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  • Review: HP 3PAR conjures powerful storage magic

    HP 3PAR StoreServe 7400 combines high scalability, high performance, and a big bag of tricks for easing storage management

    Written by Paul Ferrill • 08 May 13 10:15

  • Review: VMware vSphere 5.1 looms large

    VMware takes virtualization higher and deeper with rich storage automation and more advanced virtual networking tools

    Written by Paul Ferrill • 24 April 13 10:18

  • Virtualization showdown: Microsoft Hyper-V 2012 vs. VMware vSphere 5.1

    Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V brings advanced virtualization features to small shops, but VMware still reigns at the high end

    Written by Paul Ferrill • 24 April 13 10:18

  • Review: Microsoft Hyper-V 2012 narrows the gap

    Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V combines easy setup and management with new features that lower the entry barrier to highly available virtualization clusters

    Written by Paul Ferrill • 24 April 13 10:18

  • Review: 4 killer cloud IDEs

    Surprisingly beefy, browser-based JSFiddle, Icenium, Cloud9, and Codenvy stretch from client-side JavaScript to server-side Java and Web stacks

    Written by Peter Wayner • 17 April 13 10:09

  • Puppet or Chef: The configuration management dilemma

    Puppet is model-driven, Ruby is procedural, and both are large, messy, open source ecosystems plagued with pitfalls

    Written by Peter Wayner • 27 March 13 10:14

  • Review: HP's new thin client raises the bar

    Thin clients can't be cracked or hacked; they don't have fans or disks to fail; they don't need to be patched nearly as often as Windows; they don't draw much power; and they don't cost a whole lot of money to buy or maintain.

    Written by Joel Snyder • 11 March 13 11:23

  • Cisco brings server virtualisation to the branch office

    The Cisco UCS Express family is a new set of blades that add high-performance general-purpose Intel server capabilities to the ISR G2 series of routers.

    Written by Joel Snyder • 25 Feb. 13 12:00

  • Cisco virtual router targets the Cloud

    The Cisco CSR 1000V router is designed for enterprise network managers who want to have a little piece of their Cisco infrastructure in the cloud.

    Written by Joel Snyder • 25 Feb. 13 12:00

  • Review: Dell Cloud lets you have it your way

    Dell's VMware-based cloud infrastructure provides all of the flexibility and complexity of the leading enterprise virtualization platform

    Written by Peter Wayner • 20 Feb. 13 11:09

  • Review: The best network monitoring system on earth

    ScienceLogic EM7 brings ultraflexible, ultrascalable, carrier-grade network monitoring to the enterprise

    Written by Brian Chee • 06 Feb. 13 11:09

  • Office 2013 is the best Office yet

    With Office 365 Home Premium, Microsoft brings excellent cloud features and pay-as-you-go pricing to the world's best office suite

    Written by Serdar Yegulalp • 29 Jan. 13 14:22

  • Review: SoftLayer's cloud is fast and flexible

    SoftLayer brings fine-grained configuration options, high performance, and interesting extras to the self-service cloud

    Written by Peter Wayner • 16 Jan. 13 11:14
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    VMware one-ups Microsoft with vSphere 5.1

    The race for virtualization dominance between Microsoft and VMware has become more interesting with VMware's recent release of vSphere 5.1. We obtained vSphere around the same moment as the final release of Windows Server 2012, whose newly included virtual switch and enhanced Hyper-V features were designed to clobber VMware.

    Written by Tom Henderson • 14 Jan. 13 06:08

  • Review: Windows Azure shoots the moon

    Microsoft's cloud wows with great price-performance, Windows toolchain integration, and plenty of open source options

    Written by Peter Wayner • 19 Dec. 12 11:17

  • Review: Rackspace Cloud keeps IaaS simple

    Rackspace stands apart with familiar tools, open standards, and enterprise-grade support

    Written by Peter Wayner • 28 Nov. 12 11:10

  • Review: Joyent Cloud is built for speed

    Joyent's very smart SmartOS proves that some cloud servers are better than others

    Written by Peter Wayner • 21 Nov. 12 11:13

  • How We Tested Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012

    We tested the Windows Server 2012 Editions and Windows 8 Professional/Enterprise Editions on a Gigabit Ethernet switched network, principally using an HP DL580G8 with four 2.17Ghz quad-core Intel Xeon CPUs, 64GB of memory, and four high-speed local drives. We also used an NFS store for developing ISO images, then used VHD and VMDX images to build Windows 2012 and experimented with Windows 8 images. We also tested Windows Server 2012 on VMware vSphere 5.1, and Citrix XenServer 5.6, where we found no difficulties in mounting and managing Windows Server VMs. We tested features, spawned new virtual machines, configured routing and (tiny) VLANs to emulate environmental multi-tenancy successfully.

    Written by Tom Henderson • 24 Oct. 12 11:42

  • Review: Silver Peak packs superior WAN optimization into a virtual machine

    Silver Peak VX virtual appliance matches physical WAN appliances in both features and performance

    Written by Keith Schultz • 16 Oct. 12 14:22

  • Review: HP Cloud challenges Amazon and Google

    HP's OpenStack-based IaaS cloud blends openness and portability with nice proprietary extras and welcome hand-holding

    Written by Peter Wayner • 10 Oct. 12 10:15
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