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Xangati Management Dashboard - the answer to cross platform performance management?

Wed, 16 May 2012 08:50:03 -0400

Xangati just launched an updated version of its Xangati Management Dashboard (XMD) to address performance management for virtualized and cloud-based applications. This, the company hopes, will directly address performance management issues when workloads are hosted on a combination of physical, virtual and cloud-based systems.

Xangati says that his new release of the XMD:

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Why is the adoption of virtualization technology slow in the mid market?

Tue, 15 May 2012 12:31:25 -0400

Why is mid market adoption of virtual systems slow?

Virtualization technology has a long history of success in the industry. It has been so successful, that it is a way of life on mainframes and midrange systems. Now that it is available on industry standard systems as well, the industry has been focusing a great deal more attention on it. Large organizations have adopted this technology, but the mid market lags behind.

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ADARA Networks - trying to do everything

Tue, 15 May 2012 06:17:20 -0400

Every now and again, I'm approached by a company offering a product or a service that I can't quite get my arms around. This is one of the reasons that I use the Kusnetzky Group model as a tool to determine what market(s) the company is addressing, who its competitors are and what market opportunities it faces. The company is question this time is …

The software defined data center and Embrane

Mon, 14 May 2012 06:37:29 -0400

John Vincenzo, VP of Marketing at Embrane, reached out to me after reading Vyatta vPlane adds software defined networking here on Virtually Speaking. He told me that Embrane's position is that organizations should be thinking beyond software defined networking to software defined data centers.

During our conversation of what a "software defined data center" is, the following points emerged:

Do made up catch phrases really help sell products?

Fri, 11 May 2012 06:51:08 -0400

Several different suppliers have been pushing catch phrases or buzz words that they hope will focus the market's attention on them and their products. Phrases such as "dark data" and "storage hypervisor" come to mind immediately. The suppliers behind these marketing devices hope that they will catch on and become the way the technology in their segment of the market is described. …

Citrix and the mobile enterprise

Thu, 10 May 2012 09:04:52 -0400

I was reading through my notes on Citrix's planned announcements at its Synergy conference that is being held in San Francisco as you read this commentary. The company's announcements talk about technology that has the ability to directly address real world problems such as dealing with a multi-vendor computing environment that supports many computing platforms, operating systems, applications, computing styles and, increasingly, dealing with the form of compute outsourcing the industry is calling cloud computing.

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