Archive for 'Virtualization' Category

VDI: The End of the Data Centralization Use-Case for Replication?

Admittedly, VDI is in the early days of adoption. As evidence, I cite TheInfoPro data shared at the recent Virtualization Summit at the Spring SNW event in Orlando: adoption of VDI will still be below 50% among the organizations surveyed by the end of 2010. As things VMware go, this is a slow growth area.
But, [...]

Top 50: Cloud, SaaS and Virtualization - No Surprise There

For those of you who are interested in the ‘insider’ story, here are the “top 50″ startups to watch, as reported by Information Week:
http://www.informationweek.com/news/services/saas/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=216600068#

As VMware Momentum Continues, STORServer Reinvents Appliance Delivery Methods by Offering Encapsulated Virtual Machines

Among the vendor teams that I met at SNW this year, the team from STORServer stood out to me as having the best use of appliance technology built using VMware systems. STORServer offers an appliance built on IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) to simplify data backup. STORServer was there to talk about [...]

Why the Interest in EMR?

I’ve noticed the convergence of interest by end-users and vendors, on a few key topics which are: virtualization, cloud computing and healthcare. The ‘why’ of this is simple: there is money to be had in selling in these areas.
What’s perhaps unexpected, at least to me, is the strong convergence of how these areas overlap - [...]