Do you have 'Actionable Intelligence' (AI) on your Virtual Infrastructure?

I have been doing a lot of vCenter Operations and have to admit I really like the version 5 product. A little less enamored about the licensing but only because of where they but the demarcation point between Advanced and Enterprise. Let me share a few thoughts with you and explain the AI title.read more

Virtual Security; Defense in-depth

The VMware vShield product line has come of age introducing a new acronym into our vernacular "Virtual Security". It is now possible to provide a level of security around our servers and data that would be both difficult and costly without virtualization.read more

Multi-Tenancy; Is your infrastructure Ready?

It is clear that this year will see significant change in the IT industry as internal IT shops move to the service provider model. Key to this will be virtualization, which provides a flexible platform for the allocation of compute resources.read more

Virtualization Automation; the view point to the Cloud

Over the last few years very few customers have integrated some of the more advanced features of virtual infrastructure. For example, products such a VMware vShield have been available for sometime and are included in vSphere bundles but few have integrated them completely. read more

VMware's vFabric; Enabling Application Development for the Cloud

vFabric aligns with VMware's cloud strategy specifically around PaaS. There are generally three types of cloud architectures recognized in the industry; Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and SaaS (Software as a Service). VMware is the only vendor that has clear defined products in all three categories ready for sale. read more

I am the principal Consultant at Gibraltar Solutions and have spent 13 years designing, implementing, and managing IT Infrastructures in highly available computing environments. My primary areas of focus are the deployment of virtualization (Server, Storage, Desktop, Application and WAN Optimization).