Virtualization — The hottest thing in IT!

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Submitted by PJR | 10/4/2007 10:05pm

At VMWorld, I attended the keynote from VMware CEO Diane Greene on the first day. It was standing room only -- and she mentioned that four years ago at the first VMWorld held in San Diego 1,500 people attended. In 2007 in San Fran there were about 11,000. That’s just a little bit of growth! What's the appeal for you in Virtualization? Why is it such a hot button right now?

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Comment by Anonymous | 4/24/2008 7:16pm

Is Stratus planning on being at any VMware events this year?

Thanks

Comment by PJR | 4/25/2008 7:40pm

Yes. Stratus will be attending 5 of the VMware Forums.
May 8 – NYC – Javits Convention Center

May 15 - San Jose – San Jose Convention Center

June 5 - Chicago – McCormick Convention Center

July 24 - Atlanta – Georgia International Convention Center

August 7 - Dallas – Dallas Convention Center

Stratus will also be at VMWorld in Sept. in Las Vegas.

Comment by Anonymous | 2/21/2008 5:56pm

Is Stratus planning on being at the VMware show coming up in France next week?

Comment by Wally (not verified) | 10/18/2007 8:32pm

I think your 3 key issues are right on. Managing a virtual infrastructure may be more difficult than today’s physical servers. I’m not an expert on security, but from what I have read, this is probably the biggest issue IT managers are wrestling with in a virtual world. Availability is an interesting one. I don’t think people are looking at it as diligently as they are the other two, but it may be the biggest issue. Putting multiple applications on a single (physical) server certainly would have a much bigger impact to the business if that server crashes.

Comment by Martha_B (not verified) | 10/5/2007 7:32pm

I was also at the conference this year and was pretty amazed at how many people were there. I think it’s the hot topic in the industry for a number of reasons, some of the biggest have to do with power and cooling and the whole green initiative and the fact that most x86 servers are so under utilized. Management is looking for ways to consolidate and save money, but at the same time meet their SLAs.

The thing is virtualization has been around for a long time, even in the Windows world VMware isn’t new. I think people are just coming around to see the benefits and the hardware technology is at a place where it can handle much bigger work loads. Now I think that some of the issues are going to be management, security and availability. Those are 3 key issues as virtualization continues to roll out.

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