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.
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 is a Boston-based writer who has followed the tech industry for more than two decades.
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.
Cloud computing has been pitched as the perfect foundation for data center transformation. Dell offers pre-tested, supported private cloud solutions targeting the needs of retail companies. What's different to the competition?
Virsto thinks that storage virtualization is the missing link in many virtualized environments. The company fired another salvo into this market with the release of Virsto for vSphere 2.0.
Larry Lang, CEO of Quorum, dropped by to discuss Quorum's view of trends in the use of cloud-based backup and recovery solutions.
With all of the different ways to make a workload continue to execute when there is a failure, when is hardware-based continuous processing the best choice?
Today's distributed applications are very complex. Throw in virtual environments and cloud computing and useful, real time performance management becomes daunting. Is predictive analytics the answer or just another catch phrase?
Floyd Strimling of Zenoss chats about cloud computing, open source and Zenoss. He wants organizations to ask what do they want from cloud computing before jumping in.
CA has made up catch phrases such as "VM Stall" in the past, marketed them heavily,and hoped they would stick Often the phrases played fast and loose with established industry language and didn't catch on. Will "Service Virtualization" be any different?
Darrell Williams, Director Information Systems for Katz, Sapper & Miller, spoke with Virtually Speaking about how his organization worked with Logicalis to implement a solution based upon Cisco's UCS servers, VMware's vSphere and NetApp's Flexpod
ScienceLogic's Antonio Piraino spent some time introducing the company, its products and the philosophy behind those products.
