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Intelligent Network Services: The Underlying Power of Unified Communications Applications

Applications and services are becoming untied from physical servers, a trend known as resource virtualization. For example, the physical PBX of yesterday has been deconstructed into a collection of communication applications and network services that reside within an intelligent network. Resource virtualization provides particularly powerful benefits for federal government. Why?...

Tags: Application, Network, Network Service, Unified Communications, Resource Virtualization, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Networking, Hardware, Storage

White papers 2007-07-01

Efficient Resource Virtualization and Sharing Strategies for Heterogeneous Grid Environments

Resource virtualization has emerged as a powerful technique for customized resource provisioning in grid and data center environments. This paper describes efficient strategies for policy-based controlling of virtualization of the physical resources. With these strategies, virtualization is controlled taking into account workload requirements, available capacities of physical resources, and the...

Tags: Strategy, Environment, Resource, Resource Virtualization, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage

White papers 2007-02-27

Database Virtualization: A New Frontier for Database Tuning and Physical Design

Resource virtualization is currently being employed at all levels of the IT infrastructure to improve provisioning and manageability, with the goal of reducing total cost of ownership. This means that database systems will increasingly be run in virtualized environments, inside virtual machines. In this paper, the authors discuss how virtualization...

Tags: University Of Waterloo, Resource Virtualization, Virtualization, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

White papers 2007-01-19

Additional Resources

NComputing announces new Microsoft partnership

I've featured NComputing a few times in this blog, largely focusing on their solutions that turn a single workstation into as many as 10 workstations using thin client technologies. In particular, I wrote about NComputing's successful bid beating out Intel and OLPC to provide thin-client computers to as many...

Tags: Virtualization, Partnership, Thin Client, Server, Microsoft Corp., Computing, NComputing, Microsoft Windows, Thin Clients, Terminal Services, Business Structures, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Finance, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-11-18

Scaring yourself and others

Hogwash!First of all, if you're paying for a static IP address, why did your ISP change it? Did the notify you prior to changing it? If not, they can get in deep trouble for that.Second, on today's hardware using virtualization causes little to no noticeable performance hit. ...

Tags: Virtualization, Operating systems, Servers, VMware Inc., Sun Solaris

Discussion threads 2009-10-31

My Top Scary Technology Trends

The Most Terrifying:Google.Kills good companies by handing out "freebies". VERY scary.Machines replacing humansI thought they were tools to enhance our experience on earth.The worst is when customer is an AI telephone. "I'm sorry, could you repeat your last phrase. I did not understand". I thought the buttons were bad enough.RE:...

Tags: cloud computing, Storage management, Google Inc., hardware, virtualization

Discussion threads 2009-10-29

Five reasons to deliver a virtual service, not a virtual server

What began as an interesting technological experiment has now become an opportunity for IT to shape its future, says Fortisphere's Lilac Berniker Commentary - As virtualization becomes an increasingly commonplace technology in the datacenter, the breadth of stakeholders in the virtual environment is growing. ...

Tags: Information Technology, Workload, Virtual Server, Server, Strategy, Management, virtualization, Lilac Berniker Fortisphere, Special to ZDNet, Lilac Berniker Fortisphere, Special to ZDNet

News items 2009-10-29

VMware to step up data center automation game

ResponseThis is great news for the IT world. These tools will greatly improve the efficiency and effectiveness of virtual environments. And VMware is smart to focus on automation. They understand better than anyone that automation is the key to virtualization and then cloud computing.Without it, you?re not likely...

Tags: Server virtualization, Virtualization, VMware Inc., game, automation, provisioning, virtual server

Discussion threads 2009-09-27

Mastering Virtualized Environments

Data centers are growing rapidly in size and complexity. At the same time, competitive and economic pressures are making cost control even more critical to the overall success of data center implementations. Virtualization offers organizations of all sizes the opportunity to reduce the physical footprint of their data...

Tags: Service Management, Data Center, Environment, Virtual Environment, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management

White papers 2009-09-18

Live Webcast: Scale Up and Save: Best Practices for High-Density Virtualization & Consolidation

Fast-paced and resource-constrained environments of today require IT decision makers to take fresh approaches in order to keep up with dynamic organizations. Join NEC and Intel in this live TechRepublic Webcast to understand market drivers for high density virtualization hosting. Discuss how leading edge...

