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- Brightstar Corporation Increases Security and Saves Money with Provision Networks
- I had an opportunity to ask Anthony "Tony" Escarpenter, Infrastructure and Security, Brightstar Corporation, a few questions about how his organization is using tools from Provision Networks. Thanks Tony for finding time to communicate with me during a difficult time. I really appreciate it.Please tell me who you are and...
- Tags: virtual machine software, virtual access software, Managing virtualized environments, Consumer use of Virtualization
- Blog posts 2007-07-02
- Evident Software - Analyzing your network
- Out of the blue, I received an Email from Roger W. Boyce, President and CEO of Evident Software, offering to brief me on the company, its products and its direction. After scanning through the company's Website, I have to admit I was intrigued. I've spoken with many companies that are...
- Tags: Managing virtualized environments
- Blog posts 2007-06-19
- Conversation with Kevin Epstein, VP Marketing, Scailent
- Kevin Epstein, VP of Marketing for Scalent Systems, and I enjoyed a wonderful, rambling discussion of virtualization and what Scalent is doing. The company has developed a new catch phrase, "server re-purposing", to describe their ability to, in their words, Scalents Virtual Operating Environment (V/OE)...
- Tags: virtualization, virtual processing software, Managing virtualized environments
- Blog posts 2007-05-10
Additional Resources
- VMware to step up data center automation game
- ResponseThis is great news for the IT world. These tools will greatly improve the efficiency and effectiveness of virtual environments. And VMware is smart to focus on automation. They understand better than anyone that automation is the key to virtualization and then cloud computing.Without it, you?re not likely...
- Tags: Server virtualization, Virtualization, VMware Inc., game, automation, provisioning, virtual server
- Discussion threads 2009-09-27
- Savvis on Cisco's Unified Computing System
- Bryan Doerr, Chief Technology Officer, Savvis and I communicated about Cisco's Unifed Computing System UCS. Here are his answers to some questions that were posed to him. Since Savvis currently operates 29 data centers (a total of 1.4 million square feet of space), his views could be seen as...
- Tags: Data Center, Virtualization, Environment, Cisco Systems Inc., Savvis Communications, Data Centers, Servers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-07-20
- 10 Steps to Deploying a High-Performance Fault-Tolerant SAN Using Dell EqualLogic PS Series Storage and Cisco Catalyst Network Infrastructure
- The Dell EqualLogic family of iSCSI SANs is fundamentally changing the way enterprises think about purchasing and managing storage. Built on a virtualized peer storage architecture, the Dell EqualLogic PS Series simplifies the deployment and administration of consolidated storage environments. Its all-inclusive, intelligent feature set streamlines purchasing and delivers rapid...
- Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Dell EqualLogic, Hardware, High-performance, Network Infrastructure, SAN, Storage, Storage Area Networks (SAN)
- White papers 2009-06-01
- VMware wants to be your network operating system of choice
- Whenever a company changes the name of their major product you often have to wonder what level of change they are trying to signal. In the case of VMware which changed ESX to vSphere yesterday, the signal is one of intent. They could have called it vWorldDomination but that might...
- Tags: Fault-tolerance, Data Center, Network, Operating System, Network Operating System, VMware Inc., vSphere, VM, Fault-tolerance Feature, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, James Staten
- Blog posts 2009-04-22
- SolarWinds VM Monitor 1.0.1.31 (Windows)
- While virtualization has tremendous benefits, it adds new complexity when it comes to managing your network. Virtual machines VMs and their host ESX servers need performance and availability monitoring, just like their physical server counterparts. Your users don't care if their apps are running on physical servers or in virtual...
- Tags: Health Care, Server, Microsoft Windows, Virtual Machine, SolarWinds, Desktop Virtualization, Hardware, Virtualization
- Software downloads 2009-04-16
- Cisco vs the world and unasked for advice to Dell
- The rumors about Cisco offering a blade server abound now. If true, it would seem that Cisco wants to move up the stack from providing networking and network virtualization technology to providing a more complete computing environment. This would place them in direct competition with Dell, HP and IBM. The...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Network, Cisco Systems Inc., IBM Corp., Virtualization, Utility Computing, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-03-12
- Business Service Automation: HP and Virtualization
- Michel Feaster, Director of Products, Business Service Automation, of HP and I had an interesting conversation about managing, automating and orchestrating workloads and system resources. Although a cringe a bit when HP uses "BSA" as an acronym because it makes me think of things such as the BSA Motorcycles or...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Virtualization, Business Service, Automation, Strategy, Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-11-28
- Notes from VMworld
- Here are some random notes from VMworld. Paula is also here at the event and she has posted her own view of Paul Maritz's session. Conversation with Ed Walsh, CEO of Virtual Iron Ed Walsh, CEO of Virtual Iron, and I met for coffee prior to the beginning of...
