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- HP to resell Scalent System's V/OE
- HP to resell Scalent System's V/OEProduction customers?Dan,Your glowing praise of Scalent continues to mystify me as we have yet to hear publicly about a single production customer talk about their use of Scalent or even their intention to use their product in the enterprise data center. We’ve heard Scalent say...
- Tags: Data centers, Tools & Techniques, Marketing research, Hewlett-Packard Co., Scalent
- Discussion threads 2007-11-28
- Scalent Systems Helps Financial Services Organization Optimize Test and Development
- I had the opportunity to interview the Director of Development of a large multinational financial services organization. Since IT is often considered a competitive advantage for these firms, it didn't surprise me that he asked that neither he nor his organization be named in this post.What was being done...
- Tags: Benefits, Strategy, Dan Kusnetzky, IT IS, Scalent, benefit, financial
- Blog posts 2007-08-28
- Scalent Systems wins best virtualization solution at Linuxworld
- I just heard the news that Scalent Systems was awarded "Best Virtualization Solution" at LinuxWorld in San Francisco. Since quite a number of virtualization technology providers or technology projects were at the event; such as FastScale, OpenVZ, SteelEye, SWsoft, VirtualLogix and 3Leaf Systems; that's quite a complement.For those of...
- Tags: Real estate, Servers, Dan Kusnetzky, virtualization, Scalent, environment, agent, server
- Blog posts 2007-08-09
- 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
- 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
- Linuxworld/NGDC San Francisco
- As I walked the show floor at LinuxWorld/Next Generation Datacenter Conference in San Francisco, I saw evidence of a show in transistion. This reminds me of UNIX shows I attended in the early 1980s. As with UNIX, Linux has become a common part of organizational datacenters and IT staff members...
- Tags: VP, Conference, Data Centers, UNIX, Linux, Operating Systems, Corporate Governance, Virtualization, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Software, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- Next Generation Datacenter Conference
- I'm heading to San Francisco for the Linuxworld Expo/Next Generational Datacenter conference. I'll post from there this week. While at the event, I'm moderating a panel dicussion on "Virtualization 2.0", whatever that means. Wanna know more? Here's how the conference syllabus describes...
- Tags: Data Center, Conference, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Server Consolidation, Hardware, Storage, Servers, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-08-04
- Stratus Avance a new take on clustering
- After many attempts at scheduling a meeting, I was finally able to speak with Stratus about their new virtual machine/clustering/HA software offering called Avance. It's Stratus' entry into the pure software market. Here's how Stratus describes Avance Stratus Technologies can provide some relief. With the introduction...
- Tags: Software, Stratus Technologies, Clustering, Virtual Machine, Stratus Avance, Virtualization, Desktop Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-06-17
- 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
- More Citrix Synergy Announcements
- Many of Citrix's friends have been making announcements at Citrix's big party, Citrix Synergy. I've heard from appSense, Scalent Systems, and VMlogix about what they're doing with Citrix XenServer or Xen Desktop. I guess everyone is doing their best to gain the market's attention before Microsoft finally releases Hyper-V. ...
- Tags: Citrix Systems Inc., Microsoft Corp., Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-05-21
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Stacksafe Test Center
- I recently spoke with Stacksafe's Andrew Gross, Ph.D., Chief Scientist and Architect, and Jonah Paransky, Vice President of Marketing, about their product, Stacksafeâ„¢ Test Center. Here's a summary of how the company describes its product: How Stacksafe describes Test Center IT Operations teams presently employ a variety of...
- Tags: Software, Information Technology, Environment, Virtual Machine, Tool, Test Center, StackSafe Test Center, Tools & Techniques, Productivity, Strategy, Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-01-30
- Sun xVM - Foundation for a dynamic datacenter?
- I've been meaning to post something about my conversation with Sun's Steve Wilson about xVMÂ 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
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