Alessandro Perilli discusses the needs for automated provisioning in the virtual datacenter environment
virtualization.info: Guide to virtualization adoption – Part 7
Archive for May, 2007
Virtualization of QA Testing Speeds ERP Deployment at Mercy — Digital Healthcare and Productivity
May 29, 2007Nice case study of Surgient virtual QA lab in use at Sisters of Mercy Health Systems. Using the Surgient virtual lab environment as part of an ERP rollout is saving tremendous time, they say–
Using the Surgient VQMS, the group can now run through 100 applications in a week with two people involved.
At the start of the ERP deployment, it was estimated that it would take six years of testing time to complete the QA testing. Now, Gutsche’s group thinks it will be closer to six months. “Previously, it took at least a week to run a level two test, now it takes about four hours,” said Gutsche. “This allows us to get to level three testing faster.”
Virtualization of QA Testing Speeds ERP Deployment at Mercy — Digital Healthcare and Productivity
Application virtualization and green computing
May 24, 2007ZDnet’s Dan Kusnetzky continues his discussions about virtualization and ecological impact
» Application virtualization and green computing | Virtually Speaking | ZDNet.com
Processing virtualization and green computing
May 20, 2007
Dan Kusnetzky at ZDnet continues his discussion of how virtualization can be used to drive towards more energy-efficient data centers. He calls out the need for tools that actively consolidate and manage workloads:
Suppliers such as Cassatt, DataSynapse, Scalent, SteelEye, Surgient, VMware, XenSource and quite a few others offer this technology on industry standard, high volume clients, servers and blades. As with storage virtualization, the careful use of this software can help organizations reduce hardware, maintenance and administrative costs while also helping preserve the endangered kilowatt and preventing the release of the dreaded BTU, Calorie or Joule.
» Processing virtualization and green computing | Virtually Speaking | ZDNet.com
Virtualization and green computing
May 17, 2007Dan Kusnetzky at ZDnet discusses how virtualization plays a big role in attempts to make datacenter computing more environmentally friendly. He calls out how the dynamic capacity management capabilities of virtual labs (with a nod to Surgient) can be used to consolidate optimally for power consumption.
» Virtualization and green computing | Virtually Speaking | ZDNet.com
Virtualization: Real Trouble for Servers?
May 17, 2007Business Week wakes up to the fact that the increasing use of virtualization to consolidate applications onto fewer servers might mean that people won’t need as many servers in the future… What they don’t mention is that, by itself, this approach can also increase risk (creating more single points of failure) and management complexity. Advanced, virtualization-aware management tools and approaches (like virtual lab management for pre-production uses) are required to really make this strategy effective. As for a slowdown in spending on servers, we’ll have to wait and see.
What’s Next?
May 14, 2007Theresa Lanowitz, analyst with Voke, notes some of the benefits of virtualization and virtual lab management in support of outsourcing or offshoring in her “What’s Next?” blog. She says:
Virtualization technology delivers so much to an enterprise. First and foremost, it allows for a malleable enterprise environment to be delivered anywhere independent of an operating system.
The benefits of virtualization abound in a variety of use cases, but while I am talking about technology going together like David Cassidy and puka shells, offshore work is exponentially easier and far more predictable when using virtualization technology. Two of the more popular vendors offering virtual lab automation technology specifically for the application lifecycle are Surgient and VMware.
GigaOM » Data Centers Sprouting Green
May 11, 2007Katie writes on GigaOm this morning about IBM’s green data centers announcement.
“Big Blue’s Big green plan will include spending on virtualization technologies and “provisioning software,” which kicks servers into power-saving mode faster.
The combination of automated provisioning and virtualization — what we call virtual labs — is a huge potential win from the standpoint of power consumption and resource utilization.
» Surgient — Managing an accelerated life cycle – ZDNet.com
May 11, 2007I spoke to Dan Kusnetzky at ZDnet last night in response to his recent articles on the changes that various types of virtualization are creating in large enterprises. We discussed how the use of applications in companies is changing, particularly how business units are no longer looking for (or funding) applications that live for many years. We talked about how virtual labs allow organizations to get what they need, when they need it and only for as long as they need an application.
» Surgient — Managing an accelerated life cycle | Virtually Speaking | ZDNet.com
