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VMware + Ionix Assets – Impact Upon the Configuration Management Ecosystem
This obviously brings to mind the impact that these new product assets has upon VMware’s existing ecosystem of virtualization management and performance management vendors. VMware has a very rich set of vendors that produce value added products for the VMware environment and it is a valid question as to how VMware’s forthcoming management stack will… VMware and the Ionix Assets – A Deeper Look
For at least the last year, VMware has made it very clear that it views virtualization as a catalyst that will enable the delivery of a new management stack into the enterprise, and that VMware intends to be the vendor of that management stack. This is obviously in competition with the vast majority of the… News: VMware to Acquire IT Management Products From EMCVMware and EMC today announced that the two companies have entered into a definitive agreement for VMware to acquire certain software products and expertise from EMC's Ionix IT management business, including solutions aimed at delivering improved management and deployment of servers and applications in a virtualized data center. Virtualization Aware APM Advances
We categorize the vendors that do performance and availability monitoring for virtualization and cloud computing into four categories: Resource and Availability Monitoring – This is primarily about taking data from the hypervisor vendor (most often the VMware vCenter API data), storing it, trending it, reporting on it, analyzing it, and alerting on it. Infrastructure Performance… VMware Buys Key Assets of RTO SoftwareVMware has acquired the Virtual Profiles, Pinpoint, and Discover assets of RTO Software. This will raise the bar on the other vendors of desktop virtualization platforms (Microsoft and Citrix), but will also leave room for more granular User Environement Management approaches from vendors like RES Software, LiquidWare Labs, Tricerat, and when they ship - UniDesk. The Grid Approach to Desktop VirtualizationThe grid approach to desktop virtualization, offered by vendors like Kaviza and Synchron offers several advantages in terms of cost and flexible use of hardware resources. The cost savings come from not requiring a SAN. The implications of no SAN are no VMotion, no HA and no DRS. However Citrix XenApp has proven that user… Is a Partnership between VMware and Citrix Possible – or even Desirable?Let’s start this analysis with a basic question. Is there any rational reason for VMware and Citrix to make peace with each other, and develop the desktop virtualization market in concert with one another instead of in competition with each other? In other words if Citrix were to add its value to the core pieces… New Desktop Virtualization Resources AvailableRead this post for a rich set of Desktop Virtualization White Papers, Desktop Virtualization Webinars, Desktop Virtualization Podcasts, and a complete set of VMware View 4 product brochures. Virtualized Desktops and End User Experience Management
Hosted Virtual Desktop (aka VDI) environments are sufficiently complex and different from either physical desktops or virtualized servers to warrant a dedicated approach to planning and assessing the migration from physical desktops to virtual desktops, and a dedicated approach to monitoring the resulting HDV environment in production. Plugin by Social Author Bio |
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