News & Analysis

DynamicOps Extends Cloud Capabilities

(Excerpt from original post on the Taneja Group News Blog)

DynamicOps enables businesses to create sophisticated private and hybrid clouds on their own while avoiding vendor lock-in. Lock-in is a serious issue in today’s move to the cloud, and should …

The New Challenges of Capacity Management In Virtualized Cloudy IT

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As a long-time performance and capacity planning consultant I used to help IT organizations in the worst of situations remediate thorny resource allocation issues. In other words, someone just bought …

Quest VKernel vOPS Adds Intelligent Remediation and Planned Provisioning

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A great recent trend in virtualization management is to intelligently integrate “analytical” functions like capacity planning with active operational processes like remediation and provisioning. Each individual management activity has had …

Managing It All By Reflex – Virtualization Performance, Configuration, AND Security

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We all want to virtualize deeper into our application portfolios, but those darn mission-critical applications are tough to break loose from their rock-solid physical infrastructure. One big problem is that …

When the Light’s Red, Whose Throat Do I Choke?

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Application performance management (APM) solutions get at the system-wide nature of application performance issues. They follow important parts of an application transaction across IT domains, stitch together a cohesive mapping …

Excuse me, but I think your cache is showing…

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Everybody these days is adding flash-based SSD to their storage arrays.  Some are offering all flash storage for ultra-high performance.  And a few are popping flash storage right into the …