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- Physical to Physical Migration From IBM HS20 Blade to IBM HS21-XM Blade With Windows 2003 Operating System
- This paper details the procedure to perform physical to physical image migration based on Windows 2003 operating system from an HS20 (8843) 2-socket dual core blade to an IBM HS21-XM extended memory 2-socket quad core blade. The PlateSpin PowerConvert's Operating System OS portability technology is used for the migration. The...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 2003, Blade, Operating System, Microsoft Windows, Migration, IBM Corp., PlateSpin PowerConvert, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Servers, Operating Systems, Processors, Hardware, Software, Semiconductors, Components
- White papers 2008-02-13
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- Novell to Sun: Here's an offer you can't refuse
- Last week, I blogged about the possible future of a unified UNIX GPLv3 operating system "mother distro" comprising the merged source code of the Solaris and Linux kernels (and presumably, the source code of other vendors as well) and related GNU stack with associated tools and applications. ...
- Tags: Novell Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., SCO Group Inc., GPLv3, Sun Solaris, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Servers, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- Egenera: New pals for PAN Manager
- I've spoken about Egenera several times in the past and pointed out that it was one of the very earliest players offering blade computers and the related management software. Egenera called this software PAN Processing Area Network manager. PAN manager, at first, was a tool that allowed organizations to orchestrate...
- Tags: Blade, Personal Area Network, Egenera Inc., PAN Manager, Bluetooth, Blade Servers, Servers, Wireless, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-03-25
- The ZEN of PlateSpin
- The ZEN of PlateSpinEvery Tao and XenI hope Novell fixes PlateSpin to work with Xen. I spent lots of hours and thousands of dollars trying to get P2V images to Xen. It ain't an easy task. It also rebooted a critical server after the image was unsucessfully transferred.When we contacted...
- Tags: PlateSpin Inc., Xen
- Discussion threads 2008-03-04
- The ZEN of PlateSpin
- Fellow ZDNet blogger Dan Kusnetzsky this morning addresses the organizational challenges of Novell integrating virtualization ISV PlateSpin into its culture. While I agree any acquisition of any type has organizational challenges, I think Novell has already shown it can take a company with a radically different corporate culture, SuSE, and...
- Tags: PlateSpin Inc., Novell Inc., VMware Inc., PowerRecon, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-03-04
- Additional thoughts on Novell acquisition of PlateSpin
- After posting Novell acquires PlateSpin: Will everything fall to the floor? I had the chance to speak with Novell and PlateSpin once again. It is clear that the two companies had focused on different management technologies for virtual environments and that there where quite a number of opportunities for a...
- Tags: PlateSpin Inc., Novell Inc., Acquisition, Environment, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-03-04
- News to know: Windows Server 2008 launch; Hotmail outage; Berners-Lee on semantic Web; Apple
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft courts open-source vendors to support Win Server 2008. Jason Perlow: Server 2008: The Windows Workstation we always wanted Outage hits Windows Live Hotmail, Messenger users Microsoft: Windows Live outage affected those not signed with...
- Tags: Google Inc., MSN Hotmail, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows Server, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Photograph, Outage, Apple MacBook Pro, Microsoft Windows, Semantic Web, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Internet
- Blog posts 2008-02-27
- Novell acquires PlateSpin: Will everything fall to the floor?
- Novell acquires PlateSpin: Will everything fall to the floor?clarificationPlatespin was founded in 2000 and the technology was created by an innovative group of six people, myself, Mark Verdun, David Richards, Bruno Baloi, Simon Howard and Dave Campbell.Be ware, the innovative spirit left Platespin long ago in 2002 just after...
- Tags: PlateSpin Inc., Capacity Planner, Novell Inc., VMware Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-02-26
- Novell acquires PlateSpin: Will everything fall to the floor?
- Novell just announced an agreement to acquire PlateSpin, one of the players in the management of virtualized resources segment of the virtualization software market for $205 Million see Sorting out the different layers of virtualization for more information on this market segment. One would have to wonder why Novell made...
- Tags: PlateSpin Inc., Novell Inc., Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-02-26
- vConverter converting virtual machines for the converted
- Vizioncore recently announced vConverter, a product that can migrate physical machines to virtual machines and virtual machines to physical machines. Why should anyone care? The key is having an increased ability to orchestrate the environment, recover from a disaster and the ability to create an agile environment. ...
