Category: Data Center Management

Over the past few months my wife and I have contemplated the purchase of some type of tablet (either an Android or iPad.) It was only after a great deal of debate and a fair amount of research that we finally broke down and purchased one opting for the iPad. But after only a few weeks of owning it, I already find myself using it very rarely and having a bit of buyer’s remorse because while it is really cool toy, it remains exactly that: a really cool toy.

Once upon a time virtualization was just a concept on most organization’s roadmaps. Today it is a rarity that I talk to an organization that does not have a large percentage of its infrastructure virtualized. But this is creating new management challenges, one of which is keeping applications and their underlying virtualized infrastructure in proper alignment.