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A VMware cloud provider's options for cloud management, strategy
VMware cloud providers must choose middleware and add-ons wisely to meet the competition from in-house IT and other cloud providers, even VMware. Essential Guide
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Quiz: VMware vCloud Suite components and integration
Do you know vCloud Suite components? Or how these pieces integrate with vSphere? Take our quiz and find out just how cloud-savvy you are. Quiz
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Incorporating vCenter Orchestrator into your automation arsenal
Are you considering jumping into vCenter Orchestrator? Here's some expert advice on where to get started and how to use VMware's automation tool. Q&A
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Private cloud management software: VMware vCloud Director vs. vCenter
SingleHop explains why it chose VMware vCenter over vCloud Director for its private cloud management software, and why enterprises like private cloud. Q&A
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Adopting VMware's cloud middleware for enterprises with diverse workloads
Savvis originally developed its own cloud middleware for VMware-based clouds, but adopted vCloud Director to support evolving enterprise cloud usage. Q&A
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How enterprise IT customers use their VMware cloud service provider
When Markley Group became a VMware cloud service provider, the company's goal was seamless data center-to-cloud actions for enterprise IT customers. Q&A
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Where VMware's vFabric Suite stacks up in cloud application services
VMware's vFabric Suite for cloud applications is a departure from the virtualization giant's bread-and-butter vSphere and related tools. Do you need it? Feature
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Making a hybrid cloud model a reality in enterprise IT
Talk about the emergence of hybrid cloud is real, but with few enterprises actually building hybrid clouds is the myth greater than reality? Column
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VMware for small business IT infrastructures: Top 5 tips
In the past, only enterprise IT invested in VMware software. Today, VMware for small business virtualization is a growing trend. Feature
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VMware reviews: vCloud garners praise while single sign-on hears boos
Current users give the best advice when you're choosing a new virtualization tool. Check out these good and bad VMware reviews from Twitter. Feature
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Q&A: VMware's software-defined data center pitch to cloud providers
In this Q&A, VMware explains how a software-defined data center can offer efficiency, flexibility and savings for providers. News | 13 Mar 2013
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VMware makes frenemies at OpenStack, but what's in it for IT?
It all depends on how much code VMware decides to submit to OpenStack, but the alliance could potentially make VM mobility across clouds easier. News | 28 Sep 2012
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VMware shops eye rocky road to private cloud
VMware users say their organizations are beginning to push past server virtualization toward private clouds, but the jury’s still out on exactly which tools and processes will take them there. News | 04 May 2012
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VMware CIO Mark Egan on cloud, acquisitions and Microsoft
VMware eats its own cloud dog food, and Soviet-era user interfaces need to go, CIO Mark Egan says in this exclusive interview. Q&A | 18 May 2011
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2004: A VMware Odyssey
It all began with server virtualization. Now VMware products cover the entire data center, with success linked to initiatives and acquisitions that started in the mid-2000s. News | 17 May 2011
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Microsoft challenges VMware vCloud Director with SCVMM 2012
Microsoft's System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 could take on VMware's vCloud Director and its private cloud computing management vision. Article | 19 Nov 2010
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VMworld 2010: News in review
Did upper management deny your request to attend VMworld? This VMworld 2010 news roundup recaps everything you might have missed at VMware's annual conference. Article | 09 Sep 2010
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VMware users clamor for a Cisco 1000V alternative
This week's news roundup features articles about how VMware users want more virtual switch options and how VMware's future success is tied to cloud computing. Article | 23 Aug 2010
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VMworld 2010 predictions
An expert predictions about the gestalt at this year's VMworld 2010 and possible developments for vCloud Service Director and View 4.5. Article | 12 Aug 2010
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VMware View 4.5 delayed; new ways for vSphere to tie into the cloud
This VMware news roundup includes news of View 4.5 developmental problems and new converged infrastructure products from VMware and HP. Article | 25 Jun 2010
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VMware vCloud Director evaluation guide: Five use cases to consider
VMware vCloud Director brings cloud computing features to vSphere shops, but it's a significant investment that warrants serious evaluation first. Tip
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VMware vCloud Suite takes a centralized approach to cloud computing
The OpenStack community cloud model isn't for every enterprise. VMware vCloud Suite's centralized approach to cloud appeals to some IT pros. Tip
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How the VMware software defined data center works: An IaaS example
VMware's software-defined data center concept creates IaaS within a company. To see how it's different than virtualization, check out this example. Tip
