Virtualization Management Blog

In its 2011 Report, VMware Journey Adoption Insights, VMware states that 53% of its customers have virtualized mission-critical applications.  VMware customers—as well as other hypervisor users—are in different phases of their IT transformation journey, as described in VMware’s three-stage virtualization adoption model (see figure):

We spent the last week exhibiting our wares out in San Francisco at Citrix Synergy – where more than 100 vendors and nearly 6,500 IT professionals convened to share, discuss, and learn more about the emerging trends in cloud computing, networking and virtualization technologies. Sitting in the audience listening to the keynotes on Wednesday and Thursday mornings, I was consistently amazed by the pace of innovation driven by the vendor-side of the IT industry. The multitude of permutations on delivering a desktop experience, micro-apps integrated with enterprise systems delivered over smartphones and tablets, new cloud and datacenter architectures… the list goes on and on (and if you’re interested in getting it straight from the source, you can do so here).

VMTurbo recently participated in its first VMware Forum event in EMEA—at Wembley Stadium in London, home of the England national football team (that’s soccer for you Yanks!). The event was a great opportunity to meet up with a number of VMTurbo customers who were very interested to learn about the new VMTurbo 3.1 release. However, we also met dozens of organizations that are new to VMTurbo’s technology—many of whom have been testing the new release. It was great to get such positive feedback on VMTurbo Operations Manager. It was also clear that customers really do see the benefits of a management system that goes beyond simple monitoring and alerting; instead, providing specific guidance and actions to prevent and resolve performance issues in virtualized environments.

One of the most popular topics of discussion was around the VMTurbo planning capability. In particular one of our customers was explaining how they had used the VMTurbo planning function to more accurately assess the hardware requirements for a new project. Based on VMTurbo Operations Manager’s ability to optimize the use of existing hardware through more intelligent workload placement and accurate assessment of the impact of adding new workloads to their environment, this customer was able to significantly reduce the bill for new blade server, VMware, operating system, and backup software licenses.  As organizations look to drive more efficiency for their virtualized infrastructure, this use case is becoming a recurring theme with VMTurbo customers.

The event opened with an inspiring keynote by VMware's Chief Cloud Technologist, Joe Baguley, about, as you might expect, the cloud! The interesting take away for me was when Joe talked about the CIO (and the IT department in general) moving from Chief Infrastructure Officer to Chief Integration Officer.  In other words, transitioning from being the broker between physical infrastructure that IT is used to managing, to service provisioning from the cloud.  For me, the key to that being feasible is the management layer.  Clearly this is where VMTurbo provides so much value to our customers. Moving between infrastructure and cloud management all looks great on paper, but ensuring service levels, keeping within budget, charging back to the business, if required—these are all elements that CIOs need to have visibility to.    

VMTurbo is participating in the next VMware Forum in Frankfurt, June 13! We hope our customers—as well as other firms interested in learning how VMTurbo's game changing intelligent workload management is providing significant cost benefits and streamlining virtualization administration—will stop by for a demo! Maybe you will win an iPad like Leonel Fernadez (pictured) did in London!
Hope to see you there!  Cheers!

When Dorothy clicked her heels three times and recited, “There’s no place like home,” in the Wizard of Oz, it’s unlikely she was thinking about the dashboard view in VMTurbo Operations Manager. However, if she was a member of an infrastructure and operations team who needed real-time, actionable information for her highly dynamic virtualized infrastructure, those ruby slippers might have received quite a workout.

Today we are very excited to announce the release of the 3.1 version of our Operations Manager product line. There are a number of enhancements and new functionality coming to market and we are looking forward to seeing them employed by our rapidly growing customer base.

Part Three: Changing the Game: Prevent It… Control IT

This is the 3rd Part in my blog series IT Management: Are We Chasing Yesterday’s Problem? You can read Parts I & II here: PART ONE: Alert Suppression is NOT Root Cause Analysis and PART TWO: To troubleshoot or Not to troubleshoot?.
I’d love to hear your comments along the way.

On January 31^st, VMTurbo released Operations Manager 3.0, a significant new version of the Company’s Intelligent Workload Management Solution for cloud and virtual infrastructures. Operations Manager 3.0 delivers cloud-scale management for the largest service provider and enterprise virtual infrastructures, expanded hypervisor support, new application performance assurance capabilities, and enhanced capacity planning functionality. The product delivers this all from a single virtual appliance that installs in minutes and provides actionable, and automatable, recommendations to improve performance across the virtual environment immediately.

This is the 2nd Part in my blog series IT Management: Are We Chasing Yesterday’s Problem? You can read Part 1 here. I’d love to hear your comments along the way.

Today we are very excited to have announced the release  of the 3.0 version of our Operations Manager product line. The release is certainly a major undertaking by our development team – and delivers a host of important, new capabilities to our rapidly growing customer base.

PART ONE: Alert Suppression is NOT Root Cause Analysis