IDG Contributor Network: HTTP and DNS in a 5G World
The internet has of course been wildly successful over the last thirty years as more and more functionality has moved online. A large part of this success has been due to two key protocols that have...
View ArticleIDG Contributor Network: Enabling the multiverse of mini-internets
I am a believer that the Device Virtualization vision will manifest fully one day, but we have a long road to travel to this end game. The related notion of Service Endpoint Agent (SEA) devices that I...
View ArticleIDG Contributor Network: Challenges in realizing the promises of the holistic...
Cloud providers such as Amazon, Google, Facebook and Microsoft are already rolling out distributed cloud infrastructure. Whilst the central cloud is established as an integral part of current and...
View Article5 top ways to run Windows on a Mac
Other than a few interesting years in the mid-2000s, Apple’s approach to the enterprise market has been one of benign neglect. The one exception, starting in 2005, has been consistent support for...
View ArticleWhat is network virtualization? Pioneer Martin Casado explains
Network virtualization pioneer Martin Casado explains the concept behind network virtualization, how the technology works and why it was created.
View ArticleWhat is virtualization?
In the IT world, virtualization has revolutionized the way we think about data and where it lives, moving us closer to a completely on-demand data world.
View ArticleIDG Contributor Network: Networks for a yottabyte world
The rate at which telecom networks are growing and changing is nothing short of fantastic. It’s always risky to embrace a new paradigm, but for network carriers and customers, the risks of waiting...
View ArticleA third of virtual servers are zombies
New research finds that 25% of all physical servers -- and 30% of all virtual servers -- are comatose. These are systems that have no activity in the last six months.The problem with comatose, or...
View ArticleIDG Contributor Network: The future is not the cloud or the fog: it is...
A casual reflection on the last few years in the evolution of the wireless network provides us all the insights necessary to reason that there is at least one final frontier coming down the road. Who...
View ArticleIDG Contributor Network: HTTP and DNS in a 5G World
The internet has of course been wildly successful over the last thirty years as more and more functionality has moved online. A large part of this success has been due to two key protocols that have...
View ArticleIDG Contributor Network: Enabling the multiverse of mini-internets
I am a believer that the Device Virtualization vision will manifest fully one day, but we have a long road to travel to this end game. The related notion of Service Endpoint Agent (SEA) devices that I...
View ArticleIDG Contributor Network: Challenges in realizing the promises of the holistic...
Cloud providers such as Amazon, Google, Facebook and Microsoft are already rolling out distributed cloud infrastructure. Whilst the central cloud is established as an integral part of current and...
View Article5 top ways to run Windows on a Mac
Other than a few interesting years in the mid-2000s, Apple’s approach to the enterprise market has been one of benign neglect. The one exception, starting in 2005, has been consistent support for...
View ArticleIDG Contributor Network: Networks for a yottabyte world
The rate at which telecom networks are growing and changing is nothing short of fantastic. It’s always risky to embrace a new paradigm, but for network carriers and customers, the risks of waiting...
View ArticleHow VITAS Healthcare moved to UEM
VITAS Healthcare, a Miami-based a hospice and palliative care company with more than 12,000 employees and about 19,000 patients across 14 states, went on a six-year journey to create a mobile-enabled...
View ArticleRethinking the PC: Why virtual machines should replace operating systems
Discloser: Most of the vendors mentioned are clients of the author.Technology generally develops linearly even something comes along that should change its progression. Take PC operating systems,...
View ArticleFlashback Friday: Failover? Well, he got the first half.
IT director at this big insurance company makes a big deal about how much money can be saved by consolidating virtual machines, reports a consultant pilot fish working there.But fish isn’t so certain...
View ArticleWhy AMD’s energy efficiency milestone is important to the emerging cloud desktop
AMD this week announced it had exceeded its goal to increase energy efficiency 25-fold by 2020. Called the 25x20 goal, it has been a driving force for the company for most of the last decade and...
View ArticleCameyo – the new alternative to Citrix
Citrix was way ahead of the curve when it came to virtualizing the desktop. But, as is often the case with early movers, it never really rose to its potential because it created a solution that was...
View ArticleIs Microsoft finally getting its Windows update act together?
Updating Windows has become a bad joke. I can install three Linux distributions in the same time it takes me to make a single serious Windows upgrade. And, when I'm done with the Linux installations, I...
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