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Lanamark Virtualization Services Software

Mark Angelo, CEO and founder of Lanamark,spoke a while ago about the challenges virtualization technology can pose for providers of IT services. This folks are often known by a number of different names including channel partners, service providers and the like. Virtualization technology, in Mark's view, offers these people a...

Tags: Software, Server, Analysis, Application Workload, Server Resource, Lanamark Explorer, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-06-23

The Scalability Revolution: From Dead End to Open Road

Application workload is growing at an increasing pace, making scalability a prime concern of application designers and administrators. This paper defines scalability, and shows that inherent scalability barriers represent a dead end for today's tier-based business-critical applications. It argues that in order to survive, these applications must achieve linear scalability,...

Tags: Scalability, GigaSpaces, Application Workload

White papers 2007-02-01

Additional Resources

Five reasons to deliver a virtual service, not a virtual server

What began as an interesting technological experiment has now become an opportunity for IT to shape its future, says Fortisphere's Lilac Berniker Commentary - As virtualization becomes an increasingly commonplace technology in the datacenter, the breadth of stakeholders in the virtual environment is growing. ...

Tags: Information Technology, Workload, Virtual Server, Server, Strategy, Management, virtualization, Lilac Berniker Fortisphere, Special to ZDNet, Lilac Berniker Fortisphere, Special to ZDNet

News items 2009-10-29

RationalPlan Single Project 3.15.6 (Windows)

RationalPlan is a powerful project management software designed to assist project managers in developing plans, allocating resources, tracking progress, managing budgets and analyzing workload. Whether your application is in the area of construction, engineering, services.

Tags: Microsoft Windows, RationalPlan, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management

Software downloads 2009-10-27

Risk management and cloud computing

In my view, security is a critical component of a successful cloud computing implementation regardless of the company size, the vertical market it plays in or what workload or application is living in the cloud. In the world of business intelligence, this translates to risk and risk management. by...

Tags: Risk Management, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Financial Planning, Financial Services, Security, Hardware, Finance, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-09-11

Waking up to the full extent of virtualization options

While doing my morning expedition through the wilds of news sites, blogs and, of course, comic strip sites, I came across something by Laura McCabe, a partner at Hurwitz and Associates, titled "What is Virtualization, and Why Should You Care?" While Laura's comments are useful, she didn't try to present...

Tags: Software Technology, Environment, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-08-18

Virtual Machine Software Blinders

Is it me, or is it true that suppliers and organizations have become infatuated with the concept that virtualization is solely and only equal to the use of virtual machine software to create virtual servers or virtual desktops/clients/users? It seems that almost every time I speak with...

Tags: Virtual Machine, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-08-07

Novell PlateSpin Migrate really moves Solaris workloads

Novell introduced me to the features of the newest release of PlateSpin Migrate the other day. If you'll recall, I've offered a number of posts on Novell's PlateSpin unit. The most recent of these is Novell PlateSpin Recon 3.6. Novell appears to be one of the few suppliers that offer...

Tags: PlateSpin Inc., Novell Inc., Workload, Data Centers, Sun Solaris, Servers, Virtualization, Operating Systems, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Software, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-07-17

WinMend Registry Cleaner 1.5 (Windows)

WinMend Registry Cleaner is a powerful and secure registry cleaning and optimization application. It has four main function modules: Registry Cleaner, Registry Optimizer, Registry Backup, and Scheduler. The application can efficiently and comprehensively analyze system, accurately locate errors and obsolete data, safely fix or delete them, thus effectively reducing the...

Tags: Registry, Microsoft Windows, WinMend, WinMend Registry Cleaner

Software downloads 2009-07-14

Weyerhaeuser Rehosts Natural Adabas Application on HP Integrity Servers

One of the world's largest forest products companies, Weyerhaeuser Company operates in 10 countries and employs approximately 19,000 people, primarily in the United States and Canada. It needed to rapidly transition application to a scalable, distributed platform without excessive cost, risk, or retraining. It deployed to rehost 475 MIPS Natural...

Tags: HP Integrity, Hewlett-Packard Co., Weyerhaeuser Co., Servers, Mainframes, Operating Systems, Utility Computing, Hardware, Software

Case studies 2009-07-01

IBM Mainframe Migration to HP Integrity Server and HP-UX 11i Environment Helps Optimize Business Processes

One of the world's largest forest products companies, Weyerhaeuser Company operates in 10 countries and employs approximately 19,000 people, primarily in the United States and Canada. Weyerhaeuser Company wanted to rapidly transition application to a scalable, distributed platform without excessive cost, risk, or retraining. Weyerhaeuser Company rehosted 475 MIPS Natural...

