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Virtualization discussion with Oracle: I recently had a chance to chat with Oracle's vice president of Linux engineering, Wim Coekaerts, and senior director of product marketing, Monica Kumar, about Oracles virtualization efforts and a bit about the philosophy behind the company's efforts. In summary, Oracle sees virtualization technology as just another tool organizations can...; Tags: Oracle Corp., Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-05-08
ClearCube Spins off VDIworks: ClearCube has long offered an interesting desktop virtualization environment that is based upon its VMware-enabled ClearCube PC blades with its Sentral™ management software. When combined, the two create a very usable virtual desktop environment. Each PC blade can be used as a computing resource for multiple users. My post...; Tags: ClearCube Technology, VDIworks, Desktops, Blade Servers, Hardware, Servers, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-05-06
Quick note from MyCareTeam: I just got a note from an old friend, Greg Pettit, and thought I'd pass it on to you. Here's a snippet from his message. I wanted to give you a quick update on MyCareTeam, Inc. and let you know about a special offer that will be available until...; Tags: Software, Offer, MyCareTeam Inc., Tools & Techniques, Federal Government, Management, Government, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-05-05
BLADE Networks and Network Virtualization: I don't often get the opportunity to speak with companies offering a different take on network virtualization, a blade networking approach. A week ago, I had a chance to speak with Dan Tuchler, VP of Strategy and Product Management, for BLADE Network Technologies (BLADE) about network virtualization for blade servers....; Tags: Network, Blade, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-05-05
Off Topic: Desktop evaluation - Linux, Mac OS and Windows: I've been asked by a KG client to run through a specific set of functions on a specific set of desktop environments and report back to them on my experiences. I'm to include such things as how long it took to set things up, how quickly it would take their...; Tags: Apple Macintosh, Operating System, Environment, Server, File Server, Microsoft Windows, File Servers, Linux, Operating Systems, Apple Mac OS, Desktops, Software, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-05-02

Selecting the right virtualization tools: Virtualization is a very broad topic that includes mechanisms to move many types of functions into a logical environment that can have enhanced characteristics over physical environments. Access to applications, the applications themselves, processing of system functions, networking functions, storage functions can all be moved into this logical or virtual...; Tags: Tool, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-05-01
Betas of Microsoft's management tools announced: Microsoft Management Summit opened on Tuesday. Microsoft's Bob Muglia, senior VP of Microsoft's Server and Tools business announced that two products, System Center Operations Manager 2007 Cross Platform Extensions and System Center Virtual Machine Manager, have reached the public beta phase of product development. It appears that Microsoft's main message...; Tags: Microsoft Corp., Beta, System Center Operations Manager 2007 Cross Platform Extensions, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-04-30
Survey Data - CA: Towards the beginning of April, I was approached by representatives of CA who wanted me to discuss a then-recent survey about the adoption of virtualization technology. Having conducted numerous studies while I was with IDC, I'm always skeptical when looking at survey data. The results may either be...; Tags: Result, Survey, Computer Associates International Inc., Results, Marketing Research, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-04-21
Sun xVM Ops Center: I've long known that Sun is one of the few suppliers that has an entry in nearly every virtualization software category listed in the Kusnetzky Group Model. This not only allows the company to address organization's requirements at almost every level. This also means that I don't have a chance...; Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun xVM Ops Center, Sun Solaris, Data Centers, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-04-18
Could 3Leaf's Virtual Compute Environment Grow on You?: B.V. Jagadeesh, CEO of 3Leaf Systems, and I had a long, interesting discussion of what it would take to create the proper hardware platform for an agile, highly reliable, high performance environment using industry standard components when and wherever possible. It was pretty clear that that path requires the creation...; Tags: Data Center, Environment, I/O, Industry Standard, Industry, 3Leaf Systems, Data Centers, Storage, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-04-16
