In this episode of eSpeaks, Jennifer Margles, Director of Product Management at BMC Software, discusses the transition from traditional job scheduling to the era of the autonomous enterprise. eSpeaks’ ...

Conforming to the axiom that it’s easier to join ’em than fight ’em, Cisco launched its first software based network switch this week – the Nexus 1000V – as an integrated component of VMware’s ESX ...

Data center switch maker Arista Networks this week is unveiling software designed to improve visibility, configuration and provisioning in virtual environments. The company introduced VM Tracer, a ...

An often discussed VMware ESX issue is how to combine the various networks within the virtual infrastructure or even if they should be combined on the same vSwitch. Combining networks should only be ...

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At Chicago-based railcar operator TTX, Rob Zelinka, has taken the company's "Forward Thinking" motto to heart. From the beginning of Zelinka's virtualization efforts, he wanted to be more aggressive ...

Pendulums are always swinging back and forth in the datacenter, with functions being offloaded from one thing and onloaded to another cheaper thing that is often more flexible or faster. So it is with ...

The word " virtualization" is thrown around so much that it's hard to always know what it means. A virtual switch is usually a large, high port count director-class product, which can logically ...

Looking back in time, VMware was one of the only real players in the virtualization space for quite a number of years. Over time, they've made a great name for themselves in the virtualization space ...