It’s almost time to wave goodbye to 2009. It was an amazing year for ExtraHop. As for the broader world of IT, 2009 was packed with major news stories that will have significant impact, even years down the road. So here’s our recap list, for the biggest IT stories of 2009.
Came across an interesting survey today on the state of the virtualization market. For the longest time, VMware has enjoy an ironclad lock in this space. That might be changing, according to a survey by a market research firm called TheInfoPro.
When it comes to network and application management, the performance gap between average and best-in-class companies is staggering. How well does your company perform, and what best practices can you adopt from leaders in IT?
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Forget the 2012 Mayan calendar apocalypse, IT has something more real to worry about that year. My co-worker Dave brought this to my attention: a Times Online article cites a Nemertes Research report that warns about the web reaching a critical point in terms of bandwidth. The hypothesis is that high-bandwidth content sites like Youtube and general internet growth and user demand will outstrip available bandwidth, “rendering the internet an ‘unreliable toy’.” What was interesting to me was that the article used a medical example, just like my blog post from the other day, citing that the internet might become “useless” for delivering “medical records between hospitals in real time”.
VMware made a big splash yesterday with the launch of VSphere, the new “cloud operating system”. The idea is that any enterprise IT department can leverage VSphere to build a private cloud and scale up VMs on-demand, based on business needs. A number of performance improvements were made, supporting impressive numbers like supporting 1 giant computing pool with “32 physical servers and 2,048 processing cores, 1,280 virtual machines (VM), 32TB of RAM, 16 petabytes of storage and 8,000 network ports”.
It’s apparently a 2-part launch, with the automated management capabilities coming sometime in the fall. We’ll be very interested in seeing what management features are coming in that release. As we’ve discussed in previous blog posts, the success or failure of a cloud or virtualization project is closely related to manageability, performance and delivery assurance, the main themes for this blog. Read more on Moving Towards the Private Cloud…
