Virtualization Critical Evaluation - Chapter 02 My dachshund, well Dachshunds, I have two actually, one is quite old, 17 and wise, in dachshund terms, where the other is younger, but not a puppy, 11 years old, and even smarter. At times I think either of them has more common sense than most strategic theorists in the [...]

Virtualization Critical Evaluation - Chapter 01 This article will be a bit different.  How so?  Well, that is both easy to explain and hard to illustrate.  The year 2008 is effectively just past half over.  This is significant, because thoughts about the near future of virtualization come to mind, and how I will communicate to my [...]

Virtualization? What The Heck Is That? - Chapter 06 VMware does an interesting thing. It mixes alpha and beta code with general release code. Alpha? Yes, alpha because what VMware calls beta code at times is not what I would call beta code. However, the definitions come later, so bare with me. This inclusion of experimental [...]

Virtualization, Fine, Well Sort of? - Chapter 14 Gartner commented that every thing will change in 2008 in reference to virtualization? Well duhe. Guess the old crystal ball needs new batteries? But to be honest and fail, Gartner was right, in concept, but not in subject. Everything is changing in virtualization, it has every single year [...]

Know What Virtualization Is, But What Is Next? - Chapter 13 Of course your virtual machines do not each pizza? Well mine do. I know, I am sure, some of you believe that I hang around the cold vaults, sniffing the ozone that comes off transformers, the power supply type, not the robotic type. There a [...]

Know What Virtualization Is, But What Is Next? - Chapter 12 About 2 years ago, or a bit more, I was sitting at a small table in my favorite local Thai restaurant, eating my favorite Thai dish, green curry chicken, delivered hotter than heck, in fact, hot as Godzilla’s breath? But I digress. We were actually [...]

Know What Virtualization Is, But What Is Next? - Chapter 11 By now just about everyone that keeps track of how things are going on in virtualization circles has heard about the Symantec Antivirus and VMware Virtual Machine issue, right? Even I, am not sure I understand all the implications. But I can think of one [...]

Know What Virtualization Is, But What Is Next? - Chapter 10 Why are hypervisor based platforms for virtualization dominating the industry? There are a number of answers that come to mind: P2V (Physical To Virtual) Migration Ease Avoiding DLL or .NET hell (Yes, .NET Hell) Failure of Utility Computing? Dominate Operating System Support Gap Hypervisors are easy for technical personnel to [...]

Virtualization, Fine, Well Sort Of? - Chapter 06 In a word, yes. Ok, this article is done, right? Wrong. It may surprise you which staff you must maintain in order to maintain your virtualized infrastructure. However, I hope this discussion does not surprise you! There are a number of approaches to supporting an infrastructure; I am [...]

Virtualization, Fine, Well Sort Of? - Chapter 05 Let us consider the following situation…You walk into a conference room, before you are a group of your key clients, lines of businesses, what ever is applicable to your situation, and you ask the following questions: What percentage of your technology infrastructure is virtualized? Are you happy with the performance [...]