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Is Automation Killing The Engineering?

Steve Beaver — Fri, 17 May 2013 12:48:07 +0000

Is automation killing the engineering? When MTV first appeared on air, the first video it played was, “Video Killed the Radio Star.” Fast forward a few decades and I have to wonder if automation is killing the engineering. In the early days of virtualization the administrators were expected to be proficient via the command line and to be honest if you wanted to really understand how things worked, command line administration was an absolute must have skill. Virtualization has evolved from those early days with more and more features and services getting added to the infrastructure that the need for the vast command line skills seem to be fading as the technology continues to mature. Looking forward where cloud computing is working to achieve complete and total automation, I have to wonder how administrators will handle the stress of getting issues resolved when automation is not an option.

Is Automation Killing The Engineering?|The Virtualization Practice

Can you Pivot to Pivotal?

Edward Haletky — Thu, 16 May 2013 16:21:51 +0000

At EMCworld 2013, one of the big stories was Pivotal and it's importance to the EMC2 family and the future of computing. Pivotal is geared to provide the next generation of computing. According to EMC2 have gone past the Client-Server style to a scale-out, scale-up, big data, fast data Internet of Things form of computing. The real question however, is how can we move traditional business critical applications to this new model, or should we? Is there migration path one can take?

Can you Pivot to Pivotal?|The Virtualization Practice

Internet of Things: Expectation of Privacy

Edward Haletky — Wed, 15 May 2013 15:17:10 +0000

For years we have had an expectation of privacy while using our computers, tablets, phones, email, etc. However, with the advent of big data analysis and everything being on the internet, the internet of things, there is no longer the veil that makes up an Expectation of Privacy.

Internet of Things: Expectation of Privacy|The Virtualization Practice

VMware Delivers a New Bundle – vSphere with Operations Management (vSOM)

Bernd Harzog — Tue, 14 May 2013 13:15:32 +0000

vSphere with Operations Management lets VMware use valuable and differentiated management software like vCenter Operations to make the price of vSphere free or nearly so. One can only wonder if other such bundles are forthcoming, for example vSphere with vCloud Automation Center (vSCAC). VMware has significant product differentiation in management software over Microsoft, and it only makes sense to use this differentiation to combat the perception that vSphere is expensive.

VMware Delivers a New Bundle – vSphere with Operations Management (vSOM)|The Virtualization Practice

A Look at the Nutanix NX-3000 Virtual Computing Platform

Bob Plankers — Mon, 13 May 2013 12:55:34 +0000

A look at how the Nutanix NX-3000 stacks up against other, more traditional data center converged infrastructures, what makes them special, and why everybody is trying to copy them in some way.

A Look at the Nutanix NX-3000 Virtual Computing Platform|The Virtualization Practice

What is the Future of Virtual Storage in a Software Defined Data Center?

Steve Beaver — Fri, 10 May 2013 15:51:30 +0000

What is the future of virtual storage in a Software Defined Data Center (SDDC)? As more and more technology gets moved from hardware to software in the SDDC, I have to wonder which direction virtual storage will go. If we use networking as an example, the technology has evolved from setting up local virtual switches on each of the hosts to a virtual distributed switch (VDS) model where all the individual host-level virtual switches are abstracted into a single large VDS that spans multiple hosts at the Datacenter level. In this design, the data plane remains local to each VDS, but the management plane is centralized with VMware vCenter Server acting as the control point for all configured VDS instances.

What is the Future of Virtual Storage in a Software Defined Data Center?|The Virtualization Practice

Can Microsoft succeed as a DaaS provider with Mohoro?

Joe Jessen — Thu, 09 May 2013 12:40:02 +0000

The recent rumors of Microsoft working on a hosted virtual desktop (DaaS) solution to add to their cloud services offering may actually end up being one of the most viable options for organizations who already rely heavily on Microsoft infrastructure to run their business. Having all of your core services being delivered from a single location and provider could ease the operational concerns of some who find running a hybrid of on-premise and hosted solutions still requiring the same amount of operational support.

Can Microsoft succeed as a DaaS provider with Mohoro?|The Virtualization Practice

News: VMware vFabric APM End of Life

Bernd Harzog — Thu, 09 May 2013 10:58:36 +0000

VMware has announced the End of Life for vFabric APM. This now opens up the entire data center virtualization market and the entire future Software Defined Data Center market to third party solutions designed for these new environments. This will be one more nail in the coffin of the legacy APM vendors who have not modernized their solutions, and will create a huge opportunity for the new vendors who have.

News: VMware vFabric APM End of Life|The Virtualization Practice

BMC to be taken private; Out with Old – In with the New

Bernd Harzog — Wed, 08 May 2013 13:44:34 +0000

If BMC is taken private, the same fate will likely befall other legacy enterprise management software vendors like CA, and the management software divisions of IBM and HP. This will start the process of the replacement of these products by new ones built from the ground up for virtualization and cloud computing, and mark the start of the disruption of the entire management software business.

BMC to be taken private; Out with Old – In with the New|The Virtualization Practice

Dell Acquires Cloud Application Management Vendor Enstratius

Bernd Harzog — Tue, 07 May 2013 13:08:33 +0000

Entstratius helps organizations manage applications across private, public and hybrid clouds, including automated application provisioning and scaling, application configuration management, usage governance, and cloud utilization monitoring.

Dell Acquires Cloud Application Management Vendor Enstratius|The Virtualization Practice

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