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Virtualization offers obvious benefits from the beginning. Certainly, the prospect of reduced capital costs is enticing. The security and redundancies offered by the right virtualization setup are compelling, as well. One of the areas that virtualization can help that many people don’t realize, however, is in the area of IT infrastructure. Here are three ways in which virtualization helps to boost IT infrastructure: 1. Flexibility Virtualization products are designed to work with multiple hardware and software platforms. This includes things like storage technology, network equipment, and security devices. By choosing virtualization technologies that allow for interoperability, you can be sure that you choose the right solutions for your exact needs, and that you don’t get tied down to having a specific vendor. 2. Standards Virtualization technology uses the same sta... (more)

Three Ways iCloud Impacts Enterprise Security

Consumer technology solutions have, for the most part, maintained a healthy distance from enterprise IT operations. Sure, executives in the mid-2000s all needed help getting their Blackberry synced with your Outlook server, and company laptops have been a relatively standard thing for longer than that. By and large, however, most consumer solutions haven’t created too many issues for IT. The release of iCloud and iOS5, however, might prove to be a different story. Starting with security One of the biggest concerns enterprises are going to have with the use of iCloud for busines... (more)

Desktop Virtualization Is a Long Time Coming

Virtualization has made significant inroads in certain markets. For example, you’d be hard-pressed to find an enterprise or data center that, today, is not using virtualized server technologies. Indeed, virtualization has become less of an option and more of a necessity for companies that want to be able to continue to offer high levels of service, more applications, and do it for the same or even less money than they did before. One area virtualization hasn’t taken off – at least for midsize and small companies – is the area of desktop virtualization. We were told that 2010 wou... (more)

Six Types of Cloud Computing

Everyone is talking about cloud computing today, but not everyone means the same thing when they do. While there is this general idea behind the cloud – that applications or other business functions exist somewhere away from the business itself – there are many iterations that companies look to in order to actually use the technology. Cloud computing offers a variety of ways for businesses to increase their IT capacity or functionality without having to add infrastructure, personnel, and software. Here are six different types of cloud computing and a little bit about what they o... (more)

Cloud Computing Closes Data Centers

Cloud computing has promised, since the early days, to reduce the burden on data centers. Yet, as we know, many data centers are still expanding, as even more and more business functionality moves to the electronic world. Still, for companies who have embraced the cloud, that growth has not been as fast as it might otherwise have been. Now, we’re finally starting to see some real savings in terms of the data center footprint. The evidence comes from a rather surprising sector: the public one. Over the next four years, the federal government is set to close as many as 800 data ce... (more)