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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Novell's Orchestrator
- As I mentioned in my post, Overview of Novells views on virtualization and again in my post, Conversations with Cassatt and Marathon, Thoughts on Novell and Red Hat, Novell appears to be focusing a great deal of attention on managing virtualized environments not just the tools of virtualization themselves. Along...
- Tags: virtualization, Managing virtualized environments
- Blog posts 2007-04-19
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- IBM announces the Z10: Is the mainframe still relevant?
- IBM just announced the newest member of its mainframe family, the Z10. While the performance claims IBM makes are quite impressive, the key question that comes to mind is "are mainframes still relevant in the world of virtualized resources?" In short, the answer is a resounding yes. Here's how...
- Tags: Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-02-27
- Trigence - datacenter application virtualization
- John Hamilton, EVP and Chief Operating Officer of Trigence, and I had a long discusion about application virtualization recently. One of the more challenging issues for suppliers of application virtualization technology is that there are many competitors each presenting different types of technology and this leaves many organizations feeling confused....
- Tags: Application, Data Center, Environment, Application Virtualization, Data Centers, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Storage, Operating Systems, Hardware, Data Management, Software, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-01-25
- 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
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