Original Content: The Wikibon community gathered on July 12, 2011 to discuss the release of VMware vSphere 5 and its implications for customers and the wider virtualization ecosystem.
Maximizing the Value of VMware Investments
At the July 12, 2011 Wikibon Peer Incite Research Meeting, the community dissected VMware's summer announcement, leading up to VMworld 2011. Dave Vellante set up the call with an overview of the comments made by Paul Maritz.
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Overview of VMware's July 2011 Products
Wikibon.org's Stu Miniman provides a summary of the major products announced by VMware, from hypervisor through policy manage.
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How Virtualized are Business Critical Apps?
Wikibon presents VMware survey data that breaks down the major business and mission critical apps running on VMware. Microsoft apps dominate while both Oracle and SAP continue to increase.
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Breaking Down the VMware Announcement
Wikibon's Dave Vellante, Stu Miniman and House of Brick VMware expert Dave Welch provide a high level assessment of VMware's July 2011 announcement.
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David Floyer Breaks Down the VMware Announcement
At the July 12, 2011 Wikibon Peer Incite Research Meeting, David Floyer, Wikibon's Research CTO provides an assessment of the announcement and how users should respond.
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What's Missing from the VMware Announcement?
Wikibon's David Floyer talks about the missing pieces from the VMware July 2011 announcement. Not surprisingly, the evil twins of the cloud were the culprits, killer security and management.
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The Services Angle on VMware's July 2011 Announcement
SiliconAngle's Alex Williams, editor of ServicesAngle was live at the VMware announcement. He talks on the Wikibon Peer Incite about intelligent service management and how infrastructure is changing. The bottom line is the world is becoming more programmable and the services implications are significant.
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The Storage Angle on VMware's Announcement
Storage has been a sore spot for VMware practitioners and the VMware July 2011 announcement made major steps to address IO problems. Dave Vellante, Stu Miniman, David Floyer and Nick Allen of the Wikibon team break down the storage side of the VMware announcement and share specific research from the Wikibon community on the value of integration.
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Can VMware's Hybrid Cloud Strategy Compete with the Four Horsemen of the Cloud?
Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google are the dominant players of the public cloud. Can VMware and its partner strategy allow it to become the dominant cloud operating system and provide the economics, agility and business model for the cloud? VMware's strategy is to pursue a hybrid cloud strategy by creating homogenous infrastructure and federating clouds between on-premise infrastructure and service provider offerings.
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New VMware Licensing Confuses Users and the Ecosystem Alike
VMware announced new virtual memory-based licensing at the July 2011 announcement. The Twitter stream was full of disgruntled practitioners, consultants and pundits. Several concerns remain and the bottom line is VMware did a poor job of connecting the dots for its customers and ecosystem partners on this issue. The Wikibon community plans further announcement of this issue with follow-on analysis.
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Related Wikibon Research: CIO Action: Increased Flexibility Likely Outweighs Increased VMware vSphere 5.0 License Cost
Has VMware Succeeded in Building the Software Mainframe?
Chief Technologist for Virtualization, Michael Hesson shares his perspectives with the Wikibon community around standardization, integration and automation. Specifically he talks about automating large resource pools with policy-based management. These are key components of a software-based mainframe. Nick Allen and David Floyer weigh in and provide perspectives on reliability, availability and serviceability of VMware.
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VMware News and Analysis from The Wikibon Project and SiliconANGLE.com
- VMware: The Godzilla of Enterprise Cloud - Summary of the Wikibon Peer Incite Research Meeting
- VSphere 5: VMware Administrator as Focal Point of Restructuring IT
- When should IT move to VMware 5?
- How Virtual Storage Appliances will shake up the Storage for VMware Market
- VMware Automation Provides Opportunity to Trim IT Headcount
- The Services Angle On Vmware’s Cloud Infrastructure Suite
- VMware vSphere 5: The “Monster” Of Cloud Infrastructure
- VMware Launches vSphere 5: What You Need to Know
- VMware Storage Leaderboard: Who Has the Best Integration?
- VMware Touts Cloud Suite In Latest Iteration of its vSphere Technology
- VMware Stays Strong Despite Rivals Closing Market Gap
- Furthers Mobile Social Enterprise With Zimbra For Android
- VMware’s Big Plans Lead to Major Hypervisor Launch
- Breaking the Storage Silo: Virtualization