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Upcoming Webcast – Times have changed, but has your data protection and recovery architecture?
Posted by Chris in Backup & Recovery, Server Virtualization, Webcast on May 18th, 2010
Next week I’ll be participating in a webcast with the folks at Veeam on the subject of data protection and recovery architecture. The webinar will run on Wednesday May 26th at 4 ET and will also be available for replay. Here’s the topic information:
Times have changed, but has your data protection and recovery architecture? Backup has historically been viewed as more a necessary evil than an enabler for efficient IT. However, the infrastructure flexibility resulting from large scale server virtualization deployments – combined with innovative vendor solutions – is causing IT decision makers to rethink the role of traditional backup. Legacy CPU- and I/O-intensive agent-based approaches are being replaced by more efficient solutions that intelligently leverage server-less backup techniques and replication, while preserving what’s best in traditional archive approaches. Disaster recovery (DR) readiness capabilities are now verifiable with real time backup archive and application stack verification. DR no longer has to be an expensive add-on. Instead, it should be a feature of the data protection software. This session led by Burton Group senior analyst Chris Wolf, and Veeam’s Doug Hazelman (Senior Director, Product Strategy) outline steps organizations can take transform data protection from an operational nuisance to a solution that drives more dynamic and resilient IT operations. Along the way, attendees will also learn about best practices for migrating from legacy to modern data protection architectures, as well as have their most pressing questions answered by Chris Wolf and Veeam’s team of experts.
Registration is now open, so if you’re interested you can register here.
Webcast: Re-architecting Backup and Recovery for Virtual Environments
I recorded a webcast today on the subject of best practices for re-architecting backup and recovery for virtual environments. If you’re interested, you can view the webcast below, or click here to view the webcast in a separate window.
Upcoming Webcast: Hypervisor Competitive Differences
If you missed our latest presentation on hypervisor competitive differences with regards to our evaluation criteria, you can see it for free next week at IT Virtualization Live. The webcast will run Tuesday September 15th at 12:30 ET. To see it, you can register here. The webcast will show our complete evaluation criteria list, and detail how vSphere 4.0, XenServer 5.5, and Hyper-V R2 stack up. The webcast also includes a series of tables that outline side-by-side comparisons between each hypervisor. If you’re interested, here is the webcast abstract.
Hypervisor Competitive Differences: What the Vendors Aren’t Telling You
You mean there are differences between the hypervisors from Microsoft, Citrix, VMware, and others? Of course, and making the right decisions about which to implement are critical for your virtualization success! In this session, analyst Chris Wolf dissects the competitive differences that exist with today’s leading hypervisors, with a special focus on the under-the-hood features that don’t make it onto vendor data sheets. Attendees of this session will see firsthand the differences that exist with all major virtualization hypervisor vendors (e.g. VMware, Microsoft, Citrix, and Virtual Iron) and will leave with a list of pointed questions to ask prospective hypervisor vendors regarding their current solutions and future plans.
Internal Cloud Hardware Infrastructure as a Service Reference Architecture Overview Webcast
Today at Catalyst North America I will highlight Burton Group’s work on a series of reference architecture templates for internal cloud hardware infrastructure as a service (HIaaS). I created a 30 minute webcast that provides additional background information on the reference architecture model which can be viewed below. We will be producing a series of subtemplates to accompany this top level template that will provide added detail. All feedback and ideas are welcome, so please feel free to send along feedback as a comment to this post or via email.Also if you are interested in joining the growing list of clients and vendors who are reviewing or contributing to the architecture models, please let me know.
Upcoming Webinar – Practical VM Security Techniques for Internal and External Virtualized Infrastructures
Posted by Chris in Security, Server Virtualization, Webcast on May 19th, 2009
I’ll be participating in a webinar on virtualization security on May 28th. I have included a description below and if you’re interested, you can register here.
Date: Thursday May 28, 2009
Time: 2:00 PM ET / 11:00 AM PT
Duration: 60 Minutes
Practical VM Security Techniques for Internal and External Virtualized Infrastructures
Jumping onto the virtualization bandwagon makes great economic sense but can be risky if done without proper security measures. In this webinar, Burton Group senior analyst Chris Wolf and executives from Trend Micro discuss current trends in virtual infrastructure security while offering practical techniques for securely managing today’s virtual infrastructures. Learn new approaches for virtualization security, security features that should be included in all production-use hypervisors, as well as key questions that IT decision makers should be asking to prospective hypervisor and security vendors.
Attend this webinar to learn:
• New ways that virtualization can put your business at risk
• Common security and compliance pitfalls
• Isolation and zoning best practices
• Key security differentiators that exist with today’s modern hypervisors
• Methods for efficiently and effectively leveraging host-based security within the virtual infrastructure
Featured Speakers:
Chris Wolf, Senior Analyst, Burton Group
Bill McGee, Senior Director of Product Development, Trend Micro
Harish Agastya, Director of Product Marketing, Trend Micro
Who should attend:
- IT Security
- Virtualization Architects
- Security Architects
- Datacenter Operations
Two VDI Webcasts Tomorrow
Posted by Chris in Desktop Virtualization, Webcast on May 18th, 2009
If you’re interested, I’ll be presenting at two webcasts on VDI tomorrow. The first one, hosted by VMware, is technical in nature and focuses on VDI architecture, technical gotchas, and practical steps toward implementation. The second webcast is hosted by ITO America and Quest Software; it covers the ROI case for VDI, along with technology choices that can make or break the ROI case. The registration links and descriptions of each webcast are below.