Tags: Webcast, Consolidation, Best Practice, NEC Corp., Intel Corp., Data Centers, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Virtualization, Utility Computing, Servers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management

Webcasts 2009-09-01

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Performance on VMware vSphere 4

Increased adoption of VMware infrastructure and continued performance advances in hardware and software have driven the virtualization of Microsoft Exchange. The current version, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, is a resource-hungry 64-bit application that has reduced storage demands as compared to previous versions. The increased use of memory and heavier CPU...

Tags: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Performance, Microsoft Exchange Server, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., E-mail Servers, Groupware, Virtualization, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware

White papers 2009-09-01

Waking up to the full extent of virtualization options

While doing my morning expedition through the wilds of news sites, blogs and, of course, comic strip sites, I came across something by Laura McCabe, a partner at Hurwitz and Associates, titled "What is Virtualization, and Why Should You Care?" While Laura's comments are useful, she didn't try to present...

Tags: Software Technology, Environment, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-08-18

Der Frankenputer: A Last Hurrah at System Building

It all started with two extra Opteron CPUs and RAM and a bunch of hard drives which I had lying around, that mushroomed into a Build-Your-Own monster PC project. Like a modern day Victor von Frankenstein, who digs up bodies in graveyards in order to bring his...

Tags: PC, AMD Opteron, Amazon.com Inc., Power Supply, CPU, Desktops, Processors, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-08-12

Virtual Machine Software Blinders

Is it me, or is it true that suppliers and organizations have become infatuated with the concept that virtualization is solely and only equal to the use of virtual machine software to create virtual servers or virtual desktops/clients/users? It seems that almost every time I speak with...

Tags: Virtual Machine, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-08-07

Savvis on Cisco's Unified Computing System

Bryan Doerr, Chief Technology Officer, Savvis and I communicated about Cisco's Unifed Computing System UCS. Here are his answers to some questions that were posed to him.  Since Savvis currently operates 29 data centers (a total of 1.4 million square feet of space), his views could be seen as...

Tags: Data Center, Virtualization, Environment, Cisco Systems Inc., Savvis Communications, Data Centers, Servers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-07-20

AMD fills out six-core Opteron lineup

AMD fills out six-core Opteron lineupWhy?This ridiculous...I can understand their wanting to be ahead in the market but 6core? It's absolutely pointless currently. There isn't even enough stuff out that utilizes quad cores, not to mention the 64 bit part either. I enjoy drooling over new tech but there has...

Tags: Processors, Network technology, Semiconductors, 64-bit, Opteron lineup, multi-core, six-core Opteron lineup, chip, AMD Opteron, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-07-13

Platform Computing Announces Infrastructure Sharing Services

The folks at Platform Computing are at it again.  This time, they've announced a product to support cloud computing in the form of infrastructure as a service IaaS. They're calling it Platform Infrastructure Sharing Service ISF. As often is the case with a new product from a...

Tags: Platform Computing Inc., Platform Infrastructure Sharing Facility, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-06-24

RNA Networks launches RNAcache

RNA Networks is launching RNAcache, a product that lives along the border of processing virtualization, network virtualization and storage virtualization by offering the capability to use server memory on many systems as a shared network resource. RNA Networks is one a number of suppliers that are melding high performance computing,...

Tags: RNA, Data Center, Virtualization, RNA Networks, RNACACHE RNA Network, Biotechnology, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-06-23

Automated Control in Cloud Computing: Challenges and Opportunities

With advances in virtualization technology, virtual machine services offered by cloud utility providers are becoming increasingly powerful, anchoring the ecosystem of cloud services. Virtual computing services are attractive in part because they enable customers to acquire and release computing resources for guest applications adaptively in response to load surges and...

Tags: Association For Computing Machinery, Virtual Machine, Computing Service, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Desktop Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage

White papers 2009-06-19

IBM's CloudBurst is a credible step forward

About six months ago, I accused IBM of “cloud-washing” its solutions and services when it launched its Project Blue Cloud marketing campaign. Its aim with this effort was to lure customer conversations about cloud computing in its direction so it could learn what enterprises wanted from this new technology. IBM...

Tags: IBM Corp., Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Utility Computing, Portals, Storage Management, Blade Servers, Servers, Hardware, Internet, Storage, James Staten

Blog posts 2009-06-16