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I don't know why, but I am still surprised when I hear the following question: "What's the difference between virtualization and Cloud?" To me, it's like asking the question, "What's the difference between a hammer and carpentry?" The latter is a comprehensive craft. The former is one of many tools... Read More...
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With cloud computing and virtualization becoming more mainstream by the day, 2010 will be the year in which infrastructure vendors selling a "complete stack" of virtualization hardware, software, and services battle it out with those selling individual, "best-of-breed" products. At stake: Who will w... Read More...
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The next wave of virtualization will expand beyond servers into infrastructure virtualization and this drives the need to fully realize the advantages of advanced features for migration, business continuity and disaster recovery (DR). To do so cost effectively, virtual servers and desktops will requ... Read More...
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In 2010 we finally will begin to get beyond the early adopters. This is not the "early majority", but perhaps the beginning of the early majority. I call this the "early pragmatists".... Read More...
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Application performance will take a noticeable hit in 2010 as management process and technology lags behind aggressive infrastructure virtualization. Immature management practices and visibility gaps will become more apparent and noticed by application end users. As a result, organizations will dema... Read More...
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It doesn't take an expert to predict that budgets will be relatively flat in 2010. And, as such, the old mantra of "do more with less" will be in full force. But lately there has been a corollary added to it: "And prove to us the value of our dollar spent." IT is no exception, especially as the CIO... Read More...
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There's an old saying that you can tell who the pioneers are because they're the ones with the arrows in their backs. Granted, the pioneers don't always have a choice in the matter. You take the cards that you are dealt and you live with the technology that is available to you. But the second-movers... Read More...
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Throughout 2009 cloud computing has continued to gain mind share in the technology community. For IT organizations beleaguered with budget concerns and economic woes, cloud based solutions represented a virtual panacea. Cloud concepts evangelized value propositions ranging from painless scalability... Read More...
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The industry is at a key inflection point in data center technology and in how vendors and enterprises react to these technology changes. Server virtualization kick-started nothing less than a complete rethinking of how computing workloads are provisioned, managed and moved and, in 2010, everything ... Read More...
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2009 was a fast-moving year for the cloud space and cloud storage in particular. Since coming out of stealth mode early in 2009, we have had a growing conversation with customers, prospects, analysts and partners. Much of the industry was in "learn" mode for the first half of the year, trying to fin... Read More...
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I'm returning from a trip to Cambridge-the home of the Citrix Xen development team who maintain Xen.org and our contributions to the Xen Client Initiative and Xen Client Platform, and who also produce Citrix XenServer and XenClient. Spending time with one of the world's best technical engineering t... Read More...
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I hope that I am only remembered for the predictions that actually come true. Fortunately, few bad predictions are remembered for very long - surely the "global demand for four computers" prediction of the 1960s has faded from most memories. There is a lesson there, however, that technology develo... Read More...
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Most large enterprises have already virtualized their "low hanging fruit" - the non-business critical applications. Well, apparently, there was less low-hanging fruit than we all thought. According to Gartner, Inc., virtualization is not currently as widespread as many presume. The company recently ... Read More...
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Server consolidation has traditionally been the biggest driver of virtualization growth, but we think diversification will characterize much virtualization activity in 2010 - organizations will use virtualization in new ways, will introduce new hypervisors into their virtual environments, and will t... Read More...
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For all intensive purposes, virtualization seems to be unstoppable. And despite a still-faltering economy, virtualization looks to remain strong in 2010. For a company like PROMISE Technology, we see more interest than ever in virtualized storage.... Read More...
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