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Racemi and BMC take on disaster recovery and datacenter consolidation

Racemi and BMC Software are presenting a different take on how to go about the task of making virtual servers more highly available and more manageable. They're combining a physical/virtual management product BladeLogic Operations Manager with a powerful disaster recovery/backup/system portability product DynaCenter to create a reliable, agile computing environment....

Tags: BMC Software Inc., Data Center, Virtual Server, Provisioning, Server, Data Center Consolidation, Disaster Recovery, Racemi, It Management, It service Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-02-20

Orchestration of resources P2V, V2V and V2P

Orchestration of resources P2V, V2V and V2PAnother good company is APPISTRYWhy does everyone forget about Appistry? I think they are great, specially because they are first company to focus on being green with EnergySaver. They really have a wonderful product that is easy to use as my brother keeps telling...

Tags: V2P, V2V, P2V

Discussion threads 2007-10-17

Conversation with Kevin Epstein, VP Marketing, Scalent

Conversation with Kevin Epstein, VP Marketing, ScalentRacemiA company out of Atlanta named Racemi (www.racemi.com) has been doing this for years. The support allot more platforms then Scalent .Re-purposingRacemi, mentioned in the earlier reply has been "re-purposing" environments for years and using this terminology. Their patented software, DynaCenter, developed in 2001...

Tags: Blade servers, UNIX, Operating systems, Servers, Utility computing, Racemi, Scalent

Discussion threads 2007-05-11

Additional Resources

Adaptive infrastructure no longer vision

Adaptive infrastructure no longer visionstandardization with a single vendor isn't the only optionJames,Great post on how yesterday?s vision of the data center is today becoming a reality. While you understandably highlighted the largest players and their quest to homogenize data centers with their line of products, I have to...

Tags: Data centers, Storage, data center, vision, Adaptive Infrastructure

Discussion threads 2009-01-27

Levels of availability and disaster recovery

I visited a Kusnetzky Group client, Racemi, several weeks ago. We had a fantastic discussion of disaster recovery and all of the different approaches organizations may choose to deploy to achieve the level of availability needed for their workloads. Racemi, for those who don't know the company, offers the DynaCenter...

Tags: Availability, Data Centers, Productivity, Disaster Recovery, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-01-02

Vkernel's catchphrase "performance lifecycle management"

I recently was introduced to a new catchphrase during a discussion with Vkernel. The phrase was "performance lifecycle management." Although at first, it seemed the result of running one of those buzzword generators. I'm sure you know what I mean - software that selects three random words from  a list...

Tags: Catchphrase, Performance, Lifecycle Management, Virtual Server, Vkernel, Performance Lifecycle Management, Server Virtualization, Virtualization, Business Structures, Performance Management, Ip storage, Desktop Virtualization, Servers, Hardware, Finance, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-08-26

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

Is Virtual Storage required for datacenter agility?

I've had a number of discussions with suppliers of software for both virtual processing and management of virtualized resources. In almost every case, something very important is being left unsaid during these discussions. The representatives of these company present their case with the unsaid assumption that storage...

Tags: Data Center, Storage, Data Centers, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-06-09

StackSafe and the Permeable Sandbox

Most products designed to help organizations use virtual machine software as the foundation for development and testing create a "sandbox" or encapsulated environment for systems and functions. While this approach has several advantages, a recent discussion with StackSafe highlighted a few issues it creates. ...

Tags: Information Technology, Environment, Sandbox, Organization, StackSafe, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-06-02

Skytap and the test lab in the clouds

Several companies in the virtualization software club have focused on using some combination of virtual machine software, virtual access software and management software for virtual environments to make development and testing easier and more productive. Since most organizations having industry standard system configurations are only using a fraction of the...

Tags: Software, Information Technology, Environment, Resource, Skytap, Skytap Virtual Lab, Skytap Library, End-user Organization, Virtualization, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Management, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-04-14

Sun xVM - Foundation for a dynamic datacenter?

I've been meaning to post something about my conversation with Sun's Steve Wilson about xVM  for a while but, other things kept getting in the way. Steve and I have spoken often in the past and I've always enjoyed his insight into virtualization technology as a whole, how organizations could...

Tags: Data Center, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun xVM, Linux, Sun Solaris, Virtualization, UNIX, Data Centers, Operating Systems, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Open Source, Servers, Software, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-01-29

Platform Computing VM Orchestrator

Although I've tracked Platform Computing for well over a decade, I don't get the chance to speak with them all that much. A short while ago, I had the opportunity to chat with Peter Dye, Product Manager of VM Orcestrator VMO. Although our discussion ranged from Platform's history, where it...

Tags: Product, Platform Computing Inc., Productivity, Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, It service Management, Networking, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-01-28

Response to InfoWorld's Choices on 2007's Top Technology

First of all, I must note for the record that InfoWorld has never given me an award as being top in any category. I'm thankful that they've spared their readers that pain. Now that I've gotten that over with, I'd like to comment on an article I recently read over...

Tags: InfoWorld, Catbird, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-01-09

Dreams of a dynamic datacenter

Managers of industry standard system-based datacenters have dreams of moving beyond a static environment. They imagine that their lives would be quite a bit easier if their datacenters did the following things: Automatically found unused and, thus wasted, resources on a moment-to-moment basis. Resources such as systems,...

Tags: Data Center, Resource, Kusnetzky Group, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-01-07

Racemi - disaster recovery and so much more

I had the chance to speak with Charlie Watt, CTO and founder of Racemi, and his colleague Brian Hoffman, VP of Product Management and Service, today. We discovered that we have some common history and similar views on the real scope of virtualization technology and the impact it can have...

Tags: Data Center, Server, Disaster Recovery, DynaCenter, Dynamic Server Allocation, Data Centers, Servers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2007-11-16