Top Use Cases for Virtualization with Intelligent Management

Organizations around the world have been enjoying the benefits of core compute virtualization for years. But it’s time for virtualization 2.0, which is – virtualization with intelligent management. IT managers and practitioners need to take control of the management complexity that comes with a growing IT infrastructure. VMware vSphere with Operations Management can help alleviate… Continue reading Top Use Cases for Virtualization with Intelligent Management

QCT Pioneers Hyper-Converged Infrastructure in Collaboration with VMware EVO SDDC

VMWORLD: Hyper-converged infrastructure—a cloud architecture that tightly integrates compute, storage, networking and virtualization resources in a rack supported by one vendor—are taking center stage for QCT (Quanta Cloud Technology) at this week’s VMworld® 2015 US event at San Francisco’s Moscone Center. QCT will showcase its collaboration with VMware to develop the VMware EVO SDDC hyper-converged… Continue reading QCT Pioneers Hyper-Converged Infrastructure in Collaboration with VMware EVO SDDC

OpenStack Infrastructure Management with ManageIQ

NEW – Deployment and Infrastructure Management for OpenStack “The visibility you have of an OpenStack platform will determine what management functions can drive your use cases of the platform” Successful Deployment & Management of OpenStack infrastrucutre makes light work of management functions such as Capacity Management, Compute Allocation, Platform Scaling, Resource Optimisation & ChargeBack. These… Continue reading OpenStack Infrastructure Management with ManageIQ

Repeatable benchmarking of OpenStack architectures

As you plan for and execute your OpenStack installation it’s important to make sure you pick components that meet your needs for your workloads. In this session we’ll go over how to benchmark components in any permetation of OpenStack install in order to best select which component works for your hardware with your planned workloads.… Continue reading Repeatable benchmarking of OpenStack architectures

Congress Hands on lab

Congress is an OpenStack project that provides policy as a service across any collection of cloud services in order to offer governance and compliance for dynamic infrastructures. In this lab users will get access to a live OpenStack setup with congress already installed and will be able to walk through several key congress deployment use… Continue reading Congress Hands on lab

Do Appliances Violate OpenStack’s Prime Directive?

Does the appliance model and OpenStack mix like oil and water, or is there really some secret sauce to this approach? While OpenStack emphasizes support of heterogeneous infrastructure, alternative solutions have demonstrated wild success in the marketplace with proprietary hardware platforms and converged solutions with fewer options. Nebula gained traction with this model, but it… Continue reading Do Appliances Violate OpenStack’s Prime Directive?

AppFormix: Control Application Performance from the Infrastructure

Controlling the performance of your applications in real-time and maximizing the efficiency of virtual infrastructure within OpenStack and Docker Environments is the key to boosting IT ROI. In this demo, we will show how application performance and maximizing infrastructure utilization can exist in perfect harmony.…Full session details here: