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vChassis Vision from VMware at VMworld – Does L2-L7 go Virtual?
Posted by Stu Miniman in Cloud Computing, Infrastructure 2.0, Virtualization, Wikibon on September 1, 2010
Howie Xu, R&D Director from VMware, put forth a vision of VMware’s direction for the future of networking, the challenges faced and VMware’s current thinking on how these issues should be solved. As part of the transformation of IT to create more scalable and flexible environments (what VMware and others would call the journey to the cloud), networking has some changes to make. It is VMware’s direction that to fully enable the mobility of network traffic, that more of the networking infrastructure that is currently in hardware should be moved into the networking layer. Networking switch hardware has mostly avoided the consumerization of IT, will custom switch ASICS become just another application for x86?
VMware Launches vShield Family at VMworld to Secure and Dominate the Cloud
Posted by Stu Miniman in Infrastructure 2.0, Virtualization, Wikibon on August 31, 2010
Every era in IT has the big players that drive the market – from IBM in the mainframe, to Windows and Intel in the PC era. VMware is led by Paul Maritz who knows all about dominating the marketplace from his days at Microsoft. With Maritz at the helm, VMware looks to take its market lead in the server virtualization space to be one of the key players in the cloud computing market. Today at VMworld, VMware made a number of announcements that strike at some of the hurdles for cloud computing to becoming a mainstream solution. I heard from VMware staff that Maritz personally tasked the company to address security issues, which along with management, are the biggest concerns of practitioners looking at cloud deployments. The solution that was announced today is the vShield family of products. The vShield products build on VMware’s existing VMsafe security APIs – providing three new products – vShield Edge, vShield App & Zones and vShield Endpoint. 
The Roadmap for Integrated Storage and Network Virtualization
Posted by David Vellante in Virtualization, Wikibon on August 10, 2010
Cloud computing creates a different business relationship with IT, transforming technology from a pay upfront, heavy CAPEX model to a pay-as-you-go, on-demand model. This model can be implemented internally as a private cloud, externally to a public cloud, or as a hybrid of the two (see: private vs public cloud comparison).
This shared model brings many technical and organizational challenges, including how to share, how to secure, how to provision, and how to charge.
The starting point is how to share resources. Virtualization is required of data center resources, so that the same resources can be shared across multiple users, and if necessary a single user can scale workloads over multiple resources in multiple locations.
VMware Network OS announcement at VMworld: vFabric?
Posted by Stu Miniman in Virtualization, Wikibon on August 9, 2010
VMware Director of R&D Howie Xu will be presenting The Future Direction of Networking Virtualization at VMworld 2010 in San Francisco (9am Monday 8/30 and 4:30pm Wednesday 9/1) and Copenhagen. In a preview video, Howie states that “VMware will be announcing an open, extensible networking virtual chassis platform, a Network OS or networking hypervisor, so that anyone can develop the on-demand networking service on top of vSphere.” There will also be services built on top of the platform. On the top-right corner of the white board at the beginning of the video is a term “vFabric” – could this be the name of the new platform? UPDATE: Howie Xu contacted me and let me know that “vFabric” is not related to the virtual chassis for network services which will be announced at VMworld.
Customer “next practices” and Proof Points at VMworld
Posted by Stu Miniman in Infrastructure 2.0, Virtualization, Wikibon on August 3, 2010
The theme of VMworld 2010 is “Virtual Roads. Actual Clouds.” The question of the day is, how much of the ideas being discussed are marketing “hype” and how much is reality. SiliconANGLE will be broadcasting live TV over the internet featuring a broad spectrum of executives and customers covering the entire virtualization ecosystem. SiliconANGLE founder John Furrier said that the theme of the coverage will be “Reality of the Cloud – No Hype, Proof Points Only!“
VM Sprawl Just Got More Expensive
Posted by Stu Miniman in Virtualization, Wikibon on July 16, 2010
VMware is taking a page from cloud service providers – delivering a change in pricing that maps to more of a pay-as-you-go model. Wikibon CIOs consistently are looking for ways to deliver on-demand services and this move by VMware is a step in that direction. Since Wikibon launched there has been an emphasis in coverage on the consumerization of IT and this new pricing change by VMware advances that philosophy. Internal IT organizations increasingly must benchmark themselves against cloud service providers and honestly assess the merits of outsourcing. The move by VMware underscores the need for more judicious management of virtual machines and transparent chargebacks that provide visibility on resources consumed. Customers that do not pay close attention to this issue will end up paying more for virtualization software– so buyer beware.
vSphere 4.1 Storage Networking Updates
Posted by Stu Miniman in Virtualization, Wikibon on July 13, 2010
There are a lot of pieces to today’s announcement of VMware vSphere 4.1. The biggest part of the announcement is the vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI) – it is also well covered through press releases and blog posts. I’m going to capture the impact on storage networking (FC, iSCSI and FCoE). VMware also has a reference center which includes many papers discussing the new functionality. VMware’s full support of FC, iSCSI and FCoE is an area that differentiates it from Microsoft. Microsoft is a strong proponent of iSCSI and does have full support of FC, but it is lacking with FCoE.
20 Key Research Notes from the Wikibon Community
Posted by David Vellante in CIO Perspectives, Cloud Computing, Competition, Infrastructure 2.0, Storage, Virtualization, Web 2.0, Wikibon on April 28, 2010
The Wikibon community prides itself on its research. Our community’s primary goal has been in helping technology professionals solve business problems through a sharing of IT advisory knowledge. We do this through regular Peer Incites, case studies, and community research.
EMC Acquires Archer, Integration Next
EMC Acquires Archer
The latest acquisition of Archer Technologies fills a gap in EMCs solution ecosystem with a best-in-class GRC software platform. With the Archer acquisition, and the development of an integration layer across EMC products, EMC creates the opportunity to speak more definitively about its capability to provide GRC solutions for core IT assets and operations and across the enterprise. The acquisition also provides a competitive play for EMC against other infrastructure technology providers including Oracle, with its GRC Manager, Microsoft with GRC Solution Accelerators and Sharepoint, CA, with its own GRC Manager, and others interested in their piece of the still-developing GRC marketplace.
Long Distance Live vMotion Storage Gems from VMworld 2009 Portend the Future for EMC?
Posted by Nick Allen in Wikibon on October 29, 2009
At VMworld 2009 in San Francisco, EMC, VMware, and Cisco presented a “super” session (TA-3105) entitled “Long Distance Live vMotion. Cisco published a white paper about it and Chad Sakac of EMC discussed it extensively in his blog entry. A video of this standing-room-only session is available at Blip TV link (had trouble playing link from Chad’s blog entry; doesn’t work with Firefox). VMware also reversed course and announced that it was now supporting this configuration.
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