Links List 10.17.08

October 17th, 2008 by Julia Lim

Novell announced this week its intent to purchase Managed Objects. We really didn’t see this coming. Novell? Can’t quite figure out the master plan here. I mean, they said they’d acquire PlateSpin back in February which made a lot of sense for bridging the gap of physical to virtual and building out a management portfolio beyond ZENworks Orchestrator. But Managed Objects? CMDBs? In this economy? We have to think back to the survey [link to survey post] we just did at Interop NY and the low scores – on importance and actual deployments – that CMDBs got. When it comes to tightening the belt, CMDBs kinda fell off the list. We’ll be looking forward to future announcements to see how this plays out.

Martin MC Brown at ComputerWorld has a great post on capacity planning and cloud computing. He discusses a new book “The Art of Capacity Planning”. The problem with the current model of data center management is that often a large number of machines may sit relatively idle while waiting for the traffic spike that causes them to be used. This is a problem because it’s simply a waste of time and resources on a whole number of levels. Enter the cloud – or at least the “hope of cloud computing”.

Numbers – what do they really mean? IDC released a statement with a whole bunch of them from their “Worldwide Quarterly Server Virtualization Tracker”. The most interesting stat: x86 Virtualization License Market Standings. VMware owns 44% of the market, but Microsoft, in its first quarter of general availability for Microsoft Hyper-V (plus Virtual Server 2005), has 23% of the market of new shipments.

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October 17th, 2008