Articles in category: "Virtualisation"
ViFX Acquires Delta Software
Auckland (New Zealand) – 31 st January 2012 – VMware Premier Partner and leading Asia Pacific virtualisation specialist, ViFX, announced today it has acquired IT Service Management (ITSM) experts Delta Software. Founded in New Zealand in 2007 to focus on offering virtualisation, enterprise-storage and cloud-infrastructure services and solutions to organisations across Asia Pacific, ViFX has seen rapid growth and also maintains operations in Singapore and Australia. In addition to providing services to New Zealand's largest enterprises and public sector organisations, ViFX regularly undertakes large virtualisation, storage and cloud computing projects in Australia and Asia Pacific. ViFX Managing Director Geoff Olliff says the acquisition of Delta Software, to be executed as a buy-out of Delta Software by ViFX, is the next evolution in its strategy to become the pre-eminent virtualisation, enterprise-storage and cloud-infrastructure consultancy in the Asia Pacific ...
Posted by Derek Leitch on Wed 01 Feb 2012
Q: Troubled Infrastructure Project?
A common thread in addressing the major causes of troubled projects is the ability of the project manager to effectively deal with these issues, mitigate some of the risk in these areas, and be a strong enough leader to stand up to senior management or go to bat to manage expectations and resources. The top causes of project troubles are: 1. Requirements: Unclear, lack of agreement, lack of priority, contradictory, ambiguous, imprecise. 2. Resources: Lack of resources, resource conflicts, turnover of key resources, poor planning. 3. Schedules: Too tight, unrealistic, overly optimistic. 4. Planning: Based on insufficient data, missing items, insufficient details, poor estimates. 5. Risks: Unidentified or assumed, not managed. Your Actions to help a troubled project recover: 1. Improve communication, stakeholder management 2. Redefine the project - reducing the scope, re-justifying the project financially, etc. 3. Add and/or remove resources 4. Resolve problematic ...
Posted by Derek Leitch on Tue 19 Apr 2011
Cloud Services for SMB in Asia
Q: Types of cloud services that Asia's SMBs find acceptable? SMBs' cloud adoption patterns vary greatly in terms of types of applications and services reflecting their varying levels of comfort with the new paradigm and while a majority of SMBs are using cloud services in conjunction with their existing applications and services, a small but growing number are using them to replace their on-premise infrastructure. This is especially true for cloud services like CRM, hosted email, hosted SharePoint and others. The extent of Cloud Services for SMB from local providers in Asia today remains largely limited in our experience, with many of the service providers not possessing a definitive strategy for their Cloud offerings let alone an SMB focused Services portfolio's aimed at addressing the unique needs of this market segment. For example, SMB's in Asia are challenged by internet reliability and bandwidth, and concerned with taking of advantage of the transformative, ...
Posted by Damian Crotty on Thu 10 Mar 2011
Analogy & Perspective
"Managing servers in god mode" is one of my favorite ways to describe the fundental benefits of virtualization. To illustrate this, I will use the movie Avatar as an analogy. The movie starts with the lead character Jake Sully. He's like our typical server workload. When he was recruited into the program, its like taking a physical server and virtualizing it. Nothing has changed to the workload, the original characteristics stay the same. The workload is just as smart, and still as handicapped. Here, just by virtualizing didn't create any miracles (yet) and existing issues remains. Then the first cool scene arrived, Jake logged on and connected to his Avatar. The process was fast and he got "transported" to a new body. A new body that's bigger, taller, stronger and has full capabilities. In the VMware world, it's like taking a workload from your private cloud that's resource constraint and doing a vMotion to the public cloud. This is ...
Posted by Jason Yeo on Thu 03 Mar 2011
Nicholas Carr @ Atmosphere
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYP3uMOobqk
Posted by Derek Leitch on Tue 15 Feb 2011
VMware Unveils Zimbra 7
VMware Zimbra 7 features new data sharing capabilities, expanded calendaring and search functionality, and upgraded management features for both IT and end-users. With this update, Zimbra is further optimized for both the casual and power-user, establishing a platform for a next-generation workspace within the VMware End-User Computing vision. VMware's End-User Computing vision seeks to free users and IT from more than two decades of complex, device-centric computing and deliver a more consumer-focused cloud experience for the enterprise. VMware Zimbra is among the largest business collaboration providers and is the largest on-premise open source collaboration suite in terms of paid mailboxes. Jim Morrisroe, vice president, Zimbra Products, VMware said, "VMware Zimbra(R) continues to be the fastest-growing enterprise collaboration solution -- now with more than 66 million paid mailboxes and more than 200,000 organizations using VMware Zimbra as their next-generation ...
Posted by Derek Leitch on Thu 10 Feb 2011
Cloud computing in Asia
A VMware-sponsored survey of seven thousand businesses and IT executives in Asia Pacific shows Cloud computing mindshare and adoption have soared over the last eighteen months. Vmware has announced recent findings from its survey which shows that the proportion of Asia Pacific enterprises viewing cloud computing as relevant to their businesses doubled to 83% over the last eighteen months. According to the survey, 76% in India want to virtualize and adopt cloud computing in the coming eighteen months, which is the highest percentage as compared to other Cloud positive countries in the region like Japan and Australia. India scored higher than both Singapore and Malaysia in current Cloud understanding levels. The September survey of 6,953 respondents, conducted by Springboard Research, sponsored by VMware also indicated that Cloud adoption has accelerated across seven Asia Pacific markets over the last eighteen months, particularly among larger firms. At present, 59% of regional firms ...
Posted by Damian Crotty on Tue 01 Feb 2011
Virtualization landscape in Asia
In the foregoing interview, Mr. Damian Crotty President and General Manager at ViFX, shares his views on the virtualization landscape in Asia and also on the cloud adoption trends. This is his take on the following questions: 1. How would you describe the relationship between Virtualization' and Cloud? Virtualization has transitioned into a mainstream technology in today's datacenters and is widely used to increase hardware utilization as well as lower infrastructure and application operational management costs. For many of our clients, a virtualized infrastructure is seen as a direct entry point into cloud computing, so in effect, virtualization is the foundation of cloud computing. Virtualization abstracts computing away from system resources and enables the effortless transfer from one physical resource to another and the uncomplicated addition and subtraction of resources from an application. Cloud computing overlays virtualization with a set of services spanning ...
Posted by Damian Crotty on Tue 01 Feb 2011
ViFX launches new look website
Happy New Year everyone! Thanks for visiting our new-look website. We hope you find the content informative and valuable. Apart from a new look and feel you'll find more information and content on VMware virtualisation solutions and Cloud Computing. Thanks for visiting and thanks to all our valued customers for their continued support.
Posted by Derek Leitch on Tue 01 Feb 2011