A new press release states, “Scale Computing, a market leader in edge computing, virtualization, and hyperconverged solutions, today announced the latest successes in the growing list of healthcare organizations it has helped simplify and modernize IT infrastructure. The Scale Computing HC3 platform provides the flexibility, ease of use, and scalability that organizations like Riverwood Healthcare […]
Applied Use of Docker Containers and Database Clones
Click to learn more about author Paul Stanton. This is Part 2 of the “Docker Containers and Database Cloning for DBAs, Data Governance, and IT Decision Makers” Series. Part 1 of the series is at: Docker Containers and Database Cloning for DBAs, Data Governance, and IT Decision Makers: An Introduction, it provided an introduction to […]
Docker Containers and Database Cloning for DBAs, Data Governance, and IT Decision Makers: An Introduction
Click to learn more about author Paul Stanton. The industry is buzzing about Docker Containers and their rapid adoption. It’s not widely known, but MySQL, Postgres, and NoSQL are among Docker’s most popular images. Microsoft has joined the fray with Docker as a feature of Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10, and SQL Server 2017 […]
How IT Can Keep a Seat at the Digital Transformation Table
Click to learn more about author Leon Adato. Traditional IT roles are changing. In the last two to three years alone, IT professionals across a variety of disciplines—systems, virtualization, databases, storage, networking—have experienced significant updates to their job descriptions to align with new capabilities introduced by the Cloud. IT’s function within businesses is changing, as well. […]
Database Dilemma: Selecting the Best Database for Your Organization
Click to learn more about author Franco Rizzo. The term “cloud” is so ubiquitous that it means different things to everyone. For these purposes, we will define it in relation to infrastructure; the Cloud is the ability to auto-provision a subset of available compute/network/storage to meet a specific business need via virtualization (IaaS). As far […]
Sherlock in the Data Center: The Value of Correlation When Investigating and Troubleshooting Problems
Click to learn more about author Kong Yang. Technology constructs are getting more complex and varied. This means data center performance problems—whether related to applications, compute, network, storage, virtualization, web, the cloud, or, most likely, a combination of these—are more difficult to resolve than ever. They’re true mysteries. As such, you need to become a […]
MVS USA Brings Cloud to its Mobile Network
Per PRWeb, MVS USA, Inc, a leading satellite communications solutions provider, has announced that the company is embarking on a comprehensive network upgrade that, by next year, will deliver to its partners greater network performance, increased security features and the flexibility to design and offer new value-added services to their end-users. Additionally, MVS is introducing […]
TidalScale’s Hyper Kernel Scale-Up Platform Now Generally Available
by Angela Guess According to the company’s website, “TidalScale has built a unique layer of software, called the Hyper Kernel, that sits underneath an operating system such as Linux. The Hyper Kernel is very low-level and very fast. Effectively, TidalScale does the inverse of what the current crop of virtualization products do. Instead of running […]
What Is Virtualization?
by Angela Guess Dan Kusnetzky recently wrote in Virtualization Review, “In the final days of 2015, several of my clients pointed to statements made by representatives of certain software suppliers that essentially equated virtualization to the use of virtual machine (VM) software, or hypervisors, to create a more dynamic computing environment on industry-standard machines. They […]