- Tags: Desktop, IBM Lotus Notes, VMware Inc., Paula, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-09-16
- True Server Virtualization
- I see that Tony Asaro, Chief Strategy Officer over at Virtual Iron, recently presented some interesting comments about what makes up true server virtualization in his blog. In his post, he points out that "The hypervisor is important and is useful for consolidating servers. But true server virtualization isn't just...
- Tags: Environment, Server, Virtual Machine, Tool, Server Virtualization, Virtual Machine Software, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- 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
- Microsoft's unveils its grand virtualization strategy
- Updated 11:00 AM PST: Microsoft will formally unveil its grand virtualization strategy tomorrow at a Virtualization Deployment Summit in Bellevue, WA, highlighted by the acquisition of Calista Technologies, a deeper alliance with Citrix and initiatives for deploying virtualization from desktops to data centers (see also Mary Jo Foley's take on...
- Tags: Combination, Desktop, Server, Microsoft Windows, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Server 2008, EMC Corp., System Center, Hyper-V, Money Line, Application Virtualization, Presentation Virtualization, Microsoft System Center, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2008-01-21
- Managing hybrid environments
- Many suppliers of virtualization technology tell IT executives that all of their problems can be solved through the use of their technology. What they don’t often say is what they really mean is that everything will go well if the organization does the following things: Virtualizes everything...
- Tags: Environment, Virtualization Technology, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2007-12-07
- Virtual systems seen and unseen
- This is a segment of a recently published Kusnetzky Group paper. I thought you might enjoy reading it here. The appearance of virtual systems and virtual resources in the industry standard part of the data center has offered the hope of increased flexibility and reduced costs. It...
- Tags: Virtualization, Environment, Virtual Machine, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2007-11-30
- Virtual Machines - The Challenge of Vision
- Virtualization has the potential of offering tremendous advantages over physical environments, but in the move to virtual, the organization often lost some things it took for granted. One of those things is clarity of what is going on, where, and with whom. What’s WHAT? ...
- Tags: Data Center, Virtualization, Vision, Virtual Machine, Organization, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2007-11-28
- Rumination on industry trends
- Since starting this blog, I've had the chance to speak with representatives of over 80 different companies offering something related to virtualization. I find it's pretty easy to spot trends based upon what these suppliers tell me during our discussions. Although this certainly isn't an extensive or exhaustive list (I'm...
- Tags: Channel Management, Dan Kusnetzky, Environment, Hardware, Marketing, Network, Networking, Storage, Storage Management, Supplier, Utility Computing, Virtualization
- Blog posts 2007-11-08
- Endeavors Technologies Launches Application Jukebox
- Endeavors Technologies recently released Application Jukebox, an interesting take on application virtualization and management of those virtualized applications. Application Jukebox is meant to address the growing need for people to be able to access just about any application, on just about any intelligent device, while still allowing the organization the...
- Tags: Application, Mobile, Jukebox, Application Jukebox, Application Jukebox Lite Edition, Application Jukebox SaaS Edition, Application Jukebox Enterprise Edition, Application Jukebox Player, Application Jukebox Studio, Endeavors, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2007-10-31
- BriefingsDirect SOA Insights analysts on virtualization trends and role of IT operations efficiency for SOA
- Read a full transcript. The latest BriefingsDirect SOA Insights Edition, Vol. 24, provides a roundtable discussion and dissection of Services Oriented Architecture SOA-related news and events, with a panel of IT analysts. In this episode, our experts examine virtualization trends through the acquisition this summer of XenSource...
- Tags: Information Technology, Environment, Opsware Inc., Citrix Systems Inc., SOA, Microsoft Corp., Service, XenSource Inc., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Storage, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2007-10-17
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