virtualization News and Other Resources

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On Tackling Virtual Data Center Embedding Problem

January 15, 2013 12:00am PST

Virtualizing data center networks has been considered a feasible alternative to satisfy the requirements of advanced cloud services. Proper mapping of Virtual Data Center (VDC) resources to their...

Provided by: University of Washington School of Public Health & Community Medicine

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VDC Planner: Dynamic Migration-Aware Virtual Data Center Embedding for Clouds

January 15, 2013 12:00am PST

Cloud computing promises to provide computing resources to a large number of service applications in an on-demand manner. Traditionally, cloud providers such as Amazon only provide guaranteed...

Provided by: University of Washington School of Public Health & Community Medicine

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Paradigm-Based Adaptive Provisioning in Virtualized Data Centers

January 15, 2013 12:00am PST

Virtualized data centers host multiple applications with distinct objectives in a shared infrastructure. Accommodating several dynamic applications in virtual data centers is a challenging task...

Provided by: University of Toledo

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Intra-Data-Center Traffic Engineering With Ensemble Routing

January 15, 2013 12:00am PST

Today's data centers are shared among multiple tenants running a wide range of applications. These applications require a network with a scalable and robust layer-2 network management solution...

Provided by: Princeton Software

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Optimal Design of Virtual Links in AFDX Networks

January 14, 2013 12:00am PST

The Avionics Full Duplex Switched Ethernet (AFDX) backbone constitutes one of the major technological breakthroughs in modern avionic architectures. This network is based on routing Ethernet...

Provided by: CNRS

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On Arbitrating the Power-Performance Tradeoff in SaaS Clouds

January 13, 2013 12:00am PST

In this paper, the authors present an analytical framework for characterizing and optimizing the power-performance tradeoff in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) cloud platforms. Their objectives are...

Provided by: Huazhong University of Science & Technology

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Best of 2012 Top Dell Software Virtualisation Management Articles

January 11, 2013 12:00am PST

Welcome to our Best of 2012 eBook. We selected the documents for inclusion based on continued interested from the virtualisation community. Performance oriented topics continued to dominate the...

Provided by: Quest Software, Inc., now a part of Dell

Blog Post

Cloud trends for 2013

January 10, 2013 11:20am PST

Thoran Rodrigues writes about some of the things he expects to develop in the cloud technology market this coming year.

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IT environment for today and tomorrow: What you need to know about Windows 8

January 10, 2013 12:00am PST

Windows 8 is ready to give your business the tools you need to meet your workers' changing IT needs in a way that's reliable, productive and secure. Designed to respond equally well to touch as it...

Provided by: Dell & Microsoft

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Why Upgrading from XP to Windows 7 Makes Business Sense

January 10, 2013 12:00am PST

Many large enterprises still rely on Windows XP-based PCs. For some, reliance on legacy applications made it easy to delay an operating system upgrade and migration. Others just never got around...

Provided by: Dell & Microsoft

Case Studies

IT Solutions Provider Helps Boost System Performance and Security for Travel Industry Leader with VShield Implementation

January 10, 2013 12:00am PST

Neos is a global technology services and IT operations provider catering for mid-to large sized enterprises across the globe. The company became the first Hyperic VMware partner in Germany and is...

Provided by: VMW Games

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Total Economic Impact Of The AppSense Management Suite

January 9, 2013 12:00am PST

This Forrester Consulting paper examines the total economic impact and potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by deploying the AppSense Management Suite. It provides readers...

Provided by: AppSense

Blog Post

Rackspace: An overview of a major cloud player

January 8, 2013 12:25pm PST

Nick Hardiman looks at what Rackspace is all about. What does it mean by Fanatical Support, and is OpenStack the platform of the future for cloud management?

3 Latest comment by leyonchung

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Tech trends to watch out for in 2013

January 8, 2013 4:42am PST

IT leaders need to be smart about the decisions they make and truly leverage next-generation tools and strategies. Here are some technology trends that will shape their decision-making in 2013.

22 Latest comment by mtnman28715

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Adversarial VNet Embeddings: A Threat for ISPs?

January 8, 2013 12:00am PST

An Internet Service Provider's (ISP) network infrastructure and its properties often constitute a critical business secret, not only because the smarter investment of a given resource budget...

Provided by: ABB Corporate Research Center

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Deploying Virtual Cluster Nodes Distributed Over Different Cloud Providers for On-Demand Resource Provisioning

January 8, 2013 12:00am PST

Cloud computing technologies can offer important benefits for IT organizations and data centers running MTC applications such as elasticity and rapid provisioning, enabling the organization to...

Provided by: The World

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Resistant Protocol to Resist Large-Scale Online Password Guessing Attacks

January 8, 2013 12:00am PST

Passwords, passphrases and security codes are used in virtually every interaction between users and information systems. Unfortunately, with such a central role in security, easily guessed...

Provided by: The World

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Concept of Storage Virtualization Used in Networks

January 8, 2013 12:00am PST

Storage Virtualization was the first tutorial of the SNIA (Storage Networking Industrial Association) Education Committee. Development began in summer 2001 and continues to this day as the authors...

Provided by: The World

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Resource Over Allocation to Improve Energy Efficiency in Real-Time Cloud Computing Data Centers

January 8, 2013 12:00am PST

Energy efficiency is becoming a very important concern for Cloud Computing environments. These are normally composed of large and power consuming data centers to provide the required elasticity...

Provided by: The World