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- StackSafe and the Permeable Sandbox
- StackSafe and the Permeable SandboxStackSafe Permeable Sandbox, it's a good startStackSafe is beginning to understand the basic networking requirements of serving the enterprise market. StackSafe's "Permeable Sandbox" describes the basic capabilities required for creating test environments that model production infrastructure, systems, and applications. As the pioneer in virtual lab automation,...
- Tags: StackSafe Permeable Sandbox, Permeable Sandbox, Surgient, IT Organizations
- Discussion threads 2008-06-03
- Surgient -- Managing an accelerated life cycle
- Erik Josowitz, vice president of marketing at Surgient, and I spoke about Surgient Virtual Lab Management Applications v5.0 the other day. Thanks for being so generous with your time, Erik! The company has been involved with management of virtual systems for quite some time but, takes...
- Tags: Surgient, application life cycle
- Blog posts 2007-05-11
- Virtual Test Lab Enables 96 Percent Savings on Software Trials
- Producing trial-version software is expensive, however, and companies have no way of knowing if customers even install or use the software. Surgient, of Austin, Texas, a leading provider of on-demand applications, has developed a cost-effective online software evaluation solution that uses Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 to deliver a better customer...
- Tags: Software, Surgient, Test Lab, Tools & Techniques, Management
- Case studies
- Surgient's Virtual Labs Optimize Software Delivery Processes
- As a leading provider of on-demand virtual lab management applications, Surgient, Inc., has helped hundreds of Global 2000 enterprises and ISVs accelerate their software application delivery life cycles and automate training and marketing demonstrations across a variety of computing environments. Surgient's virtual lab applications significantly improve hardware utilization and harness...
- Tags: Software, Surgient, Microsoft Corp., Marketing Research, Tools & Techniques, Marketing, Management
- Case studies
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- Doing the VMworld Dance Summary
- I found VMworld to be an excellent opportunity to meet executives of both VMware and its partners. I'm hoping to stay in touch with these companies so that I can help you stay up to date as well. Here are a few general observations about what I...
- Tags: VMware Inc., IT Decision Maker, Virtualization, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-09-03
- Your Thoughts: How mature are cloud computing services?
- Enterprise IT infrastructure & operations professionals have many cloud computing technologies to choose from today, and new solutions seem to appear all the time. What are all these technologies? How do you categorize them? Which are mature and which need a lot of work? Forrester is kicking...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Forrester Research Inc., Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware, James Staten
- Blog posts 2009-06-18
- Doubletake Workload Optimization Suite
- Bob Roudebush, Director Solutions Engineering for Double-Take and I had an interesting conversation about some of the issues virtual environments can create for organizations that have allowed their virtual infrastructure to grow organically without a plan. Although Double-Take isn't trying to create solutions for all of the potential issues, they...
- Tags: Double-Take, Workload Management, Data Centers, Backups, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-04-07
- Clouds, virtualization and lifecycle management what's not to love?
- It's not often that I'm sent a password protected PDF file when a supplier is presenting a briefing on their product, technology or services. The CEO of the super secret startup, Doyenz, Ashutosh Tiwary, did exactly that. It appears that he's gathered quite and impressive list of industry executives from...
- Tags: Virtualization, Lifecycle Management, ISV, Value-added Reseller, Retail, Channel Management, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-02-13
- 365 Main, Inc. Green Datacenters
- Miles Kelly, Vice President Strategy and Marketing for 365 Main and I had a wonderful, albeit rambling, conversation about datacenter dynamics, green computing, and orchestrating virtual servers. His company, 365 Main, Inc., creates and maintains datacenters for quite an impressive list of companies. They have datacenters in Newark, NJ; San...
- Tags: Data Center, PG&E Corp., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-01-30
- Egenera releases PAN Manager 5.2
- Egenera just released an updated version of their PAN Manager orchestration and automation software. This software is one of a number of competitive products that allow physical and virtual resources to be used in an optimal, highly available and reliable way. Over the years I've had the opportunity to speak...
- Tags: Software, Personal Area Network, Egenera Inc., Bluetooth, Wireless And Mobility, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-01-20
- 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
- VMworld - Dr. Stephen Herrod's keynote
- 20080917 VMworld Dr Stephen Herrod Keynote I'm not sure why conference directors think that people enjoy walking into a darkened room, facing disorienting flashing lights coming from the front of the room, watching company ads and customer profiles on overhead videos combined with extremely loud, unpleasant, pulsing...
- Tags: Data Center, Dr., VMware Inc., vCompute, VMSafe, Data Centers, Storage, Mainframes, Hardware, Data Management, Servers, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-09-17
- 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
- Virtualization slapdown: clusters versus virtual machine technology
- A friend in the industry recently asked for my opinion on an interesting question "is virtualization becoming a replacement for clustering?" I knew he really meant the combination of virtual machine software and management software for virtualized environments that provided orchestration and automation capabilities. Here is my answer to that...
- Tags: Software, Virtualization, Clustering, Virtual Machine, Virtual Machine Software, Desktop Virtualization, Tools & Techniques, Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-06-18
- 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
- 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
- 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
- What would a next generation datacenter look like?
- It appears that my recent post, IBM announces the Z10: Is the mainframe still relevant?, must have touched on something that had an impact on quite a number of people. I received quite a number of messages from people who either thought that I was on to something or thought...
- Tags: Cassatt Corp., Data Center, Generation Datacenter, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-02-29
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