E-Commerce Blog

Because companies generally begin their use of server virtualization at a tactical level, there is often a complex hurdle in expanding the use of virtualization. Analysts predict that virtualization will support upwards of half of server workloads in just a few years. Yet we are already seeing gaps between an enterprise’s expectations and their ability to aggressively adopt virtualization without stumbling in some way. These gaps can involve issues around people, process and technology, and often all three in some combination.

Read the rest here:
The 3 Factors That Decide Virtualization’s Fate in Your Enterprise

You’ve heard a lot about server virtualization over the past few years, and many enterprises have adopted virtual servers to improve their ability to manage runtime workloads and high utilization rates to cut total cost. But as a sibling to server virtualization, storage virtualization has some strong benefits of its own, not the least of which is the ability to better support server virtualization and make it more successful. We’ll look at how storage virtualization works, where it fits in, and why it makes a lot of sense.

See the rest here:
Bringing Storage Virtualization Out of the Shadows

By and large, IT favors grand pronouncements and overheated rhetoric, and the industry abounds with “unprecedented” efforts firmly rooted in precedent and “unique” solutions fashioned from the commonest clay. Is that the case with Cisco, EMC and VMware’s new Virtual Computing Environment coalition? Decidedly not. VCE should help drive sales of the members’ various technologies and make real their vision of private cloud computing, which allows enterprises to seamlessly blend internal IT resources with those from external service providers behind the firewall.

Excerpted from:
Headed for the Clouds - Cisco, EMC and VMware Launch VCE Coalition

Cisco is broadening its footprint with a major move into the cloud computing space. The company has formed a far-reaching partnership with EMC — a joint venture in which VMware, a majority owned subsidiary of EMC, will also play a large role. Intel’s Xeon processors and other data center technology are also a significant component to this offering; the company will join the JV as a minority investor. Called “Acadia,” the new entity is marketing vBlock infrastructure packages, aka “vBlocks.”

View original post here:
Pre-integration is the Ticket With Cisco-EMC Cloud Venture

VMworld, VMware’s signature annual user and partner event, is kicking off this week in San Francisco, so it seems worth reconsidering the company’s recent acquisition of SpringSource. Along with critical human assets, the deal brings a host of tested technologies to VMware, including the Spring Framework, a Java programming model that makes applications portable across open source and commercial application server environments, and the Hyperic application monitoring and management tools.

Originally posted here:
VMworld 2009 - VMware’s Journey to the Cloud