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Containing virtual sprawl by optimizing management of network resources. As environments being more and more virtualized, the cost of computing goes down, efficiency, uptime and productivity increase and application performance is optimized. But, as with any major technology shift or revolution such as this, there are bumps in the road. That’s certainly true in the [...]
Further reducing routine maintenance of your environment with dynamic provisioning and automation.  In the last post, I likened the virtualized application model to an organism of sorts, where each individual component can work together virtually as a dynamic pool of resources. But what happens when something isn’t working as it should?  Well, that’s really where [...]
 
If only that old multi-function printer down the hall could be used to print money – legally speaking of course – maybe we’d pay a bit closer attention to how it contributes to the bottom line. But as it stands, most organizations under-value the impact printing, scanning, copying and faxing has on their finances. Perhaps [...]
Blackberry® Mobile Fusion unifies and simplifies mobile device management. For a little while there it looked like the soup of mobile devices whirling around the average office — personal and corporate smartphones, laptops, tablets, e-readers, netbooks, even gaming devices – might push IT over the edge. After all if the folks in IT can’t effectively [...]
Managing a virtualized environment to achieve agility, flexibility and availability, without losing control, requires solutions designed specifically for dynamic virtualized and cloud environments. Virtualization and cloud management solutions provide increased levels of automation and policy-based service assurance at every layer of a modern IT architecture. This automated, intelligent, policy-driven management is an intrinsic part of [...]
Just about every company today has either implemented server virtualization or is about to. Once they virtualize with vSphere and vCenter, it may not be immediately evident that they need additional management tools. All hypervisors come with some form of backup and performance reporting built-in. However, with just a little use, you’ll quickly discover that [...]
Whether you are a new VMware Admin or you have some experience, you may not know what you should be checking, each day, in your VMware vSphere environment to ensure that things are running as they should. Unless you look each day (or have a daily performance/capacity tool do it for you), you may take [...]
  Great news for System Center 2012 customers. With the aim of making System Center more cloud-friendly, Microsoft has made changes to the way that the licensing model for this popular product works. What used to be an extremely complex licensing system has been made much easier for clients to understand and manage. View our [...]