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VDI Tip #5: Establish a cross-silo operational model to proactively manage performance
January 23, 2012 – 4:17 am | No Comment

Take a look at this diagram and consider the idea that any one of the items on the outside of this wheel could be placed at the center so that we could see the whole world from the perspective of a virtual desktop. We could see the perspective of the world from a storage array looking back at the desktops or at other servers. We could look at a particular protocol and see what devices were implementing or using that protocol. It’s this 360 degree visibility that actually enables you to traverse the whole virtual infrastructure and quickly spot problems in a proactive and meaningful way.

cross-silo operational modelFor example, if we put the virtual desktop in the center of the universe. We understand how it talks to other virtual machines, it’s back end storage and what network issues may be affecting its application delivery. On the other hand, we could just as easily put a protocol into the center of the world and understand how PCoIP is being affected by perhaps file sharing traffic going across the WAN or a large corporate video chat that is happening at the time.

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Moving enterprise apps to and from clouds
January 23, 2012 – 3:54 am | No Comment
Moving enterprise apps to and from clouds

 

Virtualization Management Blog
January 23, 2012 – 3:51 am | No Comment
Virtualization Management Blog

Capacity planning is a simple concept that is pretty much the same everywhere, right? Well, we don’t think so. We believe that an activity as important as capacity planning must provide an accurate projection of …

Hot Topics and Product Training Webinars
January 23, 2012 – 3:46 am | No Comment
Hot Topics and Product Training Webinars

Real-Time Visibility into Your Environment
Stratusphere UX provides desktop visibility to desktop administrators who need to deliver applications and data to users with a consistent user experience on a virtualized and highly converged network. Stratusphere UX …

ISVs caught in the chasm: between heaven and earth — SaaS and on-premises
January 23, 2012 – 3:41 am | No Comment
ISVs caught in the chasm: between heaven and earth — SaaS and on-premises

In its 2011 research report “Cloud Computing Takes Off,” Morgan Stanley is bullish on the future of PaaS stating, “The low capex requirements, robust cloud enablement and rapidly improving developer toolsets are significantly lowering the …

Adjusting VMware View’s PCoIP for video intense applications
January 9, 2012 – 9:08 pm | No Comment
Adjusting VMware View’s PCoIP for video intense applications

Last week a Unidesk customer emailed us asking about poor performance in an Auto-CAD application on a PCoIP thin client. Everything else in the desktop seemed fine except this application. I then received an email …

New England VMware Users Group 6th Annual New England VMUG Winter Warmer
December 27, 2011 – 1:44 pm | No Comment
New England VMware Users Group 6th Annual New England VMUG Winter Warmer

Thursday, January 19, 2012 from 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM (ET)

Foxborough, MA
Register here:
http://www.eventbrite.com/event/2611204182
Attend for a chance to Win A VMworld Pass!
Meeting Highlights

8:00 a.m. – Registration and Networking
9:00 a.m. –  Keynote
10:00 am. – Building Your Cloud Infrastructure …

In the Cloud: the app is free, but that bucket of nuts will cost you
December 22, 2011 – 10:25 pm | No Comment
In the Cloud: the app is free, but that bucket of nuts will cost you

This week my kids and a bucket of nuts acted out a good allegory for enterprise IT and user cloud provisioning – a cautionary tale. It started with a call from our bank letting us …

Quest Software hangs toolmaker VKernel on its utility belt
December 9, 2011 – 11:38 am | No Comment
Quest Software hangs toolmaker VKernel on its utility belt

In what has to be the shortest press release in the history of IT, Quest Software announced that it had acquired VKernel, which peddles a capacity management, optimization, and chargeback system for VMware ESXi and …