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IT as a Service (ITaaS) covers private clouds and the cloud management offerings used to create internal and hybrid IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS clouds.

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Citrix forges ahead with a cloud services focus

May 30, 2011
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Citrix’s annual Synergy conference held this week in San Francisco was kicked off with CEO Mark Templeton painting his view of the future, and the building and leveraging of cloud services. With the emergence and evolution of cloud services, Templeton believes that the industry has moved out of the PC (personal computing) era into a…

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Monitoring End User Experience for Virtualized and Cloud Hosted Applications

May 26, 2011
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In a world where you are changing everything - by moving applications in whole or in part from physical to virtual, to private cloud and ultimately (at least for some applications) to a public cloud, having an external reference point from which to judge the performance of these applications is essential. That reference point might…

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Monitoring SQL Server Performance on VMware vSphere

May 18, 2011
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Monitoring SQL Server Performance on VMware vSphere

Attempting to infer the performance of a database server by looking at resource utilization metrics will fail technically and organizationally. In a shared and dynamic environment, the only way to truly assess the performance of an element of the infrastructure or an application is to measure how long it is actually taking to do its…

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Can the Vendors Eat Their Own Dog Food on Cloud Billing?

May 17, 2011
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I keep hearing we are now in a Cloud based world, I keep hearing that to “Do Cloud” properly you need to bill like a utility company, small standing charge and then a price per unit used cost.

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Cloud Applications are 3-5 years Out: Underlying Layers are Evolving

May 12, 2011
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These announcements and ideas paint a better direction for cloud development and creation than there existed even one week ago. These announcements also concentrate on the data, not the computer engine(s) within the cloud. It has alwys been about the data.

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Security of Performance and Management tools within the Virtual Environment

May 6, 2011
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Security of Performance and Management tools within the Virtual Environment

The problem is that not everything is as black and white as security folks desire. If we implement performance and other management tools, we often need to expose part of our all important virtualization management network to others. But how do we do this safely, securely, with minimal impact to usability? Why do we need…

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VMTurbo Breaks New Ground for Free vSphere Monitoring Tools

May 5, 2011
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VMTurbo has delivered a new free vSphere performance and capacity management solution that is neither time nor size of environment limited, and that breaks new ground in terms of capacity management functionality delivered in a free solution. The automatically generated VM Rightsizing Recommendations should prove to be of particular value to vSphere administrators.

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So What Should a Cloud SLA Look Like?

May 4, 2011
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Public Cloud SLA's are worthless. They need to be replaced by metrics that measure the responsiveness of what the cloud provider owns to the layer of software from the customer running in the cloud. Developing these metrics will require significant changes to existing APM approaches in order to be able to separate time spent in…

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Federated Clouds? Possible?

May 3, 2011
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Federated Clouds? Possible?

Mike DiPetrillo's post entitled VMware is Building Clouds sparked some interesting thoughts and discussion about what it means to have federated clouds and how do you define such federation? Is federated required to make 'cloud' ubiquitous or are we already there? But is the discussion really about federated clouds or simplistic data object movement between…

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