BLUE PLANET SDN AND NFV ARE CHANGING THE GAME

whitePaper | January 10, 2020

When it comes to data center modernization, companies are struggling to make decisions about infrastructure and services to be more competitive and agile, reduce costs, and minimize risk. As trends such as virtualization, data center modernization, and software-defined everything take hold, it’s imperative to understand the new approaches to data center infrastructure and data architecture that drive the efficiencies required by customers.

whitePaper | March 10, 2020

The last few years have been an exciting time at VMware. In case you’ve been trapped in a cave trying to recreate Marvel’s Iron Man movie, I’ll first provide an overview of VMware Cloud on AWSTM and the VMware strategy.This strategy has aligned both of these “tech giants” with common technical and commercial goals and has opened up a world of new possibilities to both Amazon Web Services (AWS), VMware, and, most importantly, customers and partners

whitePaper | November 27, 2019

The purpose of this document is to provide VMware® vSAN ReadyNode™ configurations from OEM vendors. vSAN ReadyNode™ is a validated server configuration in a tested, certified hardware form factor for vSAN deployment, jointly recommended by the server OEM and VMware. vSAN ReadyNode™ are ideal as hyper-converged building blocks for larger data center environments looking for automation and a need to customize hardware and software configurations.

whitePaper | November 10, 2019

Virtualization is the means by which IT administrators create virtual resources, such as hardware platforms, storage devices, network resources and more. There are quite a few tools that enable the creation of virtual resources (such as Xen and KVM), but what about the management of those tools? That’s where SUSE Manager comes in. The current iteration of SUSE Manager enables an admin to work with VMs via the following feature set.

whitePaper | January 7, 2020

Intel Page Modification Logging (PML) is a novel hardware feature for tracking virtual machine (VM) accessed memory pages. This task is essential in today’s data centers since it allows, among others, checkpointing, live migration and working set size (WSS) estimation. Relying on the Xen hypervisor, this paper studies PML from three angles: power consumption, efficiency, and performance impact on user applications. Our findings are as follows. First, PML does not incur any power consumption overhead. Second, PML reduces by up to 10.18% both VM live migration and checkpointing time. Third, PML slightly reduces by up to 0.95% the performance degradation on applications incurred by live migration and checkpointing.

whitePaper | January 10, 2020

Today’s expanding organizational and work perimeters provide even greater opportunities for cyber criminals. According to the world’s leading incident response (IR) professionals, increasingly sophisticated attacks involving instances of “island hopping,” counter incident response, and lateral movement within a network are quickly becoming the new normal. Advanced phishing techniques using social engineering and programming expertise, bots, and ransomware threats also more frequently expose organizations, even those working hard to stay one step ahead.