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Will access to VMware’s source code change the hypervisor landscape?
Explore The Virtualization Practice (May 1 2012)
Many of the virtualization security people I have talked to are waiting patiently for the next drop of leaked VMware hypervisor code. But the real question in many a mind is whether or not this changes the the threat landscape and raises the risk unacceptably. So let's look at the current hypervisor threat landscape within the virtual environment to determine if this is the case, and where such source code will impact...
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Mentions: Virtualization Hypervisor
Migrating to the Cloud: OpenStack or vCloud?
Explore The Virtualization Practice (Apr 24 2012)
It is possible to run OpenStack on top of vSphere and if such a cloud existed it would definitely be considered. However, we want a hybrid cloud and while the future is bright for cross-cloud interoperability, the fact is, the hypervisor in use still matters...
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Can Your Cloud Impede Your Agility?
Explore The Virtualization Practice (Apr 6 2012)
There is a difference between outsourcing layers of your infrastructure and making the organization to whom you have outsourced those layers responsible for them, and losing all rights to change those layers in support of your business and application needs. Careful contract and product decisions need to be made in order to ensure that when you used a managed cloud service, you are not giving up the control you need to be agile and responsive to you business constituents...
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VMware – The Next Microsoft, or the Next Oracle?
Explore The Virtualization Practice (Mar 2 2012)
VMware is already the best (most competent) and most important (fastest growing and the source of the most innovation) system software company on the planet. But as successful as VMware has been to date, it is worthwhile to ask what lies ahead – and most importantly in what direction VMware is likely to go on some key business and technical issues. In order to understand the range of choices VMware has it is worth looking at both Microsoft and Oracle as points of reference...
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Application Security within the Virtual and Cloud Environments
Explore The Virtualization Practice (Feb 21 2012)
Networks are not the only attack vector, just one of the more popular vectors.
What the application does is important to understand or is it?...
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Mentions: Cloud Security Virtualization
Different Approaches to Application Performance Management
Explore The Virtualization Practice (Feb 20 2012)
One of the important questions that we should all frequently ask ourselves is, “How will virtualization and cloud computing be different this year and next year than they have been in the past”? One of the answers to those questions involves the kinds of applications that you are virtualizing, and/or putting in clouds (public or private). The short version of the answer is that the applications that are left to virtualize, are for the most part, very different from the applications that have been virtualized to date. This is illustrated in the diagram below...
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Mentions: Application Performance Management Oracle Bernd Harzog
Hyper-V: Is it there yet?
Explore The Virtualization Practice (Feb 10 2012)
For a good portion of the time I have been working in the virtualization space, there has been plenty of hype about how it is just a matter of time before Microsoft “leapfrogs” ahead of VMware in the area of virtualization and with the massive upgraded version of Hyper-V 3.0 that will ship with Windows Server 8, there is thought that Microsoft might just pull off that upset. So in classic Microsoft style, let’s take a look and compare VMware today (ESX/vSphere5) with what Microsoft will have with Hyper-V 3.0 sometime possibly in the “Fall” of ...
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Mentions: Microsoft Virtualization Hyper-V
Virtualization Certification: What Options are Available?
Explore The Virtualization Practice (Feb 3 2012)
Virtualization Certification, It used to be just VMware and the VCP, but things have changed as other players get involved and I thought it would be interesting to see what virtualization certification options there are out there...
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Building the Personal Cloud
Explore The Virtualization Practice (Jan 27 2012)
Step back to Citrix CEO Mark Templeton's keynote at Citrix Synergy in San Francisco and you would have heard him talk of "The Three Cs - the Public Cloud, Private Cloud, and Personal Cloud." Hang on a moment, "Personal Cloud" what's that? For years Citrix used to talk about "any any any" and it did a pretty good job of delivering it provided any was restricted to meaning any Windows app. Now though, Citrix is wanting us to believe that it has moved past any app and extending that to anything digital.
To put it simply; a personal cloud ...
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Mentions: Citrix Cloud Computing
Cloud: More or Less Secure than you Think?
Explore The Virtualization Practice (Jan 13 2012)
While the clouds may be more secure and compliant, cloud providers need to provide proof in the form of evidence and scope of such evidence so that the tenants who own the data can make intelligent decisions. After all, when there is an audit issue, breach, or other security event, the Tenant is ultimately responsible and not the cloud provider...
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Mentions: Virtualization Breach
IT Automation and Application Performance in 2012
Explore The Virtualization Practice (Jan 5 2012)
VMware is going to make progress on its automated service assurance vision this year, with initial steps coming in the Q1/2012 version of vCenter Operations and the initial release of vFabric APM. On the third party vendor front, progress is most likely to come by partnerships between vendors who have interesting pieces of the puzzle. On this front the most interesting vendors are Prelert, Blue Stripe, Netuitive, ExtrHop Networks, and VMTurbo...
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Mentions: Prelert Application Performance Management APM
Cloud: Developing over the Chasm in 2011
Explore The Virtualization Practice (Dec 30 2011)
In 2012 should you use Virtual Infrastructure, Infrastructure Cloud (IaaS) or Platform Cloud (PaaS). Which one has crossed the Chasm?
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The 2012 Cloud Management Challenge
Explore The Virtualization Practice (Dec 27 2011)
So are virtualization and cloud computing the same thing? No they are not. You can be 100% virtualized and not have a cloud. Similarly you can be only 20% virtualized and have a cloud. Here are the key differences...
