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New virtualization buddies - XenSource & Symantec

XenSource, Inc. and Symantec have signed an OEM agreement. Symantec is going to work with XenSource to embed Veritas Storage Foundation into XenEnterpriseâ„¢. The two companies are then going to collaborate on delivering enterprise-class HA/DR and backup technology to XenSource customers. Let's consider why these companies are joining together for...

Tags: virtual storage software, virtual processing software, virtual machine software, Managing virtualized environments

Blog posts 2007-07-23

Configuresoft's George Gerchow points out that "You can't manage what you can't see"

Configuresoft's Technology Strategist, George Gerchow, and I had a lovely discussion about virtualization, virtual machine software such as VMware and the stresses this technology push on overworked IT professionals. During this discussion, I mentioned that I thought that Configuresof's focus is too narrow, that virtualization is a far broader...

Tags: Managing virtualized environments

Blog posts 2007-07-13

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

What? Another virtualization Webinar?

I know that we're all inundated with Webinars and that some of them are really ugly affairs that were obviously designed to torture the attendees. So, I hesitate to recommend one to you now. However, that's just what I'm going to do.Simon Crosby, CTO and Founder of XenSource Ltd.,...

Tags: virtual machine software, Managing virtualized environments

Blog posts 2007-06-04

InovaWave: Doubling VM performance?

InovaWave is offering an interesting, very focused product family, called DXtreme, aimed at optimizing the performance of that optimization of virtual machine performance on Microsoft's 32-bit and 64-bit Windows and VMware's ESX Server. The key benefits of this product family are that they can optimize and accelerate I/O. The...

Tags: virtual machine software, Managing virtualized environments

Blog posts 2007-05-30

Virtual Iron Update

Virtual Iron VI has released version 3.6 of their product, which is cleverly named "Virtual Iron" by the way. Ive been in communication with these folks for years and have always thought that the technology theyre offering is both powerful and innovative. Whats mew? Version 3.6...

Tags: Managing virtualized environments, virtual machine software, virtualization

Blog posts 2007-05-14

Conversation with John, Engetes, Rackspace's CTO

Rackspaces PR firm contacted me and asked if I would be interested in speaking with Rackspaces CTO, John Engetes, to get a technology consumers view of the state of virtualization technology today. I, of course, jumped at the chance since I usually speak with vendors representatives. ...

Tags: virtual machine software, Managing virtualized environments, Consumer use of Virtualization

Blog posts 2007-05-07

VMware IPO - Why now?

EMC Corporation has announced that it intends to sell 10% of VMware in an initial public offering. The announcement itself can be seen here. My question is why execute this move now? Here are reasons that may have contributed to the decision. Market Pressures VMware is facing...

Tags: Managing virtualized environments, virtual machine software

Blog posts 2007-04-27

Red Hat and Building the Open Source Virtualization Stack

Since my conversation with the good folks at Red Hat (see Discussion with Red Hat’s Joel Berman and Nick Carr - 1st take) Ive been thinking about the companys strategy and how that plays out in the real world. Red Hat presents the notion that a stack of open source...

Tags: virtualization, virtual storage software, virtual processing software, virtual machine software, virtual access software, Managing virtualized environments, high performance computing, clustering software

Blog posts 2007-04-26

SWsoft Once and Done Partitioning Software

An announcement from SWsoft just came to my attention. The company is offering a very simple way for small or medium sized organizations to deploy operating system partitioning or virtualization. It appears that the good folks over at SWsoft have thought long and hard about this and have come up...

Tags: Dan Kusnetzky, Managing virtualized environments, virtual machine software, virtual processing software, Virtuozzo, Parallels Inc., operating system, software

Blog posts 2007-04-24

XenSource

Even though Xen, virtual machine software for industry standard systems, is well known, The company behind this software, XenSource, is not as well known. XenSource, with the help of the open source community, has developed software that securely juggle multiple virtual machines, each running its own operating environment, on...

Tags: virtual machine software, Managing virtualized environments

Blog posts 2007-04-23

Cassatt - moving virtualization up a notch

Ive been following Cassatt for a number of years and have always thought that the company has taken a fresh, different view of the concept of virtualization in the implementation of its product "Collage". In an attempt to catch up with what the company is doing now, I spoke with...

Tags: virtualization, virtual processing software, virtual machine software, Managing virtualized environments, clustering software

Blog posts 2007-04-18

Overview of Novell's views on virtualization

I enjoyed a lovely conversation with an old acquaintance, Kim Kelly of Novell. We had spoken many times when he was with Red Hat and it was nice to chat for a while. The topic of our conversation was Novells overall strategy for virtualization technology. As with Red Hat, Novell...

Tags: virtual processing software, virtual machine software, Managing virtualized environments

Blog posts 2007-04-12

Additional Resources

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

Doubletake Workload Optimization Suite

Bob Roudebush, Director Solutions Engineering for Double-Take and I had an interesting conversation about some of the issues virtual environments can create for organizations that have allowed their virtual infrastructure to grow organically without a plan. Although Double-Take isn't trying to create solutions for all of the potential issues, they...

Tags: Double-Take, Workload Management, Data Centers, Backups, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-04-07

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

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

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

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