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A challenge on the horizon - accounting for virtual environments: I read an insightful post The case for chargeback and virtual appliance that was posted by Alex Barrett yesterday. He brings up several interesting points about accounting for virtual environments. Thanks, Alex, for calling our attention to this issue.As with other posts I've seen, this one seems to equate...; Tags: virtualization, Managing virtualized environments; Blog posts 2007-08-03
Application Streaming and Why Your Organization Should Care: There are many approaches to offering computing services to mobile staff today. One approach is providing everyone with their own laptop, their own portfolio of applications and making them become their own system manager, security manager and operations manager. Although that is still a very reasonable approach for mobile...; Tags: Access virtualization, Managing virtualized environments; Blog posts 2007-07-25
HP's Spending Spree - Acquisition of Opsware and Neoware: Over the past few days, HP has announced the acquisitions of Opsware for $1.6 Billion and Neoware for $214 Million. Let's look a little more closely at what may be behind these moves.As the industry does its best to move from a physical view of the world to a...; Tags: Access virtualization, Managing virtualized environments; Blog posts 2007-07-24
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 XenEnterprise™. 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

Elipica Services Deploys Neoware's Access Virtualization Products, Lowers Costs and Gains Ease of Deployment: I had an opportunity to chat with Brad Taylor, of Elipica Services, recently. During that discussion, I asked him a few questions about how his organization is using products from Neoware.Please tell me who you are and a bit about your organization.Brad is a Systems Architect for Elipica Services....; Tags: virtual access software, Managing virtualized environments, Consumer use of Virtualization; Blog posts 2007-07-03
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
hi5 saves time with Hyperic Enterprise: I had an opportunity to speak with Akash Garg, hi5 Networks CTO, about how his organization is using tools from Hyperic. Thanks Akash for taking the time to chat with me.Please tell me who you are and a bit about your organization.hi5 networks is a leading social networking destination...; Tags: Managing virtualized environments; Blog posts 2007-06-29
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
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
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
PlateSpin - An Interesting Spin on Workload Management: I've followed PlateSpin for a number of years and have always found the pragmatic, productive approach taken by the company to be refreshing. I had an opportunity to speak with Stephen Pollack, Founder, CEO of PlateSpin, the other day. Here's a quick summary of our conversation. PlateSpin offers products and...; Tags: Managing virtualized environments, virtualization; Blog posts 2007-06-15
VMLogix LabManager 2.8 - Automation of Development/Testing Environments: I had the opportunity to chat with Mark Angelo, Director of Business Development at VMLogix, Inc., about LabManager 2.8. VMLogix is announcing Ready for Rational Software validation and integration with IBM Rational Build Forge on June 11, 2007 at the Rational Software Development Conference in Orlando, FL. Here are the...; Tags: Managing virtualized environments; Blog posts 2007-06-12
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
What does it take to manage virtualized environments? Here's Sun's view.: Oren Tech, Ken Walich and Ashish Patel of Sun Microsystems spent an hour with me yesterday evening. The conversation covered quite a bit of territory. All right, I'll admit it, my train of thought is easily derailed. So, I forced these poor unfortunate people to ramble through many different layers...; Tags: Managing virtualized environments; Blog posts 2007-06-07
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
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
Virtualization and Green Computing: "Green computing" seems to be seems to be the up and coming thing for suppliers offering virtualization software as well as management software for virtualized environments. It's a topic that has come up over and over again in my discussions with suppliers recently.What is "green computing" you ask? It appears...; Tags: Consumer use of Virtualization, Green Computing, Managing virtualized environments, virtualization; Blog posts 2007-05-17