Category Archives: Virtualization

Enabling Enterprise Workloads in the Cloud

Tweet At VMware Partner Exchange 2013, Sean Jennings (SVP Solutions Architecture, @vcdx17), presented several sessions focused on how to successfully enable companies to drive greater efficiency our of their business-critical enterprise workloads. He also talked about how Virtustream customers had … Continue reading

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Trusting Your Cloud Provider with Business-Critical Applications

Tweet This past week, there was a very good article in Forbes talking about the changing viewpoints of CIOs towards Cloud Computing services. At the core of the article was a shift in how CIOs are building trust with Cloud … Continue reading

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Five Things You Didn’t Know About Virtustream

Tweet 1. We accomplish what is Difficult – As Gartner pointed out in their IaaS Magic Quadrant, Virtustream is not just another Cloud Computing company focused on commodity services. We’re focused on helping customers operate their business applications in a way … Continue reading

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Is a New Journey Needed for Business-Critical Applications?

Tweet For the past 3-4 years, we’ve seen tremendous growth in the level of virtualization that has been adopted within Enterprise and Mid-Market data centers. Statistics show that we reached the tipping point for Virtual Machines vs. Physical Machines in … Continue reading

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The Enterprise: I’m Not Sexy and I Know it

Tweet Rodney Rogers, chairman and CEO of Virtustream shares his thoughts in TechCrunch on the state of cloud computing within the large enterprise. The post discusses cloud solutions and their adoption (or not) in the voice of a large enterprise. … Continue reading

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VMware Isn’t The Only Hypervisor In Town

Tweet When VMware went into production about 5 years ago, it was essentially the Windows workloads that were being virtualized. At that time, these workloads were less mission critical and were less utilized as servers so they made ideal candidates … Continue reading

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Why Are Companies Virtualizing Now?

Tweet With more than 19,000 people in attendance at this year’s VMworld conference, it appears that many companies have finally jumped in and decided to virtualize. That wasn’t always the case. For years, only the early adopters were willing to … Continue reading

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What is Virtustream?

Tweet If you missed VMworld then you missed the opportunity to come by the Virtustream booth and meet Matt Theurer, Sr. Vice President, Solutions Architecture for Virtustream. Stop crying. All is not lost. You can experience the moment through the … Continue reading

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More Integration and Collaboration in the Virtualization Space

Edward Haletky of “The Virtualization Practice” discusses the noticeable uptick in hardware and software vendors being upfront about their collaboration and integration. Continue reading

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Focusing on End User Workflow Instead of Devices

One of the main themes at VMworld 2011 was end user workflow rather than obsessing over locking down hardware and devices. Users are all over the map, on and off corporate infrastructure and databases. How do you manage it? Continue reading

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A server-storage-networking architecture built for unpredictability

Virtualization has afforded many companies the flexibility of planning less. But companies are starting to take advantage of that flexibility thinking that with virtualization, there’s no need for planning. In an effort to stem that behavior, HP’s SVP and General Manager talks about the architecture they’ve built to handle this kind of unpredictability. Continue reading

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The buzz at VMworld 2011

John Furrier, host of SiliconANGLE.com’s “The Cube,” is an on-the-tradeshow-floor show where he talks to as many luminaries at the VMworld conference as possible. We pulled him out of his “Cube” to give us the lowdown on what are the hot issues at the show. Continue reading

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