Recently we posted a new market assessment of InfiniBand and its growing role in enterprise data centers, so I’ve been thinking a lot about low-latency switched fabrics and what they …
As a long-time capacity planner, if you show me a non-linear curve with a real model behind it I’ll tend to bite. Predictive analysis alone would have been enough to …
We’ve been fans of DynamicOps for the simple reason that they can take whatever virtual and physical IT infrastructure that organizations already have deployed and turn it all into a …
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 …
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 …
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 …
