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Server Consolidation Using VMware Infrastructure

editor — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:00:44 +0000

Learn about the benefits of server consolidation with VMware virtualization. Increase the flexibility and availability of your datacenter by consolidating up to 20 virtual machines on a single server. Hear why more than 100,000 customers are using VMware to dynamically balance workload among servers and nearly eliminate user impact during planned downtime and hardware maintenance.

Speakers: Rob Smoot, group manager, product marketing, VMware

Tags: VMware, virtualization, datacenter, virtual machines, balance workload, Rob Smoot

VCS for VMware

editor — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 01:32:06 +0000

In this podcast Sr. Product Manager, Sunder Parameswaran discusses the challenges organizations face in implementing virtual server environments, and how Veritas Cluster Server for VMware can help in reducing complexity and decrease downtime. Find more information on Veritas Cluster Server

Tags: Sunder Parameswaran, Veritas, Cluster Server, VMware, Symantec, virtualization

Hardware-Assisted Virtualization - Intel Chip Chat - Episode 28

editor — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:47:04 +0000

Learn how Intel is unlocking IT constraints from the core platform architecture with hardware - assisted Intel Virtualization Technology.

Tags: Intel, IT, Virtualization

Global Enterprises View VDI As A Natural Progression In Virtualization

editor — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 07:01:54 +0000

Why is Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) such a “buzzword” within enterprises today? In this podcast, John Lens, who works with some of the largest companies in the world as a VMware Global Account Manager, shares customer stories and explains why VDI is a compelling solution for the enterprise.

Speakers:
Tyler “T-Rex” Rohrer, Product Marketing Manager, VMware
John Lens, Strategic Account Manager, VMware

Tags: Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, VDI, John Lens, VMware, Tyler “T-Rex” Rohrer, John Lens, virtualization

VMware Podcast: VMware Partner Becomes Its Own Desktop Virtualization Success Story

editor — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:51:00 +0000

Blackhawk Technology Consulting LLC, a VMware partner, decided to implement their own desktop virtualization solution with VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure and VMware Application Virtualization (formerly Thinstall). Using the same solution they normally sell to their customers, Blackhawk was able to implement a standard quarterly re-imaging process that dramatically improved their desktop operations.

In this podcast, Ty Schwab from Blackhawk Technology Consulting LLC will discuss:

* The desktop virtualization evaluation process.
* The implementation of VMware VDI and VMware Application Virtualization.
* The expected (and unexpected) benefits they achieved.

Tags: Blackhawk Technology Consulting, VMware, VMware Application Virtualization, Thinstall, Ty Schwab, VDI, virtualization

Virtualizing the Application: How Thinstall Streamlines Deployment and Support

editor — Tue, 20 May 2008 02:00:54 +0000

For IT professionals responsible for introducing applications into an enterprise, compatibility testing can often be a daunting exercise. You must not only test every known OS version against the application, but you also need to understand what other applications may conflict with this new application. Application compatibility challenges account for a large percentage of end-user downtime in companies today, as many of us have experienced the unexpected “blue screen” or “frozen computer” when we launch a new application. VMware, the global leader in virtualization solutions, has now added application virtualization to its desktop product suite. Through the acquisition of Thinstall, VMware is integrating a proven and mature application virtualization offering as part of the desktop virtualization solution. VMware virtualization helps you take back control of the desktop.

In this VMware podcast, Henrik Rosendahl and Ed Albanese of VMware’s application virtualization product team explain why application virtualization matters, including the real-world benefits and the best way to try it out.

Tags: Application compatibility, VMware, virtualization, Thinstall, Henrik Rosendahl, Ed Albanese

Fueling the Desktop Revolution with VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

editor — Wed, 14 May 2008 18:44:30 +0000

Enterprise computing has come a long way from the days of centralized mainframes in the 1970’s to the fully distributed desktops and laptops we see today. With the workplace becoming more technologically diverse and increasingly mobile, desktop IT workload grows exponentially with each new user and configuration. Is there a solution that can give IT centralized control while still providing end users with a familiar interface? Yes there is - VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure allows you to centrally deliver virtual desktops from your secure datacenter to your end users. Virtual desktops look and behave like traditional PCs. Therefore, users can still customize their desktops, download additional applications without adding to the IT support queue. VMware virtualization helps you take back control of the desktop.

This podcast features VMware Desktop Specialist Todd Dayton in an interview that dives into the architecture behind VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, applicable use cases and tips on how to get started.

