November 2006 - Posts

• Server Abstraction with Virtualization

  I may be oversimplifying things, but the concern over the “complexity of virtualization” confuses me. I recently read an article titled “Virtualization dangers and how to avoid them” published at Computerworld by a couple of Avanade guys. The article Read More... Posted Thursday, November 30, 2006 3:29 PM by paulm | 0 Comments

• What a difference six months makes

  Six months ago people were tripping over themselves to prove virtualization was everywhere. The Yankee Group, Forrester Research, IDC everyone had a piece on the prevalence of virtualization in the enterprise. For a while I thought I missed a memo and Read More... Posted Monday, November 27, 2006 9:53 AM by paulm | 0 Comments

• The commodity of virtualization tools.

  The industry must be moving into the tools and utilities phase of virtualization. Everyday someone introduces a new utility. This could be mostly pre and post VMWorld buzz but there are a lot of new players in the space, and this is a space that seems Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 15, 2006 11:48 AM by paulm | 0 Comments

• First Post

  My first post, thanks for coming. I’m a technical consultant and generalist who’s been using virtualization as a training and demonstration tool for the past 4-5 years. I started with VMWare, moved to Connectix then Microsoft. I’ve used Xen and more recently Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 7:29 PM by paulm | 6 Comments