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This was first published in July 2012
This was first published in July 2012
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This was first published in July 2012
Hardware, virtualization, public and private cloud are all converging and need to be managed as one environment. Enter Red Hat's Open Hybrid Cloud.
A Red Hat Summit talk on database and mainframe modernization highlights urgency, need for agility in enterprise development teams.
Intel may win the server war, but AMD microprocessors could find more acceptance in another niche market.
Live Storage Migration eliminates the downtime associated with moving VM files from one storage location to another and helps improve performance.
Some IT departments have turned to low-cost, flexible virtualization platforms, such as Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, to lower VMware costs.
Live Storage Migration makes it easy to move multiple storage files of running VMs without downtime, but there are practical limits you should know.
VMware vCloud Director and vCloud Automation Center manage cloud resources together. But depending on your VMware vCAC version, they hardly interact.
VCDX certification isn't practical for most VMware admins and architects, but VCDX principles about VMware architecture apply to vSphere operations.
The free VMware vSphere Hypervisor might seem like the perfect virtualization tool for SMB IT. But spending the money for vSphere Essentials pays off.
VDI storage has long been a challenge for virtual desktop admins, but inline deduplication is changing all that.
With VM snapshots, you can make one desktop VM into many. Just watch out for performance when snapshotting in a virtual desktop environment.
Virtual desktop pools make management easier, but you have to plan for them and remember that the way you create pools depends on your VDI platform.
Give users access to various SharePoint 2013 lists through Outlook 2013 with just a few simple configuration steps.
There are several new Exchange 2013 features that should interest those debating an upgrade. We examine several standouts and how to work with them.
Properly modifying OWA 2013 is necessary to allow users Lync functionality such as instant messaging and presence. We offer the necessary steps here.