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Virtualization, Cloud, Fabric, Heterogeneous Complexity, Mini-Suites, Business Alignment!

I am back from my annual trip to Orlando for the Gartner Infrastructure and Operations conference. Always time to re-charge and ponder positioning of my product and solution. This year's conference was particularly exciting with the adoption of new computing options: virtualization, cloud, fabrics and the list continues. Techies love their new toys, business seeks growth options through agility and then there is always that afterthought of management - control with flexibility and agility! It is possible! Read On . . .. .. ..

4 Letters that inspire Holy War IT Debates

The CMDB, more importantly the CMS, is the inner mechanism within IT organizations that will enable agility, control, silo to service transition, and the list goes on. However, it is the topic that stirs passion on the magnitude of discussing politics or religion in mixed crowds! I have been speaking on the topic for several years now and often spoke of the coming complexity that has now arrived in the data center and IT management world, virtualization has left the “development lab” and moved into production. If you didn't have your CMS strategy in place, it just exploded a magnitude of difficulty higher with a virtualized infrastructure AND the coming next magnitude of difficulty with a mixed private and public cloud infrastructure!

The article that prompted this blog asks the question “Is the CMDB irrelevant in a Virtual Cloud Based World?” ( http://virtualization.info/en/news/2010/06/on-the-... ) It's not the CMDB that is relevant, but rather what comes out of the CMDB and how it enables the IT organization. Read on........

Sometimes the following error might occur while launching the iFolder Virtual Application, which is created using Snapshot method. "Unable to start xsp web service, iFolder will not be able to work, restart the application". Here's a solution from Bhavani S.T and Raghu Kota.

Check out this new Novell Connection magazine article by Jason Blackett and learn all about the new enhancements in Novell ZENworks Application Virtualization 8.

My wife is a high school math teacher. She has a really hard time understanding what it is that I do for a living; Most of the time I simply tell her that I’m a businessman. Sometimes she tries to take the time to understand my job a little bit better. Those days are when we watch Office Space...

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