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Virtualization and Emulex

Although I wouldn't have thought of Emulex and virtualization technology at the same time, a conversation with the company changed my viewpoint.  How did Emulex achieve the improbable? Read on. Here's what Emulex says about itself Emulex makes a wide range of enterprise-class products...

Tags: Emulex Corp., Storage, Virtualization, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-12-01

Business Service Automation: HP and Virtualization

Michel Feaster, Director of Products, Business Service Automation, of HP and I had an interesting conversation about managing, automating and orchestrating workloads and system resources. Although a cringe a bit when HP uses "BSA" as an acronym because it makes me think of things such as the BSA Motorcycles or...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Virtualization, Business Service, Automation, Strategy, Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-11-28

AppAsure: Good stuff but is it virtualization?

Naj Husain, CEO, and Dan Soschin, Director of Marketing, both of AppAssure, brought me up to speed on Replay VRA, a tool that protects messaging-based environments that include BlackBerry Enterprise Server as well as Microsoft's Exchange, SQL Server and SharePoint. While Reply VRA appears to work in virtualized environments and...

Tags: Environment, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-11-25

Leading Virtualization Performance and Energy Efficiency in a Multi-processor Server. Product Brief for Intel® Xeon® processor7400 series.

Fewer servers. More performance. With the architecture that's specifically built for virtualization, the Intel® Xeon® processor 7400 series gives you more than 40% better performance and up to 38% better virtualization performance than previous generations —within the same power envelope. Intel Xeon processor 7400 series helps provide your...

Tags: Energy Efficiency, Performance, Multiprocessor, Intel Xeon, Intel Corp., Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Performance Management, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Servers, Processors, Hardware, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Storage, Semiconductors, Components

White papers 2008-11-21

Wells Fargo team shares green tech tips for the data center

In my quest to uncover practical information about what real data center managers are doing to decrease their energy consumption, for real, I recently spoke with two executives from Wells Fargo's Technology Information Group TIG. Scott Dillon, executive vice president and CTO for Enterprise Hosting...

Tags: Team, Data Center, Green Technology, Wells Fargo & Co., Data Centers, Server Virtualization, Virtualization, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Servers, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-11-20

Lanamark Vready

Mark Angelo, CEO of Lanamark, dropped by to tell me about Vready, a new service his company is offering. I've spoken with representatives with many smaller organizations and think that Lanamark has a good grasp on the problems these organizations are facing when they choose to embark on the journey...

Tags: Server, Lanamark, VReady Assessment Report, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-11-19

Addressing virtualization's achilles heel

The benefits of virtualization are quite obvious but when you start to really increase the density of virtual machines in order to maximize utilization suddenly it ain't such a simple proposition. The latest CPUs from AMD and Intel are more than up to the task of running 10-20 or more...

Tags: Bandwidth, Virtualization, Network Interface Card, Blade, Achilles Heel, VM, Networking, Servers, Hardware, James Staten

Blog posts 2008-11-17

Interview: rPath's Billy Marshall on how enterprises can virtualize applications as precursor to cloud use

The cloud forces the older notion of "write-once, run anywhere" into a new level of "deploy correctly so you can exploit the benefits of cloud choices and save a lot of money." by Dana Gardner

Tags: Dana Gardner, Benefits, Human Resources, Application, Hypervisor, Infrastructure, Virtual Machine, rPath, Desktop Virtualization, Virtualization, Data Centers, Hardware, Storage, Data Management

Blog posts 2008-11-14

Highlights from AMD's Financial Analyst Day 11/13

Some highlights from AMD's Financial Analyst Day. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: Financial Analyst, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Notebooks, Corporate Governance, Virtualization, Desktops, Processors, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Semiconductors, Components

Blog posts 2008-11-13

Working at 99% CPU utilization

If you're reading zdnet blogs you're almost certainly not a typical corporate PC user and thus you won't naturally share that person's perceptions of IT things. To see just how something like virtualization appears to that average user - share the experience: commit 99% of your PC resource to something...

