VMware plows ahead in face of controversy, increased competition Heading into VMworld, VMware faces controversy and a far more competitive virtualization market than existed when the company began holding the annual conference five years ago. Storage virtualization aides disaster recovery While most enterprises begin their virtualization foray at the server level, faith-based financial services firm Mennonite Mutual Aid (MMA) came at it from the storage side of the shop. The primary objective was remote disaster recovery, which a growing variety of virtualization capabilities can neatly address. Certeon rolls out WAN replication WAN acceleration vendor Certeon this week is rolling out new software functionality that lets users protect the data on their networks by replicating it over the wide area network. Is your network fast enough? Everyone wants a faster network. But before you can do anything to speed up yours, you must ascertain how fast it's currently going. Yet measuring network speed isn't as straightforward as you might think. Advanced Wi-Fi sinks old ship's network barriers If your hotel is an antiquated, out-of-service ocean liner that's crossed the Atlantic 1,001 times, it's nice to know that the place has steel walls as much as 3 inches thick. On the other hand, if you get there and want to fire up your Wi-Fi-equipped laptop to shop for Titanic memorabilia on eBay, those walls had better not get between you and the nearest access point. Virtual systems management vendors gear up for VMworld Embotics and Surgient separately upgrade product suites to showcase at VMworld 2009 in San Francisco. High-tech blimps earning their wings The U.S. Army this week showed off its latest high-tech blimp laden with powerful radar systems capable of detecting incoming threats 340 miles away. Focusing on applications: So what? The vast majority of IT organizations have taken the time and effort to identify a small set of applications that are business-critical. In this newsletter, we will identify some of what has changed as a result of those efforts. Microsoft, Citrix drop sponsorship of VMworld after dustup with VMware Microsoft and Citrix have decided not to sponsor next week's VMworld virtualization conference and are maintaining only a limited presence at the show due to conflicts with rival VMware. August Giveaways Cisco Subnet is giving away training from Global Knowledge and 15 copies of Practical Intrusion Analysis; Microsoft Subnet is giving away training from Global Knowledge and 15 copies of SCCM 2007 Unleashed. Google Subnet is giving away 15 copies of Web Geek's Guide to Google Chrome. Entry forms can be found on the Cisco Subnet, Microsoft Subnet and Google Subnet home pages. Deadline for entries is August 31. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are |
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