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Bernd Harzog
Bernd HarzogBernd Harzog is the Analyst at The Virtualization Practice for Performance and Capacity Management and IT as a Service (Private Cloud). Bernd is also the CEO and founder of APM Experts a company that provides strategic marketing services to vendors in the virtualization performance management, and application performance management markets. Prior to these two companies, Bernd was the CEO of RTO Software, the VP Products at Netuitive, a General Manager at Xcellenet, and Research Director for Systems Software at Gartner Group. Bernd has an MBA in Marketing from the University of Chicago.

Is the Third Party Market for Virtualization Performance Management Alive or Dead?

August 27, 2009
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Now the VMware is shipping AppSpeed and owns Hyperic, the question has to be asked? Should companies looking for performance and capacity management tools for their VMware environments look just to VMware to meet these needs, or should they also continue to look at third party solutions?

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News: Tranxition enters Virtualization Personalization Market with AdaptivePersona

August 24, 2009
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News: Tranxition enters Virtualization Personalization Market with AdaptivePersona

Today, Tranxition announced a new product, AdaptivePersonna™ that Tranxition will be marketing and selling to end user customers through its own sales channels. AdaptivePersona, like other solutions in this space from vendors like AppSense and RTO Software separates the users personality from the operating system and the application, allowing the personality to be separately virtualized…

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News: Surgient Announces Version 7 of its Virtual Automation Platform

August 24, 2009
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News: Surgient Announces Version 7 of its Virtual Automation Platform

Virtualization Management vendors who focus upon and add value to VMware specialize in a variety of different use cases. Many of these vendors focus upon providing a management layer across virtualization platforms for the production virtualization environment. Surgient has specialized in providing a management platform for virtualized test and development environments that provides significant additional…

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News: Akorri Intoduces BalancePoint 3.0 to Assure Virtual Infrastructure Performance

August 17, 2009
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Akorri, a leader in virtual infrastructure performance and capacity management for the dynamic data center, today announced the availability of BalancePoint 3.0 – the latest version of the company’s award-winning virtual infrastructure management software. BalancePoint 3.0 allows IT organizations to optimize virtual and physical server and storage infrastructure resources to reduce costs. As companies advance…

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VMware and SpringSource – The Hyperic Monitoring Story

August 14, 2009
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When VMware bought SpringSource they got three things: 1. Development Tools 2. Java application frameworks (runtime infrastructure for Java based applications) 3. Performance and Availability management tools that came as a result of SpringSource buying the assets of Hyperic earlier this year Now that VMware owns Hyperic, it owns a monitoring solution that focuses upon…

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VMware Buys SpringSource

August 10, 2009
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It was only a matter of time before VMware decided that if it was going to be an applications platform company, and really take on Microsoft, that it would need a presence in the business of building applications, and in providing the run-time infrastructure for applications. Acquiring SpringSource is a brilliant move because it leverages…

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Top 10 Reasons to Consider a Third Party Virtualization Management Tool

August 4, 2009
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VMware, Microsoft and Citrix all include management tools with their offerings. Every enterprise customer of VMware, Microsoft and Citrix virtualization platforms typically uses the default management tools provided by the virtualization platform vendor. However, there are strong reasons to look beyond these tools, and consider offerings from vendors like Dynamic Ops, Embotics, Fastscale, Fortisphere, Hyper9,…

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VMware Addresses the TimeKeeping Issue

July 23, 2009
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VMware has updated its document on Timekeeping in Virtual Machines. This update includes a new mechanism by which vendors of performance management products can accurately measure response times for applications and transactions. This strongly positions vendors like Dynatrace, Optier, Knoa and Aternity to provide transaction performance management solutions in support of the virtualization of business…

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VMware – The Next Great Platform Company?

July 16, 2009
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While VMware is being lead by two executives, Paul Maritz and Todd Nielson who were instrumental in the establishment of Windows as a dominant platform, VMware is today still not acting like a true platform company. Windows became a dominant platform because Microsoft structured its business model around making the platform a success. This included…

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