Skytap and the test lab in the clouds: Several companies in the virtualization software club have focused on using some combination of virtual machine software, virtual access software and management software for virtual environments to make development and testing easier and more productive. Since most organizations having industry standard system configurations are only using a fraction of the...; Tags: Software, Information Technology, Environment, Resource, Skytap, Skytap Virtual Lab, Skytap Library, End-user Organization, Virtualization, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Management, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-04-14
Why all the recent focus on "desktop virtualization": It seems that just about every day I hear from a newcomer to the virtualization software market that has focused its time and creativity on "desktop virtualization." I've got one or two posts to write on companies of this nature and still more are appearing. Some are focused on accessing...; Tags: Desktop Virtualization, Desktops, Virtualization, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-04-11
Sears and the dishwasher that didn't: This is a customer service horror story that has a happy ending. After twelve years of service, our dishwasher finally gave up and died. We looked all over town to find the best dishwasher that would fit in the space currently occupied by the old one and, of course, at...; Tags: Sears Roebuck & Co., Person, Machine, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-04-10
HP and Desktop Virtualization: In a seemingly endless list of competitors in what could be called "desktop virtualization," HP stands out as one of the few competitors that plays in desktop systems, portable systems, handheld systems, blade PCs, blade servers, traditional servers, software and professional services. So, when Tad Bodeman of HP wanted to...; Tags: Desktop Virtualization, Hewlett-Packard Co., Blade Servers, Desktops, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-04-09
InstallFree and Desktop Virtualization: It seems that various forms of "desktop virtualization" are coming from everywhere right now. I've spoken with a number of market newcomers and still come across new, interesting approaches to offering people the "desktop experience" without requiring their own desktop computer. I had the chance to speak with Yori Gabay,...; Tags: Application, Desktop Virtualization, Environment, Virtual Machine, InstallFree Desktop, IFV, IFV Application, IFV Desktop, Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-04-08
MokaFive and Desktop Virtualization: MokaFive is lauching MokaFive Virtual Desktop Solution™, its entry into the rapidly moving "desktop virtualization market, today. Although the claims MokaFive is making sound similar to many other suppliers in this area, the company appears to have come up with a slighly different approach, one that just make the process...; Tags: Security, Desktop Virtualization, MokaFive, LivePC, Desktops, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-04-07
Endeavors Technologies Application Jukebox: An interesting spin on application virtualization: Endeavors Technologies just launched its Application Jukebox, an application virtualization and delivery product. It appears to me that this product takes the concepts of application encapsulation and application streaming to a new level. Here's how Endeavors describes their technology Endeavors Technologies, the...; Tags: Application, Jukebox, Application Virtualization, Application Jukebox, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-04-04
Provision Network's view of desktop virtualization: Paul Ghostine, Vice President/General Manager of Quest's Provision Networks Division, and I had a chance to catch up on a number of things centering on the concept of desktop virtualization and what is really needed to give people the experience of having their own dedicated desktop device while also giving...; Tags: Desktop Virtualization, Virtualization, Network, Desktops, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-04-03
VirtualLogix VLX for Network Infrastructure v3.0 Supports Windows: Virtual machine technology has many uses. Most are familiar with using this technology to create virtual servers. Some are familiar with how virtual machine software combined with connection brokers or virtual access software can be used to create virtual clients or desktops. Few are knowledgeable when it comes to the...; Tags: Network Infrastructure, Network, Environment, Storage, Microsoft Windows, Virtual Machine, Virtual Machine Technology, VirtualLogix, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-04-02
Citrix and NetApp Do the Virtualization Dance Together: I see that Citrix and NetApp have gotten together to provide a virtual processing/virtual storage solution. As I mentioned in the post The dynamic duo of virtual storage and virtual processing, virtual processing and virtual storage are powerful separately but, using them ought to be part of most organization's virtualized...; Tags: Virtualization, Citrix Systems Inc., NetApp, VMware Obviously, Storage, Data Management, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-03-31