VMware has several big announcements planned for its VMworld conference, which begins on Monday. First, the company will announce its own distribution of the OpenStack cloud computing software. The new offering will allow customers to use the OpenStack technology, which is growing in popularity, while continuing to use VMware virtualization.
Microsoft has launched a preview version of DocumentDB, its NoSQL database service for Azure. Microsoft’s Scott Guthrie explained, “It allows you to store and query any JSON [JavaScript Object Notation] document, regardless of schema. The service provides built-in automatic indexing support?which means you can write JSON documents to the store
Enterprise monitoring needs over the years have been addressed by Microsoft Systems Centre Operations Manager to a large extent. The problem however is that SCOM produces a lot of noise and the data could very quickly become irrelevant for producing any actionable information. IT teams very easily fall in the