Cameron Haight

Recently I was having a discussion with a technology provider who in responding to some of my comments about their current user interface mentioned that a new dashboard capability would be in a future release.  Candidly, that didn’t get me too excited.  Why is it that here we are in 2008 and as a management [...]

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At the recent VMworld, VMware CEO Paul Maritz talked about newer application platforms such as Rails (RoR) as being important to the development of cloud computing services.  Usually we have to wait many years though before we begin to see the market responding with management tools to support these newer architectures.  That may not be [...]

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While one of the goals of this blog is to obviously share my thoughts on matters relating primarily to virtualization management, I also will use this as a forum to provide links to other information which I think may be of some interest to those of you that pass by.  My current research is focusing [...]

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There are some interesting documents available from VMware’s "viops" or best practices-focused website that might be of help as we look at the virtualization OPEX impact.  First is a listing of standard operating procedures (SOPs) that seem to be only minimally VMware-centric.  From your experience, what would you add to this?  Also, there are some [...]

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Continuing my work examining the OPEX impact of virtualization I came across an interesting paper by IBMers Aaron Brown and Joseph Hellerstein entitled: Reducing the Cost of IT Operations – Is Automation Always the Answer?  While not specific to virtualization, they examined the automation impact on a software distribution process.  Their research suggests automation does [...]

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I have spent my entire professional life in the information technology industry.  My wife can attest to my fondness for all things IT-related with her always having to gently remind me that the latest purchase from Amazon.com should not have a permanent place on the coffee table in our den (warning, geek alert: I am [...]

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Every month I host a Gartner client roundtable focused on the challenges of managing and operating an increasingly virtual environment.  While we’re primarily focused on server virtualization, we’ll likely add hosted virtual desktops somewhere down the line.  Our last two meetings focused on capacity planning and chargeback and some very interesting discussions occurred as a [...]

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