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VMware IaaS: Converting from virtualization to a software-defined data center
From vSphere virtualization to VMware Iaas: Read how data centers look before and after the adoption of a vCloud software-defined data center. Tip
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The VMware vCAT helps plan and deploy a vCloud architecture
Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it also spawned the vCAT, VMware's set of documents for helping VMware admins tackle cloud infrastructures. Tip
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Making a fair VMware vs. AWS cloud computing cost comparison
AWS sets the market's cloud computing cost expectations, but VMware may beat the public cloud provider with enterprise-IT-specific hosting options. Tip
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VMware hosting must embrace cloud stack heterogeneity
VMware pushed their VMware-only stack for years, but VMware cloud computing now bumps up against viable orchestration competitors and public cloud providers. Tip
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What DevOps wants from a VMware cloud infrastructure
Application agility is the name of the game for DevOps pros and they see AWS beating VMware-hosted cloud infrastructures. But VMware users may revolt. Tip
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How vCloud Integration Manager boosts VMware in the public cloud
VMware developed vCloud Integration Manager to unite public cloud service providers, middlemen and cloud customers with the vCloud infrastructure. Tip
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A vCloud Director lab is within reach, even on virtual lab setups
VMware admins can't learn everything they need to know about vCloud Director by reading. It's time to build a vCloud Director lab -- here's how. Tip
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Cloud management tasks that VMware vCAC can and cannot do with vCD
VMware vCloud Director and vCloud Automation Center manage cloud resources together. But depending on your VMware vCAC version, they hardly interact. Answer
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Dos and don'ts of vSphere inventory tagging
Tagging can make vSphere inventory management easier or harder, depending on how you implement tag categories and what descriptors you choose. Answer
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VMware NSX
VMware NSX is a virtual networking and security software product family created from VMware's vCloud Networking and Security (vCNS) and Nicira Network Virtualization Platform (NVP) intellectual property. Definition
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VMware vCAT (VMware vCloud Architecture Toolkit)
VMware vCAT (VMware vCloud Architecture Toolkit) is a free downloadable set of documents that VMware provides to administrators implementing and managing VMware vCloud cloud infrastructures. Definition
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VMware vShield
VMware vShield is a group of networking and security products for virtualized IT infrastructures, comprising vShield Manager, vShield Edge, vShield Zones, vShield App, vShield Data Security and vShield Endpoint. Definition
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Getting VMware terminology straight
VMware terminology can be confusing: Some terms are new, some VMware acronyms mean more than one thing and some product terms are unique to VMware. Photo Story
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Cloud management tasks that VMware vCAC can and cannot do with vCD
VMware vCloud Director and vCloud Automation Center manage cloud resources together. But depending on your VMware vCAC version, they hardly interact. Answer
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Getting VMware terminology straight
VMware terminology can be confusing: Some terms are new, some VMware acronyms mean more than one thing and some product terms are unique to VMware. Photo Story
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A VMware cloud provider's options for cloud management, strategy
VMware cloud providers must choose middleware and add-ons wisely to meet the competition from in-house IT and other cloud providers, even VMware. Essential Guide
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Quiz: VMware vCloud Suite components and integration
Do you know vCloud Suite components? Or how these pieces integrate with vSphere? Take our quiz and find out just how cloud-savvy you are. Quiz
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Incorporating vCenter Orchestrator into your automation arsenal
Are you considering jumping into vCenter Orchestrator? Here's some expert advice on where to get started and how to use VMware's automation tool. Q&A
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VMware vCloud Director evaluation guide: Five use cases to consider
VMware vCloud Director brings cloud computing features to vSphere shops, but it's a significant investment that warrants serious evaluation first. Tip
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VMware vCloud Suite takes a centralized approach to cloud computing
The OpenStack community cloud model isn't for every enterprise. VMware vCloud Suite's centralized approach to cloud appeals to some IT pros. Tip
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Private cloud management software: VMware vCloud Director vs. vCenter
SingleHop explains why it chose VMware vCenter over vCloud Director for its private cloud management software, and why enterprises like private cloud. Q&A
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How the VMware software defined data center works: An IaaS example
VMware's software-defined data center concept creates IaaS within a company. To see how it's different than virtualization, check out this example. Tip
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VMware IaaS: Converting from virtualization to a software-defined data center
From vSphere virtualization to VMware Iaas: Read how data centers look before and after the adoption of a vCloud software-defined data center. Tip
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