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Vmware Wants to Reign Supreme August/September 2010 | Vol. 3 | No. 5 VirtualizationReview.com King of Clouds VMware wants to reign supreme. + VDI Update Acronis Backup & Recovery Q&A with Amir Sharif of Parallels Thethingwithdata:ifyoudon’t getinfrontofit,you’llsoonbe buried under it. To help you keep pace with your ever-increasing amounts of data, CDW’s storage specialistscanhelpyousimplifyyourstoragesystemsfor increased flexibility and optimization. We can assist you with everything from product recommendations to designing and implementing complete storagesolutions—including multi-tiered storagecomponents,deduplicationandvirtualizationtechnology.Noneedtoworry aboutyourdata;we’llkeepyouontopof it. VMware® vSphere™ IBM® System x3650 IBM System Storage™ Enterprise Plus M3 Rack-mount Server DS5020 Acceleration Kit1 $ .99 CALL FOR PRICING Single licenses available. 4743 License for 8 processors CDW 2051288 CDW 1863874 CALL FOR PRICING CDW 1753279 Hard drives sold separately Smarterdatastoragestartshere. 800.399.4CDW | CDW.com/infrastructure 1Requiresaminimumofone-yearsupportandsubscription(SaS)atthetimeofpurchase;callyourCDWaccountmanagerfordetails.Offersubject toCDW’sstandardtermsandconditionsofsale,availableatCDW.com.©2010CDWLLC VISIT VIRTUALIZATIONREVIEW.COM contents 16 “If you look at apples to apples, we come out actually lower on cost per application. Not only do we come out lower on cost per application, we can run more applications on a given server than any of our competition.” Raghu Raghuram, General Manager and VP, Server Business Unit, VMware Inc. The ease with which you deploy in the cloud is really a question of your implementation of applications. Every IT department is in a diff erent place with toolsets, management and automation. 29 AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2010 | VIRTUALIZATION REVIEW | VOL. 3, NO. 5 2 Online TOC COLUMNS 39 Ad/Edit Index 4 Hoard: BRUCE HOARD A Man of Many Hats UPFRONT 36 How-To Guy: DAVID DAVIS 6 Q&A Using VMware Go to Virtualize Servers Gratis Cloud Platforms for Service Providers 38 Everyday Virtualization: RICK VANOVER 10 Review Why I Like VirtualBox Acronis Backup & Recovery: Versatile Backup Package 40 Take 5: BRUCE HOARD Impressions of VMware 14 Review Catbird vSecurity: Product Suite Serves FEATURES Private, Public Clouds 16 VMware Wants to Reign Supreme VMware President and CEO Paul Maritz has bet the farm on cloud computing. 24 The Rapidly Expanding Universe of VDI One of the hottest virtualization markets to date is turning into a vendor free-for-all as a mixture of established and startup companies rush to stake their claims. 29 Virtualization Enables Cloud Computing How will your systems make the transition? We off er answers 1410 to seven questions about cloud migration. COVER ILLUSTRATION FROM SHUTTERSTOCK FROM ILLUSTRATION COVER VirtualizationReview.com | Virtualization Review | August/September 2010 | 1 VIRTUALIZATIONREVIEW.COM AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2010 ■ VOL. 3 ■ NO. 5 what’s online @virtualizationreview.com EDITORIAL STAFF Vice President, Editorial Director Doug Barney Editor in Chief Bruce Hoard Managing Editor Wendy Gonchar Citrix and Microsoft Associate Managing Editor Katrina Carrasco Citrix Associate Managing Editor Marti Longworth Target Enterprise Users COLUMNISTS Citrix Systems Inc. and Microsoft Bare-Metal David Davis built on their long-term Hypervisor Rick Vanover relationship with a new Beats ART STAFF agreement calling for each Creative Director Scott Shultz company to satisfy the desktop VMware Art Director Brad Zerbel and server virtualization Citrix Systems ONLINE/DIGITAL MEDIA requirements of enterprise users. Inc. won the race Editor, As Jeff rey Schwartz reports, the to bare-metal glory when it released VirtualizationReview.com Michael Domingo companys’ “V-Alliance” will provide its XenClient hypervisor in May, while Director, Online Media Becky Nagel Site Administrator Shane Lee combined sales, marketing and VMware Inc.—the fi rst to say it would Designer Rodrigo Muñoz technical resources to partners build such a client-side device— deploying the joint Microsoft dithered. As reported by John K. Waters, Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer and Citrix chief Mark Templeton called his XenDesktop product solutions. new product a “super-fast, bad-to- Learn more about this partnership the-bone” type 1 hypervisor. Learn President Henry Allain at VirtualizationReview.com/ more at VirtualizationReview.com/ Vice President, Publishing Matt N. Morollo Schwartz0810. Waters0810. Director, Marketing Michele Imgrund Online Marketing Director Tracy S. Cook Study Says Windows 7 President & Adoption Is Hot Trend Chief Executive Offi cer Neal Vitale A recent survey conducted among Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Offi cer Richard Vitale 200 American and Canadian IT Executive Vice President