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Sumit Kumar

October 23, 2015Simplifying VDI with Manila and NetApp

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, or VDI, is a variation of the client-server computing model. This process, wherein user desktops are hosted within virtual machines running on a centralized server is becoming increasingly common in IT environments. It provides IT practitioners an efficient way to support growing computing needs of the end-user, and enable better security.Even though...
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August 26, 2015Flocker, Docker, Cinder, & NetApp!

Being able to run about four-to-six times the number of server application instances in comparison to traditional VMs on the same hardware is one of the reasons why the adoption rate of Docker containers has skyrocketed. The advantage of containers in packaging applications, dependencies, and configurations not only allows portable and flexible packaged applications that...
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