Management Automation
A poll conducted by Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Steve O’Donnell indicates that application vendor support, mitigating the risk of not getting support because of the hypervisor your virtual server is running on, is one of the leading reasons that multiple hypervisors are utilized.
via Why Should Every IT Department Consider Multiple ...
Last week, I participated in a webinar on virtualization along with Extreme Networks and Microsoft. During the session, 113 audience members were asked two polling questions. Here are the questions and the results:
1. In your opinion, which of the following factors is holding your organization back from ...
SolarWinds, an application and network management software company, announced the acquisition of certain assets of Texas based Tek-Tools, a leading independent provider of storage, virtualization, and backup management software for $42 million in cash and stock.
This move is the latest in a long series of acquisitions of SRM ...
VMware is owned by storage company EMC, but it’s not shocking that VMware is partnering with NetApp, says Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Mark Bowker.
via Cisco, NetApp, VMware team up on virtualization security - Network World.
Remember this sound? Busy Signal
I actually can't remember the last time I dialed a number and received a busy signal. Answering machines, call waiting, call forwarding, call routing, etc. have pretty much made the busy signal obsolete. I do remember that when we did get a busy signal, we would just ...
The impact of desktop virtualization in the data center is being over-hyped. Anyone who thinks desktop virtualization is only VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure) would be correct in saying that its impact is massive. Think about what happened in a VDI implementation when each employee has a dedicated persistent image. The ...
The reality is that IT operations and application owners are at odds. Application owners would like IT to over-provision resources, run on the highest performing tier of infrastructure, and grant immediate access to resources. IT operations, on the other hand, is constrained by existing investments, limited ...
Site Recovery's integration with Microsoft System Center and its focus on automating the disaster recovery process is a big deal, said Mark Bowker, senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group.
via Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V automates disaster recovery process.
This ESG Lab report presents the results of a mixed application performance benchmark which was designed to assess the real-world performance capabilities of a SAN attached IBM System Storage DS5020 Express/DS3950 Express storage, IBM BladeCenter HS22 servers and VMware vSphere software deployed in a highly virtualized, consolidated data center.
Introduction
Networked storage ...
Bob Laliberte, a senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), said none of the individual improvements are big news, but taken together the release "adds some nice capabilities to an already fairly comprehensive suite of storage management and high-availability offerings."
via Veritas Storage Foundation upgraded for better solid-state drive management -- ...
