CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 8, 2022

Grant Thornton’s partnership with Microsoft began when the firm scuttled its Mitel VoIP phone systems in favor of Skype for Business in 2016, just as Swift took over as CIO. Among the key tools for Grant Thornton’s transformation are Automation Anywhere and Alteryx, as well as various open-source offerings and Microsoft Power BI.

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Cloud Windows Virtualization Microsoft 91

Virtualized Greek

AUGUST 25, 2013

Microsoft, Citrix and open source hypervisors have quickly become good enough for basic virtualization use cases. Server virtualization is just the beginning of their plan to virtualize the data center. Right now it sounds very similar to the argument for VoIP in the early days. VMware has some great technology.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

While containers solve some problems very elegantly, they don’t necessarily solve other problems quite as well, and this article dives into one such area (VoIP architectures). are only available in all-flash configurations—this just underscores the growing importance/role of flash in modern data centers. Virtualization.

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Vmware Network Operating Systems Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Welcome to Technology Short Take #44, the latest in my irregularly-published series of articles, links, ideas, and thoughts about various data center-related technologies. To help resolve this issue, Cumulus Networks (and possibly Metacloud, I’m not sure of their involvement yet) has release an open source project called vxfld.

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Linux Network Vmware Disaster Recovery 60