Server Virtualization
Earlier today, Nicira publicly emerged as a company from stealth mode with more than just an idea, but with a product and several customers actually using it. While many find that approach old school, I like the fact that they are more than just PowerPoint slides and buzzword bingo press ...
“Virtualization can provide a much more cost-effective way to create redundancy,” said Lauren Whitehouse, a senior analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group.
But there is a lot more to using virtualization in this way than meets the eye. Data management and system design challenges, financial constraints, and governmentwide policies about the ...
Published on Wednesday, February 1st, 2012 at 12:14 pm | 1 Comment »
Authors: Ajen Johan | Jason Buffington | Tony Palmer |
Optimizing Server, Application, and Storage Consolidation with Edge Virtual Server Infrastructure
Riverbed Technology provides a performance platform for enterprises implementing strategic initiatives such as virtualization, consolidation, cloud computing, and disaster recovery in a globally connected enterprise. Riverbed solutions are designed to enable a fluid, dynamic IT architecture by eliminating bottlenecks and ...
Authors: Ajen Johan | Jason Buffington | Tony Palmer |
VMware is also driving intelligence into the virtualization environment and driving further efficiency with vCenter Operations Management Suite, said Mark Bowker, senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. Although VMware's value proposition to customers has primarily been focused on reduction of capex, vCenter Operations Management Suite is focused on improving operational ...
I spent yesterday at the NE VMUG at Gillette Stadium. In short, while it had flaws, it was awesome. I’ve been to well over 8 million of these types of shows. This is my unabashed favorite of all time.
Why? Because it really is social networking 1.0. ...
ESG had the opportunity to share the information from our recent ESG Market Landscape Report, Virtual Computing Infrastructures: The Movement Towards Integrated Computing: The Foundations for Cloud at the 2012 New England VMUG Winter Warmer. We intercepted a giant wave of questions and had some fantastic conversations with the attendees.
The ...
ESG will be attending and presenting at this years NE VMUG Winter Warmer in Foxborough, MA at Gillette Stadium. Please swing in and join us:
You can read Mark's other blog entries at Liquefying IT.
Mark Bowker, Enterprise Strategy Group senior analyst, said Virsto is seeking to solve a big problem for server virtualization customers.
“It’s no secret that storage is the biggest challenge in a virtual environment,” Bowker said. “Storage is VMware’s No. 1 support call issue. Virsto snaps into customers’ existing architecture, and can ...
AutoVirt’s targeting of the SMB and midmarket level contributed to its demise, said Steve Duplessie, senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG). The software only worked for Windows environments in smaller organizations, which typically have small amounts of data to migrate, compared with enterprise-level customers that need to move terabytes ...
Published on Thursday, January 12th, 2012 at 9:35 am | No Comments »
Authors: Ajen Johan | Brian Garrett | Tony Palmer |
Effectively Virtualizing Tier-1 Application Workloads
This report presents the results of ESG Lab testing of the performance and scalability of the HP ProLiant DL980 server powered by Intel Xeon processors, running SAP with VMware vSphere 5. Testing was conducted with a virtualized, tier-1 SAP application workload running on a massively scalable ...
Authors: Ajen Johan | Brian Garrett | Tony Palmer |