The Server Virtualization Blog has a great and concise explanation of the VM value proposition in a recent post by Bridget Botelho, including links to case studies.

Tags: enterprise computing, mobility, IT, VMware, virtualization, Virtual Desktop, data center

Virtual Desktops - The Wave of the Future?

Paul Lancour — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:00:34 +0000

Join BearingPoint Senior Manager Laurent Mandorla as he explores the importance of virtual desktops and why they are being hailed as the wave of the future. Over the last few years, there has been a lot of buzz around virtualization, although it’s only recently that organizations have begun to embrace it. Statistics show that by the year 2011 there will be 700 million users. This is a bold prediction that has many people investing heavily in this solution as a new offering for their clients.

A virtual desktop is one where all computing happens remotely. It contains a very simple screen that allows you to replace the heavy workstations that are currently being used by the majority of companies. Virtual desktops provide a “virtual” space, in which the user can place all their application software. The most compelling argument that vendors use to convince organizations to buy in to this solution is the fact that all the data and applications are in one secure location. Someone can still manage all of their employee’s desktops, even when the computer is off.

The recent trend has been for companies to move to Windows Vista. This allows an organization to keep the same hardware, which is a viable solution to cut costs. So, why are some people hesitant to invest in this? The answer seems to be that virtual desktops are not a “one size fits all” solution - but there are ways for easy implementation, which is where BearingPoint comes in. We assist with the pain points or doubts that an organizations goes through. It is our goal to assist with the development of a strategic roadmap that brings the client all the way through the deployment. We bring our expertise to the table to ensure the transition is smooth and that our clients are on their way to cost-saving success.

Tags: BearingPoint, Laurent Mandorla, virtual desktops, virtualization

Voices of Shanghai: IDF 2008

Jason Lopez — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:13:28 +0000

This year’s Spring IDF, in Shanghai, brought the global community of Intel developers to one of the fastest-growing cities in the world, to discuss one of the most rapidly-changing technologies, and the incredible impact that all of that change is bound to have. Intel Senior Vice President and General Manager for the Digital Enterprise Group, Pat Gelsinger, referred to Intel’s efforts broadly as “architecture for life.” If it sounds ambitious, it is.

The speed of change in the software world is daunting. In his own keynote, SVP and General Manager of the Ultra Mobility Group at Intel, Anand Chandrasekher, noted that everyone is trying to “unleash the Internet, unwire it, and make it go mobile.” Again, the words sound almost obvious, like common sense. They’re not.

It’s true that Intel specializes in bringing incredible advancements to technology on a tick-tock product development schedule that allows industries to grow and thrive. You can see in the matter of weeks and months that Intel’s efforts go from being rumor to being confirmed technological advances (like the recent Dunnington news) that the world is watching itself change in real time. It’s true that a lot of time at IDF in Shanghai was devoted to presentations on specific technologies, platforms and products.

We heard a lot more about Nehalem, about visual computing, about multithreaded CPUs (And just for fun, compare this detailed look at Intel’s sometimes-inscrutable codenames with a detailed look at those same codenames, from a slightly different perspective). Keynotes from Gelsinger and Chandrasekher, along with Software and Solutions Group General Manager and Intel Vice President Renee James and Intel’s Andrew Chien helped to clarify just how much more mobile our technology will allow us to be.

But always in the backdrop was Shanghai. In this video podcast, Jason Lopez connects the dots between Intel’s efforts to push technology past its limits and Shanghai’s amazing journey to pass its own.

Tags: IDF, Shanghai, Intel developers, Pat Gelsinger, architecture for life, Anand Chandrasekher, unleash the Internet, Dunnington, Nehalem, visual computing, multithreaded CPUs, Renee James, Andrew Chien, Jason Lopez, IDF2008, Silverthorne, Intel Atom, mobile Internet device, Nehalem, Dunnington, Multithreading, virtualization, high performance computing, wireless technology, Centrino, WiMax, 45nm, 32nm

SNWSpotlight: Storage Virtualization, Green Data Centers

Paul Lancour — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:58:55 +0000

In this podcast, reporter Michael Johnson delves into storage virtualization technology, speaking with Don Fautt, LSI director of software marketing, and Doug Jury, LSI’s director of software business sales. Catherine Girardeau tackles power efficiency in the data center, speaking with Dave Vellante and William Souder about Vellante’s Wikibon Project. It’s had a terrific impact on the bottom line at Berry College, where Sounder is director of information technology.

SNWSpotlight is your source for the latest information from Storage Networking World. It’s brought to you by LSI.

