http://www.ibm.com/software/tivoli/products/storage-mgr-fastback-center/?cm_mmc=agus_itmbipcty-20090810-usitp200-_-n-_-ms1-_-m Mark Samuelson of Softchoice Corporation, an IBM Premier Business Partner, talks about how customers are thinking more dynamically about the data center, and achieving savings by implementing data storage solutions that prioritize the highest-value data for backup and recovery. ________________________________________________ We are an IBM Premier Business Partner focusing in on IBM’s Storage Practice. One large practice of ours is Tivoli Storage Management and Backup and Recovery. …IBM gives some great solutions -- Tivoli Productivity Center -- that helps me be able to identify what is being stored on my storage environment, on my servers. How well is it being utilized? … Has the data been backed up? Those are all the components that my software can help me manage and ensure that I’m able to back up and recover and be able to reproduce that data that I deem as high value. And that’s something a lot of customers are achieving savings on, is -- instead of storing everything for these very long amounts of time, let’s store data that we’ve found that does have high value to the company. Low-value items can either not be backed up or just stored very transient--transient data, it can only be stored for a little while. Customers are starting to change their thinking on the data center. Instead of just purchasing servers for an application, they’re starting to think more dynamically. With the virtualization technologies from IBM in the mid-range line, in the mainframe line, even down to the open systems line, we’re able to look at my computing resources as a virtual pool and be able to dynamically create new servers very quickly, very agile. And really I’m buying storage and I’m buying my servers when I need more processing power, not just simply for an application or a pet project.
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VMware’s clause against competitive products at VMworld 2009 annoyed the hell out of Microsoft, and the company doesn’t intend to sit idly by as thousands of potential Hyper-V users convene in San Francisco next week.

Sure, they will follow the show rules; Microsoft Corp. will have a 10-by-10 booth on the show floor and they won’t demonstrate the new features and capabilities in Hyper-V, which will be available in Windows Server 2008 R2 in October. But will they talk to attendees about Hyper-V and undermine VMware’s Stalin-esque policy of keeping the opposition out? You bet.

“When we saw the clause we called [VMware] to check on what we could do. We are only allowed to show products that complement VMware, so we won’t be doing any product demos,” said David Greschler, director of virtualization and management marketing. “But we will be there at the sessions at VMworld and we will be twittering (@MS_Virt) during the show, which is no longer an industry show. It is a VMware show.”

At VMworld 2008 in Las Vegas, Microsoft did some guerrilla marketing to promote Hyper-V 1.0 by handing out poker chips with negative messages about VMware. I’m sure we’ll see more of the same at the Moscone Center next week.

In fact, Microsoft has already started. On Thursday, the company put out a press release listing more than a dozen companies that saved over six-figures by moving from VMware to Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and other Microsoft virtualization products.

Microsoft’s cost savings case studies will probably catch some attention, especially in a poor economy. But VMware has about a 10-year head start in the virtualization market and companies that invested in VMware won’t abandon that investment.

Knowing that, Microsoft included in Windows Server 2008 R2 Systems Center Virtual Machine Manager the ability to manage VMware ESX, VSphere and Hyper-V - eliminating a big reason VMware users might not try Hyper-V.

Microsoft is also playing the “easy” card. Greschler said adding VMware onto a Windows Server system, which already has Hyper-V built in, “is like having a car with GPS in it, but going out and buying a separate GPS system, and having to learn about that separate system. Hyper-V doesn’t require a separate layer.”

But whether the next version of Hyper-V with live migration and its other management features will be good enough to wow VMware users remains to be seen. At the very least, VMware customers will have another option, and will be able to use Hyper-V as leverage when negotiating prices with VMware.

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Microsoft announced the System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 release to manufacturing (RTM) yesterday.

The release comes a month after the Hyper-V R2 RTM. Microsoft has been stressing that the biggest Hyper-V R2 benefits will come when used in conjunction with Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2008 R2, and this release shows that the two products are roughly on the same track. (VMM 2008 R2 will hit general availability Oct. 1, and Hyper-V R2 is expected to do so sometime in September.)

But it’s important to note that Microsoft isn’t targeting just Hyper-V users with VMM 2008 R2. The software will also support VMware vSphere 4.

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Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization, or MED-V, is a desktop virtualization solution providing a self-contained computing environment including the OS, intended applications, & customized settings, if any. Desktop virtualization allows an application to run in a specific OS environment different from the OS running the hosting computer. MED-V uses Microsoft Virtual PC to provide a virtualized & customizable computing environment required by an intended application, yet incompatible or conflicting with that in the hosting computer. In other words, MED-V allows computing environments which are incompatible, conflicting, or with different requirements to run currently in the same physical device.
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Introduction to IBS, Inc. Employee-owned and based in Easthampton Massachusetts, IBS is a computer services company supporting small to medium businesses, community banks, and credit unions that require technical expertise, project planning, and implementation services from a business partner they can count on today and in the future. Areas of expertise include Exchange 2007, data replication solutions, Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity infrastructure design and implementation, server virtualization and consolidation, desktop virtualization, application delivery, and remote access solutions.
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CloudSlam09.com Cloud computing and virtualization go hand-in-hand. Virtualization separates the OS/application from the underlying commodity hardware. Yet today’s “clouds” still represent collections of small compute islands; users can choose their ...
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