Michael J. Valenti organizations found that Senior Vice President, Abraham M. Langer Windows 7 is catching on in a big Audience Development way. Kurt Mackie writes that the & Digital Media Vice President, Christopher M. Coates Computer Economics study, Finance & Administration entitled “Technology Trends Vice President, Erik A. Lindgren Information Technology 2010/2011,” revealed that & Application Developement Vice President, Carmel McDonagh roughly a third of respondents Attendee Marketing have moved, or plan to move, to Vice President, Event Operations David F. Myers Windows 7. Read more at The Hoard Facts Chairman of the Board Jeff rey S. Klein VirtualizationReview.com/ Read Editor in Chief Bruce Hoard’s Mackie0810. Reaching the Staff blog at VirtualizationReview.com/ Staff may be reached via e-mail, telephone, fax, or mail. A list of editors and contact information is also available Hoard. Topics he has covered online at VirtualizationReview.com. lately include virtualization I/O, E-mail: To e-mail any member of the staff , please use the following form: [email protected] using virtualization to turn IT into Framingham Offi ce (weekdays, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. ET) Telephone 508-875-6644; Fax 508-875-6633 a profi t center, and the rise of data 600 Worcester Road, Suite 204, Framingham, MA 01702 management virtualization. Stay Irvine Offi ce (weekdays, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. PT) Telephone 949-265-1520; Fax 949-265-1528 on top of your game—check The 16261 Laguna Canyon Road, Suite 130, Irvine, CA 92618 Corporate Offi ce (weekdays, 8:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. PT) Hoard Facts daily for fresh insights Telephone 818-814-5200; Fax 818-734-1522 9201 Oakdale Avenue, Suite 101, Chatsworth, CA 91311 into the rapidly evolving The opinions expressed within the articles and other contents virtualization market. herein do not necessarily express those of the publisher. VirtualizationReview.com • Redmondmag.com • RCPmag.com • RedDevNews.com VisualStudioMagazine.com • MCPmag.com • CertCities.com • TCPmag.com • ENTmag.com RedmondEvents.com • ADTmag.com • ESJ.com 2 | August/September 2010 | Virtualization Review | VirtualizationReview.com ED NOTEHOARD how the company could directly support it. The VP’s name: Paul Maritz. More recently, McNaught exercised his creative side on two new products, PC Extender and Wyse Xenith. The idea for PC Extender, which converts a PC into a thin client, came in June 2009 after meetings in the fi eld with Bruce Hoard customers, partners and prospects. McNaught brought the concept to his engineers and collaborated with the product team on its The thin client was prototyped in cooperation with Citrix A Man of Many Hats and debuted at Comdex in November 1995. It was unveiled on Monday and Jeff McNaught has done a lot of interesting, fun stuff in the course of his IT career. He started his own software company, worked for won a “Best of Comdex” Radio Shack on the TRS-80, and during his 23 years at Wyse was award on Wednesday. co-developer of the fi rst Windows-based thin client that remains the model for all thin clients sold today. Currently, he’s chief marketing design, production and marketing, and after a and strategy offi cer at Wyse, a position that enables him to hop on a lengthy beta period, it was unveiled this May at plane, jot down some ideas on a few slides and then turn those ideas the Citrix Synergy conference. into a product. The genesis of Wyse Xenith came in late The thin-client prototype story is illustrative. It was 1994, and January of this year when McNaught hopped the PC was king. McNaught teamed up with Curt Schwebke— on that plane and started creating slides. currently the Wyse CTO—to produce a product that would enable Xenith is a “no-compromise” zero client that companies to recentralize PC applications. To many, this meant delivers new benefi ts to existing customers dethroning the king: Microsoft. In fact, when McNaught and moving to Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). Schwebke presented their idea to Wyse President Doug Chance, he McNaught took the idea to infl uential Citrix walked out of the meeting. employees and generated internal excitement Chance’s negative reaction to the thin client was not a confi dence with them. He also went to Richard Antuna, booster for McNaught, who recalls, “Oh yeah, back then there were Wyse senior VP of product management, many times when I walked back to my desk and said, ‘I am so fi red.’” business development and alliances, who joined Fortunately, Chance changed his mind: The thin client was forces with him to push the product through prototyped in cooperation with Citrix and debuted at Comdex design and engineering. Once Citrix President in November 1995. It was unveiled on Monday and won a “Best and CEO Mark Templeton gave his blessing of Comdex”
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