Tags: Michael Johnson, storage virtualization, Catherine Girardeau, power efficiency, data center, SNWSpotlight, Storage Networking World, LSI, Wikibon Project, Dave Vellante, Berry College, William Souder, Doug Jury, Don Fautt

IDF Shanghai: Sights and Sounds

Jason Lopez — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 22:51:47 +0000

In this video podcast, Intel Senior Vice President and General Manager, Digital Enterprise Group, Pat Gelsinger explains Intel architecture and its wide-ranging capabilities (”architecture for life”), and Intel Senior Vice President and General Manager of Intel’s Mobility Group, Dadi Perlmutter and Intel Senior Vice President and General Manager, Ultra Mobility Group, Anand Chandrasekher update the crowd on the latest on the mobile Internet devices and their innovative technology, powered by the Intel Atom processor.

This year’s Spring IDF took place in Shanghai.

Tags: Intel, Pat Gelsinger, Dadi Perlmutter, Anand Chandrasekher, Intel Atom, Shanghai, IDF2008, Silverthorne, Intel Atom, mobile Internet device, Nehalem, Dunnington, Multithreading, virtualization, high performance computing, wireless technology, Centrino, WiMax, 45nm, 32nm

IDF Shanghai: Keynote Demos Showcase Mobility, Innovation

editor — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:27:59 +0000

In this video podcast straight from Intel’s Spring IDF in Shanghai, the spotlight is on the keynote demos that showed power and performance in newer, smaller and more innovative form factors, many powered by the Intel’s Atom processor. Many of the demonstrations focused on mobility, and they all provided an exciting look at some of the technologies that are just around the corner.

Dr. Ren Ng, president and CEO of Refocus Imaging, led a demo of his company’s light field cameras, which record the full light field as it enters the camera, ultimately extending the capabilities of conventional digital cameras and “turning camera hardware into software.” Ng explains that by doing this, light field cameras “bring the economics and power of Moore’s Law to the camera system.” (snapshots from their Web site illustrate the demo, which they re-created live, on stage at IDF!).

Also on hand was Dr. Mendel Rosenblum, co-founder and chief scientist at VMware. He shared the stage with Intel Senior Vice President and General Manager, Digital Enterprise Group, Pat Gelsinger, to demonstrate a flex migration across four generations of hardware as well as the value of the deep collaboration between Intel and VMware.

There was a live demo by Classmate PC, following the news-making announcement of the new, second generation classmate (”featuring a 9-inch LCD screen, 6-cell battery, 512MB memory, a 30GB hard disk drive and a built-in webcam“), the unveiling of Intel’s Tukwila Itanium processor (“Two billion transistors in one processor”), and a mobility-focused Asianux demoonstration of the breadth of Moblin Usage, including a new way to play video from the Web and a new way to order Chinese food.

A Montevina demo was noteworthy after Intel Senior Vice President and General Manager of Intel’s Mobility Group, Dadi Perlmutter, revealed that Intel’s next generation mobile platform, Montevina, will provide twice the 3D processing power of any current integrated solution.

Demos showcasing Neusoft driver assistance, Fuwa robot, Adobe Air, Sobey real-time rendering and MID & mobile designs rounded out the event.

Tags: Intel, IDF, Shanghai, mobility, Ren Ng, Refocus Imaging, light field cameras, Mendel Rosenblum, VMware, Pat Gelsinger, flex migration, Classmate PC, Tukwila, Itanium, processor, Moblin, Montevina, Dadi Perlmutter, Fuwa, Adobe Air, Sobey, IDF2008, Silverthorne, Intel Atom, mobile Internet device, Nehalem, Dunnington, Multithreading, virtualization, high performance computing, wireless technology, Centrino, WiMax, 45nm, 32nm

Transforming IT Infrastructure with Enterprise-Class Virtualization from VMware, part 5

Michael Johnson — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 18:38:56 +0000

VMware has just released ESX 3.5 and Virtual Center 2.5. In this 5th of a 5 part podcast series, VMware Technical Account Manager Joe Gazarik explains more of the new features of ESX 3.5 and networking, jumbo frame support, TCP segment offloading, support for Cisco Discovery Protocol, and supprt of network intensive workloads in new devices that are 10 G Ethernet and Infiniband compliant.

