Virtual Datacenter

Sun Microsystems Acquires Q-layer To Expand Cloud Offerings

tludwig — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:45:27 -0700

Sun Microsystems just announced it has acquired Q-layer, a cloud computing company that automates the deployment and management of both public and private clouds. The 35 people from the Q-layer organization, based in Belgium, will become part of Sun’s Cloud Computing business unit, which develops and integrates cloud computing technologies, architectures and services.

Sun Microsystems Acquirers Q-layer

tludwig — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 05:45:26 -0700

Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced it has acquired Q-layer, a cloud computing company that automates the deployment and management of both public and private clouds. The Q-layer organization, based in Belgium, will become part of Sun's Cloud Computing business unit which develops and integrates cloud computing technologies, architectures and services.

Are you ready to automaaaaaaaaaaaate?!?

tludwig — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 01:45:34 -0700

I wrote not long ago about the various disciplines that data center operations teams will need to work through to address those cloud computing values you often hear hyped by people like me. In that post, I noted that there were many organizations that had gained an understanding of how server virtualization could be used to abstract software concepts, thus managing them distinctly from the underlying hardware. I also noted, however, that few organizations had made the decision to systematically automate that management.

Beating Swords Into Data Centers

tludwig — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 20:45:24 -0700

Since my previous post about Canadian startup Bastionhost's hosting plan for an underground bunker in Nova Scotia, I’ve been investigating a number of former nuclear fallout shelters that have been converted into data centers.

Whatcha Got in the Datacenter?

root — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 13:45:32 -0700

As IT leaders' thoughts continue to veer toward how they'll save on costs in the next year, technologies such as virtualization and cloud computing appear to remain high on the agenda.

One question, though, is how quickly they can move or expand deployments in these areas to gain the benefits of fast-time-to-value. In fact, according to vendor Tideway Systems, these trends are presenting a new business opportunity for its dependency mapping, availability and configuration management database (CMDB) technology.

How to Maintain Two Infrastructures: Virtualized and Physical

tludwig — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 09:45:00 -0700

Instead of creating a less complex environment, in many cases virtualization has made it more complex. Many business- and mission-critical applications are just not right for a hypervisor. Other software applications won't even support hypervisors even today.read more

Virtualization, Yes. But Where? And How?

root — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 11:45:43 -0700

Market data thus far indicates that while virtualization has gained a foothold in the majority of data centers out there, it has yet to make its way to core functions. This is a strong indication that most IT executives are still in the experimental phase and are either not yet sure how it will function in critical environments or how to best deploy and then manage the technology once it gets there.

Data Centers Plan to Increase Virtualization as They Cut Budgets

tludwig — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 11:15:00 -0700

According to a new survey by the AFCOM Data Center Institute, about half of data centers are responding to the economic crisis by cutting their budgets an average of 15% for 2009. While the overall cuts were "surprisingly low" in the view of Jill Eckhaus, the CEO of the Association for Computer Operations Management (AFCOM), she said she doesn't want to minimize the impact those cuts will have on the 49% of affected data centers. Eckhaus said the low number of data centers making cuts indicated their importance to the businesses.

Laying Out a Virtual Plan

root — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 15:45:24 -0700

Is it a sign of real confidence in your product or just bad planning from your marketing department if you choose as your launch date the day after Christmas? I half expect that in the case of Xcedex, it’s the former. The company has unveiled the X_Factor virtualization planning suite aimed not simply at managing virtual [...]

Virtualization Journal Interview With Egenera

tludwig — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 08:00:00 -0700

"When coupled with network and storage virtualization, virtual machines offer sophisticated forms of high availability, disaster recovery, and service migration across all forms of platforms," says Christine Crandell, Executive VP and Chief Marketing Officer for Egenera. "When managed together, these new levels of abstraction will enable true utility computing, 'cloud' style elastic compute services, and forms of IT services that are fully driven by business priorities rather than technical convenience."read more