Bluelock provides cloud-based virtual data centers to enterprises from a data center in Indianapolis and has about 70 customers, some of which have 100 or more virtual machines running.

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To succeed in the data center, he said, Microsoft’s operating system will need to interoperate well with Unix systems and other non-Microsoft platforms.

Cisco VFrame Data Center promises to provision on demand the resources needed to keep a virtual data center running, but industry watchers speculate if a network approach to technologies ...

A look at why 2010 will emerge as the year for virtualized storage virtual data centers. In 2009, many government agencies were focused on realizing the benefits of using virtualized servers.

Extreme's blueprint is expected to collide with Cisco's Data Center 3.0 strategy, Force10 Networks' Virtualization Framework, elements of Juniper's Stratus project and architectures pitched by ...

Infiniband vendor Voltaire took a big leap into the Ethernet data center switching arena with a core switch optimized for virtual environments and Layer 2 efficiency. Voltaire’s first Ethernet ...

Channel partners of Cisco, EMC, and VMware praise the vendors' Vblock blueprints for building virtual data centers and private computing clouds but want more information.

Hewlett-Packard hopes to play a bigger role in managing the virtual data center with updates to its Business Service Automation software announced on Tuesday. HP released updates to two products ...

Also noteworthy: VMware has built on the Elastic Virtual data center concept introduced in vCloud Director 1.5, a cornerstone to the pay-as-you-go resource-allocation model.

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