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Simplot Australia Takes Virtualization Beyond Test and Development
By Alex Williams / July 27, 2010 11:45 PM / 0 Comments

Simplot Australia initially used VMware virtualization software and Intel hardare to create a test and development environment. The wholly owned subsidiary of the J R Simplot Company saw the immediate

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Weekly Case Study: Virtualization Fits with Tight Federal Funding
By Alex Williams / January 20, 2011 4:30 PM / 0 Comments

The Transit Authority of River City (TARC) is like a lot of groups funded by the U.S. federal government. The agency receives limited funds. Any project that requires servers has

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Weekly Case Study: A Global Ad Agency Runs Out of Room in its Data Center
By Alex Williams / September 30, 2010 11:45 PM / 2 Comments

Omnicom is one of the world's largest advertising agencies. It serves more than 5,000 clients in 100 countries. It had a data center that posed a certain problem. The agency

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How Virtualization Helps the Water Flow
By Alex Williams / August 25, 2010 10:05 AM / 0 Comments

We take for granted the ease in which we can get water. Turn a handle and the water comes out of the faucet. But go to any water agency and

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Weekly Case Study: Health Network Solves Power and Cooling Issues
By Alex Williams / November 20, 2010 5:00 PM / 1 Comments

Based in Phoenix, Arizona, John C. Lincoln Health Network (JCL) is an acclaimed health system that includes two hospitals, physician practices, community outreach programs and the John C. Lincoln Health

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Weekly Case Study: BlueWave Offers Enterprise Class Service with Virtualization
By Alex Williams / November 26, 2010 5:30 PM / 0 Comments

BlueWave Computing is an IT management company out of Atlanta that helps small and medium-sized businesses manage computers, servers and networks. BlueWave Computing traditionally offered IT outsourcing and managed

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Opus: A Marketing Agency That Gets the Most out of Virtualization
By Alex Williams / August 10, 2010 12:08 AM / 0 Comments

Opus Interactive is a marketing agency based in Portland, Or. In addition to providing managed hosting services for businesses and individuals, Opus provides services for advertising, marketing and other digital

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Weekly Case Study: A Story Often Told
By Alex Williams / January 27, 2011 12:33 PM / 0 Comments

GSC Consulting is a classic example of a company experiencing the pains of an enterprise environment that needs updating so it can grow effectively. To do that, GSC management turned

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More Images from the North Carolina Apple Data Center - Mission "Not Impossible"
By Alex Williams / April 25, 2011 11:15 AM / 1 Comments

Something is just not right with the universe when data centers make people breathless. I had thought it might end after all the delight that came with the super

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Weekly Case Study: Energy Company Tuns to Virtualization
By Alex Williams / November 11, 2010 9:00 PM / 0 Comments

The Australia-based Aucsland Group had been growing fast. An energy boom in the Pacific Rim had created new demands for the company and its various operations that include engineering and

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Southwestern/Great American Virtualizes SAP ERP
By Alex Williams / February 3, 2010 9:46 PM / 0 Comments

Southwestern/Great American consolidates storage and saves resources by not having to replace outdated legacy servers.

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Weekly Case Study: A Heritage City Turns To Virtualization
By Alex Williams / December 18, 2010 9:30 PM / 2 Comments

Concello de Santiago in northwest Spain is the government body for the city of Santiago de Compostela. The city is renowned for its medieval architecture. It's a world heritage

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Weekly Case Study: How A Pharmaceutical Company Achieved 25:1 Server Consolidation
By Alex Williams / December 23, 2010 10:30 PM / 0 Comments

Due to regulatory requirements, a stack of issues surface for pharmaceutical companies when it is time to add an application. Solvay Pharmaceuticals, now owned by Abott, found itself adding three

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Weekly Case Study: Simplot Moves Beyond Test and Development
By Alex Williams / September 9, 2010 1:00 PM / 0 Comments

Simplot Australia initially used VMware virtualization software and Intel hardare to create a test and development environment. The wholly owned subsidiary of the J R Simplot Company saw the immediate

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Weekly Case Study: Welch's Squeezes Every Last Drop with Virtualization
By Alex Williams / October 21, 2010 4:38 PM / 0 Comments

Welch's makes a lot of juice. The company squeezes enough Concord and Niagra grapes to produce 400 products. Squeezing all those grapes and making those products means the company must

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Weekly Case Study: How Virtualization Helps the Water Flow
By Alex Williams / August 25, 2010 11:28 PM / 0 Comments

We take for granted the ease with which we can get water: Turn a handle and the water comes out of the faucet. But go to any municipal water agency

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Best Buy Reorganizes in the Cloud, Acquiring 123Together.com
By Scott M. Fulton, III / November 7, 2011 9:39 AM / 0 Comments

If you've ever investigated various sources for hosted Exchange e-mail or SharePoint sites, or virtual cloud servers, for a small business of under 100 employees or so, you've probably run

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Moving Past Legacy Networking in a Virtualized Data Center
By Alex Williams / July 19, 2010 8:45 AM / 0 Comments

Advances in Intel Ethernet 10 Gigabit (10GbE) Server Adapters and VMware vSphere 4 allow migration away from legacy Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) networking. This is providing some new opportunities for LAN/SAN

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Microsoft PDC 10: Live Blogging and an Interview with Bob Muglia
By Alex Williams / October 28, 2010 4:40 AM / 2 Comments

We're going to the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference this morning. It starts at 9 a.m. PST. We have some things in store to give a perspective on the event and

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How Facebook Scales with Open Source
By Audrey Watters / August 30, 2010 4:00 PM / 10 Comments

When it comes to having to scale your service to handle ever-increasing data demands, there may be no better example to look at than Facebook. The social networking giant has

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3 Services That Leverage the new Salesforce REST API
By Alex Williams / December 6, 2010 3:30 PM / 1 Comments

Apigee, Hootsuite and Model Metrics are now integrating with the new Salesforce.com REST API. The API is a new frontier for Salesforce.com. The company was finding that its SOAP-based

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Weekly White Paper: Moving Past Legacy Networking in a Virtualized Data Center
By Alex Williams / September 27, 2010 10:30 PM / 0 Comments

Advances in Intel Ethernet 10 Gigabit (10GbE) Server Adapters and VMware vSphere 4 allow migration away from legacy Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) networking. This is providing some new opportunities for LAN/SAN

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Cloud Computing in Plain English
By Alex Williams / November 12, 2009 12:39 AM / 20 Comments

Almost three years ago, Lee and Sachi LeFever created their first video to explain RSS. They called the video RSS in Plain English. They used paper cut outs to explain

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How to Explain Virtualization to Your Friends
By Tim Hastings / January 21, 2010 3:00 PM / 0 Comments

What kind of friend would you be if you kept the powers of virtualization all to yourself? Something this good needs to be shared, but if your friends are non-technical,

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How Cloud Computing Can Help A Small Business Get Out of the Recession
By Alex Williams / April 7, 2010 11:07 AM / 12 Comments

Cloud computing creates enough disruptions for small businesses that it seems almost folly when we hear some of the stories we do. We heard one story about an IT department

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