Virtualization's Hidden Secret
It has been said that in today's data center, virtualization changes everything. In fact, it's how virtualization actually changes every IT "thing" that has data center mangers perplexed. The core proposition of virtualization breaks what has historically been inviolable bonds, such as the relationship between operating systems and their underlying hardware platforms. And whenever data centers shatter such enduring ties, new and sometimes unanticipated "things" happen.
These "things" are becoming increasingly pervasive in today's data centers. In fact, IDC analyst John Humphreys observes in The Future of Virtualization: Leveraging Mobility to Move Beyond Consolidations , that recent IDC surveys found that over 50% of all customers are employing server virtualization for production applications, including mission-critical applications such as supply chain management and enterprise resource planning. Within the next 12 months, the survey found that these same users expect nearly half of their applications will be hosted on a virtualized server.
For example, with the introduction of virtual machine mobility through exciting new technologies such as VMware's VMotion comes the promise of great "things." These include greater server utilization and flexible, no-downtime migration, along with new opportunities for data center consolidation, flash crowd control and virtual disaster recovery. However, VMotion also brings other "things," such as a feeling of uncertainty surrounding the boundaries of VLANs, the inadequacy of network security policies for virtual machine environments, and Quality of Service for network access and application performance.
The underpinning of data center virtualization is a move away from managing devices and toward managing information. The virtual environment promises to free IT architects to focus less on hardware and more on who accesses what information and how they gain this access. However, it's in understanding all those changes to every IT "thing"; including the underlying network, that is today's hidden secret to successfully managing virtualization on an enterprise scale.
Yes, virtualization does change everything. But the hidden secret to successfully managing virtualization is revealed from discovering all the unanticipated "things" that come with virtualization. And, once you understand how the hidden secret can impact and even jeopardize your enterprise and its vital data, it then becomes much easier to establish IT practices for managing how virtualization actually changes every IT "thing" from the server, to the OS to the underlying network.
BLADE is working on advanced network virtualization solutions to equip data center networks for VMs. Unlike Cisco's VN-Link for the Nexus 1000V, BLADE's solution will work and interoperate with all major virtualization platforms without forcing any software upgrades or firmware updates. As a VMware Technology Alliance Partner, BLADE will be delivering additional enhancements to improve our joint customers' virtualization experience in the critical areas of networking and virtual machine migration. Look for more on this to come.
These "things" are becoming increasingly pervasive in today's data centers. In fact, IDC analyst John Humphreys observes in The Future of Virtualization: Leveraging Mobility to Move Beyond Consolidations , that recent IDC surveys found that over 50% of all customers are employing server virtualization for production applications, including mission-critical applications such as supply chain management and enterprise resource planning. Within the next 12 months, the survey found that these same users expect nearly half of their applications will be hosted on a virtualized server.
For example, with the introduction of virtual machine mobility through exciting new technologies such as VMware's VMotion comes the promise of great "things." These include greater server utilization and flexible, no-downtime migration, along with new opportunities for data center consolidation, flash crowd control and virtual disaster recovery. However, VMotion also brings other "things," such as a feeling of uncertainty surrounding the boundaries of VLANs, the inadequacy of network security policies for virtual machine environments, and Quality of Service for network access and application performance.
The underpinning of data center virtualization is a move away from managing devices and toward managing information. The virtual environment promises to free IT architects to focus less on hardware and more on who accesses what information and how they gain this access. However, it's in understanding all those changes to every IT "thing"; including the underlying network, that is today's hidden secret to successfully managing virtualization on an enterprise scale.
Yes, virtualization does change everything. But the hidden secret to successfully managing virtualization is revealed from discovering all the unanticipated "things" that come with virtualization. And, once you understand how the hidden secret can impact and even jeopardize your enterprise and its vital data, it then becomes much easier to establish IT practices for managing how virtualization actually changes every IT "thing" from the server, to the OS to the underlying network.
BLADE is working on advanced network virtualization solutions to equip data center networks for VMs. Unlike Cisco's VN-Link for the Nexus 1000V, BLADE's solution will work and interoperate with all major virtualization platforms without forcing any software upgrades or firmware updates. As a VMware Technology Alliance Partner, BLADE will be delivering additional enhancements to improve our joint customers' virtualization experience in the critical areas of networking and virtual machine migration. Look for more on this to come.
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