5 big things to watch for at VMworld

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	5 big things to watch for at VMworld For about the last decade VMware has been one of the pre-eminent companies ushering in a new era of computing related to server virtualization. Now, the company is hoping to extend the shift beyond just server virtualization to include the cloud, plus network and storage virtualization. The vision is encapsulated in what VMware executives call its Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) strategy, which will be on full display at the company's annual VMworld conference next week in San Francisco. Read More WEBCAST: HP Intel VMware The Cloud: Why the Hybrid Cloud May Be Best A combination of the public and private cloud, the hybrid cloud fits the needs of a broad range of enterprises. View Now! In this Issue Can the U.S. Postal Service find a future running a gov't cloud-based authentication service? Rackspace tries to out-VMware VMware Gartner: Amazon still public cloud leader by a long shot Box swivels to SMBs with new subscription plan When it comes to trouble shooting and threat detection, NetFlow wins over packet capture Cloud BI vendor Birst bags $38 million in venture funding HP equips WorkSite with file-sharing service Rackspace hosts VMware management with new dedicated server VMware's cloud strategy equal parts foggy, stormy WHITE PAPER: AirWatch, Apperian, Good Technology, Symantec The Mobile Application Management Challenge Mobility has become the norm within enterprises, and mobile apps are the key to increasing productivity and opening new opportunities. This trend is great for the enterprise as a whole, but it presents new challenges to IT. Read Now Can the U.S. Postal Service find a future running a gov't cloud-based authentication service? Can the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) find a new future running a cloud-based authentication service for the government? The USPS intends to try and do just that under a three-year $15.12 million contract awarded to SecureKey Technologies today for some foundation technology to build a cloud-based authentication exchange. Read More Rackspace tries to out-VMware VMware Rackspace today rolled out new functionality that allows customers to run their VMware virtual machines in its cloud on dedicated infrastructure. The move is interesting because it comes just ahead of VMware's expected launch of its own hosted service. Rackspace is essentially trying to out-VMware VMware. Read More Gartner: Amazon still public cloud leader by a long shot Amazon Web Services remains the top IaaS public cloud computing provider, offering the widest breath of services of any vendor in the market, Gartner concluded in its annual Magic Quadrant report. Read More WHITE PAPER: Condusiv Technologies Lab report: V-locity VM Accelerates Exchange 60% on VMs For this briefing, openBench Labs tested the ability of V-locity VM to optimize I/O in a dedicated email service domain centered around a VM running Exchange 2010. Read Now! Box swivels to SMBs with new subscription plan After spending the past two years beefing up its cloud storage and file sharing app for use in large enterprises, Box has turned its attention back to small and medium-size businesses with a new subscription plan. Read More When it comes to trouble shooting and threat detection, NetFlow wins over packet capture With Internet connections to cloud services growing rapidly and cyber attacks becoming craftier and more sinister, the need for improved traffic visibility is in high demand. In the past, both layer 7 application awareness and malware detection capabilities have been major separators when choosing between flow capture and packet capture for traffic analysis, but today the decision is most often NetFlow in lieu of packet capture. Read More Cloud BI vendor Birst bags $38 million in venture funding Birst, a San Francisco company that offers cloud-based business intelligence services, has scored a $38 million venture investment led by existing backer Sequoia Capital and including newcomer Northgate Capital. Birst has raised $84 million to date, including $26 million last year in a round also led by Sequoia. Read More WEBCAST: IBM and Intel IBM Delivers Innovation On New x86 Systems and Solutions Tuesday, September 10, 2013 3:00 PM EDT You need an IT infrastructure that provides scalability, performance and efficiency tailored to the specific goals of your business. Join us on September 10 to learn more about IBM's new innovation designed to provide the performance and efficiency required for today's workloads. Learn More HP equips WorkSite with file-sharing service Hewlett-Packard has launched a file storage service for users of its Autonomy WorkSite document management software that it promises can be more helpful than consumer-focused hosted file services. Read More Rackspace hosts VMware management with new dedicated server The introduction of Rackspace's hosted Dedicated VMware vCenter Server will allow IT staff to control their VMware environments from a data center run by the vendor. Read More VMware's cloud strategy equal parts foggy, stormy With VMworld on the horizon, VMware has been touting its cloud strategy. That 'strategy,' though, seems to involve dissing Microsoft and Amazon, marginalizing CSP partners and clinging to the idea that the cloud is solely the domain of IT departments. If VMware keeps this up, it can expect a stormy future in the cloud, CIO.com columnist Bernard Golden says. Read More
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