Tags: HP Integrity, Business Process, HP-UX, IBM Mainframe, Hewlett-Packard Co., Weyerhaeuser Co., Environment, Oracle11i, Migration, IBM Corp., Mainframes, Servers, Operating Systems, UNIX, Databases, Hardware, Software, Enterprise Software, Data Management

Case studies 2009-07-01

Learn Kana Easy 1.0.3456 (Windows)

Learn Kana Easy - Basic is a free application for learning the Japanese alphabet which runs on windows. Allowing anyone wanting to learn the Japanese alphabet to do just that, in easy steps through an intuitive user interface. For free? For free. A simple interface makes learning the Japanese alphabet...

Tags: Kana Software Inc., Alphabet, Symbol, Squidge Software, Microsoft Windows, Construction, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-06-29

RNA Networks launches RNAcache

RNA Networks is launching RNAcache, a product that lives along the border of processing virtualization, network virtualization and storage virtualization by offering the capability to use server memory on many systems as a shared network resource. RNA Networks is one a number of suppliers that are melding high performance computing,...

Tags: RNA, Data Center, Virtualization, RNA Networks, RNACACHE RNA Network, Biotechnology, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-06-23

Virtual Instruments customer profile

I always enjoy the opportunity to communicate with a representative of a company using technology to counter balance discussions I have with the suppliers of that technology. On some occasions, the company does not want its name mentioned. This commentary on Virtual Instruments' NetWisdom is a case in point. I...

Tags: Disk, Performance, Virtual Instruments NetWisdom, Performance Management, Backups, Storage, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-06-16

Virtual Instruments launches VirtualWisdom

Mark Urdahl, CEO, and Len Rosenthal, VP Marketing, of Virtual Instruments stopped by to let me know about VirtualWisdom, a product the company launched while at EMCword. Their product is designed to help organizations moving to a virtualized environment gain insight into and manage their virtual storage infrastructure. ...

Tags: Performance, VMware Inc., VirtualWisdom VirtualWisdom, VMware Performance Bottleneck, Virtualization, Performance Management, Storage, Hardware, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-06-05

SOA's new mission: move workloads in and out of the cloud

Lori MacVittie recently channeled Gartner's Daryl "G-Man" Plummer in an analysis of the converging roles of SOA and cloud computing. Essentially, the challenge with cloud computing comes along when you want to move workloads in and out of the cloud, versus entire applications. And Lori and Daryl...

Tags: SOA, Cloud, Lori MacVittie, Pieces, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-05-15

Citrix dazzles market -- and Microsoft -- with new Xen products

Citrix is putting some dazzle into its expanding virtualization and application delivery software portfolio -- and its relationship with Microsoft. At its annual conference known as Synergy 2009, the Ft Lauderdale, Fl company launched a series of new products and upgrades of its Xen virtualization software and...

Tags: Citrix Systems Inc., Xen, Microsoft Corp., Citrix Receiver Receiver, HDX Technology, Citrix XenServer 5.5 XenServer 5.5, Storage Integration Capability, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2009-05-05

Flash disk drives are a hit with enterprise customers, says Sun

Today, Sun announced hundreds of wins across a range of industries for its eco-friendly Sun Storage 7000 series since it was introduced 5 months ago. According to Sun, over 17 petabytes of total space has been purchased, making it "the fastest ramping new product in Sun's storage portfolio ever". Sun...

Tags: Disk, Disk Drive, Analytics, Sun Microsystems Inc., ZFS, Storage, Hardware, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2009-05-05

Linux in the Mainstream: Growing Deployment of Business-Critical Workloads

This white paper takes a look at the growth of Linux as a server operating system and how deployment form factors have changed over time. Today Linux has become a key server for supporting commercial workloads. This paper considers both workload data and the ecosystem that has grown up to...

Tags: International Data Group, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software

White papers 2009-05-01

Marathon Technologies everRun 2G and everRun VM Lockstep

I've been meeting to post something on the announcement of Marathon Technologies' everRun 2G and everRun VM Lockstep. I've spoken the the good folks of Marathon on many ocassions in the past (see Marathon Technologies launches everRun VM, Conversation with Marathon Technology and Marathon Technologies launches everRun CDP to catch...

Tags: Availability, Fault-tolerance, Marathon Technologies, 2G, Server Virtualization, Servers, Hardware, Virtualization, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-04-30