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Differences Between Virtualization and Cloud Environments

January 10, 2012 By Editor Leave a Comment
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Virtualization Does Not Equal Cloud, But They Are Related As Director of Cloud and Virtualization Solutions at Carousel Industries, Phil Magnuszewski gets asked lots of questions about IT architectures and technologies. One question he gets frequently of late, he says, is something to the effect of, “Is cloud technology essentially the same as virtualization?” The short answer is, “no,” Magnuszewski says, although virtualization does enable a cloud environment. To shed light on the subject, today we’re going to offer our perspective on what constitutes virtualization and how it relates to private cloud, public cloud and hybrid cloud technologies.  (For information… Continue Reading ›

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CIO Tech Talk Wrapup – Westcon Group’s Bill Hurley

May 24, 2011 By Editor 1 Comment
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In the most recent of our CIO Tech Talks last Friday, we spoke with Bill Hurley, Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice-President of Westcon Group, Inc. a leading international technology distributor. In a lively discussion moderated by Tom McCoy, former CIO of American International Group (AIG) a lot of ground was covered on a variety of hot topics. Here are some of the highlights of that conversation: Virtualization Westcon started down the path of virtualization as a way to make sure older, legacy applications were protected and stayed alive. They quickly realized the business benefits including server consolidation, easier management,… Continue Reading ›

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Streamlining The Cloud: Riverbed Technology Interview – Partner Podcast

April 11, 2011 By Editor Leave a Comment
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Take a listen to this information packed interview with Evan Marcus, the Product Evangelistfor Riverbed Technology. Riverbed is a Carousel partner that specializes in improving performance and security for Wide-Area-Networks and Cloud solutions. Essentially, their technology makes networks run a lot faster, making your WAN feel like a LAN.  Topics we discuss: Issues to Consider when Migrating to Cloud Services Performance – How to ensure users get the same or improved performance relative to local services. Security – How to provide the same level of security on the cloud as you do locally Vendor Lockin – Avoiding having your data trapped… Continue Reading ›

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Types of Cloud Computing Offerings – An Overview

February 25, 2011 By Editor 1 Comment
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It’s All About The Cloud these days. We’re not complaining.  This is an area that we are passionate about, and we believe is living up to the hype in terms of efficiency and cost savings.  We read as much about it as we can, make connections with new providers and partners and look for ways to help our customers benefit from new developments.  Over the next several months, we’re going to delve more deeply into various aspects of Cloud Computing, but we thought we’d start with an overview of what the different types of cloud computing are, what type of… Continue Reading ›

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Private Clouds – 4 Critical Steps For Implementation

February 11, 2011 By Editor Leave a Comment
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Check out the whole interview on cloud computing with Carousel’s Virtualization and Cloud computing guru, Phil Magnuszewski When it comes to s, , “we are witnessing the very beginning of “the most significant architectural shift in IT in years.” according to Phil Magnuszewski of Carousel Industries.  ”Things are developing and evolving at breakneck speed”. IT teams are suddenly finding themselves in competition with services and software being delivered over the public cloud.  Consumers are getting more and more savvy about accessing public cloud solutions and enjoy the ease and self service nature of this type of computing.  Employees (savvy consumers themselves!)… Continue Reading ›

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