Cloud computing
has been on almost every IT organizations' buzz word bingo sheet for
many years, but still only a fraction of organizations out there today
have successfully completed their "journey to the cloud." Even VMware -- a company synonymous with server virtualization -- has over the last few years turned its attention to the cloud. At last year's VMworld virtualization
conference, the theme was "Your Cloud, Own It." A year later, the
VMworld 2012 conference theme was "Right Here. Right Now." And VMware
was telling show attendees "this is the time to enter the new cloud
era."
So is this the year of the cloud? Like VMware, VMTurbo seems
to think so. Also like VMware, VMTurbo has its roots in
virtualization. The company started out managing VMware ESX hypervisors
and virtual machines, but it is now looking to the sky and updating
its technology to bring additional intelligence and management to the
cloud with the release of Operations Manager 3.2.
And while there are several new features in version 3.2 of Operations
Manager, intelligent workload onboarding is truly the centerpiece of
this release.
Derek Slayton, vice president of marketing at
VMTurbo, told InfoWorld, "As cloud adoption continues to grow,
organizations and IT departments are deploying new virtual workloads
daily, leading to an explosion in the demand for solutions with greater
intelligence, agility, and automation to help alleviate the pain
associated with the process of onboarding to private, public, and hybrid
clouds." Slayton went on to say that current solutions on the market
facilitate the mechanics of deployment but don't take into account the
actual point-in-time availability of physical resources in the
continuously changing cloud and virtual data centers into which these
applications will be placed.
Individuals responsible for deploying new workloads in this type of
environment should appreciate VMTurbo's latest release, especially if
they are continually introducing and decommissioning workloads in a
cloud environment. Onboarding is still a complex function, and isn't
just about creating a virtual machine and then placing it into the cloud
environment. Organizations still need to plan resource utilization and
ensure the new workload doesn't overwhelm the available physical
resources that are shared with other workloads.
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