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Jon Brodkin

Jon Brodkin

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Recent articles by Jon Brodkin

60% of virtual servers less secure than physical machines, Gartner says

March 15, 2010

Sixty percent of virtual servers are less secure than the physical servers they place, the analyst firm Gartner said in new research Monday.

Virtual desktop start-up targets VMware and Citrix users

March 10, 2010

A virtual desktop start-up Unidesk is aiming to improve deployments of VMware View and Citrix XenDesktop with management software that it says reduces storage costs and gives users a more personalized desktop than the VDI tools by themselves.

VMware unveils experimental projects on new Web site

March 09, 2010

VMware is making experimental projects available to developers through a new "VMware Labs" Web site.

Sun's open source chief leaves following Oracle merger

March 09, 2010

Sun open source chief Simon Phipps announces his departure in a blog post.

Data centers tackling cyber terrorism, slowly

March 05, 2010

The data center is receiving more public scrutiny than ever before, with IT managers facing a range of challenges from making systems run more efficiently to protecting computers from cyber terrorism, says AFCOM chief executive Jill Eckhaus.

Juniper helps virtualization security vendor Altor raise $10 million

March 04, 2010

Virtualization security vendor Altor Network has raised $10 million in a new funding round from investors including Juniper Networks.

EMC: Flash could spell doom for Fibre Channel

March 03, 2010

Fibre Channel storage could be a thing of the past in just a few years as enterprises increase adoption of flash memory for I/O-intensive applications, while storing less-frequently used data on inexpensive SATA drives.

Is Novell worth $2 billion?

March 03, 2010

Novell isn't the IT giant it once was, but the company may be well worth the $2 billion offered in a takeover bid by a New York hedge fund, analysts say.

IBM brings memory flexibility to x86 servers

March 02, 2010

IBM's new class of x86 servers based on Intel Nehalem-EX chips treat memory, processors and solid-state disk as interchangeable components.

5 things VMware must do to fend off Microsoft

March 01, 2010

To stay ahead of Microsoft, VMware will have to cut prices, bolster security, simplify management and successfully navigate the desktop and the cloud.