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The Invisible Hand of the Data Center: Analogy or Algorithm?
I had the pleasure of presenting to the members at the recent London VMUG. My talk was entitled “Software-Defined Control – Transforming IT Operations, the Invisible Hand of the Data Center.” In today’s Software-Defined “X” world, it’s easy to get blinded by the hype and marketing around the term Software-Defined. So I wanted to convey
Installing New Hardware and the Impact on Virtualization Management
This is part of a series of articles looking at real operational situations and how virtualization management solutions react. You did it. You got the new hardware approved and delivered (no easy task in today’s tight economic conditions). Now, once it’s installed and connected—whether it’s one host or a whole new cluster—you have to decide
Don’t Get Amazoned
I recently served on a software-defined data center panel hosted by Pacific Crest Capital in Boston. Joining me were representatives from Acquia, Plexxi and Simplivity. While the topic of the panel was the software-defined data center, it immediately became clear there is one central theme as it relates to anything “software-defined:” the increasing threat Amazon
Why Dynamic Workload Placement Is Not Enough
In the recent blog post about the Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) by Enterprise Management Associates’ Torsten Volk, Torsten brought up several important requirements and gaps on the road to that important goal. In particular he said: “What’s currently missing is an engine that dynamically places workloads in the hypervisor environments where they can run in
IaaS Providers: Accelerate Profitability Through Automation
Over the last few years Service Providers scaling out cloud/IaaS have realised the need to leverage specialist management systems to automate and orchestrate service delivery processes. In the main, the initial target of automation projects has centered on provisioning because it accelerates the consumption of IaaS services and avoids significant labour costs as organizations scale
The New Normal
The IT world is being shaped by a confluence of changes, including the proliferation of virtualization, the expectation of “always on” IT, and the increasing speed of business enabled by technology. Every progression we achieve in enabling lower costs, greater agility and reduced risk takes us farther and farther from the “normal” mode of operations
DRS vs. VMTurbo: Our Most-Requested Celebrity Death Match
We’ve grown rapidly over the last year adding hundreds of new customers as IT operators at companies of all sizes realize that controlling today’s virtual data centers requires a new set of tools built to offload manual processes instead of just collecting data. With this influx of new engagements many things have changed—but we still
Routine Maintenance and the Impact on Your Virtualization Management
This is part of a series of articles looking at real operational situations and how virtualization management solutions react. You know the drill. You have to conduct routine infrastructure maintenance, like a hypervisor update. You start this process by performing live migration of guest workloads off of the update target to other hosts in the
Is There a “Fix-It” Button?
“Can you give me a fix-it button?” Having been in the systems management market for over a decade, you can imagine I have heard a lot of comments from customers, including the “can’t you just fix-it ” request. My first CEO gig was with Reflectent Software, the developer of an end-user application performance management product
Have Your Cake and Eat It Too
In a recent blog, virtualization expert Frank Denneman provides excellent insights into the challenges many customers of virtualized environments face in an attempt to solve the intelligent workload management (IWM) problem—i.e., provide adequate service levels while keeping the environment efficient. Frank goes into great detail in his post, describing the best practices of using pools
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