Posted by David Lynch on September 8th, 2010
The traffic at VMworld last week was the best we have ever seen at this show. According to the organizers there were over 17,000 attendees: 4,000 more that last year.
I didn’t have time to attend any of the sessions, but talking with attendees, it looks like they were very valuable. As usual most of my time was spent talking to media and analysts, plus of course spending time at our booth. From our point of view the show was both busy and the audience focused. But even though the theme of the show was the “road to the cloud”, this didn’t seem to be the main preoccupation of any of the folks that I spoke to. Read more »
Posted by Jay Litkey on August 23rd, 2010
Embotics has customers at every possible stage of the virtualization process, and our introduction of V-Commander 3.6 today fulfills all of their needs, especially those of companies looking to optimize their virtualized environments for growth.
The latest release of V-Commander was designed to deliver analysis, information and management with lower investments of time and financial resources than are usually associated with enterprise virtualization management. We do all of this for enterprises that are simply growing their virtualization environments, as well as for the business focused on laying a foundation for the cloud. Read more »
Posted by Jay Litkey on August 17th, 2010
In his “Eight Truths of Enterprise IT” article on CIO.com recently, Jake Sorofman calls on the words of Ross Perot in describing IT’s tendency to fill any vacuum. Perot, Sorofman writes, might call this phenomenon “a giant sucking sound.” Sorofman’s point is this: “As the cost of computing drops, workload demand increases. This is the force behind VM sprawl and the attendant growth in management costs. Like nature, IT abhors a vacuum.” Read more »
Posted by David Lynch on August 16th, 2010
It’s August, and my mind has already moved on to the final days of the month (and summer), which will come — as always — more quickly than we might like. Before the official first day of fall, I want to cookout a few more times, play a bit of golf, and join thousands of virtualization fans at VMworld in San Francisco. Read more »
Posted by David Lynch on August 9th, 2010
It’s exciting to work in a cutting-edge field, an industry in which evolution is so fast you can almost see it happening before your eyes. The move toward virtualization – and virtualization’s ability to support enterprise-wide, business-critical applications – has been swift, although not always easy. Along the way, organizations have experienced problems with virtualization deployments that have fed some pretty scary myths that remain widely believed today, even though technology advances have solved many of these issues. Read more »
Posted by David Lynch on August 3rd, 2010
The beauty of the virtualization industry right now is that there are so many capable minds working on solutions to problems that are vexing our customers, as well as many other businesses out there. As I read through analyst reports, whitepapers, blogs and articles throughout the week, I often find myself nodding my head in vigorous agreement or even talking out loud. “Yes, exactly!” I’ll say, sitting at my desk, in front of my computer, all by myself. My office mates are starting to get concerned… Read more »
Posted by David Lynch on July 28th, 2010
I just came across an excellent blog by Andi Mann recently entitled VM Stall – More Than Four Reasons.
In it he expanded on our thoughts around the causes of VM stall that Jay published in a recent article: Virtual stall: What it is and why you have it. While being his usual insightful self, Andi also raised the point that we hadn’t really acknowledged the fact that he was the first to truly identify this trend in the market place, which he did in a piece entitled Is ‘VM Stall’ the Next Big Virtualization Challenge? back in mid May. Read more »
Posted by David Lynch on July 26th, 2010
You may have heard of Nostradamus, Punxsutawney Phil and The Amazing Kreskin… But you can’t complete your catalog of skilled prognosticators without including — of course — Embotics.
Last December, we gathered together at a local watering hole, and pulled together our predictions for 2010. And that list was the first thing Carryl Roy of Virtual Strategy Magazine asked me about when I recently joined her for a conversation recorded for podcast.
“You forecasted that VM sprawl will become a bigger and bigger problem, and that a larger percentage of VMs will be in production environments rather than in development or in lab environments,” said Carryl. “Has your prediction proven true so far in 2010?” Read more »
Posted by Jay Litkey on July 20th, 2010
Earlier this year, research firm Gartner delivered a prediction for IT spending in 2010 and beyond that indicates many companies are on the rebound and ready, once again, to invest in IT improvements.
The Gartner report suggests that IT spending will jump to $3.4 trillion this year and could reach more than $3.5 trillion in 2011. And among the few technologies Gartner identified as fueling that growth is virtualization. Businesses ramping up virtualization efforts will quickly find that the best way to maximize ROI on their deployments is with a VM management solution. Read more »
Posted by Jean Marc Seguin on July 12th, 2010
I love a good list. When I’m pressed for time and eager for a quick shot of information, there’s nothing like a succinct series of bulleted items to get the job done. I particularly liked the list Gary Read put together in his recent eWeek.com piece, “How to choose the best IT monitoring solution for cloud infrastructures.” In seven salient points, Read explains how enterprises can dispel the “fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) disseminated by legacy vendors still attempting to hawk antiquated, resource-intensive and expensive solutions.” Read more »
