Exclusive Q&A

IBM & Cloud Computing: Exclusive Q&A

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:00:00 EDT

The IT industry is faced with a complexity and affordability crisis – explosive information growth, heavily interconnected and interdependent systems, on average 70% of IT spending going to maintenance, low utilization of resources driving up fixed cost, energy consumption becoming an ever bigger drain on budgets. At the same time, business needs for flexibility and responsiveness continue unabated. Bring this together with advances in technology, from service orientation, automation and service management to virtualization, and you have a perfect storm.

We Will Make the Cloud Hype a Reality: VMware CTO

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 07:00:00 EDT

"There's a lot of hype over cloud computing, but we're confident that we will have the tools to make the hype a reality and help enterprises leverage this new computing model for all of their applications and with their management and security concerns addressed," says VMware CTO Steve Herrod in this Exclusive Q&A with Cloud Computing Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan .

"Virtualization Is Now a Key Strategic Theme," Says Citrix CTO

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:00:00 EDT

'Virtualization is already widely used, but primarily for the first-order benefit, namely server consolidation,' notes Citrix CTO Simon Crosby, in this Exclusive Q&A with Virtualization Journal. 'The second-order benefits of agility, availability and manageability of the IT stack are now becoming better understood,' Crosby continues, 'and as a consequence virtualization has moved from a tactical tool for gaining immediate savings, to become a key strategic theme for every IT department.'

Managing the Virtual Infrastructure Is Crucial: VKernel CEO

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 04:30:00 EST

"Properly managing the virtual infrastructure will have a huge impact on pushing more virtualization projects forward," declares Alex Bakman, Founder & CEO of VKernel, in this Exclusive Q&A with SYS-CON's Virtualization Journal. "Organizations need visibility into how resources are being utilized not only for current planning, but also for what is next," Bakman adds.

Virtualization: A Promising and Justifiable Investment

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 06:00:00 EST

"There is a shift in focus and it is from technologies that enable virtualization to technologies that manage virtualization," says Bala Murugan, Chief Architect at eG Innovations, in this Exclusive Q&A with SYS-CON's Virtualization Journal. Overall, according to Murugan, virtualization is a promising and justifiable investment, particularly in the current economic downturn.

Beyond Virtualization to the Reliable, Dynamic Data Center

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 06:30:00 EST

"When coupled with network and storage virtualization, virtual machines offer sophisticated forms of high availability, disaster recovery, and service migration across all forms of platforms," says Christine Crandell, Executive VP and Chief Marketing Officer for Egenera in this Exclusive Q&A with SYS-CON's Virtualization Journal. "When managed together, these new levels of abstraction will enable true utility computing, 'cloud' style elastic compute services, and forms of IT services that are fully driven by business priorities rather than technical convenience."

"Virtualization Power Panel" to Present Top Virtualization CTOs Live on SYS-CON.TV

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 13:00:00 EDT

Citrix CTO Simon Crosby, Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens, Egenera CTO Pete Manca are among the top industry executives joining Jeremy Geelan in the famous 4th Floor Reuters Studio overlooking Times Square for a special SYS-CON.TV 'Virtualization Power Panel' to be recorded on the eve of SYS-CON's 3rd International Virtualization Conference & Expo being held 23-24 June 2008 in New York City.