Friday, April 06, 2012

6 Reasons To Use Multiple Cloud Providers

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TechWeb Networking News Update -- Issue Highlights:
TOP STORY: 6 Reasons To Use Multiple Cloud Providers
ALSO SEE: Virtualization, Unified Communications Meet, At Last
ANALYTIC REPORT: IT Pro Impact: VDI in the Cloud
WHITE PAPER: Flexible enterprise storage for high-performance Linux environments
MOST POPULAR: Windows 8 Vs. 10 Big OS Annoyances
BLOG: Virtualization: Microsoft Picks Up Momentum, VMware Lags, Citrix Stumbles
WEBCAST: Prepare Your Infrastructure For The Cloud Using Open Standards
RESOURCES: Enterprise 2.0 Conference

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NETWORKING NEWS UPDATE 
  Friday, April 06, 2012
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TOP STORY
6 Reasons To Use Multiple Cloud Providers
Music Mastermind, Coupa Software share why they turned to more than one cloud services supplier. Yes, you can mix and match Amazon and Rackspace.

ALSO SEE
Virtualization, Unified Communications Meet, At Last
Unified communications servers and virtualization do mix, more enterprises find. But desktop virtualization and UC remains tricky.

Computing Cartels Shake Up IT Purchasing
Massive firms with global reach will emerge during the next 10 years, offering optimized stacks of computing capability on a pay-per-use basis.

The Upside-Down SAN
Vendors are pushing local flash storage for your most active data, which may turn your storage area network to a digital dumping ground.

HP Displaces Cisco, EMC In Sabre Data Centers
$800 million deal with travel industry leader replaces rivals' aging equipment with HP's latest virtualized, converged systems.

Avaya Buys Radvision, Broadens Video Reach
Radvision will help Avaya provide low-bandwidth, high-definition video to a broader variety of devices.

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REPORTS & WHITEPAPERS:
FEATURED REPORTS
IT Pro Impact: VDI in the Cloud
The benefits of desktop virtualization have always been something of a mirage: They tend to look better at a distance than up close. But the cloud is making virtual desktop deployments much more affordable, just as mobile devices heighten the need to deliver Windows apps to a new generation of post-PC clients.
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Featured Report

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FEATURED WHITEPAPERS
Flexible enterprise storage for high-performance Linux environments
Enterprises need approaches to storage that complement today's Linux-based server deployments, and provide the scalability to support agile IT environments. Dell EqualLogic PS Series Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage area network (SAN) arrays provide a robust platform for Red Hat Enterprise Linux environments. Learn how these arrays help build an agile, scalable, and cost-effective infrastructure that delivers the performance required for mission critical applications.
 

TODAY'S MOST POPULAR STORIES @ TECHWEB.COM:
Windows 8 Vs. 10 Big OS Annoyances
Windows 8 aims to answer some longtime Microsoft OS gripes, from slow startup times to mediocre mobile tools.

Google Demos Its Augmented Reality Glasses
Google+ page reveals how the company's augmented reality glasses might look and operate.

Windows 8 Beta: Visual Tour
Take a closer look at Microsoft's radically revamped Windows 8 OS, out now in a consumer preview version. Here's the lowdown on features, apps, hardware, and more.

 

FROM THE NETWORK COMPUTING BLOG:
Featured Blogger Virtualization: Microsoft Picks Up Momentum, VMware Lags, Citrix Stumbles
By Esther Shein
An increasing move to second sourcing came as a particular surprise to Gartner in its list of 'Top Five Server Virtualization Trends, 2012', says Tom Bittman, a vice president and analyst with Gartner Research.

Google, HP Raise Data-Center PUE Bar
By Robert Mullins
Running rows and rows of servers, storage appliances and networking equipment makes the electric bill a data center receives at the end of each month a whopper. That’s why data-center operators are constantly working on ways to improve energy efficiency. A couple of tech companies in Silicon Valley have reported considerable progress in improving energy efficiency, and a national organization shows the average energy efficiency also improving, though some data-center operators are having more success than others.

Where Do Hypervisors Go From Here?
By Sharon Fisher
The history of the personal computer is a series of wars – operating system wars, network OS wars, browser wars, and then the virtualization wars. But while virtualization at first followed the lead of the OS in battles between hypervisors such as VMWare’s vSphere and Microsoft’s Hyper-V, virtualization is increasingly following the leads of the other pieces of infrastructure before it and is instead enabling user organizations to set up heterogeneous virtualization networks by supporting multiple hypervisors.

 

WEBCASTS:

Prepare Your Infrastructure For The Cloud Using Open Standards
Take part in our Interop Webcast which will look at the new drivers influencing cloud infrastructure. It happens April 18.
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RESOURCES AND EVENTS:
Enterprise 2.0 Conference
The Enterprise 2.0 Conference brings together industry thought leaders to explore the latest innovations in enterprise social software, analytics, and big data tools and technologies. Learn how your business can harness these tools to improve internal business processes and create operational efficiencies. It happens in Boston, June 18-21.
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