CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 24, 2023

In May of 2021 VMware unveiled VMware Zero Carbon Committed , an initiative to encourage partners to power their data centers with renewable energy sources by 2030. After VMware was certified as a carbon neutral company in 2018, we knew we wanted to do more,” says Nicola Peill-Moelter, Ph.D.,

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Bechtle also offers the Google Cloud VMware Engine, an offering that empowers enterprises to quickly realize the power of Google Cloud while using the VMware technologies they know and trust. Notably, Bechtle also achieved the VMware Cloud Verified distinction. Learn more about Bechtle and its partnership with VMware here.

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Virtualized Greek

MARCH 6, 2013

VMware is leading the way with some of the most advanced virtualization management software on the market. VMware is also leading the charge into managing the data center via their software based products. They call it the Software Defined Data Center (SDDC).

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Fountainhead

OCTOBER 29, 2013

Earlier in March I penned a blog titled A Tale of Two Cloud Strategies and observed the two opposing cloud strategies of VMware vs. AWS. VMware, with its strength in the enterprise, building presence in the public cloud -- and AWS with de facto dominance in the public cloud, working inroads into the enterprise. As they always do.

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Fountainhead

MARCH 18, 2013

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. VMware venturing into Amazons domain, and Amazons venturing into customers dominated by VMware. AWS has been savvy in allowing the traditional channel distribution mechanisms to have access to AWS (at a reseller discount, of course).

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 27, 2022

We want to continue improving the energy efficiency of our data centers, generate renewable energy on site, and integrate circular economy concepts into the lifecycle of our IT equipment and our operations. In 2018, it put a certified Energy Management System (ISO 50001) in place for all of its directly operated data centers.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 11, 2023

With four advanced data centers in Germany, including two facilities in Hamburg and ones in Cologne and Dusseldorf, as well as a cadre of seasoned cloud experts who are fully-vetted German nationals – plusserver offers a wide range of solutions that meet or exceed myriad certifications, including BSI C5, ISO 9001, IDW PH 9.860.1,

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Virtualized Greek

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

I was listening to the VMware Community Podcast with one of their Advisory practice leaders. He mentioned how organizations are moving away from the private cloud as the mechanism for transformation and moving toward the software-defined data center (SDDC). It’s an abstraction of the data center’s infrastructure.

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Virtualized Greek

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

There has been a good deal of FUD spread since VMware has announced their NSX network hypervisor based on software from their $1 billion Nicira acquisition. VMware is a large corporation but, $1 billion is a lot of money to any company and a big bet on network virtualization. This places VMware and Cisco on a collision course.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 2, 2023

We recently connected with Aidan Tudehope, managing director of Macquarie Government, to see what he believes is driving the demand for more sovereign cloud services and to learn what it means for the company to have earned the VMware Sovereign Cloud distinction. Our customers use and trust VMware,” he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 27, 2022

As VMware gains momentum with their sovereign cloud initiative , we turned to leading partners AUCloud , Datacom , STC , NxtGen , TietoEVRY , ThinkOn , and UKCloud and their customers to find out why a sovereign cloud is essential. Nimble Information Strategies is a customer of VMware Sovereign Cloud partner ThinkOn.

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Virtualized Greek

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

I was listening to the VMware Community Podcast with one of their Advisory practice leaders. He mentioned how organizations are moving away from the private cloud as the mechanism for transformation and moving toward the software-defined data center (SDDC). It’s an abstraction of the data center’s infrastructure.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

We also took the opportunity to find out how he sees the cybersecurity landscape evolving, what he thinks all organizations should look for in a Managed Security Service , and what it means to be a fully vetted and verified VMware MSP. Learn more about Authentix and its partnership with VMware here. IT Leadership, Security

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 29, 2017

Gelsinger fields the first question, which is regarding VMware support. He calls on customers to be sure to let VMware know if support, services, products, etc., Gelsinger refers back to Skyline, which was brushed off yesterday, as a key component of improving VMware’s support mechanisms. is clearly a win for Google.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 26, 2013

This leads to a talk about VMware’s 10 years of innovation, with products and features like ESX, vMotion, DRS, Storage vMotion, and more. She then introduces Pat Gelsinger, VMware CEO. This is a software-defined data center discussion—compute virtualization, storage virtualization, network virtualization, and management.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 27, 2018

Now that I’m starting to get settled into my new role at Heptio, I’ve managed to find some time to pull together another collection of links and articles pertaining to various data center technologies. VMware has released a PowerCLI preview/fling for NSX-T; Kyle Ruddy has a write-up here. Feedback is always welcome!

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Linux Academy

MARCH 15, 2019

My job encompasses supporting Linux and VMware on physical servers. I think we have close to 1600 virtual instances at any given time, spread across two data centers separated by 10 miles. The second one which we started July of last year was our data center migration project. That’s very impressive, Mike!

