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Virtualization Community Visionaries - RSS
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On these pages you will find analysis from many of the virtualization communities visionaries featuring technologies such as VMware, Citrix, and Microsoft.
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Addressing Concerns about the "Newness" of Cisco UCS
Despite Cisco's recent entry into the "compute" data center sector, John Chambers said during the 10/24/2009 quarter earnings call that the UCS is experiencing, "?solid market reception with a very good initial ramp and order pipeline." As the first optimized hosting platform for a virtualized data center, Cisco Unified Computing System has generated tremendous industry buzz with many organizations eager to acquire it....
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The Desktops May Be Virtual, But The ROI is Real
Fielding questions while on the VDI panel at last month's Vail Pacific Crest Forum, it became apparent that investment analysts consider a lack of VDI ROI to be common knowledge. But while the savings resulting from desktop virtualization may be less obvious than with server consolidation, they nonetheless are often substantial....
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Will UCS Unify IT Staffs?
Traditional data centers tend to be segregated into functional silos ? a model that has endured in the physical world largely because of the crisp lines of demarcation. Virtualization is shaking up the status quo and increasing demand for more efficient IT processes. Cisco's UCS helps automate and streamline the stovepipe model by unifying network, storage and servers with virtualization. It also provides an opportunity for IT organizations to begin chipping away at those silo walls....
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Is VMware More Like Novell or Oracle?
David Cappuccio, in his blog for Gartner, Just a Thought; Will VMware become the next Novell?, draws several disconcerting parallels between VMware's current virtualization industry dominance and a similar position enjoyed by Novell in the early 1990's. Cappuccio wonders if VMware, like Novell, is going to get trounced by Microsoft....
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Cisco UCS ? a Disruptive Platform
The media responded to Cisco's UCS announcement last month by rushing to categorize it as essentially a new type of blade server, albeit one with an advantage in performance capabilities. While UCS incorporates server blades, it goes well beyond the traditional idea of a server. UCS is an optimized hosting platform for virtual machines that unifies network, compute and storage access. UCS works hand in hand with VMware's vSphere 4 to facilitate disruption of the traditional data center by accel...
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