Any data center with a virtualized environment has a real need for effective capacity management. This article discusses the reasons why capacity management is critical to achieving the benefits of server virtualization and outlines the three key requirements to consider when evaluating capacity management systems. A major advantage of virtualized environments is their ability to improve resource utilization by running multiple virtual machines (VMs) on the physical servers in a shared infrastructure. With such an architecture, utilization can increase from as low as 10% for dedicated servers to 60% or more for virtualized servers. The enhanced resource efficiencies make it ...

Amazon Web Services includes Evolven’s change and configuration monitoring software to improve stability, performance and availability of Amazon customer cloud services (PRWeb February 02, 2012) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/2/prweb9154774.htm

Dell tries to organize disparate software units in the company under one roof

Virtualization technologies have changed the ground rules on monitoring and managing your IT services. Most of us in the IT operations world tend to focus on the nuts and bolts of the infrastructure - our key concerns are: How hot are my Linux servers? How many IOPS are happening to the disks? Is Active Directory working? Is DNS working, etc.? On the other hand, end users are focused on the business services that they are accessing. After all, that's what they see and care about to get their job

Shaun Nichols, V3.co.uk Tool monitors performance across virtualised servers Riverbed has released an update to its Cascade network monitoring and management platform, which will improve administrators ability to manage traffic associated with virtualised servers. The tool will support integration with...

Green initiatives are making room for savings towards electricity bills, cloud computing and virtualization as well. Taking a cue from the IT managers and CIOs who are always demanding to do more activities with their limited resources, enterprise are now seriously looking into the details of saving on their electricity bills and embracing Green IT infrastructure like the cloud computing environment. As a result, consumption of natural light becomes very important. Most of the enterprises are se

With vCenter Operations Suite 5, VMware takes steps to manage the burgeoning virtual machine environment in a more advanced manner than traditional management tool vendors can.

According to Wikipedia, a disruptive technology or disruptive innovation is an innovation that helps create a new market and value network, and eventually goes on to disrupt an existing market and value network (over a few years or decades), displacing an earlier technology. The term is used in business and technology literature to describe innovations that improve a product or service in ways that the market does not expect, typically first by designing for a different set of consumers in the new market and later by lowering prices in the existing market. Virtualization and software design have been the main ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SOASTA®, Inc., the leader in cloud-based performance and functional testing, today launched a ground-breaking new release of its CloudTest® Platform that delivers, for the first time, complete functional test automation for continuous multi-touch, gesture-based mobile applications. The foundation of SOASTA’s release is TouchTest™ technology that provides ...

Unilever has built a private cloud computing setup for its key basic applications, using the new Microsoft System Center 2012 platform. read more

Electric and water utilities are changing the way they operate, investing in automation and wireless communications to make their distribution and management systems smarter.

With virtualization comes an increase in the amount and complexity of I/O traffic. Network interface cad (NIC) partitioning enhances I/O performance in a virtualized environment, advancing hardware consolidation and flexible bandwidth provisioning for heightened IT agility.

Performance management skills--in both software and IT professionals--promises to be the biggest storage story this year.

By James Cooper, Brian Graham and Randy Krzyston 2012-01-17 Article Views: 376 Article Rating: star star star star star / 0 Extending a law school’s reach with virtual technology. Rate This Article: Poor (_) (_) (_) (_) (_) Best Rate Add This Article To: Digg this Del.icio.us Slashdot Y! My Web E-mail Print Furl Google Simpy Spurl! PDF Version Colleges and universities across the country seek to provide engaging, personalized learning env

(Page 1 of 3) As the world goes mobile at increasing speed, the current process for testing mobile applications simply does not work. Despite increased investments in application performance monitoring, load testing and functional testing, users continue to be frustrated by application failures. Over the last few months, business and technology news grabbed our attention with headlines highlighting spectacular website failures, costing the offending organizations millions of dollars per incident