Review: VMware VSAN turns storage inside-out

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	Review: VMware VSAN turns storage inside-out Convergence of compute and storage is all the rage in the virtualization market these days. You see it in Microsoft's Windows Server 2012 R2 with Hyper-V and Storage Spaces. You see it in third-party platforms such as Nutanix. And you see it in VMware's vSphere flagship with the addition of Virtual SAN, a new capability built into the ESXi hypervisor that turns the direct-attached storage in vSphere cluster nodes into highly available, high-performance shared storage. Read More WHITE PAPER: Skyhigh Networks Checklist for Selecting Enterprise-Ready Cloud Applications To minimize risk, organizations must employ a methodology to identify and select enterprise-ready cloud services. This 21 step checklist includes the five categories of attribute to evaluate and an audit framework from the Cloud Security Alliance View Now>> In this Issue Tech CEOs' first jobs: Licorice maker, housekeeper, scuba diver and more Microsoft jumps into NoSQL market with new Azure data store Citrix software aims to solve storage/virtual desktop performance problem Hot products at VMworld 2014 Should companies practice data retention or data destruction? VC investors hot for the cloud, mobile and robots Storage vendor sends "hangover" kit, expects VMWorld to be one big party Data centers are the new polluters How to set up Raspberry Pi, the little computer you can cook into DIY tech projects WHITE PAPER: Equinix How Network Connections Drive Web Application Performance Users around the globe, on all sorts of devices, expect Web applications to function as seamlessly as desktop applications. This paper discusses the challenges and solutions for effectively delivering applications in today's global marketplace. View now Tech CEOs' first jobs: Licorice maker, housekeeper, scuba diver and more Before their corporate jobs, many tech CEOs got their hands dirty, scrubbing oils stains off asphalt, cleaning bathrooms, and shoveling monkey cages. Here are their stories. Read More Microsoft jumps into NoSQL market with new Azure data store Microsoft Azure DocumentDB offers NoSQL data storage as a service on Azure. Read More Citrix software aims to solve storage/virtual desktop performance problem Citrix has updated its virtual desktop and appliance software with a goal of alleviating one of the biggest problems that come with a VDI deployment: Storage. Read More WHITE PAPER: Alert Logic State of Cloud Security Report In a relatively short time, cloud computing, specifically Infrastructure-as a-Service, has shifted from a new but unproven approach to an accepted, even inevitable, model. Driven by flexibility and efficiency, the question facing most organizations is which applications and workloads to move to the cloud and when. Learn More Hot products at VMworld 2014 See what's new at this year's VMworld conference. Read More Should companies practice data retention or data destruction? Many businesses spend a lot of time thinking about how to retain and store data, but there's another idea: Think about how to destroy your data. Read More VC investors hot for the cloud, mobile and robots Venture capital fundraising has picked up steam in the U.S., with cloud computing, mobile technology and robotics getting solid backing. Read More WHITE PAPER: Red Hat Administrators Need Agile Platform for New Era of Storage Read this whitepaper and learn how administrators are keeping up by guiding their enterprises toward new, software-defined storage platforms that simplify and unify storage capacity across the enterprise and into the cloud. Read Now Storage vendor sends "hangover" kit, expects VMWorld to be one big party Storage vendor X-IO is either looking to butter up journalists covering VMWorld, or they expect the conference to just be one big party. Or maybe a little bit of both. Read More Data centers are the new polluters U.S. data centers are using more electricity than they need. Read More How to set up Raspberry Pi, the little computer you can cook into DIY tech projects You don't need an electrical engineering degree to build a robot army. With the $35 Raspberry Pi B+, you can create robots and connected devices on the cheap, with little more than an Internet connection and a bunch of spare time. Read More
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