by Marius Sandbu | Jan 12, 2018 | Public Cloud
2017 was another busy year with less activity than I’d hoped for on my personal blog. Again work took me back and forth between multiple products, platforms and customer cases, from a DevOps project on Azure, to an IoT project on GCP, to a DR solution on IBM and an... 
by Gica Livada | Jan 10, 2018 | Virtualization
XenServer 7.3 has been released and the WhatMatrix Virtualization comparison has been updated accordingly reflecting the latest technical enhancements. This is Citrix’s latest “Current Release” (CR) – if you’re running a XenServer CR, but want... 
by Herman Rutten | Dec 28, 2017 | Hyper-converged, Software Defined Storage
As the final days of 2017 are rapidly approaching and the holiday season is in full swing, we provide you with a second set of updates to the SDS & HCI matrix – so we can enter the New Year fresh and without any back-log. Just a week ago we updated the... 
by Herman Rutten | Dec 19, 2017 | Hyper-converged, Software Defined Storage
Early December both Nutanix (rated #1 HCI) and DataCore (rated #1 SDS) released new versions of their software stack. The flurry of enhancements to these platforms shows that innovation in the SDS/HCI space is very much alive and not expected to come to a halt any... 
by Ephraim Baron | Nov 9, 2017 | Public Cloud
First established in 2009, Alibaba Cloud is one of the longest running public cloud providers and has come to dominate the market in China. While lagging against the global market leaders, their expansion last year into US and European datacenter locations shows their... 
by Community Editor | Nov 8, 2017 | CMPs, WhatMatrix Board
CMP Landscape Report 2019 announced – see hereIt’s been a big update to our ‘What CMP’ comparison, a complete review of the evaluation criteria, tied to a re-evaluation of all listed vendors and products through our community consultants. It... 
by Viktor van den Berg | Nov 2, 2017 | CMPs
With new evaluation criteria added to our Cloud Management Platform (CMP) comparison at WhatMatrix, it was time to (re)evaluate the latest versions of the different CMP solutions that are included in the comparision. Recently VMware released vRealize Suite 2017, that... 
by Herman Rutten | Oct 25, 2017 | Hyper-converged, Software Defined Storage
You normally would expect the summer to be a quiet period, even for the IT industry. But market dynamics just won’t allow it so it would seem, at least when in comes to the SDS/HCI space. Apart from new software releases there was also the occasional... 
by Ephraim Baron | Oct 18, 2017 | CMPs
Embotics vCommander has been updated to version 6.1 and it went straight into the top 3 of our CMP comparison after being evaluated by our CMP team. vCommander leverages a set of multi-hypervisor virtualization and cloud management capabilities to allow organizations... 
by Ephraim Baron | Oct 18, 2017 | CMPs
Looking back at the various releases of virtualization and cloud management applications that we have evaluated, we believe Red Hat has come a long way. As a company they have focused on adjusting to evolving market demands and changing perception of “open-source” in...
