Posts Tagged ‘ Enterprise Management Associates ’

VM Stall – More Than Four Reasons

July 26, 2010

By Andi

I recently saw a great article in IT World Canada titled “Virtual stall: What it is and why you have it,” written by Jay Litkey, that took up my idea of VM stall, which I first came up with in my blog from May ‘Read more »

Tags: CA Technologies, CIO, Enterprise Management Associates, Security, systems management, virtualization, VM stall
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Cloud Computing in the Public Sector

May 27, 2010
By Andi

If there was still any doubt about the real world use cases for cloud computing, the US Federal Government last week published a 38-page report entitled “State of Public Sector Cloud Computing” (link to PDF at CIO.gov). Attributed to the Federal CIO Vivek Kundra,...
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Tags: Amazon, CIO, CIO Council, cloud, cloud computing, CollabNet, compliance, Enterprise Management Associates, Google, Intuit, Microsoft, NIST, public sector, Salesforce.com, Terremark, virtualization, Vivek Kundra
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Is ‘VM Stall’ the Next Big Virtualization Challenge?

May 14, 2010
By Andi

There appears to be a challenger to ‘VM sprawl’ as the scourge of virtualization success - a problem I call ‘VM stall’. We know about ‘VM sprawl’ – because new virtual machines are so easy to deploy, organizations can end up with more VMs that they can handle, or even use. This has the potential...
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Tags: CDW, CIO, EMA, Enterprise Management Associates, Gartner, Hewlett Packard, HP, IBM, Prism, virtualization, VM sprawl, VM stall
Posted in CIO, cloud computing, virtualization | 14 Comments »

On My Leaving EMA to Join CA

February 26, 2010
By Andi

For those who have asked, and others who may care to know – the rumours are indeed true. After many happy years leading the fantastic systems and storage management team at one of the very best IT industry analyst and consulting firms, Read more »

Tags: CA, EMA, Enterprise Management Associates, Twitter, virtualization
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You Cannot Separate Security and Systems Management

December 1, 2009
By Andi

A few days ago I was pleased to brief again with Reflex Systems. Apart from the fact that they are doing some very cool things with virtualization management, their approach struck me as,...
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Tags: CA, cloud, cloud computing, Configuresoft, EMA, EMC, Enterprise Management Associates, IBM, Ionix, Reflex Systems, Security, Symantec, systems management, Tripwire, virtualization
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