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It's Time to Consider Human Capital Again
Explore Virtualization Journal (May 15 2012)
Throughout history there has been a cycle that ebbs and flows where new technology makes production more efficient and reduces the need for manpower in a particular space, thus forcing those in charge into the difficult position of deciding who stays and who goes. This is normally replaced by an uptake in needs for employees elsewhere, and eventually by expansion of the original vertical market, a return to labor-heavy workloads. This cycle has existed (in a variety of forms) for ages. With a crossbow, less skill and more bodies were needed to field an army. With early guns, more skill ...
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Getting Clear on Virtual APM Appliances by Seeing Intra-VM Traffic
Explore Virtualization Journal (Mar 30 2012)
Virtualization continues to be something of a double-edged sword for businesses. One edge boosts the efficiency of IT infrastructures by providing improved flexibility, scalability, and significant cost savings. According to Veeam Software’s recent V-Index quarterly survey, the ratio of VMs to physical hosts is about 5 to 1, proving that VMs are good for an impressive 80 percent savings in physical machine investments. Read more on Getting Clear on Virtual APM Appliances by Seeing Intra-VM Traffic… read more
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A Private Cloud Delivers IT as a Service
Explore Virtualization Journal (Feb 27 2012)
A private cloud is to strategically build a go-to-market vehicle, such that enterprise IT can fulfill business needs and exceed user expectations. With a private cloud, IT can leverage business opportunities generated by market dynamics and offer a user experience with anytime, anywhere, on any device productivity. An essential part of a private cloud is virtualization that offers opportunities in reducing infrastructure costs, increasing operational efficiency, and improving deployment flexibility. A server instance deployed with a VM offers many advantages over one deployed with a physical machine. And VMs facilitate the implementations of resource pooling, rapid elasticity, and hence a ...
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Network Virtualization Reality Check
Explore Virtualization Journal (Feb 21 2012)
There are quite a few pundits out there that would like to convince you that a purely virtual infrastructure is the wave of the future. Most of them have a bias to drive them to this conclusion, and they’re hoping you’ll overlook it. Others just want to see everything virtualized because they’re aware of the massive benefits server and even in most cases desktop virtualization has brought to the enterprise. But there’s always a caveat with people who look ahead and see One True Way. The current state of high tech rarely allows for a single ...
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Cloud Computing Goes Far Beyond Virtualization
Explore Virtualization Journal (Feb 12 2012)
Virtualization vs. private cloud has confused many IT pros. Are they the same? Or different? In what way and how? We have already virtualized most of my computing resources, is a private cloud still relevant to us? This 2-part series is to answer these quesstions. Lately, many IT shops have introduced virtualization into existing computing environmentw. Consolidating servers, mimicking production environment, virtualizing test networks, securing resources with honey pots, adding disaster recovery options, etc. are just a few applications of employing virtualization. Some also run highly virtualized IT with automation provided by system management solutions. I imagine many IT pros ...
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Requirements for Capacity Management in Virtual Environments
Explore Virtualization Journal (Feb 2 2012)
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 ...
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Blitzkrieg and VDI Edge Protection
Explore Virtualization Journal (Jan 30 2012)
By now, everyone even vaguely familiar with information security knows the military maxim of blitzkrieg – burst through the hardened defense at a single point and then rush pell-mell to the rear where the soft underbelly of any static army lies. It is a good military strategy, provided you have the resources to break through the defenses and follow up with a rapid advance into the rear areas. While there are variants of this plan, and a lot of discussion about how/when it is strategically worth the risk, historically speaking it has been a smashing success. Germany did it to ...
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Disruptive Technology from the Desktop to the Data Center
Explore Virtualization Journal (Jan 26 2012)
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 ...
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Desktop Virtualization and Cloud Services
Explore Virtualization Journal (Jan 4 2012)
“Virtualization is a key product for Parallels. Today everybody has more work to do than they have time, so if we can make certain tasks a little more efficient for users that’s a productivity solution,” states K. Michaels of Parallels, in this SYS-CON.TV interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 9th International Cloud Expo, held Nov 7-10, 2011, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Cloud Expo New York, June 11–14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York, and Cloud Expo Silicon Valley, November 5–8, 2012 ... (Read Full Article)
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Desktop Virtualization Is a Long Time Coming
Explore Virtualization Journal (Dec 30 2011)
Virtualization has made significant inroads in certain markets. For example, you’d be hard-pressed to find an enterprise or data center that, today, is not using virtualized server technologies. Indeed, virtualization has become less of an option and more of a necessity for companies that want to be able to continue to offer high levels of service, more applications, and do it for the same or even less money than they did before.
