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Fortisphere - if you can't see it, you can't manage it

Fortisphere's impressive story has gotten more impressive since we last spoke. While VMware, Microsoft, Citrix and the like have tools that do some of the things Fortesphere's Virtual Service Management does, Fortisphere has a strong set of capabilities and should be considered by Dan Kusnetzky

Tags: Citrix Systems Inc., VMware Inc., Fortisphere, Productivity, Virtualization, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-09-23

Fortisphere Virtual Essentials 2.0

As I'm clearing my desk to prepare for Citrix's event this week, I thought it would be good to post about Fortisphere's recent move. Fortisphere, a Kusnetzky Group Client, recently launched version 2 of its Virtual Essentials. Virtual Essentials is a tool that provides agentless, policy-based mangement of virtual machines....

Tags: Virtual Machine, Fortisphere, Virtual Essentials, Desktop Virtualization, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-09-08

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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

News to know: IDF; Skype; New neutrality; HP; Palm; Madoff

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. John Morris: Intel: 32nm is just the beginning Sam Diaz: Intel on laptop chips: Speed kills Mary Jo...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Richard Koman, Hewlett-Packard Co., Twitter Inc., Palm Inc., Andrew Nusca, Skype Technologies S.A., Laptop Computer, Intel Corp., Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Microsoft Windows, Notebooks, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Notebooks & Tablets, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-09-24

Doing the VMware Dance Day 3

VMware Day 1 Summary The first official day of VMworld found me running from meeting to meeting. I did find a short time to walk the show area. This offered the opportunity to speak with several users of virtualized environments and various vendors who are part of the...

Tags: VMware Inc., Virtualization, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-09-02

Desktop virtualization on display at VMworld

One of the three pillars of Paul Maritz's VMworld Keynote address (see Notes from VMworld and Maritz: VMware’s Virtual DataCenter OS, VMware View is better next gen operating system than Windows and Hyper-V) focused on virtualizing the user desktop computing experience. He spoke of this like it was a new...

Tags: Solution, Thin Client, High-performance, VMware Inc., Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Thin Clients, Desktop Virtualization, Desktops, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-09-17

Embotics V-Scout

By the time you read this, I should be winging my way out to the Citrix event. I hope to post on what a learn there in the coming days. I had the chance to speak once again with David Lynch of Embotics. As usual, the conversation...

Tags: Environment, Embotics V-Commander 2.0, Data Centers, Productivity, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-09-09

News to know: Google; Green IT; Oracle; Apple

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason Perlow: To Boldly Go Where No Search Engine Has Gone Before Beet.TV: Breaking News: Satellite to Gather Exclusive Images for Google Earth Blasts off in California...Larry...

Tags: Google Inc., Oracle Corp., Dana Blankenhorn, Green IT, Apple Inc., Video, Microsoft Corp., Google Chrome, Corporate Communications, Rootkits, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Game Players, Marketing, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-08

Embotics V-Commander 2.0

Management of virtualized resources appears to loom large in the thoughts of suppliers. The most recent supplier to present their view of how to regain control of the environment is Embotics. The company's V-Commander V2.0 was the topic of the day. Embotics insists that this product will help organizations with...

Tags: Data Center, Virtual Machine, Tool, Embotics V-Commander 2.0, Desktop Virtualization, Data Centers, Productivity, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-06-27

RingCube - taking your mojo with you

I had an entertaining conversation about MojoPac with Ron DiBiase, VP of Sales and Business Development for RingCube, a short while ago. When I was first approached, I was puzzled by their use of the term "desktop virtualization" because it is not at all clear what layer or layers of...

Tags: Desktop, RingCube, MojoPac Enterprise Suite, MojoStation, MojoDrive, MojoNet, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-01-14

Response to InfoWorld's Choices on 2007's Top Technology

First of all, I must note for the record that InfoWorld has never given me an award as being top in any category. I'm thankful that they've spared their readers that pain. Now that I've gotten that over with, I'd like to comment on an article I recently read over...

Tags: InfoWorld, Catbird, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-01-09

Fortisphere launch

I just ran across a newcomer to the virtualization market, Fortisphere. Their focus is on lifecycle management for virtual resources. They're offering two products, Fortisphere Virtual Insightâ„¢ and Virtual Foresightâ„¢. They're also offering these two products together in a suite, Virtual Essentialsâ„¢. In their own words ...

Tags: Lifecycle Management, Best Practice, Virtual Machine, Fortisphere Virtual Insight, Smart Growth, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2007-11-23

Commentary on "Accelerate virtualization adoption"

I was doing my morning news scan and came across Accelerate virtualization adoption--Seven tips to smart growth by John Suit, CTO at Fortisphere. Although the comments appear to address the adoption of virtual machine software to create virtual servers or virtual clients rather than a broader view of virtualization. That...

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

Blog posts 2007-11-15