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Applications will perform exactly as before in a virtual environment

I've been reviewing some of the points of discussion in recent conversations with Kusnetzky Group clients in recent posts. This post focuses on how virtualization impacts application performance. Some suppliers are downplaying the impact their technology has on application performance and yet adding another layer of software...

Tags: Software, Application, Monitor, Performance, Environment, Clustering, Application Performance, Clustering Monitor, Performance Degradation, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2007-10-04

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Distributor Uses Virtualization to Reduce Disruptions and Costs, and Double Efficiency

Based in San Antonio, Texas, SPFM is a distributor of medical equipment, health and beauty products, and specialty food items. The company needed to modernize its IT infrastructure to accommodate rapid growth and improve the availability of critical applications. With the help of Catapult Systems, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner,...

Tags: Food, Microsoft Corp., Food & Beverage, Server Virtualization, Data Centers, Servers, Manufacturing, Hardware, Virtualization, Storage, Data Management

Case studies 2009-07-13

Interview with Andrea Vaccari, research associate at MIT's SENSEable City Laboratory

Now that machine and sensor data is joining social data traffic on the Internet, the ability to interpret and create meaning out of the information to improve life could be the post-Web 2.0 manifesto. MIT's Senseable City Lab has been on the task for years with various...

Tags: City, Mobile, Network, Data, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Cell Phone, Analysis, SENSEable City Laboratory, Cellular Phones, Networking, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-04-06

Surviving the recession with Free Enterprise OSes (Part 2)

In Part 1, I discussed the four Free Linux distributions that are best position to provide extended support and ample functionality to an end user through a protracted recession,  as well as having the characteristic "safeness" or "stability" factor in terms of being able to weather...

Tags: Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu, Sun Solaris 10, Red Hat Inc., Recession, Operating System, Novell OpenSuse, BSD, CentOS, Scientific Linux, LTS, LTS Version, Versions, Sun Solaris, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Servers, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-10-14

Costing Sun Ray vs Wintel

Costing Sun Ray vs WintelSo, you like Sun Ray, Yes? KiddingSeriously, interesting article--Sun Ray is looking better and better!There are so many good reasons to consider using Thin Client. Sun Ray just reinforces that.A few questionsWhy did you so much oversize the client. why use E7200 core duo ? why...

Tags: Servers, server, VMware Inc., Sun Ray, Costing Sun Ray, Sun Microsystems Inc., Wintel

Discussion threads 2008-07-02

Stratus Avance a new take on clustering

After many attempts at scheduling a meeting, I was finally able to speak with Stratus about their new virtual machine/clustering/HA software offering called Avance. It's Stratus' entry into the pure software market. Here's how Stratus describes Avance Stratus Technologies can provide some relief. With the introduction...

Tags: Software, Stratus Technologies, Clustering, Virtual Machine, Stratus Avance, Virtualization, Desktop Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-06-17

Why is the concept of virtual machine software so sticky?

As interesting as virtual client system and virtual server systems are, they're not the panacea that some in the industry present when speaking about their products. Why is it that when I speak to a Kusnetzky Group client, I almost always have to help them understand that virtualization is a...

Tags: Software, Operating System, Clustering, Technology, Virtual Machine, Machine, Virtual Machine Software, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-02-14

Why do people deploy processing virtualization?

Processing virtualization, in the Kusnetzky Group model of virtualization technology, is technology that operates at or below the operating system level that creates a logical or virtual environment that differs from the actual physical environment in some way. There are a number of benefits to working in...

Tags: Software, Environment, Clustering, Virtual Machine, Machine, Virtualization, Tools & Techniques, Hardware, Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-02-06

Check Point NGX CCSA/CCSE

Instantly save $300 off the standard course price when you register on TechRepublic, ZDNet, or BNET! Offer ends June 26, 2009.View Available Dates and LocationsThere are more Check Point firewalls protecting networks than any other firewall on the market. Check Point's patented stateful packet inspection sets the standard for other...

Tags: Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., Firewalls, Network Security, Security, Networking

Training 2008-01-01

Which should I choose Clustering or Virtual Machine Replication?

I was chatting with a Kusnetzky Group client the other day and he asked a question that seemed to have an obvious answer at first but, seemed more complex as we discussed it. The question was should his organization deploy a clustered solution, such as SteelEye's LifeKeeper or encapsulate applications...

