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Monitoring virtualized environments and the cloud - say goodbye to the silos
As I’ve indicated in earlier posts, virtualized environments and the cloud allow for a far more elastic use of IT resources. Driven by changes in the number and types of applications, virtualized environments by their nature are more dynamic and require IT organizations that can cope with near real-time changes in the IT infrastructure. With virtualization, new applications can now be provisioned almost instantly, so the way they need to be managed and monitored is necessitating change.
Cloud Computing and Virtualization - Timesharing Redux?
Some will argue that cloud computing is nothing new at all, that we’ve been accessing data over the internet for years and that the “cloud” is nothing more than remarketing of SaaS. So what’s the big deal?
Service Level Agreements and Cloud Computing
There is lots of discussion today about “cloud computing”. You can’t see a mention of cloud computing without some reference to Service Levels and Service Level Agreement. The “SLA” term is thrown around and yet has many definitions. Some would argue it is simply a measure of up or down time, while others would argue it is not just availability but performance of the application from an end user’s perspective.
How do you get a true picture of performance in cloud environments?
Cloud computing is latest rage these days and while there are varying opinions as to the rate of adoption as more businesses turn to the cloud, it is definitely a model that is here to stay. Like any new computing model cloud computing comes with its own set of challenges. You’ve got to be able to adequately plan for a migration (private cloud).
Clouds.. Clouds.. everywhere clouds
Clouds.. Clouds.. everywhere clouds.. everyone’s talking clouds, but what are you all actually doing? Seems you can’t read any of the trades these days without some mention of clouds. Hype or reality, I’d say maybe a little bit of both. We surveyed Longitude customers and the results are interesting.
Roughly half of the users had no cloud plans and intend to “stay the course” at least still things clear up (no pun intended). So what does that mean for the remaining population? You can generally split the remaining into those gravitating to a private or public bias.