Tags: ESX 3.5, Joe Gazarik, Virtual Center 2.5, virtual machines, VMWare

Transforming IT Infrastructure with Enterprise-Class Virtualization from VMware, part 4

Michael Johnson — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:10:40 +0000

VMware has just released ESX 3.5 and Virtual Center 2.5. In the fourth of a 5 part podcast series, VMware Technical Account Manager Joe Gazarik explains more of the new features of ESX 3.5 and Virtual Center 2.5 including support for 64G of RAM in virtual machines, larger memory page support, hardware assisted nested page tables, and paravirtualization.

Tags: VMware, ESX 3.5, Virtual Center 2.5, Joe Gazarik, virtual machines, paravirtualization

Transforming IT Infrastructure with Enterprise-Class Virtualization from VMware, Part 3

Michael Johnson — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:00:18 +0000

VMware has just released ESX 3.5 and Virtual Center 2.5. This is the 3rd of a 5-part podcast series, featuring VMware Technical Account Manager Joe Gazarik on Virtualization. In this podcast, he focuses on the functional improvements to VC 2.5, like scalability, tools management, and 64 bit operating system managability. Gazarik also covers the features of ESX3i, VMware’s embedded thin hypervisor.

Transforming IT Infrastructure with Enterprise-Class Virtualization from VMware, Part 2

Michael Johnson — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 19:01:19 +0000

VMware has just released ESX 3.5 and Virtual Center 2.5. This is the second of a 5-part podcast series, featuring VMware Technical Account Manager Joe Gazarik. In this podcast, he delves deeper into three benefit catagories of ESX 3.5 and Virtual Center 2.5: simplified operations, increased service levels, and scaling virtual infrastructures.

Tags: VMware, ESX 3.5, Virtual Center 2.5, Joe Gazarik, virtual infrastructures

Transforming IT Infrastructure with Enterprise-Class Virtualization from VMware, Part 1

Michael Johnson — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 16:00:11 +0000

VMware just released ESX 3.5 and Virtual Center 2.5. In this first of a five-part podcast series, VMware Technical Account Manager Joe Gazarik explains the new capabilities of ESX 3.5 and Virtual Center 2.5 including increased levels of automation, improved overall infrastructure availability and higher performance for mission critical workloads.

Tags: VMware, Joe Gazarik, ESX 3.5, Virtual Center 2.5, automation

Virtualization technology makes setting up servers easy

Robert Scoble — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 01:32:14 +0000

Sean Tierney, co-founder and COO of JumpBox, shows me how to create a complex database server within seconds by using JumpBox.
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Tags: Sean Tierney, JumpBox

Virtualization and Data Center Consolidation

Jason Lopez — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:30:27 +0000

Intel is launching an eight-year process of data center consolidation, as Brently Davis, communications and stakeholder manager, blogs on IT@Intel. In this video podcast, he discusses the benefits — reducing costs, improving server and storage utilization], creating higher density & more energy-efficient data centers — and challenges, like impact on business partners, impact on different parts of the company, and costs. The strategy is known as “D.O.M.E.,” which stands for “Design, office, manufacturing and enterprise” computing. IT Architect Travis Broughton, who uses a parking lot to illustrate some of the challenges of virtualization in a recent post on IT@Intel, also weighs in on virtualization’s role in data center consolidation.

Related links:
Intel’s Matthew Rosenquist blogs about Virtualization from a security professional’s perspective - is it a dream or a nightmare?

Some images courtesy of: Frederik Vandaele, Jon Hurd and Philip Schatz via Attribution 2.0 Generic; Stan Wiechers, via Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic

Tags: data center consolidation, Brently Davis, IT@Intel, storage utilization, data centers, D.O.M.E., Travis Broughton, virtualization, Matthew Rosenquist

Virtualization and Enterprise Architecture: The Security Architect

Jason Lopez — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 02:34:55 +0000

Data centers today are under pressure from rising compute requirements, demand for storage capacity and energy costs. In this video podcast from IT@Intel, Alan Ross, principal engineer and enterprise architect with Intel IT, shares experiences, technology assessments and best practices around data center efficiency, virtualization and consolidation.

Transforming the data center requires understanding the underlying domains: facility, network, server, storage and how security interacts with manageability and other technology. The security architect has to evolve plans for business continuity and disaster recovery, as well as jump into emerging threat and risk arenas like Web application security. Facilities monitoring and management and energy savings require understanding and balancing customer service levels with the need to pinpoint where, when and how much compute power is needed, and migrating workloads accordingly. Virtualization is another game-changer in the data center, increasing capacity and manageability while decreasing energy consumption.

