Tag Archives: VMware
VMware’s Recent Moves—and the Implications for Service Providers
VMware has made some substantive moves recently. If you are an MSP, hosting provider, cloud provider or outsourcing organization, you would be well advised to think long and hard about where your business will fit given the company’s … Continue reading
The Social Side of IT Service Delivery Nimsoft Reviews VMware’s New Strides
VMware recently acquired the SocialCast product, Strides, an enterprise social media-type collaboration application. Social technologies are being deployed by businesses in an effort to fine-tune productivity and reduce the cost of collaboration among distributed service desk organizations. While … Continue reading
Best Practice #6: Track and Communicate Value of IT and Virtualization
The benefits of virtualization are unassailable: increased agility, scale, and cost savings to name but a few. However, so too are the monitoring challenges posed by these environments—including complexity, lack of visibility and control, and inefficiency.
This is … Continue reading
Best Practice #5: Fully Integrate Monitoring with the Rest of the Infrastructure
The benefits of virtualization are unassailable: increased agility, scale, and cost savings to name but a few. However, so too are the monitoring challenges posed by these environments—including complexity, lack of visibility and control, and inefficiency.
This is … Continue reading
Best Practice #4: Maintain Awareness with vMotion, HA, and DRS
The benefits of virtualization are unassailable: increased agility, scale, and cost savings to name but a few. However, so too are the monitoring challenges posed by these environments—including complexity, lack of visibility and control, and inefficiency.
This is … Continue reading
Best Practice #3: Leverage Capabilities for Correlating Physical and Virtual Resources
The benefits of virtualization are unassailable: increased agility, scale, and cost savings to name but a few. However, so too are the monitoring challenges posed by these environments—including complexity, lack of visibility and control, and inefficiency.
This is … Continue reading
Best Practice #2: Automate Monitoring of VMs (Automate, automate, automate)
The benefits of virtualization are unassailable: increased agility, scale, and cost savings to name but a few. However, so too are the monitoring challenges posed by these environments—including complexity, lack of visibility and control, and inefficiency.
This is … Continue reading
Best Practice #1: Gain a Complete Picture of the Physical and Virtual Infrastructure
The benefits of virtualization are unassailable: increased agility, scale, and cost savings to name but a few. However, so too are the monitoring challenges posed by these environments—including complexity, lack of visibility and control, and inefficiency.
This is … Continue reading
Best Practices for Gaining Monitoring Clarity in VMware Environments
The benefits of virtualization are unassailable: increased agility, scale, and cost savings to name but a few. However, so too are the monitoring challenges posed by these environments—including complexity, lack of visibility and control, and inefficiency.
This is … Continue reading
CIO: How the cloud lets you do more with less
This is part six of a seven part essay series by popular business writers on the seven massive tech trends that will define your modern IT future. If you can’t wait for the series, you can get them all now … Continue reading
