In 2012, chief information officers aim to leverage virtualization technologies, as more than 40 percent of survey respondents claimed the services were the top IT priority for their business. The savings generated from consolidating servers will then be reinvested in other IT initiatives like cloud computing, mobility and other high-ranking concerns in 2012, IDC executives [...]
Supporting 1 hypervisor not enough any more
January 26, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Check out: Jon Oltsik – http://bit.ly/99uOTw – supporting 1 hypervisor not enough any more In a recent ESG Research study, 55% of the organizations’ surveyed say that their primary virtualization solution is VMware (VMware Server, ESx, ESxi, etc.). This relationship with VMware doesn’t preclude them from using other hypervisors however. In fact, 34% of survey [...]
“The 10 Appliances of Christmas”
January 6, 2012 By Leave a Comment
How did I miss the Christmas present? I wish I had time to put this post to the melody of “The 12 Days of Christmas”, but text will have to suffice. On December 23 Jim Duffy Network World‘s Managing Editor for Service Providers wrote about 10 essential data center appliances. “Touting WAN optimizers and application [...]
What is Driving the WAN Optimization Market?
January 3, 2012 By Leave a Comment
WAN optimization technology has been around for quite some time now. In 1994, it was first introduced for telephony and later made its way into data networking to prioritize different types of traffic. Over time, WAN optimization technology has grown in sophistication giving us protocol optimization, an ability to handle a wide array of traffic [...]
VMblog’s looks at how Virtualization and Cloud executives think about 2012?
December 29, 2011 By Leave a Comment
What 2012 Means for WAN Optimization ——-> For 2012 we have a pressure cooker – a mature WAN networking industry with billions of market cap tied up in it, battling it out over a well-known set of capabilities simmering in the pot. Customer demand is cranking up the heat, as cloud requirements for WAN optimization shift [...]
