According to Gartner, agility (not cost) is the most important driving factor motivating private cloud computing deployments. If you have used a public cloud service provider and experienced a cloud-based service first hand, this is not surprising...
Over the last month, we’ve seen two different cases where applications were moved to a virtualization platform and in both cases, a few days after the migration, the applications had problems. The move to virtualization was immediately blamed...
Historically, configuration monitoring has been looked at primarily for compliance – to see what software and hardware is in which servers and which locations and to make sure that standard procedures are being followed for software deployment...
Gartner recently released its Magic Quadrant for IT Event Correlation and Analysis, 2010. This Magic Quadrant addresses mature and emerging products that help IT organizations consolidate, analyze and respond to component-level IT infrastructure...
Just back from the Citrix Sales Kickoff meeting in Orlando. eG Innovations was one of 15 vendors invited to exhibit at the event. We had a great turn out at the booth. The big take away from the event for us was that the “Its Not Citrix”...
Happy New Year to everyone. 2010 was a great year for us at eG Innovations. A fast changing market, demanding environments to work in, and growing competition all meant that we had to put in a lot of hard work throughout the year. It was therefore...
2011 is almost here and it promises to be an exciting and challenging year! Here are my top 10 predictions in the monitoring and management space for 2011. Virtualization and cloud computing have garnered a lot of attention recently. While...
Brian Madden just blogged about the re-emergence of Terminal Servers and Server-Based Computing (SBC) and I tend to agree with his views. See Brian’s article titled “The inverse bell curve of Terminal Server / SBC: This stuff is going to...
I was part of an interesting discussion last week on how does one measure the scalability of a management system these days. In the olden days, the focus was on fault management and the big challenge that management systems faced was event storms...
The virtualization market has seen a dramatic growth in the last few years. Many recent industry surveys have pointed that a majority of enterprises are over 30% virtualized. Monitoring and management has become crucial as virtualization further...