Category: Virtualization

A Google search of the term “virtualization” returns more than 11 million results. Pretty amazing for a relatively new technology that began as a way for IT departments to streamline and reduce costs for test and development servers. Nowadays, virtual machines (VMs) are commonly deployed to support any number of core applications, even mission critical ones. In 2011, approximately 40%…

Industry analyst Tolly Group has built a name in the IT community by becoming go-to guys if you want someone outside your company to really flog your product and prove it works. Recently I joined them in the lab while they put the vmPRO solution for VMware data protection through its paces in ease of implementation, feature, and…

It’s nice to see virtualization taking steps to help it grow up and fill a more central role in higher capacity, higher performance parts of the IT infrastructure—that’s really the direction that last month’s VMware announcement of vSphere5 provides. Besides specific features, the thrust of the release is about allowing VMs to play an even more significant role…

I just came back from VMworld. The conference has changed and I believe the world has changed. For everything from provisioning servers and clients to effective resource management, virtual environments are here to stay. The most amazing thing was that the expo at the conference could have almost been a virtual storage expo.

When I talked to customers, it became…

It’s interesting to watch new IT technologies that emerge and see how they influence other processes that surround them. In a heavily connected, well integrated IT environment you’d like all the pieces to move forward at the same rate, kind of like a marching band where all the rows line up. A lot of the time, though, it seems that…