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CIOs Need To Realize That Virtualization Isn't All That It's Cracked Up To Be (a chief information officer needs an IT strategy to create IT alignment)

The Accidental Successful CIO

In the old days, IT departments had developed the tools and processes that they needed in order to deal with building large groups of new servers or handling a planned data center maintenance activity. Kotsovinos points out that a VM is really a collection of interconnected physical subsystems : server, storage, and network.

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Technology Short Take #81

Scott Lowe

I have another collection of links, articles, and thoughts about key data center technologies, and hopefully I’ve managed to include something here that will prove useful or thought-provoking. Networking. Speaking of Ivan, he pointed out this post with 45 Wireshark challenges to help you improve your network analysis skills.

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CLDS006: Exploring New Xeon E5 Optimizations for 10 Gb Ethernet

Scott Lowe

This is session CLDS006, “Exploring New Intel Xeon Processor E5 Based Platform Optimizations for 10 Gb Ethernet Network Infrastructures.” The session starts with Rodriguez giving a (thankfully) brief overview of Expedient and then getting into the evolution of networking with 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE).

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Technology Short Take #27

Scott Lowe

This is my usual collection of links, thoughts, rants, and ideas about data center-related technologies. Networking. If you’re interested in learning more about OpenFlow and software-defined networking but need to do this on a shoestring budget in your home lab, a number of guides have been written to help out.

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VDI is dying so what now?

Virtualized Greek

Citrix is the king of VDI and has looked to diversify into server virtualization, cloud computing and other data center technologies such as load balancers. As readers on my last post pointed out , there are still organizations relying on applications designed to run on Windows 2000 and IE 6. Tipping Point.

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VMworld 2015 Day 2 Keynote Liveblog

Scott Lowe

It starts by building upon the core of virtualized infrastructure, made possibe by VMware’s compute, storage, and network virtualization solutions. Combined with a strong management layer and hybrid cloud solutions, this becomes the software-defined data center (SDDC). What about iOS and Android devices?

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Bug Bounty Hunters

ForAllSecure

I wasn't really interested in security because I was mainly interested in enterprise infrastructure, how to design, big LANs for for networking on organizations like getting file shares up and running so I was an early adopter of Windows infrastructure like Windows, and early, Windows for Workgroups later on, like, NT 4.0