
CIOs-sourcing related changes imminent
by: CIOL Technology and service providers need to determine and demonstrate how their offerings can underpin, support, enable and accelerate the digital business revolution to remain relevant to their customers, Gartner points out Continue reading at ciol.com This post is brought to you as part of the VMware Software Defined Enterprise, which provides resources and(…)

VSAN Pricing Comparison
by: Tom Howarth, Tom Howarth on Google Last week, VMware released vSphere 5.5 Update 1. You can find the release notes here, and the links to the download are here. Why is this such a milestone? It finally marks the release of VMware’s long-awaited entry into the world of software-defined storage, the VSAN (Virtual Storage(…)

Risk Management Remains an Issue for Businesses: PwC
by: Improving competencies is an important step in closing capability gaps, with respondents making or planning to make changes in the next 18 months. Continue reading at eweek.com This post is brought to you as part of the VMware Software Defined Enterprise, which provides resources and solutions for the software defined world. Join the conversation(…)

Infonetics: Videoconferencing and Collaboration Show Strongest Growth Among Unified Communications Apps
by: Market research firm Infonetics Research released excerpts from its 2014 UC Cloud and On-Premises Strategies and Vendor Leadership: North American Enterprise Survey, which explores enterprises’ plans for unified communications (UC), including cloud deployments, and their perceptions of UC vendors. ANALYST NOTE Continue reading at SDN Journal This post is brought to you as part(…)

The Top Five Benefits of Cloud Computing
by: Storing important information around the office has always been the go-to format for saving essential data. Of course, having it somewhere on hand provides peace of mind, as you know it is literally held within your building, so when someone needs a hard copy, you are able to go out and locate this exact(…)

SoftLayer – Ibm’s New Quarterback for Cloud
by: What typically happens to smaller firms when they are being eaten up by mega-companies like IBM seems pretty obvious – they go to the dogs. Key executives will leave the team, product roadmaps will lose their binding character and strategy will get fuzzy due to the sheer magnitude of the organization and its inherent(…)

Unlocking Opportunity in Software-Defined Services with ESP
by: The articles presented here are blog posts from members of our Service Provider Mobility community. Deborah Strickland is a Web and Social Media Program Manager at Cisco. Follow us on Twitter @CiscoSPMobility. There are a few ‘The ______ of Our Lives’ out there: Days. Time. Moments. Love. They define who we are, where we’ve(…)

WhatsApp got to do with it?
by: Gil Dibner Photo Credit: Shutterstock Last week, a question was asked at a panel discussion in which I took part. It was another variant of the same question that has been asked by a lot of people in a lot of places: What do you think of Facebook’s $19 billion acquisition of Whatsapp? Did(…)

APM: Running with a Renegade – DevOps
by: Much like electricity, APM will take the path of least resistance when entering into an organization, attracted to the area with the strongest need; lightning, as soon as it is triggered, needs to find ground. It may be brought in to help resuscitate an application that has recently become lethargic or assist the team(…)

Big Data, Open Data and Cloud Strategy
by: The Big Data and Cloud market has been growing at a staggering pace. Data is becoming unmanageable and too big to be handled by relational database systems alone and there is a need to effectively provision, manage elastic scalable systems. Information technology is undergoing a major shift due to new paradigms and a variety(…)