Infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders today face a daunting challenge. The IT they have known for decades is changing — radically. IT’s primary function will be to enable the business to be more agile, to enter new markets more quickly, to deliver services closer to the customer, and to position specific workloads based on business, […]
Archives for 2018
A Recap of the Xen Project Developer and Design Summit: Community Health, Development Trends, Coding Changes and More
We were extremely thrilled to host our Xen Project Developer and Design Summit in Nanjing Jiangning, China this June. The event brought together our community and power users under one roof to collaborate and to learn more about the future of our project. It also gave us the opportunity to connect with a large group […]
Microsoft Azure and Security Best Pratices – Part 1 Identity
So let me start this post off with a story… A Couple of weeks ago I had some issues with a demo environment I was hosting in Microsoft Azure, where I had automated all of the infrastructure setups using ARM but there was still a lot of work done manually. The demo environment was setup using a single admin […]
NeuVector 2.0 Is Now Available!
We’re happy to announce that the 2.0 release of the NeuVector Container Security Platform is now generally available! The 2.0 release is a major expansion of the platform to include end-to-end vulnerability scanning, automated real-time security incident response, and enhanced multi-vector detection of container attacks. Cloud-native enterprise integration is also enhanced with OpenShift and Kubernetes […]
Citrix and Microsoft are teaming up for Teams
Microsoft’s collaboration story has been one of constant evolution. And as a product manager, I enjoy tracing the origins of products — how they came to be, why they succeeded, what they became. Many lessons can be learned about the forces that shaped them. My first exposure to one of their Unified Communications (UC) products […]
Citrix: Reliable, cost-effective Workspace connectivity
With the basic concepts of software-defined wide area networking still fresh in mind from my last blog post, it’s time to explore the many ways that Citrix SD-WAN adds value to the Citrix Workspace delivery architecture. If you’re using or planning to deploy virtual desktops or DaaS, Gartner’s informative research report How to Ensure Your Network […]
Cisco pays cool $2.3 billion for hot security company Duo
Cisco today laid out $2.35 billion in cash and stock for network- identity, authentication and security company Duo. According to Cisco, Duo helps protect organizations against cyber breaches through the company’s cloud-based software that verifies the identity of users and the health of their devices before granting access to applications with the idea of preventing […]
Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor support guide
In June 2017 we announced that we would be working on support for the Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV) and shortly after in October we were able to show an alpha build of the code and demo what functionality would be arriving. Today we are excited and pleased to announce that our Hyper-Availability story is generally […]
New Office 365 SharePoint and OneDrive backup with Veeam
Microsoft Office 365 adoption is bigger than ever. When Veeam introduced Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 in November 2016, it became an immense success and Veeam has continued building on top of that. When we released version 1.5 in 2017, we added automation and scalability improvements which became a tremendous success for service providers […]
Software-Defined Storage Pioneer Awarded Patent for Its Data Protection Architecture
DataCore has recently been awarded a patent for stream architecture for data representation which enables unique capabilities in our software-defined storage (SDS) and hyperconverged solutions, including continuous data protection (CDP), random write accelerator (RWA), and other technology within our enterprise data services. With more than 20 patents awarded, and more in the pipeline, this is […]