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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

Sorting out the different layers of virtualization

Have you found yourself wondering what's wrong with all of the marketing mavens out there in virtualization land? It seems that everything is virtualization and nothing is virtualization.Over the years, I've developed a tool or a model that has helped my clients better understand all of the layers of...

Tags: virtualization, virtual storage software, virtual processing software, virtual access software, Network Virtualization, Managing virtualized environments, application virtualization

Blog posts 2007-06-28

Evergrid -- High Performance Computing in the Enterprise

Recently I had the opportunity to speak with representatives of Evergrid, a company that focuses on how to apply high performance/grid computing techniques in enterprise computing environments. Since I've spoken to many companies attempting to deploy open source tools, such as Beowulf or Grid Engine, in commercial data centers, I...

Tags: virtual processing software, Managing virtualized environments, high performance computing, clustering software

Blog posts 2007-06-06

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

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

DataSynapse and application virtualization

I was offered the opportunity to speak with Kelly Vizzini, CMO of DataSynapse, the other day. She introduced me to a new member of her staff, Shayne Higdon, VP of Marketing. Kelly and I have been part of panel discussions at several conferences on virtualization, grid computing and the like...

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

Blog posts 2007-04-20

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

Conversation with Javier Soltero, CEO of Hyperic

title Javier Soltero, CEO and co-founder of Hyperic, and I had a fast moving discussion about management of virtualized environments, management architectures, the history of modern computing and came to the conclusion that a well designed architecture offers people freedom to select the best of new technology without fearing that...

Tags: Managing virtualized environments

Blog posts 2007-06-08

Application virtualization and green computing

As mentioned in my post titled, Virtualization and Green Computing, green computing the industry catch phrase for finding ways to make the most efficient use of computing resources. In this post, I'd like to look at application virtualization and the role it plays in green computing.Application virtualization, by the...

Tags: application virtualization, Green Computing, virtualization

Blog posts 2007-05-23