I asked a number of people:“What is the cloud?”There were three trends present in all of their responses:Location:The cloud is not confined to my office. It is not confined to my premise.Scaling Up:Gives me more of everything when I need it.Scaling Down:Gives me less...
Object storage uses inexpensive commodity hardware to provide petabytes of resilient space.To understand object storage, we first need to understand how it differs from traditional block and file storage.Block storage is the base for all storage.This storage can be a...
In previous versions of VMware vSphere, real-time fault tolerance (FT) was only possible for single vCPU VMs. The problem was that most modern apps need more than one CPU. That’s why it’s no surprise that virtualization admins everywhere are thrilled about...
VMware vCenter Server VMware vCenter Server provides a centralized platform for managing VMware vSphere environments. With the new release of vSphere 6, managing vSphere becomes a whole lot easier. vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) The most significant change in the...
Each year begins with one of our favorite traditions: prediction season. Here are some of the predicted technology trends from 2015: Prediction: Adaptable Cloud Agendas Analysts continue to highlight the fact that rapidly evolving cloud technologies have a real...
