Welcome to The Virtualization Practice’s week-long coverage of VMworld US 2015. Tune in all week for our daily recap of the major announcements and highlights from the world’s premier virtualization and cloud conference. VMworld US 2015 began yesterday at the Moscone Center in temperate San Francisco, home to the conference for the last four years. …
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Analytics as Code
We all need performance and capacity management tools to fine tune our virtual and cloud environments, but we need them to do more than just tell us there may be problems. Instead, we need them to find root causes for problems, whether those problems are related to code, infrastructure, or security. The new brand of …
Which Data Is Passed from My Physical Device to the Virtual Infrastructure?
With the proliferation of virtualized applications and desktops, the concept of any user accessing any application or desktop from any device has become reality. Whether accessed from a smartphone, tablet, or desktop, whether tethered or untethered, all the resources that users require must be accessible.
Containers Are the Future, If …
I agree that containers will be the future of computing. However, that may not happen anytime soon. Containers have many hurdles to get over before they can take over the world. Some of these hurdles are related to politics within organizations, and others are technical. Let me discuss the technical ones.
Containers: Innovation or Evolution? Will They Rule the World?
The latest and greatest thing in the data center is apparently containers. For those of us with long enough teeth to remember the heady days of the early millennium, they look and smell a lot like Solaris Zones. Containers in their current incarnations are garnering a great deal of attention, especially in the DevOps world, …
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How Many Models Should a Hyperconverged Vendor Have?
One of the key features of a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solution is appliance-based scale-out architecture. A workload is housed on a collection of these appliances, which are the standard building blocks. The number of blocks is selected to deliver sufficient resources for the workload. But just how standard are these building blocks? Over time, I’ve seen HCI vendors …
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