Our friends at virtual infrastructure developer Virtual Instruments, and IT technology research firm Taneja Group plan to host an interactive and educational webinar on April 29 titled "Virtual Infrastructure Optimization: What You Can't See Can Hurt You." This live session will feature Dave Bartoletti and Jeff Byrne, both senior analysts and consultants at the Taneja Group, and Mark Urdahl, CEO of Virtual Instruments.
Our March 18 blog entry "Cisco, HP, and the forgotten factor of virtualization" introduced the concept of software virtualization in the context of data servers. These systems should be on the minds of everyone interested in infrastructure expansion and modification while the U.S. economy shifts from contraction to expansion later in 2009. While most folks who think of "infrastructure" as bridges, highways, and buildings, the real infrastructure of the technology-driven U.S. economy, as well as the economies of the fastest growing nations globally, is information technology (IT).
While brick-and-mortar infrastructure is certainly important, and woefully in need of attention, most of the effect of the Federal government's stimulus efforts will be to boost IT infrastructure. That is, it will drive expansion of public and private sector organizations' abilities to store and communicate mountains of data. We will be modernizing, building, and expanding data servers and the networks that interconnect them.
Virtualization will surely be an important core technology built into most, if not all, of this expanded IT infrastructure. As pointed out in the 3/18 blog entry, virtualization provides critical capabilities to data server operators, whether they are in government, financial, healthcare, or other sectors. Anyone involved in any of these sectors needs to understand what virtualization is, what benefits it provides, and how it provides them.
Attending the 4/29 seminar on optimizing virtualized data servers is a good way to bone up on the critical information everyone involved in activities enabled by data-server technology needs to know. To attend, visit the webinar's free registration website. the webinar will be held live on April 29, 2009 at 8:30 a.m. PT (4:30 p.m. GMT)
According to Virtual Instruments, the webinar will introduce new research on the topic of virtual Infrastructure optimization (VIO) - the market category of solutions designed to significantly improve the performance of virtualized applications and to help optimize the utilization of both storage and server resources. The hosts will highlight how IT managers and administrators can:
* Tackle challenges associated with deploying virtualization for performance sensitive, business-critical applications, including visibility into and managing the internal cloud.
* Proactively avoid over-provisioning and under-provisioning of server and storage assets
* Track system interdependencies to accelerate identification of performance choke points
* Select monitoring and analysis tools with the instrumentation needed to address today's scale and complexity
* Gain clear visibility into real-time virtual SAN performance
* Confidently deploy virtualization in business-critical environments
Speakers and audience participants - who will be able to ask questions during the event - will discuss how new solutions enable administrators to peer into multiple dimensions of the infrastructure in real-time and obtain the integrated monitoring and analytics required to optimize and troubleshoot virtual infrastructure performance holistically across every element of the system - from the application to the spindle.
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