Tags: Environment, Clustering, Replication, Virtual Machine, Virtualization, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2007-10-15

Commentary on "The Future of Virtualization..."

I read an interesting post, The Future Of Virtualization And What That Means For CIOs, that painted an intriguing, but rather limited view of the future. In this post, the author, John Soat, discussed the importance of BEA's Jrockit® 6 Java implementation that can run directly on a hypervisor without...

Tags: BEA Systems Inc., Virtualization, Computing, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2007-08-22

Composite Software tackles the speeds and feeds angle of SOA

As the amount of enterprise data explodes, so does the need to access this data from disparate and widely flung sources, increasing the market for data integration and management.Composite Software this week announced a major release of its Composite Information Server CIS, as well as a Composite Active Cluster, designed...

Tags: Web Services, Software Infrastructure, SOA architect, SOA, management, ITIL, IT Service Management, IT Management, datacenters, BI

Blog posts 2007-06-26

SWsoft - partitioned operating systems are better for hosters than virtual machines. Are they better for you?

I had a chance to speak with Douglas Johnson, Director of Marketing for the Hosting market for SWsoft about the company's approach to partitioned operating systems, what the company calls "Operating System Virtualization." Thanks for taking so much time discussing SWsoft with me, Doug! During the discussion, Doug spent some...

Tags: virtual machine software, virtual processing software, virtualization, Parallels Inc., operating system, software, virtual machine, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2007-06-18

Jump-Start Business Activity Monitoring (BAM), Part 6: Clustering IBM WebSphere Business Monitor V6.0.2 - A Guide to Install and Configure Your WebSphere Monitor V6.0.2 Deployment

Learn about clustering IBM WebSphere Business Monitor V6.0.2 and how to leverage the failover support provided with WebSphere clusters. Using step-by-step instructions in this paper, one also learns how to federate the dashboard portal machine into the WebSphere Business Monitor cell. These steps enable the user to install everything from...

Tags: Monitor, IBM WebSphere, Clustering, IBM Corp., Application Servers, Middleware, Portals, Monitors & Displays, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Hardware, Components

White papers 2007-06-05

Processing virtualization and green computing

As mentioned in my post titled, Virtualization and Green Computing, green computing the industry catch phrase for finding ways to make the most efficient use of computing resources. In this post, I'd like to look at processing virtualization and the role it plays in green computing. Processing virtualization, by the...

Tags: virtualization, virtual processing software, Green Computing

Blog posts 2007-05-20

Why choose a virtual environment?

Why do organizations choose to go to the time and trouble to adopt some form of virtualization technology? Those thinking that virtualization only refers to the use of virtual machine software to allow a single system to support multiple, encapsulated workloads would mention the factors of time and cost (see...

Tags: virtualization

Blog posts 2007-05-08

Single System Image Clusters - An Idea Who's Time Has Come and Gone

At one time, applications were constructed as a monolithic mass of code that implemented all of the functions required to implement a complete solution including user interface if it faced users, application processing, data management and storage management. Some of the more sophisticated applications also included tools for application...

Tags: clustering software, virtual processing software, virtualization

Blog posts 2007-05-01

Clusters, clusters and more clusters

Even though there are several different technologies involved and several different types of requirements, it now appears that any mulit-machine configuration is called a cluster. Heres a quick summary of the different configurations that are now using the same IT jargon term "Cluster". Application layer clusters:...

Tags: clustering software

Blog posts 2007-04-30

Fault Tolerant and Fail Over is There a Difference?

Fault tolerant FT solutions go beyond HA fail over solutions to present an environment that is never seen to fail not merely an environment that survives a failure. Some suppliers of FT technology call this "fail through" rather than fail over. I thought that was a well known concept...

Tags: virtualization, virtual storage software, virtual processing software, virtual machine software, virtual access software, remote access software, clustering software

Blog posts 2007-04-16

Data Center Automation in a New Light

In most modern data centers today, application management is a major undertaking. Large enterprises may have hundreds to thousands of servers, hosting thousands of applications. For a subset of applications needing specific uptimes, enterprises may deploy traditional high availability clustering. But these applications generally represent less than 10 percent of...

Tags: Application, Data Center, Monitoring, Automation, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management

White papers 2007-02-13