One area virtualization hasn’t taken off – at least for midsize and small companies – is the area of desktop virtualization. We were told that 2010 would be ...
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From Point A to Point B
Explore Virtualization Journal (Dec 14 2011)
The complexities of life often escape a young child. The Little Man asked me the other day why I had to go work, which was both a compliment to wanting to spend time with me and an unintended backhand slap at Lori, who was going to hang out with him while I took care of business. The answer was the usual stuff, that working paid the bills, and work has its own rewards… It did not include “and I like my job”, though I do, simply because I didn’t want to imply “more than hanging out with you” to ... (Read Full Article)
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The Key to IT Success Is Simple. Listen More
Explore Virtualization Journal (Dec 9 2011)
Ever try to explain something to a three year old that they don’t want to hear? It’s a chore. They change the subject, try to ignore you, turn away, and as a last defense, start asking “why?” a lot. It is amusing that IT often suffers the same issues. Really. We’re adults, but at the root of the problem, they’re basically the same. When a customer says “We need fluff!” IT often responds with “We don’t support fluff, try some cotton balls instead”. The other situation that I find massive parallels in is the guy ... (Read Full Article)
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System Center 2012 Virtual Labs
Explore Virtualization Journal (Dec 8 2011)
Microsoft released four new Virtual Labs on System Center 2012. Today Microsoft has made four new free virtual labs available. This provides a great opportunity to try out some of the basic operations of some of the new suite of System Center tools. 1. TechNet Virtual Lab: System Center Operations Manager 2012: Infrastructure and Application Performance Monitoring 2. TechNet Virtual Lab: System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012: Building Your Cloud Infrastructure 3. TechNet Virtual Lab: System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012: Building a Service Template 4. TechNet Virtual Lab: Introduction to System Center Configuration Manager 2012 read more (Read Full Article)
From a Network Perspective, What Is VDI, Really?
Explore Virtualization Journal (Dec 7 2011)
We at F5 – like most collectives of geeks - are constantly discussing the wide array of IT boondoggles that are out there, looking at which ones hold water and which are just passing fads. Often we’re debating which are passing fads. Today I received an email to a small group asking if any of us had tried out the augmented reality stuff out there. I haven’t, but that gives you an idea of the edge that is sometimes taken. image And it is that time of year where every pundit and their uncle is making predictions about what will ... (Read Full Article)
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DevOps. It's in the Culture, Not Tech
Explore Virtualization Journal (Nov 30 2011)
It is entertaining to read all that is currently being written about DevOps. Having been a developer, a development manager, an operations manager, and even a CTO, I can attest to the fact that the “throw it over the wall” syndrome is real, and causes real problems for everyone involved. That is about where my agreement with the current round of pundits ends. The thing is that they talk like there is some fundamental technological reason why DevOps isn’t happening. That’s just not true. For those a little behind in your jargon, DevOps is making operations prevalent in ... (Read Full Article)
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There's Growth, and Then There's Growth
Explore Virtualization Journal (Nov 18 2011)
At our annual sales conference, Lori and I sat in on a great presentation by coworker Dawn Parzych that talked about the Internet, usage, and patterns. There are two interesting statistics that she presented, and I’ve munged them to generate a combined statistic. Dawn is our Product Manager for acceleration, but the statistics I’m pulling out of her presentation are generic informational statistics. She mentioned her source, but alas, I didn’t write it down. Drop me a line if you simply must have it, and I’ll bug her for it. The numbers she quoted were 36 ... (Read Full Article)
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How to Virtualize Network Appliances
Explore Virtualization Journal (Nov 9 2011)
Server virtualization has become a de facto practice for many IT departments and data centers. Virtualization just makes sense from the cost and administrative standpoints. Even desktop virtualization is making strides in some sectors, offering a level of efficiency and security that’s often eluded the desktop world. One of the areas that hasn’t experienced as much in the way of virtualization, however, has been the network appliance area. While some network appliances need all of the processing capability they can get, there are some appliances that can be consolidated and moved onto a single server. Part of the ... (Read Full Article)
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Desktop Virtualization: Desktop as a Service: VMware vs Redhat
Explore Virtualization Journal (Nov 3 2011)
I always get excited about desktop virtualization as this innovation has really transformed a normal desktop way of management to a fully virtualized way of management. With desktop virtualization, you can solve multiple issues related to manageability of current decentralized environment by virtualizing desktop operating systems, applications and user data, decoupling these components from their underlying hardware. IT administrators can then centrally manage and provision these desktop components from the datacenter creating a rapidly deployable private "desktop cloud" infrastructure. read more (Read Full Article)
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Virtualized Desktops Spur Use of 'Bring Your Own Device' in Schools
Explore Virtualization Journal (Nov 1 2011)
Educators are using of desktop virtualization in innovative new ways to enable "bring your own device" (BYOD) benefits for faculty and students. This latest BriefingsDirect interview explores how one IT organization has made the leap to allowing young users to choose their own client devices to gain access to all the work or learning applications and data they need -- safely, securely, and with high performance.
