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Intel Chip Chat – Network Insights audio podcast with Allyson Klein: In this archive of a livecast from the Intel Network Builders End User Summit in Madrid, Douglas Tait, Global Director of Marketing for Telecommunications at Oracle, discusses where his company is going with network functions virtualization (NFV), telco cloud, network transformation and business transformation [...]

Microsoft Mechanics: An exploration of how you can use the hyper-scale of Azure to run and manage Red Hat solutions in your IT environment. We’ll also go over pre-built Red Hat Enterprise Linux images in the Azure marketplace, integrated support to help you troubleshoot issues and get access to Red Hat resources. Also, how you [...]

IT Best Practices: To drive down cost and increase host utilization in Intel’s Office and Enterprise private cloud, Intel IT has simplified private cloud capacity management by transitioning from allocation-based capacity management to performance-based capacity management. Focusing on host and application performance in conjunction with optimizing our private cloud host server configuration has significantly increased [...]

Highlights of John Fowler, Oracle Executive Vice President of Systems, announcing major new additions to the SPARC platform that for the first time bring the advanced security, efficiency, and simplicity of SPARC to the cloud. For more information see: oracle.com/sparc

IT Best Practices: Episode 97 – Big data and advanced analytics have become increasingly important to Intel. More and more people and business groups rely on Intel’s big data capabilities to maximize productivity. A recent step in the evolution of big data at the company was the move last year from the Intel Distribution for [...]

Microsoft Mechanics: Sr. Product Manager, Javier Nino from Microsoft, offers a quick overview of the new free Microsoft IT Pro Cloud Essentials program and its benefits including: access to professional training; extended Cloud services trials; free credit for Microsoft Azure; career guidance and prioritized expert level support. If you are an IT Professional, you can [...]

VMware’s vice president and general manager, Cloud-Native Applications Business Unit, Kit Colbert, reflects on the first year since VMware introduce its cloud-native apps team.

The IT Automation Cloud 1.0 validated design supports active/active dual-regions with each region being comprised of a single availability zone. In this design, the foundation components, such as the management and edge pods are deployed in each region were their specific instances of vCenter Server, Platform Services Controllers, NSX Managers, Controller Cluster and Edges, and vRealize [...]

Protect your organization against unauthorized access, compromised email, and document tampering. The leading provider of user-friendly cloud-based PKI, Symantec delivers a proven and globally trusted solution used by the Fortune 500 and government agencies. For more information visit: symantec.com/managed-pki-service

Intel Chip Chat – Network Insights audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Iain Kenney, VP of Product Engineering for KEMP Technologies, explains the variety of application delivery controllers KEMP offers from hardware to virtual and cloud based on Intel Architectures. He examines what the shift to industry standard hardware means in terms of network appliances and [...]