VMware has a well earned and well deserved reputation as a leader in the virtualization space. VMware was by no means the first vendor to develop virtualization -- that would be IBM back in the 70s on their mainframes. However, VMware was/is the market leader in popularizing…

None yet. I have built multiple XenServer pools (simple HA pairs for SMB to large Enterprise deployments).

We haven't encountered any issues with stability.

With live migration, there is no downtime when any node needs service or upgrades. Plus, when I need more memory, I just allocate it; more disk space? same. It is possible to administer almost anything remotely, now it takes months till a customer needs a weekend visit to…

SQL Server for big data but MySQL for small data. I support MySQL.

Rackspace's support is pretty awesome and I think that is one area that they truly excel in.

ASIQ offers a query engine where I can design a fully denormalized schema depending on business needs. It has the best performance in data retrieval compared to other database engines and reduces HW cost, achieving up to 70% less storage; Database is smaller than input data…

I agree with Gartner's 2014 report. Tableau desktop software is a powerful analytic tool

I primarily work with Microsoft Azure Cloud Platform. I will just focus on Azure suggestions: - IaaS deployments are slow with Windows VMs

In adopting Cloud Foundry, the “big aha” included the forecasted 50% reduction of effort and increased efficiency within the software development lifecycle (SDLC). - See more at…

Application component deep-dive monitoring — the fine-grained monitoring of resources consumed by, and events occurring within, the components discovered in the second dimension.

ZABBIX ... of course :) We are working with this wonderful monitoring tool since 2008

Verix has an excellent understanding of what drives sales and what data is needed most by pharma sales representative. This is apparent in the way the solution is organized in that it has the flexibility to accommodate the needs of the sales representatives. They have…

I agree. VMware is a very mature technology with more than 10 years running in the datacenters around the world. Many solutions were tested on this platform.

Much to the fact that it's stable, reliable, robust, secure above all flexible. We are running 7 host's of Esxi 5.1 and around 70+ virtual servers.

It is the easiest to use and simplest to learn. The coding is just simple.

Differing license models between vendors can make an "apples with apples" comparison very challenging and confusing. Calculating initial license costs on a cost per user basis and building three and five year total license cost scenarios are useful metrics when comparing BI…

Data warehouses are widely used within the largest and most complex businesses in the world Use within moderately large organizations, even those with more than 1,000 employees remains surprisingly low at the moment. We are confident that use of this technology will grow…

The Cloud Expo in New York City was this week. The conference was dominated by private and hybrid cloud topics. There were several private Platform as a Service (PaaS) vendors attending whom I spent a great deal of time talking to as I walked the floor. It seems these days…

The general review around AWS has not changed much. Such has been the widespread difference between AWS and it's most nearest competitor, there has always been a yawning gap between them Given Microsoft's entry into the leader's bracket this year is not something that…

QlikView does an excellent job of evolving with an organization as it can move faster than an organization thinks. As clients work with their data, their business understanding grows.

Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Windows Azure and Google are the major cloud hosting and storage service providers. Athough Amazon is at the top of the list and is the oldest in the cloud market, Rackspace, Microsoft and Google are giving tough competition to each other and…

VMware does tend to be pricier than competitors

I would always recommend to go with VMware virtualization

OBIEE is very powerful when it comes to huge data volumes

Beginning with version 7.0.4, Tableau supports connecting directly SAP® Business Information Warehouse (SAP BW) using the Tableau SAP BW connector. The Tableau SAP BW connector uses the OLE DB for OLAP provider and issues live queries to SAP BW using the MDX query language…

The following features are not supported by Microsoft Azure SQL Database: • SQL Server Utility, • Master Data Services etc.