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Splunk Announces Server Virtualization Management Application for Citrix XenServer

May 20, 2008 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Splunk today announced the immediate availability of its first server virtualization management application, Splunk for Citrix XenServer Management which offers extended management capabilities for Citrix XenServer. In the coming months, Splunk expects to release applications for each of the leading server virtualization platforms, built on the company’s IT Search platform.

Splunk

Splunk brings IT Search, indexing, alert and reporting to the challenges of troubleshooting server virtualization. IT Search promises to deliver a comprehensive view of 100 percent of IT data – not only from the hypervisor and VM (virtual machine), but also from the server, guest OS, applications, and network.

With multiple VMs sharing a pool of server, storage and network resources, changes to any one layer or VM could potentially affect others – and the applications they contain. Splunk’s ability to index data across every tier of the infrastructure in real-time makes it the only solution to alleviate the challenge of running a dynamic environment on finite resources with optimal results.

“Splunk just gets it,” said Simon Crosby, CTO, Virtualization & Management, Citrix Systems. “XenServer customers have been asking for a way to correlate hypervisor data and metrics with everything else going on in the IT stack, including guest VMs and apps. Splunk has the smarts to put all the relevant logs, metrics and events together in the most intuitive way so you can really understand what’s happening all the way up the stack.”

According to the press release, Splunk for Server Virtualization Management supports all management use cases throughout the virtualization lifecycle – virtualization planning, workload optimization, performance monitoring, root cause analysis and log management. Whether customers are testing a new virtualization rollout or managing an existing infrastructure, Splunk Apps provide a holistic view across virtualization platform metrics from guest operating systems and applications.

Users can download a free 30-day trial of the Splunk for XenServer Management application.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: citrix, citrix xenserver, server virtualization, Splunk, Splunk for Citrix XenServer, Splunk for Citrix XenServer Management, Splunkbase, virtualisation, virtualization, virtualization management, virtualization management application, xenserver

IDC: Australian Server Market Reaches $1 Billion, Mainly Thanks To Virtualization

April 28, 2008 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

The Australian server market reached $US1.001 billion during 2007 according to analyst firm IDC, reports iTWire. Although volume only grew by 2 %, that figure masks the huge increase in spending driven by strong growth in the high-end enterprise market.

That segment grew by an amazing 30.2 % due in part to the interest in virtualisation.

“Virtualisation helped boost server revenue numbers in 2007 with richer configurations of servers being deployed to drive space, utilisation and energy efficiency,” says Matthew Oostveen, research manager of Asia/Pacific enterprise servers and workstations research at IDC.

Spending growth in the midrange enterprise and volume segments also contributed to the overall 17 % growth.

“Virtualisation was also one of the key underpinnings for the 40 percent increase in x86 blade server shipments in 2007,” said Oostveen.

Differences in market segments resulted in IBM being the number one vendor in terms of revenue (followed by HP and Dell), but IDC’s analysis by volume puts HP at the top of the list followed by Dell. Sun came in at number three for revenue, but was the only leading vendor to achieve year-on-year revenue growth, according to IDC.

[Source: VMBlog]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Australia, IDC, server market, server virtualization, virtualisation, virtualization

Parallels Named Red Herring 100 Award Finalist

April 23, 2008 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Server virtualization firm Parallels has been named a finalist in the Red Herring 100 Awards‘ selection of the most innovative private technology companies based in North America.

Red Herring

In preparation for the formal announcement of its Top 100 Award, the Red Herring editorial board surveyed the entrepreneurial scene throughout the North American region and identified the top 200 out of more than 800 closely evaluated companies that are “leading the next wave of innovation”.

Evaluations were made on both quantitative and qualitative criteria such as financial performance, innovation, management, strategy, and ecosystem integration.

Joel Dreyfuss, Editor-in-Chief of Red Herring noted:

”We can see the exciting evolution of the technology sector reflected in the quality and variety of exceptional companies that we had to choose from in putting our list together. It was tough to choose just 200 finalists from such a large list of excellent contenders, and we are very happy with the quality of the companies we selected as finalists.”

