Business Agility

Business Agility covers using the technical agility delivered by virtualization and cloud computing to improve business agility, performance and results.

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    Cloud Performance – Learning from SalesForce.com

    October 4, 2011
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    Cloud Performance – Learning from SalesForce.com

    The focus upon sharing real response time and transaction load data by SalesForce.com is notable when compared with the pre-historic approach to performance that is used by many cloud vendors (and for a matter of fact many enterprise IT organizations). Response Time correlates directly to end user experience and at the end of the day…

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    Consumerization of IT: AppSense and Centrix Software alliance recognise its more than just “how can my CFO justify their iPad”?

    September 28, 2011
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    Consumerization of IT: AppSense and Centrix Software alliance recognise its more than just “how can my CFO justify their iPad”?

    AppSense, a leading provider of user virtualization technology, and Centrix Software, provider of unified end-user computing solutions, have announced a strategic partnership to provide organizations with a comprehensive, user-centric transformation program. Do you need a user-centric transformation program? How could this alliance help your business manage IT beyond the 'single-PC-for-every-user' era? If they can help…

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    VMware Articulates a Compelling Management Vision – Automated Service Assurance

    September 7, 2011
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    VMware Articulates a Compelling Management Vision – Automated Service Assurance

    VMware deserves an enormous amount of credit for promising to reinvent IT Operations around automation and the guaranteed performance of applications. VMware either has or is working on all of the building blocks required to execute upon this vision for the vSphere platform. The combination of innovation by VMware, and by the third party ecosystem…

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    Hurricane Irene and Some Thoughts on Disaster Recovery

    August 26, 2011
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    Hurricane Irene and Some Thoughts on Disaster Recovery

    This week I have been paying close attention to the developments of Hurricane Irene. In the beginning, Hurricane Irene looked like she was going visit Florida on her journey to the north. Even though it looked like Florida was going to get hit by this storm, it was still early and there was time for…

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    Your VMworld 2011 Enterprise Private Cloud and IT as a Service Short List

    August 25, 2011
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    Your VMworld 2011 Enterprise Private Cloud and IT as a Service Short List

    Choosing a Private Cloud platform involves trading off the scale of the environment, the types of applications running on the environment and compatibility with public cloud platforms with each other. VMware, DynamicOps, Gale Technologies, Abiquo, Platform Computing and Cisco offer the most compelling enterprise focused production application platforms. However other use cases and markets are…

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    vSphere 5 Licensing – The Role of Cross Platform Management Tools and the Hotlink SuperVISOR

    August 12, 2011
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    vSphere 5 Licensing – The Role of Cross Platform Management Tools and the Hotlink SuperVISOR

    So you are a loyal VMware customer. You have licenses for vSphere 4 and you are about 40% virtualized. Based upon the revised vRAM entitlements in the revised vSphere 5 licensing, you think you are going to be OK as you progress through the more demanding business critical purchased and custom developed applications that lie…

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    VMware vSphere 5 vRAM Pricing and Taxes

    July 26, 2011
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    VMware has done the right thing by taking care of their enterprise customers and making sure that they know that they can purchase vSphere 5 licenses under the terms of their existing ELA's. The vast majority of smaller customers who run a small number of purchased applications are unlikely to be impacted by the new…

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    VMware – A Train with an Engine, 3 Boxcars, and a Caboose

    July 21, 2011
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    VMware – A Train with an Engine, 3 Boxcars, and a Caboose

    VMware is already the most important, and with vSphere the best systems software vendor on the planet. This is true not only based upon the current success of the vSphere platform, but the quality of the long term strategies in place for vFabric, vCloud, and vCenter. With vSphere 5, VMware can ill afford distractions that…

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    Could the new vSphere vRAM Pricing Slow Down Virtualizing Business Critical Applications?

    July 19, 2011
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    The single most dangerous part of this new pricing (to VMware) is rooted in the following fact. What is left to virtualize is very different from what has been virtualized to date. If what VMware has done is change its licensing around to replace one metric (cores) with another (vRAM) in a manner that would…

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