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The Software Defined Datacenter: Part 4 of 4 – Where We Are Today

posted by Torsten Volk | March 25, 2013 | 0 Comments

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Almost one year into the discussion about the Software Defined Data Center (SDDC), it is time to take inventory of the state of the discipline. As a reminder, the ultimate goal of the SDDC is to abstract and centralize the management of compute, network, storage, operating systems, middleware and applications in order to dynamically place...

Posted in Business Service Management, Cloud Administration, IT Service Management, Systems Management Tags: Abiquo, Atlantis Computing, Big Switch, CiRBA, Citrix, CloudStack, EMC, Hotlink, Hyper-V, IBM, Microsoft, Midokura, Nicira, OpenFlow, SDDC, ServiceMesh, UC4, VMTurbo, VMware, Vyatta

Diskless VDI: Resolving the VDI Storage Cost Bottleneck

posted by Torsten Volk | February 8, 2012 | 0 Comments

VDI Expenditure

Why pay $1,500 per virtual desktop, if you can have a physical machine of the same performance-level at half the cost. While the functional and maintenance advantages of virtual desktop computing are evident, the per machine CAPEX often is the key stumbling block for this type of project. It is very hard to convince your...

Posted in Storage Automation, Storage Virtualization, Systems Management Tags: Atlantis Computing, Atlantis ILIO, Capital expenditure, Cisco Systems, IOPS, Virtual machine

Innovation in Enterprise IT

posted by Torsten Volk | January 3, 2012 | 0 Comments

Innovation in Enterprise IT

A friend of mine recently asked why I am even still interested in enterprise computing when all the innovation is happening within the consumer electronics sector. Smartphones, tablet computers, e-book readers, and audio streaming devices have changed the way we live our daily lives. Now that I read the NYTimes on my iPad, I get...

Posted in Storage Automation, Storage Virtualization, Systems Management, Workload Automation Tags: Atlantis Computing, Business transaction management, Cloud Computing, Desktop virtualization, Embotics, Quest Software, RES Software, Workload automation