So, who runs VMware on Cisco UCS. Well, these VMworld attendees were kind enough to share with me during the breakfast session.

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Tags: Cisco UCS, data center, FlexPod, Vblock, VMware, VMworld 2011, vsphere

Virtualize Tier-1 Enterprise Applications on FlexPod for VMware

In today’s competitive environment, companies have to innovate rapidly to stay ahead of their competition, improve profitability, create new services and revenue streams, and reduce risks by adopting cost efficient business models.

The increased business pressure has a direct impact on the IT organization to innovate rapidly and efficiently meet the ever demanding business needs. At the same time, CIOs are struggling with the legacy, siloed, underutilized IT infrastructure and operational processes that were built based on the requirements of individual enterprise applications and processes. The end result is increased total cost of ownership and inability to help business be more agile, introduce new services, and achieve operational efficiency.

Why move enterprise applications to Virtual Infrastructure and Private Cloud?

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Tags: Cisco, cloud_computing, Exchange 2010, FlexPod, netapp, Sharepoint 2010, SQl Server 2008, VMware, vsphere

As you plan to deploy mission critical business applications in cloud, the first thing that comes to mind is how can all the pieces of the puzzle (infrastructure, business apps, supporting tools etc.) be put together to get all the expected benefits and efficiencies, without introducing any negative tradeoffs. This requires that all the key differentiating technologies campaigned by the vendors to win your business should collectively work as a single solution, be scalable, easy to operate, and not introduce new complexities in your environment.

While individual technology focused documentation and scalability guidelines from vendors are great resource for getting in depth information about any particular technology, a lot of times they fall short of providing you the end to end solutions focused big picture. The most popular question I hear from customers is… “How would the Cisco Datacenter Business Advantage and our open ecosystem partner technologies work together as an end to end solution that provides value to more efficiently achieve the business objectives”? Few days back, I discussed the relevance of Cisco Datacenter Business Advantage technologies to your mission critical business applications.

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Tags: BMC, Cisco, CiscoUCS, citrix, EMC, ESMT, Exchange 2010, Hyper-V, netapp, Oracle, SAP, Sharepoint, SQL Server, VMDC, VMware, VMware View, vsphere, xendesktop

Virtual desktops are by definition, more secure than traditional desktops or laptops, right?  Read More »

Tags: desktop, RSA, security, thin client, vdi, View, virtualization, VMware, vsphere, vxi