- Tags: Environment, Product, VMware Inc., Virtual Machine, vConverter, Virtualization, Server Consolidation, Servers, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Open Source, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-02-20
- Platespin Forge - A new spin on disaster recovery
- I had a chance to speak with Stephen Pollack, Founder, CEO of PlateSpin, the other day. Since it has been a while since we had a chance to chat, I looked forward to his refreshing, rather pragmatic, approach to virtualization technology. For those of you keeping score, PlateSpin - An...
- Tags: PlateSpin Inc., Disaster Recovery, Virtualization, Data Management, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-02-01
- TechNet Webcast: Optimize Your Data Center Using PlateSpin Solutions, Dell Servers, and Microsoft Virtual Server (Level 200)
- The attendee of this webcast will learn how PlateSpin enables the adoption, growth, and extension of virtualization in the data center with Dell servers and Microsoft virtual technologies. It also show how PlateSpin solutions reduce operational costs and help solve most critical data center challenges including server consolidation, hardware migration,...
- Tags: PlateSpin Inc., Microsoft Virtual Server, Dell Computer Corp., Data Center, Webcast, Virtual Server, Microsoft Corp., Dell Server, Microsoft TechNet, Data Centers, Storage, Servers, Hardware, Data Management
- Webcasts 2007-11-01
- Challenges of lifecycle management of virtual systems
- In a recently published paper, Virtual Machines - You have to see them to manage them, I explored a few of the challenges administrators face when they attempt to deal with virtual systems. As virtual systems become a standard way to deploy solutions on industry standard systems, lifecycle management is...
- Tags: Lifecycle Management, Embotics, Server Virtualization, Data Centers, Servers, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2007-10-29
- Orchestration of resources P2V, V2V and V2P
- A real orchestration strategy would have to include the ability to move resources from one physical system to another (P2P), one virtual system to another (V2V) and convert physical to virtual and back (P2V, V2P) to make optimal use of those resources. What is optimal? That, of course, depends upon...
- Tags: Supplier, Capability, Channel Management, Disaster Recovery, Marketing, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2007-10-16
- Why do organizations adopt virtualization technology?
- Why do organizations adopt virtualization technology?To borrow a phrase from Ballmer...Developers, developers, developers, developers... When I'm onsite at a customer location in Germany and someone from Michigan calls with a software problem, I can fire up three virtual images on my laptop that are exact replicas of their software...
- Tags: Storage management, Utility computing, Servers, Mainframes, Storage, virtualization, server
- Discussion threads 2007-08-21
- Novell updates Orchestrator
- Novell's Joe Wagner and Richard Whitehead caught up with me after a whirlwind trip to San Francisco for Linuxworld. They wanted to bring me up to date on Novell ZENworks Orchestrator.As you might remember, I chatted with Novell back in April (see Novell's Orchestrator) for a post on that conversation....
- Tags: Dan Kusnetzky, Novell Inc., Orchestrator, Cassatt Corp.
- Blog posts 2007-08-14
- Vizioncore and Invirtus team up on virtual
- Vizioncore is a well-known member of the VMware ecosystem. I had a chance to chat with Chris Akerberg of Vizoncore about this announcement.What's being announcedVizoncore has had a great deal of success (over 5,000 installations) helping VMware users make hot image-level backups of their virtual machines with their esxRanger product...
- Tags: PlateSpin Inc., Team, VMware Inc., Vizioncore, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2007-08-13
- PlateSpin Helps Essent Consolidate Three Data Centers Into One, Saves Company EUR 2 Million
- With some 700 Wintel servers, Essent's primary data center was already large and growing by approximately 100 servers per year. The company faced a number of challenges in accommodating this rapid growth including a lack of floor space and server capacity, as well as power and cooling shortfalls. By enabling...
- Tags: PlateSpin Inc., Data Center, Essent, Server, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- Case studies 2007-07-01
- 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
- Using Virtualization to Achieve Affordable Disaster Recovery: Physical-to-Virtual Disaster Recovery From Microsoft, PlateSpin, and Dell
- This whitepaper details PlateSpin's Physical-to-Virtual (P2V) Recovery solution, implemented using Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 with Service Pack 1 (SP1) in conjunction with Dell PowerEdge Servers. The solution created by using these products makes it possible to create a disaster planning and recovery solution that can help provide enterprise-caliber rapid...
- Tags: PlateSpin Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Corp., Disaster Recovery, Virtualization, Servers, Data Management, Hardware
- White papers 2007-02-01
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