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Burst local and securely with HP CloudSystem
4, Nov 2011When it comes to cloud technology, one of the biggest advantages a cloud brings is the ability to expand and retract on demand. This ability allows IT shops to meet the needs of customers and not miss revenue opportunities due to downtime, sluggish performance or overloaded server outages. This capability does not come without security [...]
VMware announced today vCenter Protect Essentials, based on the Shavlik NetChk Protect product that it acquired earlier this year. The newly rebranded product is good news for companies who currently leverage the built-in Update Manager technology in vSphere 4 and earlier version for patch management. Previously, these customers would be looking at the hefty-priced upgrade [...]
- In: Virtualization|VMware
- Tags: Patch Management, Virtualization, VMware, VMworld
I have often commented to my coworkers that VMware is facing a “good enough” problem. Even though I believe in VMware and their software, I’ve said there is day coming soon that competing products will be “good enough” and customers will no longer see the need to buy VMware’s vSphere suite, even though it is [...]
The future is all about (cloud) apps
29, Sep 2011After having a month to reflect on the organized chaos that was VMworld 2011, one message still stands out to me most of anything we heard during that week. VMware conveyed loud and clear that apps, and more specifically the frameworks and middleware to enable cloud apps, are the big area of innovation for the [...]
The Political Challenge of Moving to the Cloud
31, Aug 2011The way that I see it, VMware is up for a political fight in many of its customers’ IT departments. Two things have become evident to me this week at VMworld 2011 – first, moving to the cloud is going to involve rewriting a lot of our applications and two, this is going to to be as [...]
This week, we shine the spotlight on network convergence and management in the FlexNetwork portfolio, specifically the HP Virtual Connect FlexFabric modules and the Intelligent Management Control (IMC) software. Networking is generally not my forte, so some of this is a stretch for me, but I use and understand Virtual Connect. FlexFabric is an implementation [...]
- In: Contests|Customer Service|HP|Networks
- Tags: Convergence, HP, Management, Network, networking, Virtualization
All IT solutions will experience problems at some point in their life. Supporting IT solutions is difficult, time-consuming and costly, but also a fact of life – a fact as a systems administrator I am thankful for. It means, I have a job. Problem solving skills are absolutely necessary, but all administrators need the expert [...]
Simplify. Eliminate duplication of effort. Reduce costs. Play to your core competencies. Standardize. All of these are themes I have heard in my own company as we have looked at ways to improve our IT operations. Like many companies, we try to form a plan of where our IT operations should move, motivated by making [...]
Announcing the Bloggers Reality Show
25, Jul 20111:30pm – Updated with revised judging panel. When I think of a reality show, I think of people competing for prizes, being judged and getting voted out of the house, off the stage or off of the island. Take that concept and apply it directly to tech bloggers and what would it be? It would [...]
Finally bought a Drobo for home
14, Jun 2010Last week, I found a deal I could not pass up. B&H Photo has a deal on a Drobo for $299 though 6/30/2010. If you’ve never heard of a Drobo, it is an external storage enclosure from Data Robotics that offers some enterprise-class, automated mirroring/striping for your data across multiple hard drives. Data Robotics calls [...]