In Part I of this blog, we explored how the complexity and growth of data centers have made manual control of data centers basically impossible, resulting in the introduction of control and management mechanisms. In Part I, we closed discussing better and more effective monitoring and capacity planning, bringing us to automation and policy-based management.…
Modern data centers are becoming more and more complex, and there are several reasons for this trend. First, there is a business reason behind any technical enhancement, and lately the paramount business requirement is to shrink as much as possible the so called “time to market.” People have become used to the quick deploy time…
Every now and then we get calls from customers who catch themselves in a very bad situation. They needed a restore, but at a certain point hit an obstacle they could not circumvent. And I’m not talking about lost backups, CryptoLocker or something! It’s just that their focus was on creating a backup or replica.…
The arrival of cloud computing to enterprise IT brought much more than new business value and end-user utility. Most notably, confusion. An entirely new set of terms was created to describe the many varieties of virtual data storage and transmission. First, we learned about private clouds, or cloud environments that were created to only support…
What can individual users do to preserve cybersecurity at work? Your organization is spending on cybersecurity tools, you have an awareness program, and if you look you will find that there are standards and procedures for choosing and maintaining products to help keep information secure. But what can an individual do? Remember – you are…
By now, unless you’ve been vacationing on a remote island off the grid, containers have gained incredible momentum with organizations seeking to increase productivity, agility and innovation. Developers quickly understood the benefits of containers: Simplicity. They are super easy to use. All you need is Docker and a laptop and you are off and running. Lightweight. Containers…
Bask Iyer, CIO of VMware and Dell Technologies, is not afraid to voice his opinions. “Only the paranoid survive,” he likes to say. “I ask my VMware teams, ‘If we were a start-up, how would we kill VMware?’” Iyer’s acute wit and sense of humor were on full display at the VMworld session “CIO Whisperer:…
We used to call the Internet the “information super-highway” back in the day, when connections were slow, bulletin boards and gopher were about as techie as it got. Those days are long gone, but something of the ‘highway’ has remained, like a bad smell, one that has come back to haunt us in 2017… The…
Ransomware and other advanced attacks are the scourge of the modern IT security team. If allowed to gain access to your IT environment, these attacks could shut down the organization, denying access to mission critical applications & data for potentially days, or even indefinitely. The result? The disruption of service delivery, lost productivity and a hefty…
PALO ALTO, CA–(Marketwired – June 06, 2017) – VMware, Inc. (VMW) today introduced major updates across its VMware vRealize® cloud management platform to improve software-defined data center (SDDC) and cloud operations and accelerate application and infrastructure service delivery across hybrid clouds. New releases include VMware vRealize Operations™ 6.6, VMware vRealize Automation™ 7.3, vRealize Business for…