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InfoVista's VistaInsight for Servers A Windows on Your Enterprise

Hello, I'm Roger Sakowski, one of Dan Kusnetzky's colleagues at the Kusnetzky Group. Dan and I had a conversation with InfoVista recently and this post is a quick summary of that conversation.When is an enterprise or a landscape of enterprises delivering its potential? The question is at the heart...

Tags: Managing virtualized environments

Blog posts 2007-06-27

Dune Technologies Orchestration for VMware and Microsoft Virtual Server

Stefan Hochuli Paychère, Founder & CTO, of Dunes Technologies, spent a few moments speaking with my colleague, Roger Sakowski, and I to help us understand his company's products, VS-O and VD-O. Dunes appears to be working from the point of view that a revolutionary change is occurring in the industry...

Tags: Managing virtualized environments

Blog posts 2007-06-26

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

Citrix and Fujitsu cuddle closer together

Citrix and Fujitsu recently announced that they were taking their long-standing relationship to another level. Fujitisu has signed an OEM agreement with Citrix and will incorporate Citrix technology at a deeper level than ever before. The key questions are where these two companies think that they're going to get more...

Tags: Citrix Systems Inc., Customer, Fujitsu Ltd., Fujitisu, Virtualization, Desktop Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Utility Computing, Storage Management, Data Centers, Recruitment & Selection, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-07-14

Introducing Veritas Storage Foundation HA 5.0 for ASE Cluster Edition - Increasing the Manageability, Availability and Performance of Sybase ASE Cluster Edition Environments

The attendee of this webcast will learn how Symantec's market-leading storage management and clustering technology offers increased manageability, high availability and high performance in a Sybase ASE Cluster environment. Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise is optimized for managing vast transaction processing systems involving thousands of users. Now, for applications that require...

Tags: Performance, VERITAS Software Corp., VERITAS Storage Foundation, Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise, Environments Inc., Sybase Inc., ASE Cluster Edition, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Webcasts 2009-07-09

Managing and Deduplicating Data in Virtualized Environments With VMware and CommVault

The accelerating growth and deployment of server virtualization within the datacenter introduces a new set of challenges in managing and protecting volumes of data on physical and virtual systems. As one of the industry's leading data protection solutions, CommVault Simpana software directly addresses all the challenges of data management and...

Tags: Environment, VMware Inc., CommVault Systems Inc., Backups, Virtualization, Hardware

Webcasts 2009-06-18

Great Communication Delivers Excellent Results

IT personnel at John Brown spent too much time managing infrastructure issues. The organisation was experiencing explosive data growth and low server utilisation. Launching development environments was time consuming. Dell Consulting Services helped assess, design and implement a virtualized environment with optimised storage. The infrastructure featured Dell servers and storage,...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Servers, Storage, Hardware

Case studies 2009-06-01

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

DynamicOps self service management for virtual environments

A few days ago, I had the opportunity to speak with Rich Bourdeau DynamicOps' VP Marketing, and learn about Virtual Resource Manager VRM and this spin-off from Credit Suisse. DynamicOps is the result of project to allow virtual resources to be easily configured and provisioned based upon the organization's policies...

Tags: Credit Suisse Group AG, Dan Kusnetzky, Data Center, Data Centers, Data Management, Environment, Hardware, Information Technology, Rich Bourdeau DynamicOps, Service Management, Software, Storage, Virtual Environment

Blog posts 2008-10-29

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

Citrix launches XenServer 5.0 and Citrix Cloud Center (C3)

Citrix fired a one-two punch at VMware today by launching XenServer 5.0 and Citrix Cloud Center (C3). Let's look at each of the announcements separately. In short, Citrix is taking the open source Xen hypervisor and making it sing and dance. What Citrix had to...

Tags: Citrix Systems Inc., XenServer 5, Citrix C3 Solution, Server Virtualization, Virtualization, Servers, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-09-16

Building the ecosystem: Citrix and Platform Computing

David Roussain of Citrix and Peter Dyer of Platform Computing brought me up to speed on how the two companies are working together to provide a highly managable, agile computing environment based upon virtual machines supported by Citrix XenServer and Platform Computing's VM Orchestrator 4.0. ...

Tags: Environment, Citrix Systems Inc., Platform Computing Inc., Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-08-18

Hyperic CloudStatus

Back in May, I posted my take on Cloud computing. Since that time, I've spoken to quite a number of suppliers who are focused on supporting cloud computing, managing cloud computing, and even using cloud computing as a way to provide either a desktop or a server experience without the...

Tags: Performance, Service, Tool, CloudStatus, Hyperic HQ, Cloud Computing, Productivity, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-07-03

Neocleus - A different take on desktop virtualization

Ariel Gorfung, CEO, Neocleus, and I had a fast paced, interesting discussion about the company's notion of "endpoint virtualization" and how that can change how organizations deploy and use desktop and laptop systems. At first I had trouble really getting to the heart of what they were doing. Their use...

Tags: Security, Desktop Virtualization, Information Technology, Environment, Xen, Neocleus, Xen Community, Virtualization, Desktops, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-05-19

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