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Server Virtualization 101 Video

Thursday Apr 05, 2007

Nice little introductory video to server virtualization . . .

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Posted at 03:16PM Apr 05, 2007 by Daniel Raskin in Sun
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Systems Management 2.0

Sunday Mar 11, 2007

This is my first official blog entry of what I hope to be many.

For those that don't know me, I'm a software marketing wonk working in Sun's Connected Systems Network team. CSN (which always makes me think of Crosby, Stills & Nash) is a newly formed group that consists of Sun's systems management software including Sun Connection, N1 System Manager, N1 Service Provisioning System and Sun Management Center. I've been working on this portfolio of products since September and as I learn more and more I become increasingly excited about the opportunity to do something innovative and industry changing for our customers.

An area that I am particularly interested is the concept of Systems Management 2.0. Michael Coté from Red Monk has an interesting blog entry and draft presentation that he posted back in Septemeber that compares Systems Management 2.0 companies to "The Big 4." I love the focus on collaborative systems management. I've been spending a lot fo time thinking about how to blend the systems management 2.0 focus of collaboration and accessibility with the enterprise focus of scale and breadth. To do this, I've been trying to think less like a traditional systems management vendor and more like a consumer-oriented web 2.0 company such as Flickr Maps. Jonathan discussed in his blog our first experiment to adopt some web 2.0 concepts to the systems management space with our geotagged world map of registered Solaris deployments. Imagine if customers had access to this to navigate to a deeper level of detail regarding their datacenters or if they could use this for reporting to their internal management?

What other great services are out there that you think should be adapted to the systems management space?

Look forward to the responses!

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