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Heterogeneous Virtualization (HP + VMware, Microsoft, Citrix, and Red Hat)

One advantage of HP’s virtualization management approach is that we work closely with all the major virtualization vendors. Earlier this week, we hosted a partner virtualization event in San Francisco along with our key virtualization partners including...

Published 11-20-2009 10:23 PM by pspielvogel

Filed under: virtualization management, cloud computing, VMware, Red Hat, Citrix, Microsoft

The best way to manage VMware environments

Virtualization management seems to be the hottest topic for discussion, among both customers, partners, and my product marketing and product management peers. I was recently involved in a conversation with some sales people about why HP’s approach...

Published 11-18-2009 1:28 AM by pspielvogel

Filed under: Virtualization SPI, virtualization, Jon Haworth, Peter Spielvogel, Operations Manager, Consolidated Event and Performance Management, virtualization management, VMware, vCenter

Enabling Enterprise BlackBerry Management

We have conducted several webinars with analyst firm Enterprise Management Associates (EMA). I am very excited that Steve Brasen , Principal Analyst, has agreed to provide a “guest post” to our blog about “Enabling Enterprise BlackBerry...

Published 11-11-2009 11:46 PM by pspielvogel

Filed under: BES, Research in Motion, BlackBerry, BlackBerry Enterprise Server, RIM, HP, EMA, mobile management, Enterprise Management Associates, Steve Brasen

Software Universe in Hamburg sneak preview

Software Universe is only five weeks away. We hold this event twice each year, alternating between a United States and European location. The upcoming event is in Hamburg at the Congress Centre Hamburg (CCH) from Wednesday, December 16th – Friday...

Published 11-10-2009 9:53 PM by pspielvogel

Filed under: Operations Center, virtualization, Peter Spielvogel, Operations Manager, OMi, Software Universe, Operations Manager i, OM, Linux, OML, VMware, Hamburg, Roadmap

Two strategies for your new data center

I read an interesting article in eWeek on “ HP vs. Cisco: Polar Opposites in Data Center Strategies .” The article focused on whether it is better for companies to choose from a collection of partners or a one-stop shop. From my personal experience...

Published 11-05-2009 5:33 PM by pspielvogel

Filed under: virtualization, Peter Spielvogel, automation, business service, data center, eweek

Sonja Hickey has joined the HP Operations Center team

My name is Sonja Hickey and I just joined the HP Operations Center team 3 days ago. I will be focusing on the data collection aspects of the Operations Center product line and working with Peter Spielvogel and Jon Haworth as a Product Marketing Manager...

Published 11-05-2009 1:23 AM by pspielvogel

Filed under: HP Operations Center, IT infrastructure, Sonja Hickey

BlackBerry Management Webinar (Empowering a Mobile Workforce)

We have written about the challenges of managing Black Berry Enterprise Server environments, mostly because of all the disparate elements that must work together properly to ensure that people receive their email. For a user to successfully send or receive...

Published 10-29-2009 7:52 PM by pspielvogel

Filed under: Jon Haworth, Peter Spielvogel, Research in Motion, BlackBerry Enterprise Server, RIM, EMA, Dennis Drogseth, HP Operations Manager, BlackBerry management, Jonathan Evans, Pierluigi Buonicore

Why I love Information Technology (IT)

Last night I watched the U2 live concert webcast on YouTube ( www.youtube.com/u2 ). During the show, I just enjoyed the concert, which of course comes with Bono’s philosophizing. ( BBC News review of the concert .) Afterwards, I marveled at the...

Published 10-26-2009 5:21 PM by pspielvogel

Filed under: IT infrastructure, Peter Spielvogel, YouTube, U2

Operations Manager Basics (product overview videos)

I spent the past two days in a planning meeting with my product marketing peers from different product groups including infrastructure monitoring , application monitoring , network monitoring , CMDB , service management , and IT financial management ...

Published 10-21-2009 9:29 PM by pspielvogel

Filed under: Jon Haworth, Peter Spielvogel, Operations Manager, OMi, OMU, Consolidated Event and Performance Management, OMW, OML, Dan Haller

The full stack (OMW, SiteScope, OMi, NNM, Service Desk, CMDB)

As I was getting ready to leave yesterday, a colleague stopped by my desk and asked “do you want to be a hero?” That certainly peaked my interest. It turned out we had a customer downstairs in our executive briefing center that wanted some...

Published 10-16-2009 7:35 PM by pspielvogel

Filed under: TBEC, CMDB, service desk, Peter Spielvogel, OMi, SiteScope, agentless, agents, topology-based event correlation, OMW, Operations Manager on Windows

Virtual Infrastructure Management (Q&A from HP-VMware webinar)

Thank you to everyone who attended the joint HP-VMware webinar on how to “ Reduce Costs and Gain Control of Your Virtualized Infrastructure with Consolidated Management .” The speakers were Terry Lyons, Technical Alliance Manager, Enterprise...

Published 10-14-2009 3:52 PM by pspielvogel

Filed under: Smart Plug-in, virtualization, Peter Spielvogel, virtualization management, SPI, VMware, Terry Lyons, Mike Shaw

Network Management Customer Success Story (webinar)

My colleague, Aruna Ravichandran, in Network Management Center Product Marketing, asked me to share information about a customer webinar in which they describe their success in upgrading to NNMi. Since many Operations Bridges also manage networks in addition...

Published 10-13-2009 3:29 PM by pspielvogel

Filed under: Operations Center, Operations Bridge, Peter Spielvogel, Network Management, OMi, NNMi, Aruna Ravichandran

Capacity planning in virtualized environments

In our joint webinar with VMware last week “ Reduce Costs and Gain Control of Your Virtualized Infrastructure with Consolidated Management ”, a question arose about capacity planning in a virtualized environments. I asked Rob Carruthers of...

Published 10-12-2009 4:42 PM by pspielvogel

Filed under: virtualization, capacity planning, Rob Carruthers, Hyperformix, virtualized environments

Managing Virtualization and BlackBerry Ecosystems (Q&A from Vivit technical webinar)

Thank you to the 90 people who attended the Vivit webinar on What's New In Operations Management: Virtualization & BlackBerry Smart Plug-Ins Demo". Jon Haworth and Dan Haller presented on how to get more from your existing Operations Management...

Published 10-09-2009 11:30 PM by pspielvogel

Filed under: Smart Plug-in, virtualization, Jon Haworth, BlackBerry, virtualization management, SPI, Dan Haller

Are you reinvesting IT savings? We want to hear your story.

We want to hear how you are reinvesting your IT saving? When the recession hit you answered the call. Whether it was through consolidation, virtualization, automation, or other means you found ways to save money in IT. Now comes an equally important part...

Published 10-08-2009 8:25 PM by Michael_Procopio

Filed under: virtualization, efficiency, consolidation, reinvestment

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