According to Red Herring, Parallels is on the list due to its innovative and entrepreneurial achievements. The 100 winning companies will be announced at the Red Herring North America event, May 12-14, in San Jose.

[Source: The Hosting News]

Filed Under: News, Partnerships Tagged With: awards, Parallels, Red Herring, Red Herring 100, Red Herring 100 Awards, server virtualization, swsoft, virtualisation, virtualization

Smart Marketing: Marathon Technologies Shares Tips On Server Virtualization

April 14, 2008 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Marathon Technologies, who recently announced availability of its everRun VM virtualization tool set, has issued a press release today, offering “top tips to know before starting with server virtualization”. Smart marketing as far as we’re concerned; we’ll let you be the judge of the quality.

Marathon Technologies

You can find all 5 tips on Marathon’s blog, so we won’t spoil it for them and only give away the headlines:

  1. Make the business case for server virtualization
  2. Consider the license and support implications
  3. Afford to spend the time to plan
  4. Assess levels of application availability and risk to business continuity
  5. Demonstrate that virtualization won’t impact end users

You can find the whole list with explanation on ‘Are you available tonight?‘, the company’s blog.

Marathon also has a webinar recording available with John Humphreys, Program Vice President, Virtualization Software for IDC, “Making the Case for Server Virtualization,” in which John provides essential guidance in making your business case.

[Source: Marketwire]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: citrix, citrix xenserver, everRun, everRun VM, Marathon, Marathon Technologies, server virtualization, tips, virtualisation, virtualization

Video: Cisco Nexus 5000 And Virtualization

April 9, 2008 by Robin Wauters 1 Comment

DataCenterKnowledge posted a video presentation today we would love to share with you too. It features Dante Malagrino of Cisco and Ed Bugnion of Nuova Systems with an explanation of how data center managers can use the new Cisco Nexus 5000 Series switches to optimize their virtualization efforts (Cisco recently introduced the 7000 Series). Prior to joining Cisco, Bugnion was a co-founder and chief architect of VMware.

Filed Under: Interviews, People Tagged With: Cisco, Cisco Nexus, Cisco Nexus 5000, Cisco Nexus 7000, Cisco Systems, Dante Malagrino, data center, Ed Bugnion, hardware virtualization, network virtualization, Nuova, Nuova Systems, server virtualization, switch, virtualisation, virtualization

Gartner: Virtualization Wave To Cause Huge Market Disruption And Consolidation Through 2012

April 6, 2008 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Gartner says virtualization will be the highest-impact trend changing infrastructure and operations through 2012.

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From the press release (emphasis ours):

“Virtualization will transform how IT is managed, what is bought, how it is deployed, how companies plan and how they are charged. As a result, virtualization is creating a new wave of competition among infrastructure vendors that will result in considerable market disruption and consolidation over the next few years.”

According to Gartner, the leading edge of this change is server virtualization, which promises to unlock much of the underutilized capacity of existing server architectures. Server virtualization is already having an impact on the server market; Gartner believes that virtualization reduced the x86 server market by 4 % in 2006. As hypervisor prices drop sharply and management costs decrease because of increased competition, virtualization will have a significantly larger impact, and Gartner analysts predict that more than 4 million virtual machines will be installed on x86 servers by 2009.

The use of PC virtualization is also set to increase rapidly. The number of virtualized PCs is expected to grow from less than 5 million in 2007 to 660 million by 2011. On the PC, the decoupling technology that breaks the close ties and dependencies between hardware and software occurs at two levels: between hardware and the operating system (machine virtualization) and between the operating system and applications (application virtualization).

Check out Gartner’s special report on virtualization, including a number of useful guides and a podcast with industry analyst Thomas Bittman.

Filed Under: Featured, News, People Tagged With: analysis, analyst, gartner, growth, PC virtualization, research, server virtualization, special report, Thomas Bittman, virtualisation, virtualization, X86, x86 server, x86 virtualization

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