Posts Tagged ‘ Virtualization Performance Management ’

SolarWinds Acquires Hyper9 – The Implications

January 31, 2011
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SolarWinds is betting that due to the size of its existing administrator community (the over 1M users of its free tools, and the 97,000 paying customers) that it can cost effectively reach the admin's at the 225,000 VMware customers that are being under-served by the vendors targeting larger customers and larger VMware environments.

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WikiLeaks – War in the Clouds

December 20, 2010
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WikiLeaks is the most serious social and political event of the emerging Cloud. It has remained alive through a "do-it-yourself" approach as the commercial Cloud was denied to it. When the dust settles, the Cloud may well emerge different, with the rights/obligations of Cloud Services providers clarified.

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VMware, Novell and the Management Stack

September 27, 2010
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Buying the Managed Objects assets of Novell would give VMware a credible entry into the Business Service Management realm with product assets that could compete head to head with those from CA, IBM, HP and BMC - especially on the VMware platform. However there were significant issues with BSM as implemented by all of these…

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Who’s Who in Virtualization Performance and Capacity Management

August 11, 2010
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Who’s Who in Virtualization Performance and Capacity Management

Virtualization Performance and Capacity Management spans Configuration Management, Resource and Availability Management, Infrastructure Performance Management, Applications Performance Management, and Service Assurance. A broad range of solutions in these areas exist from third party vendors as well as from virtualization platform vendors like VMware. Correctly choosing these solutions is essential for organizations that wish to virtualize…

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Virtualizing Business Critical Applications – A Reference Architecture

July 26, 2010
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Virtualizing Business Critical Applications – A Reference Architecture

Virtualization Security, Configuration Management, Service and Capacity Management, Provisioning and Lifecycle Management, and Backup/Recovery are essential functions that must be added to a virtualization platform when virtualizing business critical applications. VMware vSphere is clearly the market leading and most robust virtualization platform - and clearly the virtualization platform most suitable as the foundation of a…

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Is an Open Source Approach to Virtualization Management in VMware’s Future?

June 22, 2010
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VMware has already demonstrated a penchant for using open source technologies to fundamentally disrupt the value propositions for the products from competing vendors in the systems software and applications platform businesses. This has put the operating systems businesses at Microsoft and Red Hat, and the applications platform businesses at Microsoft, Red Hat, IBM and Oracle…

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Replacing the Enterprise Management Framework for Virtualized Data Centers

June 16, 2010
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Systems Management Frameworks have provided an indispensable function to enterprises with large and business critical networks and data centers. However, frameworks have become a category of expensive and slow to innovate legacy software leading many enterprises to conclude that they must move beyond these products in order to properly monitor their newest environments including those…

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Root Cause Analysis – The Key to Virtualizing Tier 1 Applications

June 11, 2010
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Virtualizing tier 1 business critical and performance critical applications will require that the virtualization team be able to provide assurances about infrastructure performance and applications performance to the applications teams and their constituents. This is a dauntingly complex requirement to meet due to the fact that meeting it requires the integration of tools that are…

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Is the CMDB Irrelevant in a Virtual and Cloud Based World?

June 2, 2010
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Is the CMDB Irrelevant in a Virtual and Cloud Based World?

The CMDB's that were designed and architected for static physical systems appear to be unwieldy, too difficult to keep up to date, and not real-time enough to make the transition into the virtualized and cloud based world. Virtualized environment change too fast for existing CMDB's to keep up, and the notion of keeping a CMDB…

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