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Addressing Concerns about the "Newness" of Cisco UCS

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:38:00 0500

Despite Cisco's recent entry into the "compute" data center sector, John Chambers said during the 10/24/2009 quarter earnings call that the UCS is experiencing, "?solid market reception with a very good initial ramp and order pipeline." As the first optimized hosting platform for a virtualized data center, Cisco Unified Computing System has generated tremendous industry buzz with many organizations eager to acquire it....

The Desktops May Be Virtual, But The ROI is Real

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 04:55:00 0500

Fielding questions while on the VDI panel at last month's Vail Pacific Crest Forum, it became apparent that investment analysts consider a lack of VDI ROI to be common knowledge. But while the savings resulting from desktop virtualization may be less obvious than with server consolidation, they nonetheless are often substantial....

Will UCS Unify IT Staffs?

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 02:56:00 0500

Traditional data centers tend to be segregated into functional silos ? a model that has endured in the physical world largely because of the crisp lines of demarcation. Virtualization is shaking up the status quo and increasing demand for more efficient IT processes. Cisco's UCS helps automate and streamline the stovepipe model by unifying network, storage and servers with virtualization. It also provides an opportunity for IT organizations to begin chipping away at those silo walls....

Is VMware More Like Novell or Oracle?

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:09:00 0500

David Cappuccio, in his blog for Gartner, Just a Thought; Will VMware become the next Novell?, draws several disconcerting parallels between VMware's current virtualization industry dominance and a similar position enjoyed by Novell in the early 1990's. Cappuccio wonders if VMware, like Novell, is going to get trounced by Microsoft....

Cisco UCS ? a Disruptive Platform

Tue, 05 May 2009 15:17:00 0500

The media responded to Cisco's UCS announcement last month by rushing to categorize it as essentially a new type of blade server, albeit one with an advantage in performance capabilities. While UCS incorporates server blades, it goes well beyond the traditional idea of a server. UCS is an optimized hosting platform for virtual machines that unifies network, compute and storage access. UCS works hand in hand with VMware's vSphere 4 to facilitate disruption of the traditional data center by accel...

VMware has its Head in the Clouds, but its Feet are Planted Firmly on the Ground

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:27:00 0500

VMware made the largest announcement in the history of the company today when it officially unveiled VMware vSphere 4 (it ships on May 21, 2009). While VMware certainly made a big deal of the event ? hosting 1,000 people at its Palo Alto headquarters, it still probably understated the significance. VMware vSphere 4 provides the performance, reliability, security and management to truly enable 100% data center virtualization....

What No-One Seems To Have Noticed About Citrix Project Independence

Thu, 05 Feb 2009 04:15:00 0500

Citrix Project Independence was always going to be a significant announcement but, to me, everyone has missed the big feature....

Virtualization Management Software Should Solve Business Problems, Not Create Them ? Part One

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:35:00 0500

Have you ever bought something you were told "everyone" needed to solve a problem you had never heard of? If so, you were sold on FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt), and it made you feel as though you didn't want to risk being caught without a solution to this newfound problem. Conveniently, the company that made you aware of this problem offers a product of some sort, with a cleverly named feature that provides you the solution. You bought the product because it offered the feature that solv...

The Data Center Virtualization Impact on IT Administrators

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:22:00 0500

Our weakening economy means the enormous savings resulting from a virtualized data center make its implementation still more compelling. And yet, fearing their IT staffs lack the skill sets required to effectively administer the new environment, management is often slow to roll out virtual infrastructure as their organization's production data center platform. The reality is that a VMware virtualized data center is very intuitive, and it is simpler, less demanding and far more resilient than ...

Why VMware's View 3 Release Is So Significant

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 19:39:00 0500

There is a lot in VMware's View 3 product but to my mind there is one really significant stand out feature that takes us forward on our journey to componentized client computing. Here I look at the capability and why it helps us on our quest....