The nice thing about BYOD is that you can essentially extend what do you do on-premises or on a local area network (LAN) -- like a school campus -- to anywhere; to your home; to your travels ...
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Atlantis Computing & Axept AG Solve VDI Storage Challenge for Swiss Bank
Explore Virtualization Journal (Oct 28 2011)
Atlantis Computing, a provider of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) storage and performance optimization solutions, has announced that Frankfurter Bankgesellschaft, an international private bank with 7 Billion Swiss Francs under management, has implemented Atlantis ILIO as part of its Citrix XenDesktop desktop virtualization project to reduce the cost of storage by 93 percent and improve the user experience. Axept AG, a Swisscom IT services company, recommended and delivered the Atlantis ILIO solution to Frankfurter Bankgesellschaft, cutting the bank’s VDI storage costs and solving the performance challenges that were preventing the VDI project from being deployed company-wide. “Atlantis ILIO is an ... (Read Full Article)
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Priorities for CIOs in 2012 IT Budget Allocations
Explore Virtualization Journal (Oct 17 2011)
It is time for most heads of IT to think about the budgets for 2012. While the traditional portfolio wise allocation will still be continued in most enterprises, it is also time to think about prioritizing the budget allocation in new areas. As Cloud related investments will be top in CIO’s mind, the following areas are analyzed in this context. • Desktop Virtualization • Server Consolidation • Application Consolidation read more (Read Full Article)
Atlantis Computing Expands VDI Solution Partner Program
Explore Virtualization Journal (Oct 5 2011)
Atlantis Computing, a provider of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) storage and performance optimization solutions,has announced the expansion of its VDI Solution Partner Program with Dell and 46 new authorized partners in North America, EMEA and APAC. The Atlantis Computing VDI Solution Partner Program offers a unique opportunity for VMware, Citrix, and Quest partners to complement their existing VDI offerings with a solution architected to help them grow their VDI business. The Atlantis ILIO software virtual appliance allows organizations that are deploying virtual desktops to ensure the success of their project by slashing the amount of storage normally required, boosting ... (Read Full Article)
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Journey Towards Cloud Computing
Explore Virtualization Journal (Sep 17 2011)
As IT infrastructure is moving toward cloud frameworks, many organizations are investing in the consolidation of their data centers and working toward moving their existing heterogeneous Datacenters (Virtual Servers, Physical Servers) to complete virtualized environment. Reducing power needs is just one reason why enterprises in virtually all industries are consolidating data centers. Other reasons include assimilating systems from companies acquired in mergers and acquisitions; cost-cutting; replacing outmoded server hardware and software with newer, more efficient models; and improving operational efficiency and most important moving towards cloud computing. In fact, improved operational efficiency was the reason behind data center consolidation that ... (Read Full Article)
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Toll Booths and Dams, and Strategic Points of Control
Explore Virtualization Journal (Sep 9 2011)
An interesting thing about toll booths, they provide a point at which all sorts of things can happen. When you are stopped to pay a toll, it smooths the flow of imagetraffic by letting a finite number of vehicles through per minute, reducing congestion by naturally spacing things out. Dams are much the same, holding water back on a river and letting it flow through at a rate determined by the operators of the dam.
The really interesting bit is the other things that these two points introduce. When necessary, toll booths have been used to find and stop suspected ...
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