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The challenge, says Bernard Golden, executive technical advisor at VMware, is how to make sure sensitive corporate data is protected and kept out of the general pool that makes up LLM databases. Of course, the benefit of using cloud services is that customers can select whatever infrastructure configuration suits their needs.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Until then, here’s some data center-related articles and links for your enjoyment. Customers don’t care about data centers, or DevOps pipelines, or toolkits…they just care about being able to do whatever it is you offer (buy stuff, consume a service, whatever). Networking. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

From a Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) standpoint, there were a lot of observations I picked up on that are worth sharing. This point was brought up by VMware, but in connection to the above points, really hits home as it is the cost of a service, not an application, is what counts. Modular Data Centers.

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Fountainhead

JANUARY 24, 2011

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Since about 2006 I’ve been involved with data center IT automation. Back then I started with Cassatt, one of the first companies trying to automate infrastructure components in the data center. Big Data. (6).

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

Cumulus VX, if you aren’t aware, is a community-supported virtual appliance version of Cumulus Linux aimed at helping folks preview and test “full-blown” Cumulus Linux (which, of course, requires compatible hardware). Dwayne Sinclair (an NSX SE at VMware) has a write-up on what micro-segmentation is not. Servers/Hardware.

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Galido

MARCH 19, 2019

These areas of IT include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs. Cloud Computing & Data Center IT Blogs. Data Center Knowledge. Data Center Knowledge.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

As usual, I’ve collected some articles and links from around the Internet pertaining to various data center- and cloud-related topics. Anthony Spiteri shares a Terraform configuration he created to deploy a sandbox Kubernetes cluster on VMware vSphere. Welcome to Technology Short Take #119! Now, on to the content!

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I don’t have any specific goals in mind for this project, although that is something I’ll be evaluating over the course of the year (I do agree that clear goals—something I didn’t establish last year—can help with progress.). Expand and deepen data center networking fundamentals.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

Cumulus VX, if you aren’t aware, is a community-supported virtual appliance version of Cumulus Linux aimed at helping folks preview and test “full-blown” Cumulus Linux (which, of course, requires compatible hardware). Dwayne Sinclair (an NSX SE at VMware) has a write-up on what micro-segmentation is not. Servers/Hardware.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 3, 2014

Reinforce data center networking fundamentals. In my original 2013 project list , I said that I was going to focus on RHEL and RHEL variants, but over the course of the year ended up focusing more on Debian and Ubuntu instead (due to more up-to-date packages and closer alignment with OpenStack). Reinforce base Linux knowledge.

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Galido

MAY 1, 2019

These areas of tech include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs. Cloud Computing & Data Center Tech Blogs. Data Center Knowledge. Data Center Knowledge.

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Galido

MARCH 22, 2019

These areas of tech include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs. Cloud Computing & Data Center Tech Blogs. Data Center Knowledge. Data Center Knowledge.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 9, 2014

Looking for more VMware NSX content? Anthony Burke has started a new series focusing on VMware NSX in pure vSphere environments. Juan Manuel Rey has launched a series of blog posts on deploying OpenStack with KVM and VMware NSX. This would include products like VMware VSAN as well as projects like Ceph and others.

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Galido

MARCH 19, 2019

These areas of IT include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs. Cloud Computing & Data Center IT Blogs. Data Center Knowledge. Data Center Knowledge.

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Galido

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

These areas of tech include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs. Cloud Computing & Data Center Tech Blogs. Data Center Knowledge. Data Center Knowledge.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 14, 2023

comdivision and VMware show how leading-edge cloud solutions help customers gain a competitive lead in their industries For more than 25 years, comdivision has drawn from its deep well of infrastructure knowledge to help organizations gain business value from leading-edge technologies. comdivision was ready to deliver.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 8, 2013

Welcome to Technology Short Take #31, my irregularly published series that takes a look at links, posts, articles, and thoughts from around the web related to core data center technologies. Of course, Big Switch recently moved to “diversify,” if you will, away from just Floodlight with the introduction of Switch Light.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

A fleet of green data centers and a well-advanced plan to stop using fossil-fuel powered vehicles are among the key steps driving Intermax’s mission to be the most sustainable cloud services provider in the Netherlands. Notably, all five of the company’s data centers are already 100% powered by Dutch solar and wind sources.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 23, 2013

I try to keep things related to the key technology areas you’ll see in today’s data centers, though I do stray from time to time. That’s assuming your laptop is beefy enough, of course.). Networking Security Storage Virtualization Automation CLI Hardware HyperV Linux OpenFlow OpenStack Puppet VMware'

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 29, 2015

Ivan is, of course, a well-known figure in the networking space, and publishes content at [link]. What about data centers, where workload mobility is a key requirement? VMware NSX has a stateful IPv6 firewall that provides RA guard and ND inspection services. The ND cache in IPv6 is like the ARP cache in IPv4.).

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