Successful Virtual Desktop Deployments with VMware: Where to Start and Proven Best Practices
Tuesday May 19th – 12:00 ET
Architecture and product selection are critical elements of successful virtual desktop deployments that directly impact the virtual desktop infrastructure’s ability to realize a return on investment (ROI) and ensure user acceptance. This session focuses on the necessary virtual infrastructure, server, storage, network and security architectural decisions that can make or break desktop virtualization projects.
Attendees will leave this session with information on:
- How to integrate application virtualization with the virtual desktop infrastructure.
- Getting the most out of thin provisioning and single instance storage.
- Key aspects of product evaluation, and questions that must be asked of every vendor.
- Streamlining desktop OS and application management practices to take advantage of desktop virtualization’s single instance management capabilities.
- Planning now for emerging desktop virtualization trends such as the client hypervisor.
Desktop Virtualization Offers Economic Stimulus Package: Where is the ROI of VDI?
Tuesday May 19 – 2-2:30 ET
No doubt you’ve at least heard the hype about Desktop Virtualization/Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). Many organizations realize the time and resource drain of managing the enterprise desktop infrastructure. Provisioning, maintaining, securing, updating, and operating the corporate PC over its lifecycle can quickly become an inefficient drain on IT resources. In today’s economic times, IT departments are dealing with pressures to reduce costs while maintaining service level agreements on shoe-string budgets and thin staffs. Desktop virtualization offers many avenues for efficiency and return on your investment. Come hear Chris Wolf, senior analyst at Burton Group and Paul Ghostine, General Manager of the Desktop Virtualization Group of Quest Software, as they outline the potential savings and efficiency gains with a Desktop Virtualization project.
Desktop Virtualization: Choices and Challenges Webcast
Posted by Chris in Application Virtualization, Desktop Virtualization, Webcast on April 30th, 2009
I recently completed a webcast that highlighted Burton Group’s position on the state of the VDI market, along with an assessment of architectural alternatives and technical barriers. This follows the release of our desktop virtualization overview “Desktop Virtualization: Choices and Challenges.” If you’re interested, the webcast is approximately 45 minutes in length and can be viewed below (or you can click here to view it in a separate browser window).
VMware Webinar: Architecting for the Cloud: What’s Possible Today? What’s Practical Tomorrow?
Posted by Chris in Cloud, Speaking Events, VMware, Virtualization Management, Webcast on April 2nd, 2009
Event: VMware Webinar – Architecting for the Cloud: What’s Possible Today? What’s Practical Tomorrow?
Date: June 16th
Location: Online
Session Abstract:
Cloud is not the latest marketing buzzword, but rather a serious and emerging datacenter architectural framework. Don’t let the excess hype and vendor misrepresentations fool you or distract you from how you can practically leverage the cloud today. This session identifies the technology and business process frameworks necessary for building an internal cloud infrastructure, while laying a foundation to leverage external cloud resources. A properly designed cloud infrastructure offers too many financial, technical and business process benefits to ignore.
This session cuts through the cloud hype and offers guidance on how you should be thinking about the cloud today, and what you should be doing right now. Even if you are not ready to leverage external cloud resources today, internal architecture and product decisions will directly impact your organization’s ability to connect to external cloud resources in coming years.
Session attendees will see:
- Strategies for overcoming the technical and political barriers that stall internal cloud adoption.
- Blueprints for architecting an internal cloud.
- Reality check on what is and is not possible with today’s management tools.
- Guidance on ensuring security and regulatory compliance with both internal and external cloud infrastructures.
VMware Webinar: Successful Virtual Desktop Deployments with VMware: Where to Start and Proven Best Practices
Posted by Chris in Desktop Virtualization, Hosted Client Hypervisors, Speaking Events, VMware, VMware CVP, VMware Workstation, Webcast on April 2nd, 2009
Event: VMware Webinar: Successful Virtual Desktop Deployments with VMware: Where to Start and Proven Best Practices
Date: May 19th
Location: Online
Session Abstract:
Architecture and product selection are critical elements of successful virtual desktop deployments that directly impact the virtual desktop infrastructure’s ability to realize a return on investment (ROI) and ensure user acceptance. This session focuses on the necessary virtual infrastructure, server, storage, network and security architectural decisions that can make or break desktop virtualization projects.
Attendees will leave this session with information on:
- How to integrate application virtualization with the virtual desktop infrastructure.
- Getting the most out of thin provisioning and single instance storage.
- Key aspects of product evaluation, and questions that must be asked of every vendor.
- Streamlining desktop OS and application management practices to take advantage of desktop virtualization’s single instance management capabilities.
- Planning now for emerging desktop virtualization trends such as the client hypervisor.
VMware Webinar: Best Practices for Capacity and Configuration Management with Virtual Infrastructure
Posted by Chris in ESX, Speaking Events, VMware, Virtualization Management, Webcast on April 2nd, 2009
Event: VMware Webinar: Best Practices for Capacity and Configuration Management with Virtual Infrastructure
Date: April 29th
Location: Online
Session Abstract:
Capacity and configuration management are often misunderstood or overlooked when virtual infrastructures are first deployed. This session examines practical capacity management practices, with a special focus on ensuring that applications meet required service levels. Attendees will learn about setting alert thresholds, dynamic VM load balancing and ensuring that I/O, compute and memory requirements are met. The second half of this session focuses on configuration management topics, while highlighting tools and trends that ease configuration management and enforcing change control processes in the virtual infrastructure.
Attendees of this webcast will see:
- Proven industry practices for effectively monitoring, managing and automating all aspects of capacity management, including compute, memory, storage and network I/O, and storage capacity.
- Strategies for documenting service level assurance in the virtual infrastructure.
- Configuration management best practices and available tools for getting the job done.
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