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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 is unique. The reference platform for virtualization...
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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, December 18th 2009. (If you missed our last Software...
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Filed under: Operations Center, virtualization, Peter Spielvogel, Operations Manager, OMi, Software Universe, Operations Manager i, OM, Linux, OML, VMware, Hamburg, Roadmap
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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 with my home electronics purchases, I prefer...
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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 Systems Management, VMware Corporation and Mike...
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It seems that every conversation about IT infrastructure management eventually turns to virtualization. To help you better understand how we help you reduce the cost of administering virtualized environments and better manage performance of applications running in a virtual machine, we have two virtualization...
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This post includes the last of my recordings from VMworld. - Peter Since so many of the sessions focused on capacity planning and its importance in both gaining executive sponsorship up front and in ensuring smooth implementation, I thought it would be appropriate to share information about a product...
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At VMworld last week, I spent some time with my marketing counterpart at Hyperformix , Rob Carruthers. We discussed why capacity management is so important for virtualization. In this podcast (3:13), Rob discusses: What is capacity management? How does it relate to virtualization? How does performance...
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At VMworld , HP announced its virtualization smart plug-in (SPI) for Operations Center. For companies using Operations Manager as the consolidated event and performance management console, this allows them to see events from VMware Virtual Center in the Operations Manager console. The implications of...
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09-14-2009
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Filed under: Operations Center, Virtualization SPI, Operations Bridge, virtualization, Peter Spielvogel, Dennis Corning, Consolidated Event and Performance Management, VMware, VMworld, Consolidated Management, Virtualized Infrastructure
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For those readers that like to plan ahead... Webinar title: Reduce Costs and Gain Control of Your Virtualized Infrastructure with Consolidated Management Webinar date : Wednesday October 7, 2009 12-1 Eastern time / 9-10 Pacific time Virtualization is hot! Even in this tough economy, virtualization was...
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VMware hosted a session about how to plan for your migration to a virtualized environment. It was a hands on session in which each person had access to a PC (sadly not made by HP) to go through the exercises. It turns out they provided a handy template in which you input your organization’s priorities...
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Podcast added on 9/16/09 Shay Mowlem, Director of Virtualization for HP Software, presented on his “ Vision for virtualization aware IT management .” During his talk, he made the case that Virtualization goes beyond the surface objective of server consolidation. The real promise of virtualization...
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The first main day of the VMworld show was great. Over 10,000 people filled Moscone center to learn about how the hottest trend in IT can help them reduce their operating expenses and improve the quality of service. (Follow us at the show on Twitter #hpvmw) In the main keynote, Paul Maritz , President...
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I attended the opening partner session at VMworld yesterday. Thousands of partners packed the conference room to hear several VMware executives discuss market dynamics for virtualization, how their product strategy addresses those needs, and how the partner community plays a huge role in their success...
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Virtualization is a hot topic for all our customers. In every customer meeting, we discuss their virtualization plans and how to make sure they are monitoring the virtual infrastructure using the same tools they use to monitor the physical infrastructure. In this blog, I have discussed how to use Operations...
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I read a very interesting blog post today written by Thomas Bittman of Gartner on the relationship between virtualization and cloud computing. http://blogs.gartner.com/thomas_bittman/2009/08/11/virtualization-unlocks-cloud-computing The key takeaway is that the choices you make today regarding virtualization...