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VMware Virtual SAN™ and vSphere Replication™ change the face of disaster recovery for the software-defined data center. According to recent VMware research, improving the availability of IT services is the single most desired IT outcome of the software-defined data center (SDDC)1. Forrester Research agrees, revealing that “improving BC/DR” was the top reason that customers began virtualizing their x86-server infrastructure i...

The storage market is inundated by new technologies and architectures. In March of 2014, it went in an entirely new direction. That is when VMware introduced Virtual SAN: the first VMware entry into the “software-defined storage” product category. Virtual SAN is optimized for VMware vSphere® environments and is doing for storage what VMware vSphere did for compute. Since its introduction, Virtual SAN has captured a lot of industry at...

The big news in the vSphere world these days is “VSAN” –Virtual SAN, now supported as part of vSphere 5.5 U1. Virtual SAN represents a new approach to storage designed for virtual environments. With Virtual SAN, VI admins can create a shared pool of storage from locally attached disks in a vSphere cluster. You can think of Virtual SAN as part of the Software Defined Data Center (SDDC)—it’s software-defined storage. ...

While the operating assumption is that the OpenStack framework works best on open source components such as KVM, a just completed study by Principled Technologies and commissioned by VMware showed otherwise. Tests showed remarkably higher performance and substantially reduced costs when using OpenStack with VMware technology including vSphere when compared to OpenStack with Red Hat components. ...

Citrix has been delivering virtualized apps for 25 years, while VMware is just getting started. In fact, VMware Horizon has left out some of the “no-brainer” features that Citrix XenApp users and admins have been using for years. Understanding the differences between these products is critical to determining if the solution you pick is the right choice for IT. ...

Why should you choose Citrix over VMware? With 25 years of innovation and real-world customer deployments, only Citrix has the mobile workspace technology that helps businesses achieve their goal of a truly mobile workforce. Read the infographic. ...

The growing strategic value of desktop virtualization technology is advancing quickly, providing new ways to enable business mobility and increase the flexibility that organizations need to thrive. Read this white paper to see how falling cost factors in every part of the desktop virtualization architecture making it more affordable than ever. ...

While many organizations turn to virtual apps and desktops to support mobility and BYOD initiatives, VMware Horizon addresses these objectives too narrowly. Only a user-centric approach can meet the needs of both employees and IT.  This paper explores four reasons to go beyond Horizon with solutions powered by Citrix. ...

IDC has placed Citrix in the 2013 IDC MarketScape Leaders Category once again noting that, “Citrix’s position reflects the company’s market leadership and ability to push the client virtualization agenda for the rest of the industry”. Download the MarketScape now. ...

For an implementation of its size, Western Union anticipated going from “zero to Hadoop” in about a year. Exceeding expectations, “We had our first production-ready Cloudera system up within just five months,” commented Saraf. “We were actually leveraging it for some of our transactional processing, and saw immediate value.” ...