Items Tagged: virtual+infrastructures
Working with the Taneja Group on the Customer Validation report was a true pleasure. We are very happy with how it turned out and have received numerous glowing praises on the quality of the work and value of the customer research findings. Many thanks for creating such an excellent demand generation resource, and for the webinar where you presented the findings of the report. Both assets have become very valuable tools for our demand generation efforts.
Application Delivery and Virtual Convergence
We're rethinking infrastructure management - it's natural to rethink the application development, deployment, and lifecycle management process as well.
- Premiered: 08/04/09
- Author: Taneja Group
Virtualize with Confidence: New Tools for Performance Management
I've been watching virtual environment performance optimization closely, and two young vendors have shown me interesting tools lately.
- Premiered: 08/02/09
- Author: Taneja Group
Podcast : Jeff and Dave discuss Virtual Infrastructure Optimization
As the virtual infrastructure storms onto the scene, what has been a major stumbling block in the past for operations management is now becoming a crushing blow.
- Premiered: 08/04/09
- Author: Taneja Group
Moving Toward “Virtual Convergence”
Due in large part to its growing deployment on servers, virtualization is now affecting all major resources and functions in the data center.
- Premiered: 07/24/09
- Author: Jeff Byrne
Who Owns Virtual Infrastructure Performance?
In the virtualized data center, when a tricky performance problem arises, who owns it? Is it a virtual server problem, a storage or network problem, or a new problem in any of these tiers caused by virtualization?
Dev/Test Lab Automation Expands Your Cloud Options
Lack of automation doesn’t just hurt the development cycle; it will soon start to hurt your ability to take advantage of the cloud.
- Premiered: 07/30/09
- Author: Taneja Group
VMworld Europe 2009: Keynote Live Blogging
VMware CEO Paul Maritz kicked off VMworld Europe today and fired a shot directly across Citrix's bow.
- Premiered: 02/24/09
- Author: Taneja Group
VMworld Europe 2009: Kick-Off!
Taneja Group is on site and will be blogging on the hot announcements, trends, and session highlights all week.
Citrix Storms the Beach
Citrix's free verson of XenServer, available in late March, will include management features, resource sharing, and live virtual machine migration, making it the latest run at giant VMware's Virtual Infrastructure suite.
- Premiered: 02/23/09
- Author: Taneja Group
VMware acquires Zimbra, Filling Out vCloud Strategy
In our view, VMware has been disciplined about looking forward: building the next-generation datacenter stack, open and cloud-enabled, while not overly concerned about winning a particular battle at one tier of the existing stack.
- Premiered: 01/12/10
- Author: Taneja Group
Observations from EqualLogic User Conference 2010
My colleague Jeff Boles and I recently attended the first EqualLogic User Conference in Dallas.
- Premiered: 04/08/10
- Author: Jeff Byrne
Server Sprawl, Meet Storage Sprawl
One of the big themes for 2010 in the land of virtualization is storage optimization for virtual environments, and especially for desktop virtualization projects.
- Premiered: 06/01/10
- Author: Taneja Group
Storage Capacity Planning in a Virtual Environment
Here are some excerpts from a recent podcast I did with Todd Erickson over at SearchStorage.com.
- Premiered: 10/26/10
- Author: Taneja Group
Hyper9 Manages at Cloud Speed and Cloud Scale
We just had an informative chat with Hyper9, a company Taneja Group has been tracking since its inception.
- Premiered: 11/09/10
- Author: Taneja Group
IT Managers and Virtualization: Plagued by Insecurity?
Are IT professionals themselves becoming insecure about the security of their virtual infrastructures? Is all of this media attention justified? We believe the answers to these two questions, respectively, are "a little bit" and "yes".
- Premiered: 11/11/08
- Author: Jeff Byrne
VMWorld Highlight: Virtual Infrastructure Optimization
Virtual Instruments' VirtualWisdom, announced here this week, aims to provide this end-to-end runtime visibility and cut through the finger-pointing between server and storage vendors when performance issues arise in production.
Cisco's Virtual Awakening
Cisco is doing more than adding servers to its product line Monday; it is repositioning itself as a virtual infrastructure management vendor.
Before Taking Off For the Cloud, Check Your Virtual Engines
In March, McKinsey published a discussion document, Clearing the Air on Cloud Computing, claiming current cloud services offerings aren’t cost competitive for larger enterprises. I can’t argue the numbers, but the cart might be getting in front of the horse.
- Premiered: 05/15/09
- Author: Taneja Group
Breaking Some Windows: VMware Acquires SpringSource
As the leader in virtualizing Windows applications, VMware is arguably the most significant threat to Windows dominance.