Private clouds: Not for the faint of heart

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	Private clouds: Not for the faint of heart If you're thinking about operating a private cloud, you'll need management software to help create a virtualized pool of compute resources, provide access to end users, and handle security, resource allocation, tracking and billing. Read More WHITE PAPER: ArcSight Building a Successful Security Operations Center This paper outlines industry best practices for building and maturing a security operations center (SOC). For those organizations planning to build a SOC or those organizations hoping to improve their existing SOC this paper will outline the typical mission parameters, the business case, people considerations, processes and procedures, as well as, the technology involved. Building a Successful Security Operations Center In this Issue How we tested cloud management How to check on your cloud provider VMware users pack 16 VMs on each server, despite memory constraints Nimbula Director beta shows promise The "state of the network" survey: how do you compare? WHITE PAPER: APC by Schneider Electric Data Center Infrastructure: Optimizing Business Value To stay competitive in today's rapidly changing business world, companies must update the way they view the value of their investment in data center physical infrastructure (DCPI). No longer are simply availability and upfront cost sufficient to make adequate business decisions. Learn more How we tested cloud management The machines used included two Dell 1950s (one has 16GB RAM, other has 8GB, both have eight cpu cores), one HP DL585 G5 (32GB RAM, 16 cpu cores), one HP DL580 G5 (32GB RAM, 16 cpu cores), Dell Optiplex 740 (three-core AMD, 4GB RAM).   Read More WHITE PAPER: Brocade Communications Inc. Simplifying the Virtual Data center Virtualization technology brings numerous benefits to enterprise IT organizations. Learn how in this free white paper. Read now! How to check on your cloud provider Potential cloud-services customers face a tough problem: How can they trust cloud providers enough to hire them when the providers refuse to reveal important infrastructure details for reasons of security and practicality? Read More DOWNLOAD: BlackBerry Get BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express for Free BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express offers IT control and security features you can trust even for employees that choose to bring their own BlackBerry smartphones into your business. Download this free license to support up to 75 users on your existing Exchange Server. Learn More VMware users pack 16 VMs on each server, despite memory constraints VMware customers run an average of 12.5 virtual machines on each physical server, but memory limitations may be preventing further progress. Read More Nimbula Director beta shows promise Nimbula's founders developed the Amazon EC2 public cloud system, and are now working on Nimbula Director, which aims to partition internal cloud resources by authentication, along the lines of how EC2 works. Read More The "state of the network" survey: how do you compare? Network Instruments has just released its 2010 State of the Network Global Study. Find out what's important to 265 other IT professionals in network management roles, and see how your organization compares. Read More
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