Alan Robin, CEO, Xangati The barriers have been removed, and we’re already off and running in 2012. Out of the starting gate, virtualization is no longer the dark horse but a recognized favorite, with growing acceptance and opportunities. Forty percent of servers overall have been virtualized, and Gartner projects that number to grow to 75% by 2015 (Gartner Magic Quadrant Report, June 2011). Further, virtualization is finally being acknowledged as a strategic business asset. As expressed in a Network World 2012 Outlook: “The days of tactical deployments are done; be strategic.” But making virtualization a sure thing requires performance management,
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Jagan Jagannathan, Founder and CTO, Xangati You’ve heard us talk at length about how Xangati solutions help drive virtualization initiatives, giving the confidence to migrate LOB applications and extend virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) initiatives. With the clarity provided through our VI and VDI solutions, administrators can take the next step in data center virtualization – whatever that step might be for their particular business. They can do so confidently, knowing that our state-of-the-art monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities allow them to quickly identify and resolve performance issues. Successful virtualization means that businesses can fully capitalize their technology investment – which often
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David Messina, VP Marketing and Product Management, Xangati Are you trying to extend a virtualization initiative? Looking for a way to gain the confidence that you—and management—need to virtualize a particular line of business (LOB) application? Well, Xangati has a real-world virtualization success story about a company—that went from 60 to 98 percent virtualized in less than 3 months flat—that might be of interest to you. Resources for Human Development (RHD) is a national non-profit with 4,500 employees. Ahead of the times for most non-profits of its type, RHD embraced the concept of virtualization while still in its infancy—understanding the
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Alan Robin, CEO, Xangati At the start of the year, I proclaimed Xangati’s 2011 New Year’s resolution—to obliterate virtualization stall. Now that we’re about midway through the year, I’d like to check in and give you a quick update on how we’re doing. In business, strategists often talk about boosting company performance one customer at a time. Well, at Xangati, we focus on accelerating your virtualization initiatives—one installation at a time—by removing the obstacles that create virtualization stall. Since Xangati is actually averaging over 10 installations a day, we’re currently removing these obstacles at an even brisker pace! In fact,
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Steve Rodgers, Marketing Communications Manager, Xangati Congratulations to Dario Gnaccarini from SIDIN (www.sidin.it) for winning a Xangati VDI Dashboard! Dario was one of many, many entries we received that simply registered for a free trial of our newest product and was lucky enough to be the winner. Even though we can only have one winner, every person that entered still benefitted by seeing the first solution to comprehensively track all key infrastructure components that affect VDI performance. The Xangati VDI Dashboard gives Dario—and all the entrants— live, continuous, to-the-second visibility across all silos: clients, desktops, networks, servers, storage and applications
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David Messina, VP Marketing and Product Management, Xangati With TV shows about emergency room doctors, police detectives, advertisers, lawyers, and broadcasters—just to name a few—Hollywood has yet to produce one centered on IT. With the transformation of the data center, the timing is ripe for a sitcom on the VDI administrator. Xangati has seen some things in the VDI that are harder to believe than something you could invent—proving once again that fact is stranger than fiction. Consider the following ‘VDI’ components: You’ve got conflict through a seismic disruption. You’re being asked to implement and manage secure user access to
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Steve Rodgers, Marketing Communications Manager, Xangati It’s been just over a week since Tech Field Day #5 (TFD5) and the reviews on Xangati’s presentation and product are starting to post. Here are just a few Xangati mentions from the event’s delegates: Tom Hollingsworth wrote in his review: “I think they’ve got the right idea to get the information to you when you need it the most.” Sean Clark took a different approach in his post by comparing Xangati to Skynet. Proving that blogging on serious topics such as virtualization management can be fun. Singling out one key Xangati feature, he
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Alan Robin, CEO, Xangati I’m back in the office after a whirlwind trip to Orlando last week for the VMware Partner Exchange (PEX). Meanwhile, it sounds like the home team has had their plates full as a sponsor for Gestalt IT’s Tech Field Day #5! Whew—February has been a busy month, and there’s still more to come! WMware’s PEX was an excellent opportunity to meet with some of our existing partners and to start building foundations for new relationships. My schedule was jam-packed with meetings—all of them valuable and informative. Some of what we’ve predicted for this year is coming
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Jagan Jagannathan, Founder and CTO, Xangati We’re already in the second month of the New Year, and Xangati is as busy as ever. Next up on our agenda is something I am truly excited about—Gestalt IT’s Tech Field Day #5—being held on February 10 and 11 in Silicon Valley. If you haven’t heard of these events—now going on their second year—they are really something special, and Steve Foskett deserves credit for his extraordinary vision in coming up with the concept. Tech Field Day is an IT forum designed to bring independent thought leaders and cutting edge technology providers together as
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Steve Rodgers, Marketing Communications Manager, Xangati Healthcare organizations have been successful at deploying virtualization – but only after getting the visibility to identify the root-cause problems that virtualization was being blamed for. Watch this chalk talk to learn how several healthcare organizations successfully delivered high ROI from virtualizing servers, patient care interoperability applications and virtual desktops.