Tags: PC, CPU Utilization, Blog, CPU, Blogging, Virtualization, Desktops, Internet, Hardware, Paul Murphy, Data-processing, Data-processing Management

Blog posts 2008-11-13

AMD introduces 45nm quad-core "Shanghai" Opteron processors

Today AMD announces 45nm quad-core Opteron processors, codenamed "Shanghai" designed to deliver superior virtualization experience, performance and power efficiency. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: Quad-core, Shanghai, AMD Opteron, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Virtualization

Blog posts 2008-11-12

With Citrix, iPhone is more attractive to business

Business-critical applications continue their push into the mobile world and, increasingly, that world includes the iPhone - giving the popular device more respect as a business tool, instead of just a toy, and giving IT administrators one less reason to insist on the Blackberry as a preferred handset. ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Citrix Systems Inc., Virtualization, Web Conferencing, Cloud Computing, Advertising & Promotion, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Internet, Marketing, Storage, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-11-12

News to know: CES preview, Google tracks flu, NebuAd sued, Ad porn blocker

 Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Andrew Nusca: CES 2009 Preview: All quiet on the gadget front Sean Portnoy: Third-quarter HDTV sales pace slows, plasmas show new signs of life ...

Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Video, Beta, Matthew Miller, Corporate Communications, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Marketing, Hardware, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-11-12

The Role of the x86 Processors in the Virtualized, Energy-Contstrained Datacentre

This IDC White Paper analyzes the latest technology and market developments in the x86 server space, which has been significantly impacted by the spread of virtualization solutions and the rise of energy issues. The paper puts AMD's latest 45nm quad-core AMD Opteron Processor, codenamed "Shanghai," in context in this environment...

Tags: AMD Opteron, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., X86 Processor, Virtualization, Processors, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Storage

White papers 2008-11-12

VMware's MVP brings virtualization to mobile phones

VMware provides a full line of virtualization software for the data center and down to the desktop.  Now it is reaching down to an even smaller form factor: mobile phones. On Monday,  the Palo Alto, Calif. virtualization pioneer unveiled its new VMware Mobile Virtualization Platform MVP, based on technology it acquired fom Trango Virtual...

Tags: Phone, Virtualization, Mobile, Operating System, Handset, Cell Phone, VMware Inc., VMware Mobile Virtualization Platform, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-11-11

Five things you should know about virtualization [video]

If you're not working with virtualization today, you likely will be. Whether it's through consolidating a data center, deploying software appliances or streaming applications, virtualization will bring dramatic change to IT over the next decade. In last week's Sanity Savers for IT Executives episode, Jason Hiner outlined...

Tags: Information Technology, Video, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-11-11

What's next after server virtualization? Desktop virtualization

There are a number of steps an organization could take after successfully executing a server consolidation strategy. One of them is to embark on the journey to client consolidation or desktop virtualization. The goal here is to reduce the costs of hardware, software and to reduce administrative and operational expenses....

Tags: Desktop, Environment, Citrix Systems Inc., Server, Supplier, Client System, Server Virtualization, Parallels, Channel Management, Desktop Virtualization, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Marketing, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-11-11

The need for a mixed load benchmark

The right way to do virtualization is almost always just to avoid it - and let the Unix scheduler handle resource allocations among multiple applications and users as service demands change. Unfortunately people who want to do this face an unexpected problem: no good way to size the hardware short...

Tags: Paul Murphy, Resource Allocation, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, UNIX, Operating Systems, Hardware, Storage, Software, Operating System, Data-processing, Sun Solaris, Servers

Blog posts 2008-11-11

F5 and the 8 Ways to Virtualization

F5 pioneered the concept of breaking up data center virtualization technologies into eight unique categories within the data center. Any virtualization products or technologies implemented in the data center will fall into one of these eight categories. With this paper, F5 discusses how it has implemented these same technologies within...

Tags: Data Center, F5 Networks Inc., Data Centers, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Storage, Hardware, Data Management

White papers 2008-11-11

Building a Virtualization-Ready Networking Infrastructure

To ensure the full potential of your virtual platform solution, you need to make sure your application and storage network is prepared to handle the added stresses of a virtual machine VM infrastructure. F5® technology enables your network to adapt to virtualization needs, ensure high availability HA, maximize resources, and...

Tags: F5 Networks Inc., Network, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Desktop Virtualization, Hardware, Storage

White papers 2008-11-11