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EMCWorld and Interop Las Vegas 2103 Going Soft(ware)

posted by Jim Frey | May 15, 2013 | 0 Comments

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During the week of May 5th, EMC held its fast-growing user conference in Las Vegas, while just down the strip the Interop 2013 event was also underway. Lacking an ability to clone myself, I did my best to attend both, in the process actively supporting the local contingent of taxi drivers and putting in more...

Posted in IT Management, Jim Frey, Network Management Tags: Application programming interface, EMC, Interop, Las Vegas, Software Defined Storage, UBS, VMware

Dell’s Clean Slate Approach to Enterprise IT

posted by Torsten Volk | May 8, 2013 | 0 Comments

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Breaking News: Dell Acquires Enstratius to Further Complete Its Cloud Story Today, on May 6, 2013, Dell acquired Enstratius, a company aimed at deploying, automating and managing applications in complex hybrid cloud environments. Enstratius enforces governance and security in the cloud, offering automated scaling, disaster recovery and cloud bursting. The Enstratius solution supports all popular...

Posted in IT Management, Systems Management, Torsten Volk Tags: BMC, CA Technologies, cloud computing, CloudStack, Dell, Google Compute Engine, IBM, OpenStack

Network Management Goes BIG at CAWorld 2013

posted by Jim Frey | May 7, 2013 | 0 Comments

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This year’s theme for CAWorld 2013 was “Go Big: IT with Impact.” So I thought what the heck – let’s go big. I stepped back and took a much broader look across the CA Technologies portfolio than I normally would. Usually, I focus on the network management solutions, which live primarily within CA’s Service Assurance...

Posted in IT Management, Jim Frey, Network Management Tags: APM, CA Spectrum, CA Technologies, eHealth, NetQoS SuperAgent, network management, Network performance management, Nimsoft

The Good and Bad of APIs

posted by Tracy Corbo | May 1, 2013 | 0 Comments

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Long ago and far away I used to cover programming languages called 4GLs, which have long since been relegated to the technology graveyard. Nice idea, but took way too long to deploy. Since then I have moved over to cover networking, but I often miss the world of programming. I was lucky enough to be...

Posted in IT Management, Network Management, Tracy Corbo Tags: Application programming interface, Codecademy, Command-line interface, Java, Perl, Python, Software Defined Networks, Twitter

OpenStack Thoughts – Part 1: Key Business Considerations

posted by Torsten Volk | April 22, 2013 | 0 Comments

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OpenStack’s huge momentum is undeniable. IBM, RedHat, NetApp, Rackspace, HP, Dell, Cisco, Intel and even VMware have committed significant funds and human resources to this project. But why would companies, that are otherwise competing rather fiercely, sit on one table to build an OpenSource cloud platform? The answer is certainly not “altruism”, as this is...

Posted in IT Management, Systems Management, Torsten Volk Tags: cloud computing, IBM, NetApp, OpenSource, OpenStack, Red Hat, VCloud, VMware

Can Puppet Solve the Network Configuration Dilemma?

posted by Tracy Corbo | April 12, 2013 | 0 Comments

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In recent months both Cisco and Juniper have been talking about Puppet. In February, Juniper announced an early adopter release of Puppet for Junos OS. At the Network Field Day event, Cisco demonstrated onePK + Puppet. When I hear Puppet, I think sys admin not network operator. Why then the growing buzz around Puppet and...

Posted in IT Management, Network Management, Tracy Corbo Tags: Configuration management, DevOps, iControl, Juniper Networks, Junos, NetApp

Security in 2013: Intelligence, Integration…and the Integration of Intelligence

posted by Scott Crawford | April 5, 2013 | 0 Comments

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In my last post, I talked about the frustration that enterprises have with the lack of integration among security tactics – an egregious gap attributable in no small way to the extremely fragmented nature of the IT security industry itself. I offered a few examples of approaches that seek to close these gaps and equip...

Posted in IT Management, Scott Crawford, Security Tags: Computer security, Consultants, Denial-of-service attack, General and Freelance, Intelligence, security, Security Information and Event Management, SIEM

The Software Defined Datacenter: Part 4 of 4 – Where We Are Today

posted by Torsten Volk | March 26, 2013 | 0 Comments

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Almost one year into the discussion about the Software Defined Data Center (SDDC), it is time to take inventory of the state of the discipline. As a reminder, the ultimate goal of the SDDC is to abstract and centralize the management of compute, network, storage, operating systems, middleware and applications in order to dynamically place...

Posted in IT Management, Systems Management, Torsten Volk Tags: CloudStack, EMC, Hyper-V, IBM, network virtualization, Nicira, OpenFlow, VMware

SDN Has Stirred Up The Sleeping Giant – Not Put it to Bed

posted by Tracy Corbo | March 3, 2013 | 0 Comments

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SDN does not spell doom and gloom for traditional networking vendors – that is just a lot of hype drummed up by some who have a different story to tell and who tend to come from datacenter centric mindsets. Too often when something new and game changing comes along, folks are all too willing to...

Posted in IT Management, Network Management, Tracy Corbo Tags: Cisco, Cisco Systems, IBM, Juniper, Juniper Networks, OpenFlow, VMware

Security in 2013: Integration…and What You Will (and Won’t) See at RSA

posted by Scott Crawford | February 22, 2013 | 0 Comments

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It’s that time of year again, when New Year’s prognostications give way to a similar level of noise about what to look for at the RSA Conference. There are always recurring themes to the latter. There is always much talk of the latest attack, or class of attack, that will drive where security should go....

Posted in IT Management, Scott Crawford, Security Tags: Computer security, FireEye, Mobile device management, MobileIron, NAC, Network Access Control, RSA Conference, Silver Tail Systems