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Mentions: Microsoft Cloud Computing Bernd Harzog
The 2012 Cloud & Virtualization Management Challenge
Explore The Virtualization Practice (Dec 27 2011)
So what is the difference between virtualization and cloud computing, and why should you care. If you have virtualization, do you have cloud computing? If you have virtualization do you need cloud computing? How is the ROI for cloud computing different or better than the ROI for cloud computing? Does cloud computing help me compete with Amazon EC2? Does Cloud Computing help me virtualization business critical applications? How does cloud computing fit into VMware’s automated IT Operations vision? These important questions, and the answers to them, will determine how Cloud Management (and your company) does in 2012 and beyond...
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Mentions: Microsoft Cloud Computing Bernd Harzog
The Beginning Of The End For Virtualization Management
Explore The Virtualization Practice (Dec 22 2011)
In the APM Digest, Andi Mann VP of Strategic Solutions for CA, predicted that “in 3-5 years Virtual System Management vendors will no longer survive, as virtualization becomes a core part of the enterprise compute fabric. Three years later this trend has definitely started, and will accelerate in 2012 as IT turns instead to hybrid IT management, recognizing that silos of standalone virtualization management is a costly and inefficient burden. Maybe 2012 is not the end of Virtualization Management, but it is going to be the start of the demise“...
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Mentions: IBM Bernd Harzog Virtualization
The Beginning Of The End For Virtualization Management
Explore The Virtualization Practice (Dec 22 2011)
In the APM Digest, Andi Mann, VP of Strategic Solutions for CA, predicted that “in 3-5 years Virtual System Management vendors will no longer survive, as virtualization becomes a core part of the enterprise compute fabric. Three years later this trend has definitely started, and will accelerate in 2012 as IT turns instead to hybrid IT management, recognizing that silos of standalone virtualization management is a costly and inefficient burden. Maybe 2012 is not the end of Virtualization Management, but it is going to be the start of the demise“...
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2011 Winners and Losers in Virtualization Management
Explore The Virtualization Practice (Dec 16 2011)
The vast majority of the customers who run server virtualization in production are still just using the basic management capabilities of the management console for the virtualization platform. For example less than 20% of VMware vSphere customers use anything else other an vCenter to manage their vSphere environment. This clearly has to change as the workloads running on the vSphere platform go from being primarily low hanging fruit applications that IT owns (and can virtualize without asking anyone’s permission) to virtualizing business critical and performance critical applications. The winners here are...
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Mentions: IBM Bernd Harzog Virtualization
Can Anyone Outmaneuver Citrix Flexcast?
Explore The Virtualization Practice (Dec 13 2011)
Perhaps the most important aspect of Citrix’s product portfolio is its FlexCast model. Other hosted desktop vendors have a similar option. Some do not.
What is FlexCast? Why is it important to customers? Can a hosted desktop vendor survive without having something similar?...
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VMware’s Successes & Failures In 2011
Explore The Virtualization Practice (Dec 8 2011)
Since the virtualization industry was largely created by VMware, it is worth taking a look back at 2011 from the perspective of VMware’s successes, key strategic directions, and missteps...
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Mentions: Private Cloud Virtualization
Converged Virtualization Management Suites
Explore The Virtualization Practice (Nov 29 2011)
The infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring, cloud management and image provision sectors of the virtualization management space have been going through an extremely rapid evolution in the last few months. This makes it useful to take a look at these four aspects of virtualization management in the context of each other...
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Mentions: Application Performance Management Application Performance Monitoring Bernd Harzog
The Race To Self-Destruction Among the “Big Four” in Performance Management
Explore The Virtualization Practice (Nov 15 2011)
It is fair to conclude that to date the”big four” have completely missed the application virtualization monitoring and management market. They have not only missed it, they have missed it badly...
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Mentions: Private Cloud Virtualization
The Rise of Next Generation Application Performance Tools
Explore The Virtualization Practice (Nov 8 2011)
The need to virtualize every application, along with the need to support constantly arriving newly changed applications will drive the creation of an Application Operations function in the enterprise. This function will need to be supported and enabled by a new generation of application performance management tools that meet the new requirements of the Application Operations team...
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VMware's Entire Application Performance Management Strategy
Explore The Virtualization Practice (Oct 28 2011)
Remaking the Application Performance Management (APM) industry has thus far been lead by creative startups like New Relic, AppDynamics, BlueStripe, dynaTrace and ExtraHop. Now VMware has joined this effort will add considerable mass and velocity. The message is clear - it is time to instrument all of your applications for response time and the legacy APM vendors do not have the products that are up to the task...
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VMware Joins dynaTrace and Others in the APM Revolution
Explore The Virtualization Practice (Oct 18 2011)
In “Why is Application Performance Management so Screwed Up” we detailed what is wrong with first generation (legacy) APM solutions, and why they cannot be used to assure the performance of applications on a dynamic infrastructure.
So Who is Reinventing APM?
dynaTrace ( a Prelert partner) is one (recently acquired by Compuware). dynaTrace has pioneered the ability to trace transactions from their inception in the user’s browser through all of the layers of the application system, to the database and back again to the end user. dynaTrace is the only solution that can do this in production with acceptable overhead ...
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Mentions: IBM Compuware Application Performance Management
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