Wondering what CA has in store for virtual servers and private clouds running vSphere 4 and Cisco Nexus 1000V hardware? CA today announced that it is streamlining the management of VMware vSphere 4 platform on Cisco Nexus 1000V infrastructures by…
Green IT News Roundup – Wednesday, May 20
IT Pros to the Feds: Don’t Regulate Green IT – Reuters A survey by data center operator Digital Realty Trust found that 69 percent of IT pros surveyed “were extremely or very concerned about government regulation.” The study was…
Clear Standards Ahead for SAP
SAP plans to beef up its business sustainability portfolio with the acquisition of Clear Standards Inc., makers of software that measures a business’ carbon output and provides a roadmap for cutting energy costs and emissions. SAP envisions that Clear Standards…
Virtualization Pays Off
…or at least IT managers that have implemented the technology in their datacenters seem to think so. This TechRepublic blog post offers us these encouraging words: Even in these fragile economic times, CIOs are investing in virtualization. A 2008…
Ixia Puts Virtual Server Environments to the Test
Complaints about the lack of visibility into virtual environments are nothing new. It goes without saying that many IT shops will remain reluctant to move more apps onto virtual servers until they have their concerns addressed. You know what that…
Can Virtualization Cause Network Blindness?
Deploying efficiency-boosting technology is exciting. Managing it… Oftentimes, not so much. Steve Taylor and Jim Metzler dispense some “look before you leap” advice at Network World. Server virtualization does, however, create some significant challenges. One of these challenges is that…
