10 Negatives About Typical VDI Deployments; IBM's Netezza Primed to Tackle Big Data

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TOP STORIES - July 26, 2011 • 10 Negatives About Typical VDI Deployments • IBM's Netezza Primed to Tackle Big Data • Nasuni SLA Guarantees 100% Cloud Storage Uptime • IBM Helps Coriell Institute Manage Vast Store of Medical Data • Five Reasons IaaS Will Top $4 Billion by 2015 SPOTLIGHT Hot IT Skills Hiring Managers Hunt for HR reps and recruiters use Dice.com to seek out IT pros for various positions. See what skills they are searching for. READ MORE >> BEST OF eWEEK • MacBook Air, Mac Mini, OS X 'Lion' Debut • 10 Google Labs Experiments Worth Saving • Tips to Get the Most Out of Google+ • Why Enterprise Social Networks Fail FEATURED VIDEO Reasons to Go Green It's still a great time to rethink your approach to green computing and tech. WATCH NOW >> MOST READ STORIES • Apple MacBook Air Teardown • Banish Malware From Android Devices • 10 Mobile Devices Nobody Wants • Google Spends $800M on Going Green IN THIS ISSUE 10 Negatives About Typical VDI Deployments After about 12 years as being touted as a "promising" technology, there finally is growing interest in VDI (Virtual Desktop Interface) as an alternative to traditional client-server enterprise deployments. However, if you look deeper, there are some issues with it that are preventing efficient widespread deployment. READ MORE >> IBM's Netezza Primed to Tackle Big Data Jim Baum, president of IBM's Netezza unit, talks to eWEEK about how Netezza is addressing the issue of big data for Big Blue. He also said Netezza has blossomed since its acquisition in 2010. READ MORE >> Sponsored by Dell The Virtual Integrated Systems blog provides IT managers in healthcare, government, and education with best practices in leveraging a virtual computing environment. Visit the blog. ADVERTISEMENT Nasuni SLA Guarantees 100% Cloud Storage Uptime There aren't many guarantees anywhere, especially in the world of IT, but this apparently is one of them. READ MORE >> IBM Helps Coriell Institute Manage Vast Store of Medical Data With its XIV storage platform and Tivoli and WebSphere Lombardi software, IBM enables the Coriell Institute for Medical Research to organize its biobank of genetic material and reduce storage costs. READ MORE >> Five Reasons IaaS Will Top $4 Billion by 2015 Infrastructure as a service is one of the fastest growing paradigms in the portfolio of cloud-based services. Here are the five reasons why IaaS is set to grow to become a $4 billion market by 2015. READ MORE >> How to Get Started with Cloud Computing View this panel discussion with IBM cloud computing leaders on how enterprises can get started with cloud computing -- reviewing which workloads make sense to move first and the right type of cloud for workloads. DOWNLOAD NOW >> Oracle Databases on VMware vSphere 4: A Guide This document will also show that the same best practices, tuning tips and tricks, and skill sets necessary to deploy Oracle databases in physical environments can be leveraged when deploying Oracle databases in virtual environments. DOWNLOAD NOW >> Public, Private, and Hybrid: All about Clouds and How to Choose One Jul 20, 2011 at 2:00 p.m. Eastern / 11:00 a.m. Pacific (60 minutes) Cloud computing has become so popular today that other important IT infrastructure solutions, including consolidation, virtualization and disaster recovery have taken a back seat. But while clouds offer numerous benefits, including scalability, cost and ease of management, they also present challenges that must be overcome before organizations can start reaping those benefits REGISTER >> Building an Efficient Test / Development Management Process Jul 21, 2011 at 3:00 p.m. Eastern / 12:00 p.m. Pacific (60 minutes) Many companies have virtualized their test and development environments as a first foray into virtualization. But even on this small scale, some of the challenges of managing virtual infrastructures become evident. Manual provisioning processes can delay the delivery of virtual machines to developers. Developers may oversize their requirements just to save time, which results in VM sprawl as test/dev machines are abandoned and forgotten. REGISTER >>

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