Virtualization Management

Virtualization Management focuses upon monitoring, provisioning, securing, backing up the virtual environment as well as enabling private clouds.

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What User Virtualization Certifications are Necessary?

March 22, 2010
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In many ways, the IT world has gone certification happy. Nearly every job requirement lists certifications as well as length of service, however, in the realm of cloud computing and virtualization what do these certifications mean? Are they even valuable? Is there a general enough certification that covers all the hypervisors, is there a third…

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VMware + Ionix Assets – Impact Upon the Configuration Management Ecosystem

March 11, 2010
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VMware + Ionix Assets – Impact Upon the Configuration Management Ecosystem

This obviously brings to mind the impact that these new product assets has upon VMware’s existing ecosystem of virtualization management and performance management vendors. VMware has a very rich set of vendors that produce value added products for the VMware environment and it is a valid question as to how VMware’s forthcoming management stack will…

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Is Hyper9 a good fit for the SMB?

March 8, 2010
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I talked extensively to Hyper9 to determine if their product would be a good fit for the SMB as most of their marketing literature is geared towards helping to manage thousands of VMs not necessarily 100s of VMs. My thoughts before talking to them is yes it would be useful, but after talking to them,…

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VMware and the Ionix Assets – A Deeper Look

March 4, 2010
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VMware and the Ionix Assets – A Deeper Look

For at least the last year, VMware has made it very clear that it views virtualization as a catalyst that will enable the delivery of a new management stack into the enterprise, and that VMware intends to be the vendor of that management stack. This is obviously in competition with the vast majority of the…

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CA Buys Cloud Platform Vendor, 3Tera

March 2, 2010
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The acquisition of 3Tera by Computer Associates signals an intent to move beyond traditional Systems Management, into something that may almost be viewed as Operating System: a layer of software called AppLogic that sits above the virtualization stack, and provides a consolidated abstraction against which composite applications may be built within the Cloud. Essentially the…

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News: VMware to Acquire IT Management Products From EMC

February 26, 2010
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VMware and EMC today announced that the two companies have entered into a definitive agreement for VMware to acquire certain software products and expertise from EMC's Ionix IT management business, including solutions aimed at delivering improved management and deployment of servers and applications in a virtualized data center.

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Reflex Systems vTrust Technology in Use by Third Parties

February 25, 2010
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When I first interviewed Reflex System's CEO he had a desire for the vTrustTM VMsafe-Net driver be the defacto standard for all such VMsafe-Net drivers. While others may not agree with this desire and will create their own VMsafe-Net drivers, TippingPoint is the first to integrate into Reflex's VMC product to leverage the vTrust VMsafe-Net…

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Life in IT is like a Day at the Amusement Park

February 23, 2010
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One of my favorite movie lines is, “Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are going to get” from the movie Forrest Gump. So for me and my observation of the day I declare that “Life in IT is like a day at the amusement park. It is a life…

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Is a Partnership between VMware and Citrix Possible – or even Desirable?

February 15, 2010
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Let’s start this analysis with a basic question. Is there any rational reason for VMware and Citrix to make peace with each other, and develop the desktop virtualization market in concert with one another instead of in competition with each other? In other words if Citrix were to add its value to the core pieces…

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