IT & Data Center

IT Will Adopt Windows 8, Like It or Not

Dino Londis, 

October 29, 2012

We don’t know yet if Windows 8 will be one to skip, but Microsoft’s release history leads me to believe it will be. Since Windows 98, every …

SimpliVity’s OmniCube ‘Assimilates’ Service Stacks

David Spark, 

October 26, 2012

As virtualization moves from just virtualizing machines to virtualizing entire data centers, vendors are trying to compress entire stacks of services and give you that entire …

Best Opportunities May be at the Top 10 List’s Bottom

Don Willmott, 

October 19, 2012

Just when we’ve finished digesting the latest “Hottest Skills for IT” list comes another “Hottest Skills for IT” list, followed by another, then the next and …

Storing Web Assets for Performance and Scale

Chris Jones, 

October 18, 2012

There are a lot of good cloud platforms out there, and it seems like more are popping up every day. When evaluating them, you need to …

Oracle Touts VDI That Goes Beyond Windows

David Spark, 

October 15, 2012

Oracle’s joining the fray of the many providers offering virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solutions. At VMworld 2012, I spoke with Stuart Scurti, an enterprise account manager …

Love, Sex and C++: The Technology Behind OkCupid

Elisabeth Greenbaum Kasson, 

October 15, 2012

Our subject today, OkCupid, is known as the dating destination where the cooler, cuter kids hang out. With 3.2 million active users and 7.1 million unique …

How EMC’s Storage Resource Management Works

David Spark, 

October 11, 2012

This video shows a demo of EMC’s newly announced Storage Resource Management Suite. The new tool, which I saw at VMworld 2012, allows you to analyze …

Unisys Stealth Enables Virtual Networks

David Spark, 

October 8, 2012

Security is an obsession for everyone who talks about the cloud and virtualization. Hoping to add another layer of comfort to your security concerns, Unisys has …

Salesforce.com Wants to Grab You With a Single Sign-On

Don Willmott, 

October 5, 2012

Every year around this time, thousands of Salesforce.com administrators gather at the big Dreamforce conference to attend workshops and hear the company’s executives talk about what’s coming …

Europeans Flog Themselves with Cyber Attacks

David Strom, 

October 5, 2012

A massive denial of service attack hit more than 300 European public and private institutions this week, including major government agencies such as the UK’s spy …