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When creating a disaster recovery solution using Site Recovery Manager and vSphere Replication there are a few best practices and tips that can be used to make the project a success and the transition smoother. We’ve asked Wayne Shaw, Systems Architect, from service provider Hosting.com to share some real-world observations and recommendations to consider when planning your disaster recovery solution.  Read More

For those of you who have been running CommVault in a multi-tenant environment, you know that we've made many enhancements over the past five years to specifically address the needs of cloud providers. The latest release of Simpana® software is no exception. We've been working hard with product management and development to create an easy-to-use portal and API set. Cloud providers want to offer its clients some self-service tasks but don't want to administer many lines of command line code to do it. Now, with CommVault's web console, it's easy to skin the console and make it available as a standalone portal or leverage the API set and integrate it into your own portal.  Read More

VMware users who want to run virtualized workloads in the cloud now have 94 cloud service providers to choose from in a wide variety of worldwide geographies. VMware has decided that its fight to remain the leading virtualization software supplier may be decided not in the data center but in the cloud. At least that appears to be its conclusion, as it rapidly expands a cloud ecosystem that is compatible with its product line. VMware users now have 94 cloud service providers to choose from in a wide variety of geographies, company spokesmen announced Tuesday. In addition, VMware is redoubling its efforts to make those service providers more functional and effective.   Read More

Diverse Industry Body Drives Alignment and Development Standards  Read More

Drupal on the Bayou conference highlights open source CMS leader As I wrote earlier this week, few markets have such a rich selection of quality open source products as does the content management systems (CMS) space. One of the leaders in the open source CMS market is Drupal. In fact this blog post is written on a Drupal system. Down in the Big Easy on December 8th and 9th there will be a Drupal conference called Drupal on the Bayou.   Read More

by Kim Borg ‘Data loss’ and ‘catastrophic disaster’ are words that evoke fear in the hearts of even the most meticulous IT managers. Indeed, in the blink of an eye, a disaster can render a business incapacitated, bringing operations to a grinding halt.   Read More

The use of gamification to drive increased productivity or learning is catching on, as employers find that game-playing is successful in driving desired behavior -- especially with generations that grew up using social networks and online games. Hosting.com is using a gamification platform from Big Door, based in Seattle, to drive its training efforts.   Read More

Hosting.com announced as one of four service providers to offer disaster recovery to the cloud with vCenter Site Recovery Manager™ 5, which will make it simple and cost-effective for businesses of all sizes to protect their applications by allowing them to failover to a Hosting.com recovery site in the event of a disaster.  Read More

More than 30 VMware Service Provider Partners deliver VMware vCloud® Powered Services Based on VMware vSphere®, vCloud DirectorTM and the vCloud API  Read More

Financial Industry Technology Developer Offers Clients Access to Cloud-based, Secure SaaS.  Read More