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For small- and medium-sized businesses, there is a lot of emphasis being placed on replacing PCs and PC maintenance, and that burden is landing at the feet of the IT department.
For small- and medium-sized businesses, virtualization not only provides lower costs and greater efficiencies, but it also can boost their disaster recovery plans, according to a recent report by Quorom Soft.
I have come across many situations in which there is confusion as to what licenses are necessary, or required, when dealing with NetScaler appliances. While doing some research into something else, I came across the following article in the Citrix website. Its very apt title is Netscaler Licensing Dissected. It is an excellent primer on [...]
A new report by Akamai Technologies revealed that more than 556 million unique IP addresses from 234 countries and regions connected to the Akamai Internet Platform during the fourth quarter of 2010.
Jack Cullen, president of IT staffing firm Modis, recently told InformationWeek that small- and medium-sized businesses are hiring more IT workers with mobile applications experience.
While cloud computing and virtualization have become more important for companies, Interop general manager Lenny Heymann said networking has fallen behind in recent years, according to a recent report by Network World.
At the ESG Ahead of the Curve event for information technology professionals in Boston, it was revealed that server virtualization skills are lacking for networking groups, according to a recent report by Network World.
Management tools are becoming a top priority for server and desktop virtualization deployments, a recent report by CRN stated.
If you have played around with Citrix Provisioning services, you will quickly realize that the TFTP Service can be a pretty big single point of failure. The TFTP service is typically installed on the Provisioning Servers and is responsible for sending down a bootstrap .BIN file during the PXE boot process that helps the machines [...]
While a virtualized hybrid cloud environment may be able to offer companies the ability to move virtual machines between data centers and a public cloud provider, the inception of this environment may not happen in the near future.
The Diskeeper Corporation recently released a study of IT managers that revealed virtualization is helping them solve two problems organizations are experiencing.
Aberdeen recently released results of a study of 85 organizations regarding the deployment of server virtualization.
Although information technology is a strategic differentiator for insurance companies, they often run into difficulties defining the appropriate methods for spending in this area.
Enterprises are finding that utilizing desktop virtualization provides several benefits, according to a recent Processor.com article.
Virtualization is helping transform the point-of-sale environment for retailers, according to a recent announcement by Boston Retail Partners.
The healthcare industry represents the next significant job growth area for information technology workers, according to a recent Newsday report.
According to a recent report by Infonetics Research, security spending for virtualized environments is expected to increase as companies continue to deploy more virtualization solutions.
Akamai was one of these companies that I knew about but didn’t really think much about. I work with VMware, Citrix and Microsoft technologies. I help deliver solutions revolving around applications, virtualization and data and NOT web servers or websites. My understanding of Akamai was that they speed up the web by preloading and caching [...]
Although large companies have more resources than small- and medium-sized businesses, the benefits of virtualization are, in some cases, more important for smaller companies.
A recent study released by AFCOM revealed that information technology spending is rising, but data center spending remains stagnant.
Companies utilizing virtualization may ultimately be wasting their money due to several mistakes, according to a recent CIO report.