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Netuitive – Self Learning Performance Management

September 4th, 2010 Jase No comments

VMworld 2010 was a pretty great show.

I had the opportunity to talk with quite a few different vendors that offer some pretty impressive tools to help manage both physical and virtual environments.

One trend that I noticed, was that more vendors are offering products that don’t just report what is occurring in your environment, but how the environment is trending.  One such vendor was Netuitive.

I had a few minutes to speak with Graham Gillen, Sr. Product Marketing Manager for Netuitive.

I asked him about what Netuitive offers, and here’s what he had to say:

Check out their web site at http://www.netuitive.com/, or fill out the form for more information.

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Congrats to Veeam for Veeam Backup & Replication™ v5, VMworld 2010 Best Of Show

September 3rd, 2010 Jase No comments

I got the chance to speak with Doug Hazelman during VMworld 2010 about Veeam Backup & Replication™ v5.

Veeam makes some really good products to help with VMware.  This fact is probably why they won so many awards at VMworld 2010.  They won:

  • Veeam Backup & Replication™ v5: Best of Show
  • vPower™ : Gold award in New Technology
  • Veeam ONE™: Finalist in Virtualization Management 2-time award winner!
  • Veeam Backup & Replication 4.1: Finalist in Business Continuity and Data Protection 2-time award winner!

I say congrats to them for being the first company to win 4 awards in a single show.

Keep up the great work Veeam!

Go to http://www.veeam.com/ for more info.

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VMworld 2010 Keynote

August 31st, 2010 Jase 2 comments

The VMworld 2010 Keynote is almost underway.

What exciting announcements are in store for the future of virtualization?

12.37pm

Ooo… iPad VMware View app…

12.28pm

VMware View 4.5 available soon!  Offline access to VDI desktop!

12.28pm

VMware vFabric -> VMware vFabric tc Server & VMware vFabric Hyperic

12.25pm

VMware vShield App/Endpoint/Edge – Priced per VM. No longer per CPU socket. #licensemodelchange #vmworld

12.24pm

VMware vFabric announced

12.15pm

VMware vShield Product Family: http://www.vmware.com/products/vshield/

12.13pm

New Products: VMware vShield Endpoint, VMware vShield App, & VMware vShield Edge #VMworld

12.12pm

VMware vCloud Director

http://www.vmware.com/products/vcloud-director/

12.09pm

VMware Redwood = VMware vCloud Director

12.09pm

Herrod: VMware Redwood available today. #VMworld

12.02pm

Herrod: VMware acquires Integrien. http://www.integrien.com/

12.00pm

Herrod: VMware has acquired Integrien

11.56am

Herrod: vSphere 4.1 allows for Policy Driven SLAs for virtual machines

11.53am

Herrod: vSphere 4.1 “The Virtual Giant” #VMworld

11.50am

Dr. Steve Herrod is taking the stage.

11.43am

Maritz: Are old apps on new hardware good enough? #SpringSource #VMworld

11.42am

Maritz: The traditional role of the Operating System – Hardware Coordination and Services…

11.40am

Looks like hype/pushing of SpringSource. #VMworld

11.38am

A common theme (Paul Maritz is speaking now) is standardization/open interoperability.

Does this mean that VMware VM’s will be able to run on Hyper-V, XenServer, etc at some point?

11.25am

Rick Jackson -> Business Agility = Goal of IT as a Service #VMworld

11.24am

Rick Jackson talks about phases of using virtualization:

Cost Efficiency
Phase 1: IT Production – Get the most out of your infrastructure

Quality of Service
Phase 2: Business Production – Achieve unprecedented reliability

Business Agility
Phase 3: IT as a Service – Evolve to IT as a Service via Cloud Computing Architecture

Where are the majority of VMware customers? Phase 2.

11.19am

Virtual Roads. Actual Clouds. #VMworld 2010 theme.

11.12am

Rick Jackson takes the stage, and talks about the excitement of #VMworld.

17,021 Attendees at VMworld 2010.

11.07am

Keynote is focusing on #cloud at #VMworld.

11.05am

Here it goes!

10.57am

If you aren’t here, you can watch the keynote live here: http://cot.ag/cjFFqE

10.54am

Five minutes to go…

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VMworld 2010 Solutions Exchange – EMC Sneak Peek

August 30th, 2010 Jase No comments

I got a sneak peek today in the VMworld 2010 Solutions Exchange.

Chad Sakac took the time to talk to me about some of what EMC is doing this year.

From everything that I saw, a lot of hard work has gone into the EMC booth(s).  Everyone that has been a part of the task should be proud of their work.

Thanks Chad for the quick look and looks like EMC is going to have a great show!

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New VMTN Community – Office of the CTO

August 25th, 2010 Jase No comments

There is a new area on the VMTN site dedicated to the Office of the CTO.

This is a new area that Steve Herrod, as well as other members of the Office of the CTO, can blog about upcoming topics and interact directly with those of us that post on VMTN.

Contributors:

  • Steve Herrod: VMware CTO and SVP of R&D
  • Allwyn Sequeira: VP of Security & Networking Solutions
  • Richard McDougall: Application Infrastructure CTO & Principal Engineer in the Office of the CTO
  • Winston Bumpus: Director of Standards Architecture
  • Scott Davis: VMware CTO of End User Computing
  • David Hunter: VMware CTO of the Public Sector
  • Srinivas Krishnamurti: Senior Director for Mobile Computing
  • Josh Simons: CTO of High Performance Computing
  • Ben Verghese: VP, Chief Management Architect

There are several areas that each of the members of the Office of the CTO have available to discuss VMware topics from the past, today, and what’s around the corner.

Areas:

  • Security
  • Cloud Application Architecture
  • Open Standards
  • End User Computing
  • Public Sector
  • Emerging Devices
  • High Performance Computing
  • Management

I started a discussion about the Mobile Virtualization Platform, and got some good news from both Steve Herrod and Srinivas Krishnamurti.  That discussion can be found here: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/281926

I’m looking forward to some of the discussions in this VMTN area, and plan on adding the RSS feeds to my news aggregator.

Here’s the link the to the community for the Office of the CTO if you want to see what these leaders have on their mind or start a discussion with them.

http://communities.vmware.com/community/cto.

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