Alan Ross comes to enterprise architecture from an unconventional background. He holds a number of patents, has worked with electrorheological fluids to change the behavior of automotive dampers, and hopes someday to be part of future innovations in energy efficiency, photovoltaics and photolytics.

Blogs IT@Intel

Some images courtesy of:
Andrew Wales, Gisela Francisco, John Trainor, Koshy Koshy, Refracted Moments, Les Chatfield and Robin Hutton via Attribution 2.0 Generic; Bill Stilwell, Jamie Beverly, Craig Rodway, Fod Tzellos, Eric Schmuttenmaer, Stan Wiechers, gailf548, Andy Melton, Dawn Endico amd Mike Lowell via Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic; Hans Splinter via Attribution-No Derivative Works 2.0 Generic

Tags: storage capacity, IT@Intel, Alan Ross, virtualization, data center, Alan Ross, enterprise architecture, electrorheological fluids, energy efficiency

System Center, Battling over Virtualization, Microsoft and IBM, PowerShell, and open source at Microsoft TechEd IT Forum 2007

Michael Cote — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 02:28:15 +0000

Wrapping up the episodes from Microsoft TechEd IT Forum in Barcelona, James and I talk about the discussions and announcements at the event. First, James comments on the seeming maturity that both the attendees and Microsoft itself has after all these years of TechEd. Then we get ask if virtualization will avoid the usual zero-sum battle that every other technology goes through - the answer is probably obvious. Moving onto the broader industry, we comment on the long relationship between IBM and Microsoft, feeling now that IBM is in a pulling back phase. Finally, we wrap-up with some PowerShell talk and comment on the role of open source - or lack thereof - in all of this.

Tags: Microsoft, TechEd, IBM

System Center Tour - Microsoft TechEd IT Forum 2007

Michael Cote — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 00:34:39 +0000

Finishing up the interview series at Microsoft TechEd IT Forum in Barcelona, I talk with Eric Berg (Director of Product Management, System Center) about the System Center product lines. While we focus on only Operations Manager, Configuration Manager, and Virtual Machine Manager, we go into detail on each. We start out going over the linage of the System Center brand: mapping MOM to System Center Operations Manager and SMS to System Center Configuration Manager. Then Eric describes what function both Operations Manager and Configuration Manager serve, spending time detailing the inventory and asset management that Configuration Manager does, highlighting the AssetMetrix integration. We then talk about what System Center offers for virtualization management and discuss everyone’s favorite virtualization topic, live migration of VMs. We end by talking about how Microsoft uses partners and the greater System Center ecosystem to address questions about heterogeneity, and then end on discussing what role developers play in Microsoft’s general “philosophy of IT management.”

Tags: Microsoft, TechEd, Eric Berg, Virtual Machine, SMS

Virtualization Demystified: Breaking out Virtualization Technologies with F5’s Alan Murphy

Michael Johnson — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 02:18:39 +0000

Over the past few years Virtualization has become the new IT buzzword, cropping up in technologies from the end-user client environment all the way back through the Data Center into application, storage, and delivery networks. While Virtualization is solid technology, one definition for this word doesn’t cover all parts of the virtualization story. What does virtualization mean within the context of end-users, operating systems, application server, management, etc? These are the questions that all IT departments are dealing with today as they plan their various virtualization migration plans. Before you begin to move towards a fully virtual user and Data Center environment, learn where each independent virtualization category sits in your environment and how to address each one individually. This is an F5 Podcast.

Tags: Virtualization, client environment, Data Center, storage, delivery networks, application server, Data Center, F5

Security with Manny and Malcolm of HP and Intel

Jason Lopez — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 23:03:39 +0000

What’s new in security? In this podcast Intel’s Malcolm Harkins and HP’s Manny Novoa chat about the latest issues in security technologies, notably the emergence of hardware assisted virtualization. They also discuss, with PodTech’s Jason Lopez, coping with zero-day threats and the benefits of automated management of PC fleets.

SNWSpotlight PM - Wednesday October 17th, 2007

Paul Lancour — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 23:58:02 +0000

SNWSpotlight is your source for the latest information from Storage Networking World.

In this podcast Darren Thomas, vice president and general manager of enterprise storage at Dell and Claude Lorenson, senior manager in the storage solution division at Microsoft, talk iSCSI and virtualization. Also hear about a data integrity initiative by Oracle, Seagate, Emulex, and LSI. SNWSpotlight is brought to you by LSI.

Tags: SNWSpotlight, Storage Networking World, Darren Thomas, Claude Lorenson, iSCSI, virtualization, LSI