What does it take to manage virtualized environments? Here's Sun's view.
Oren Teich, Ken Wallich and Ashish Patel of Sun Microsystems spent an hour with me yesterday evening. The conversation covered quite a bit of territory.
Virtually Speaking
Virtualization reaches from hand-held devices to the data center to the clouds. Virtually Speaking examines the forces behind this expansion, the suppliers of the technology and the organizations using the technology.
Dan Kusnetzky
Daniel Kusnetzky is a distinguished analyst and the founder of the Kusnetzky Group LLC. He's also the managing partner of Lux Sonus LLC, an investment firm.
Paula Rooney
Paula Rooney is a Boston-based writer who has followed the tech industry for more than two decades.
Ken Hess
Kenneth 'Ken' Hess is a full-time Windows and Linux system administrator with 20 years of experience with Mac, Linux, UNIX, and Windows systems in large multi-data center environments.
Latest Posts
Evergrid -- High Performance Computing in the Enterprise
Recently I had the opportunity to speak with representatives of Evergrid, a company that focuses on how to apply high performance/grid computing techniques in enterprise computing environments. Since I've spoken to many companies attempting to deploy open source tools, such as Beowulf or Grid Engine, in commercial data centers, I was prepared to be very skeptical.
What? Another virtualization Webinar?
I know that we're all inundated with Webinars and that some of them are really ugly affairs that were obviously designed to torture the attendees. So, I hesitate to recommend one to you now.
Are PC blade based virtual access solutions better than what you're doing now?
ClearCube just announced that they now have an OEM relationship with VMware. Their press release can be viewed here.
Breaking through the virtualization confusion
Many vendors have embraced the idea of helping organizations work with a logical view of computing resources rather than a physical view. Unfortunately, each has chosen a different layer or set of layers as their focus and yet, they still call their product "virtualization.
InovaWave: Doubling VM performance?
InovaWave is offering an interesting, very focused product family, called DXtreme, aimed at optimizing the performance of that optimization of virtual machine performance on Microsoft's 32-bit and 64-bit Windows and VMware's ESX Server. The key benefits of this product family are that they can optimize and accelerate I/O.
Systems Solutions: Virtualization spells budget relief
How are organizations using virtualization technology? In an effort to find out, I spoke with Frank Basanta, Technical Director of Systems Solutions, about their use of the technology.
Stratus: The real cost of fault tolerance
In April 2007 I posted Fault Tolerant and Fail Over is There a Difference?. In that post I explored the differences between a failover environment and an environment that can not appear to fail.
Access virtualization and green computing
As mentioned in my post titled, Virtualization and Green Computing, green computing the industry catch phrase for finding ways to make the most efficient use of computing resources. In this post, I'd like to look at access virtualization and the role it plays in green computing.
Application virtualization and green computing
As mentioned in my post titled, Virtualization and Green Computing, green computing the industry catch phrase for finding ways to make the most efficient use of computing resources. In this post, I'd like to look at application virtualization and the role it plays in green computing.