Virtualization News Desk
Future Proofing Virtualization Management for Heterogeneous Environments
Hyper9's CTO, Dave McCroy, to Present at SYS-CON's Virtualization Conference & Expo
Jul. 16, 2008 08:00 AM
Analysts
estimate 80 percent of today’s virtualized environments run on VMware
technology. However, that landscape will shift over the next 12 to 18 months as
more powerful processors, competing hypervisors, virtual desktop infrastructure
(VDI) and cloud computing take hold. Virtualization management will need to
address heterogeneous environments that combine any number of different
software and infrastructure platforms.
On the technology front, several things have happened. The AMD-V and Intel-VT
processors have added virtualization extensions to the x86 server architecture
that have removed much of the performance overhead incurred by emulation and
also removed many of the barriers of entry into the hypervisor market.
XenSource, now owned by Citrix, has seen its open source hypervisor technology
accepted into the Linux kernel and adopted by open source leaders Novell and
Red Hat. Microsoft’s Hyper-V is closer to becoming a reality, and VDI is more
prevalent.
With more products aimed at more market segments, the hypervisor market will
shift. European governments, which are mandated to use open source products,
will adopt the Xen hypervisor. Microsoft-reliant SMBs will stay with Hyper-V;
while enterprise IT will continue to embrace VMware. Many organizations will
find themselves managing a combination of all three. Cloud computing will
abstract these heterogeneous virtual environments even further.
Today, most virtualization management applications are either built on top of
yesterday’s physical server management technology or designed to mimic VMware
VirtualCenter. Neither approach will work in the long run. Virtualization
management software is better off being designed from the ground up rather than
simply trying to retrofit a dynamic environment into a static management
application.
In this session Hyper9 CTO Dave McCrory will discuss the technologies and
events that are transforming homogenous virtual environments into heterogeneous
virtual environments as well as what must change with virtual management
software in order to tame heterogeneous virtual environments.
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Speaker Bio: Dave McCrory is CTO of Hyper9. He has been
working with virtualization technology for nearly a decade, including the
VMware ESX Server and Microsoft Virtual Server since Alpha states. At Hyper9,
he is responsible for developing the business and technical strategy as the
company prepares to deliver tomorrow’s virtualization management software.
A seasoned executive and entrepreneur, McCrory is a published author,
co-writing the book, “Advanced Server Virtualization: VMware and Microsoft in
the Virtual Data Center,”
and holds several patents based on data center management and virtualization
technologies.
Conference Faculty - A Who's Who of
Virtualization Technology Rock Stars!
International Virtualization Conference & Expo faculty alumni include such
notable speakers as: Bret Adam (rPath), Deepak Alur (JackBe), Theo Beack (BEA
Systems), Kevin Brown (Kidaro), Donato Buccella (Certeon), Bob Buffone
(Nexaweb), David Christian (MindBridge), Jonathan Clark (Thinstall), Ariel
Cohen (Xsigo Systems), Andrew Conte (APC), Simon Crosby (Citrix Systems), Kurt
Daniels (Parallels), Sujil Das (Mellanox Technologies), Kevin Epstein (Scalent
Systems), Shai Fultheim (ScaleMP), Rick German (Stoneware), Dror Gill (Ceedo),
Ravi Gururaj (VMLogix), Matthew Haynos (IBM), Stephen Herrod (VMware), Arthur
Hitomi (Endeavors Technologies), Gordon Jackson (DataSynapse), Peter Jensen
(Thinstall), Steve Kaplan (AccessFlow), David Kleidermacher (Green Hills
Software), Madhur Kohli (Levanta), Brian Korn (Scalent Systems), Gary Lamb
(AccessFlow), Rich Lechner (IBM), Matt Lee (Neocleus), Victoria Livschitz (Grid
Dynamics), Bob Lozano (Appistry), Peter Manca (Egenera), Andi Mann (EMA), Jerry
Melnick (Marathon Technologies), Mark Milligan (VirtualLogix), Shridhar Mittal
(iTKO), Hezi Moore (Reflex Security), Phil Morris (Sun Microsystems), Parviz
Peiravi (Intel), Geva Perry (GigaSpaces Technologies), Harry Petty (Brocade),
Stephen Pollack (PlateSpin), George Pradel (Vizioncore), Bob Quinn (3Leaf), Ben
Rudolph (Parallels), Bill Scarborough (VMware), John Stetic (PlateSpin), Brian
Stevens (Red Hat), Robert Steward (DataDirect), Allen Stewart (Microsoft),
Butch Villafor (Egenera), Roland Wartenberg (SAP), Matt Waxman (EMC
Corporation), Julian Weinstock (Desktone), Hubert Yoshida (Hitachi) and Kurt
Zieglar (SIMtone).
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Dynamics, IBM, InstallFree, Intel, Lazslo Systems, Mellanox Technologies,
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Security, RingCube, Skytap, Splunk, Stoneware and Xsigo Systems.
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January 26-27, 2009, London, England (www.Virtualization-Europe.co.uk)
The Most Distinguished Virtualization
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November 20-21, 2008 Conference San Jose, CA
SYS-CON’s upcoming “4th
International Virtualization Conference & Expo” faculty includes such
distinguished speakers as: Alex Bakman (VKernel), Michael Berman (Catbird),
Donato Buccella (Certeon), Reuven Cohen (Enomaly), Mike Feinberg (EMC), Joe
Fitzgerald (ManageIQ), Anup K. Ghosh (Secure Command), Patrick Harr (Nirvanix),
Mike Kemp (Liquid Computing), Lynn LeBlanc (FastScale), Jay Litkey (Embotics),
Billy Marshall (rPath), Dave McCroy (Hyper9), Mike Neil (Microsoft), Bob Quinn
(3Leaf), Kirill Sheynkman (Elastra Corporation), Javier Soltero (Hyperic), John
Suit (Fortisphere), Ratmir Timashev (Veeam), Thorsten von Eicken (RightScale),
Ed Walsh (Virtual Iron), Roland Wartenberg (SAP), John Whaley (MokaFive) and
Steve Wilson (Sun Microsystems).
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