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Is VMware really becoming the new mainframe?

CIO Business Intelligence

The comparison of VMware to mainframes started as a bit of a joke for Gartner vice president analyst Michael Warrilow but the analogy holds up, to a point, he says. The comparison works a bit, maybe from a stickiness perspective, because customers have built their applications and workload using virtualization technology on VMware, he says.

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Google Buys Actifio — Who Knew Backups Were So Juicy?

Forrester IT

Last week, Google announced the acquisition of Actifio and plans to integrate Actifio’s technology as a first-party data protection solution akin to Azure Site Recovery. In comparison, AWS’s CloudEndure Disaster Recovery and Azure Site Recovery are more limited in functionality and scope than the capabilities Actifio gives Google.

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BC & DR Pros, We Need Your Help!

Forrester IT

Each year, Forrester Research and the Disaster Recovery Journal team up to launch a study examining the state of business resiliency. Each year, we focus on a particular resiliency domain: IT disaster recovery, business continuity, or overall enterprise risk management. Disaster recovery.

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Multicloud by design approach simplifies the cloud experience

CIO Business Intelligence

It can also improve business continuity and disaster recovery and help avoid vendor lock-in. In comparison, a multicloud-by-design model helps overcome the challenges that may arise while operating a multicloud environment. However, a multicloud—usually multi-vendor—model is inherently complex to operate.

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Cedexis Now Tracks Performance for 50 Clouds » Data Center.

Data Center Knowledge

Collecting nearly 1 billion measurements per day around the world, Radar provides performance metrics on cloud platform performance, both in absolute terms and in comparison to other providers. Disaster Recovery. Silicon Valley. North Carolina. Data Center Infrastructure Management. News Channels White Papers. Events Calendar.

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Fountainhead: Alternative Recommendation for DCeP "Service.

Fountainhead

Another enterprise with the same email application may be operating in a Tier-III datacenter environment with a rigorously-controlled response rate, a full disaster-recovery requirement, and 2GB of storage per mailbox. These two SLA examples are quite different and will therefore consume different power.

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GI Partners Buys LA Telecom Hub One Wilshire » Data Center.

Data Center Knowledge

By comparison, the U.S. Disaster Recovery. The reported sale price of $437 million works out to $660 a square foot, according to the LA Times , a huge premium to recent valuations for commercial real estate in Los Angeles. Bank Tower recently sold for about $260 a square foot. Silicon Valley. North Carolina. Events Calendar.