We just completed a very busy week on the exhibitor floor at Cisco Live, demonstrating Zenoss Cloud Service Assurance and talking with attendees. People flocked to our booth to get their picture taken with Zenny the Zebra, but they stayed to talk and share and learn about the needs of their own organizations. I’ve distilled .. Read More »
Every Friday we like to highlight some of our favorite posts on IT Operations, Cloud Computing, DevOps, Virtualization and anything else that grabbed our attention over the week. Here are some great articles from the week of May 7th that are worth taking a look at. Enjoy and have a fantastic weekend! Study: Cloud .. Read More »
Two weeks ago, I attended a UCS administration training class at my local Cisco facility. It was a real pleasure to get hands-on and hear what my fellow attendees were up to. The intimate group included just two vastly different organizations. Yet, a UCS-based integrated stack was the heart of each of their plans. The .. Read More »
In an effort to consolidate their servers, organizations start by virtualizing their low-risk, low-impact systems. These Web servers, file servers, internal applications, and test machines generally make up about one-third of the total number of servers. Low-impact servers don’t require 100% control over how the data is moving from host-to-host. These systems deploy quickly and .. Read More »
I invite you to join us for an informative webinar with Aberdeen Group, Your Journey to the Cloud: Four Steps to Virtualization Success. Please join me and Dick Csaplar, Senior Research Analyst, Virtualization & Storage at Aberdeen Group. In a recent Aberdeen survey, IT professionals reported that, on average, they had virtualized 47% of their .. Read More »
Server Virtualization The emergence of powerful virtual machine software for industry standard (X86) systems has changed how many organizations look at deploying server-based applications and services. In the past, many organizations would deploy a single workload on a server. While this approach might have been easy to understand, it was wasteful of system resources. Virtual .. Read More »