vMAN Over At DMTF Is Immune To Kryptonite And Now Powered by OVF Version 1.0

In this exclusive interview at VMworld in Las Vegas, DMTF president Winston Bumpus reveals the release of OVF 1.0 and their larger Virtualization Management Initiative(vMAN). VMAN provides IT managers the freedom to deploy pre-installed, pre-configured solutions across heterogeneous computing networks and to manage those applications through their entire lifecycle.

Video interview with George Kurian, Vice President and General Manager of the Application Delivery Business Unit at Cisco (Part 1/2)

In this first part of our interview with George Kurian at Cisco’s headquarters we get to know how Cisco looks at Virtualization in the datacenter from three different sets of product capabilities: pervasive networking platforms, services and VFrame (provisioning and orchestration tools). From his position as the vice president and general manager of the Application Delivery Business Unit at Cisco, he sees the need for server virtualization to be complemented with virtualization capabilities in the network and explains how his teams are engineering the network to be a facilitator for all the virtues Virtualization brings. The goal for George’s data center technology group is to make the network aware of the new atomic unit in the data center: the Virtual Machine and no longer the physical server or port. He goes on pointing to the Nexus series and new introductions for the Catalyst series with capabilities to support some of these (r)evolutionary trends in the data center…

Video interview with Nick Van Der Zweep, Virtualization Director at HP (Part 3/4)

In this third part of our recent HP interview, Nick Van Der Zweep predicts Desktop Virtualization to be the next big tipping point in our industry. He adds this is one of the areas were HP is differentiating itself from IBM with a full desktop-to-data-center strategy.

“People like IBM are still struggling to catch up to that because they’ve got management systems for every platform that they have and trying to pull that together. That’s critically important to be able to see holistic view of the entire data center…â€

But also when it comes to flexible and usage-based data center pricing models and cloud computing, Nick claims HP is a pioneer with clients such as Dreamworks, rendering their movies on HP’s excess infrastructure.

The Opsware acquisition is referred to often in this interview when it comes to HP offering the full broad enterprise management software and configuration management

Video interview with Nick Van Der Zweep, Virtualization Director at HP (Part 1/4)

In this first part of our lengthy video interview (4 parts) with Nick Van Der Zweep, Director for Virtualization at HP, we get introduced to how HP defines virtualization as flowing computing resources around and how this drops your costs and increases agility from desktop virtualization to data center virtualization and storage.

Amazon Loves CloudStatus, And We’ve Got The Proof on Video

At the O’Reilly Velocity conference we attended last month, Hyperic was there to hype the launch of Cloudstatus, which aspires to become the monitoring tool for cloud providers. Get the lowdown on Hyperic and CloudStatus in this video (two parts) from Jon Travis (Principal Engineer) and Xavier Soltero (co-founder and CEO).

Rich Wolski on Eucalyptus: Open Source Cloud Computing (Video Interview - 2/2)

We have sent our enthusiastic cloud computing koala Toon Vanagt to San Francisco to interview Eucalyptus Director Rich Wolski at the O’Reilly Velocity conference. You can find the second part of this exclusive video interview right here.