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Clemson IT team embraces call to be entrepreneurial

Start-up releases all-in-one VMware server, storage appliance | How Linux mastered Wall Street

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Clemson IT team embraces call to be entrepreneurial
Five years ago Clemson University named James Bottum chief information officer and gave him the mandate to overhaul the school's IT infrastructure and build out a high performance computing environment. The goal: catapult the school into a leading research university and help attract faculty and students. Read More


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Nine Considerations When Choosing a Managed Hosting Provider
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Start-up releases all-in-one VMware server, storage appliance
Start-up Nutanix released its flagship product, a VMware-based server combined with SSD and hard drive storage, to deliver a clustered system that grows over time. Read More

How Linux mastered Wall Street
When it comes to the fast-moving business of trading stocks, bonds and derivatives, the world's financial exchanges are finding an ally in Linux, at least according to one Linux kernel developer working in that industry. Read More

Xsigo unveils virtual fabric for data centers
New software from Xsigo Systems is designed to link all the servers in a data center virtually, allowing IT managers to reconfigure virtual machines and other resources without carrying out traditional networking tasks. Read More


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ROI of Application Delivery Controllers
How modern offload technologies in Application Delivery Controllers can drastically reduce expenses in traditional and virtualized architectures, with a fast ROI. Learn More!

In Texas heat, servers take dip to keep cool
It may take a leap to believe that computers can function in fluid, but at the Texas Advanced Computing Center in Austin that's exactly what's being done. Read More

HotLink aims to ease managing mixed virtual environments
Startup HotLink has exited stealth mode and launched SuperVISOR for VMware, designed to allow IT departments to mix and match hypervisors from different vendors and manage them all using VMware's vCenter platform. Read More

Leveraging virtual I/O technologies to achieve converged infrastructures: The road to the private cloud
A private cloud architecture leverages the power of end-to-end virtualization so workloads can be fluidly distributed among a pool of servers, but this ideal cannot be achieved with traditional network infrastructure. Read More


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Performance Metrics and the Cloud
Unlike static configuration management databases, which often contain information too outdated for real-time understanding, a dynamic operational service model provides relevant, timely information. Read More

Pharmaceutical firm retires Microsoft environment for cloud services
Amag Pharmaceuticals, based in Lexington, Mass., has almost eliminated its internal server network, and couldn't be happier about it. That's because the company, with about 240 employees, is now largely riding on cloud services. Read More

Altaro ships Hyper-V backup solution for SMBs
Altaro Software has started shipping Hyper-V Backup, a product designed to make it easier for small and medium-size companies to protect the data on their virtual servers. Read More

AMD pushes Microsoft virtual desktops through new GPU
Advanced Micro Devices announced a FirePro graphics processor for businesses that can deliver Windows desktop sessions to remote client PCs through support for Microsoft's desktop virtualization technology. Read More

VMware preparing data loss prevention features for vShield
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