSphere 5.5 End of General Support - What Now?
Written by David Marshall VMware vSphere 5.5 was probably the most installed version of vSphere to date. And many virtualization administrators have fond memories of this release. vSphere 5.5 goes...
View ArticleCloudHealth Technologies Is Now Part Of VMware
Written by David MarshallOn Thursday of last week, VMware closed its acquisition of CloudHealth Technologies, extending cloud management beyond VMware's previous capabilities in private and hybrid...
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Sneak Peek at Vembu BDR Suite V4.0 Features and Enhancements
Written by David Marshall Back in May, Vembu announced its latest release of their flagship offering, Vembu BDR Suite v3.9.1. The release included a Standard Edition, designed for small businesses,...
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Oracle VirtualBox Zero-Day Vulnerability Leaked by Annoyed Researcher
Written by David MarshallAn independent researcher has discovered what he reports to be a zero-day vulnerability in VirtualBox, a popular general-purpose virtualization platform targeted at server,...
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Microsoft Acquires FSLogix to Enhance Virtual Desktop Capabilities in Office 365
Written by David MarshallMicrosoft announced today that is has acquired FSLogix, a company that launched back in 2012 with a focus on reducing the amount of hardware, time and labor required to support...
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