Performance Management

Performance Management covers monitoring the physical infrastructure, the virtual infrastructure and applications for end-to-end performance and service levels.

Most Recently added Performance Management Resources: (See More...)

The Software Defined Data Center

July 23, 2012
By
Software.Defined.Data.Center

The software defined data center may be VMware's strategy for bringing the economics of public cloud computing to enterprise data centers - in an enterprise credible manner. If successful this will change the enterprise computing landscape, and set up the ultimate battle with the public cloud computing vendors.

Read more »

Virtualization Management – VMware and Dell, Big 2 or Big 6?

July 10, 2012
By
Virtualization Management

Virtualization Management is sufficiently different from systems management so that it is likely that VMware and Dell will disrupt the traditional systems management business instead of simply participating in it. This will hasten the demise of the legacy systems management vendors like IBM, CA, HP, and BMC.

Read more »

News: VMware to Acquire DynamicOps, Inc.

July 2, 2012
By
VMware100x30

The big news (so far this year) is "VMware to Acquire DynamicOps". Now VMware is a multi-cloud and physical/virtual management vendor. Coming on the heels of the Dell buy of Quest, this means that VMware has signaled that it intends to compete in the new virtualization management market with all available weapons.

Read more »

News: Dell Transforms Virtualization Management with Quest Acquisition

July 2, 2012
By
Virtualization.Management.Ecosystem2-150x62

Dell buying Quest transforms the Virtualization Management market. Dell's presence in the market, customer base, and market reach combined with its product set will put Dell in a strong position to compete not only with VMware, but also to create serious pain for IBM, HP, CA, and BMC. Furthermore, the opportunities to integrate the various…

Read more »

News: Microsoft Launches New Azure Features, New Iaas Offering, and Performance Management Partnerships

June 7, 2012
By

Microsoft has thrown down the gauntlet right at the feet of Amazon and VMware. With this release Microsoft is bringing to the table its historical strengths in Windows, its on premise position with Windows systems and Windows applications, its ability to operate scale out data centers on a global basis, with a huge commitment to…

Read more »

Virtualization and Cloud Management Upend the Traditional Management Software Business

June 6, 2012
By
CloudComputing

Cloud Management is a new problem that cannot be met with legacy solutions. Virtualization, Clouds, and Agile Development create a perfect storm of change that needs to be addressed with new approaches and solutions.

Read more »

Dell Transforms Virtualization Management with Quest Buy

May 30, 2012
By
Dell_Circle_100x30

If Dell in fact buys Quest then Dell will Transform Virtualization Management. Dell's presence in the market, customer base, and market reach combined with its product set will put Dell in a strong position to compete not only with VMware, but also to create serious pain for IBM, HP, CA, and BMC. Furthermore, the opportunities…

Read more »

The IaaS Cloud Performance Management Problem

May 17, 2012
By
PerformanceManagement

The IaaS Cloud Performance Management Problem will continue to be one of two major factors impeding the adoption of public cloud services (multi-tenant security being the other one). Inferring performance from resource utilization metrics does not work in a simple single tenant virtualized environment (vSphere in your data center). It is worse than useless in…

Read more »

The Real-Time Big Data vSphere Management Problem

May 11, 2012
By
Virtualization Management

When your vSphere envioronment gets big, managing it becomes a big data problem, requiring real time or near real time data collection, complex real time analytics, and the ability to store massive quantities of data arriving at a high data rate.

Read more »

Featured Solutions