...Microsoft and VM Solutions for virtual Computing Denyze McRae NT1210 Week 5 Essay Virtual Computing With the virtual world of computing transcending to the cloud, endless possibilities await who ever reaches the top first. Microsoft and VMware are competing to provide the virtual community with the best product. VMware is using the vSphere5 Enterprise Edition to combat the Windows Hyper-V3 Server 8, and does a very good job at that. Microsoft has taken huge steps in competition with VMware’s productivity and features. In many cases Microsoft has met VMware solutions and has possibly surpassed the competition, and at a more affordable price. However it is in VMware’s advantage that they have been well established in this area of expertise; however Windows is becoming the way of the future and is certainly one to bargain with. Microsoft Microsoft’s cloud computing solution helps customers meet their current and future IT challenges. The infrastructure of Microsoft cloud computing provides more choice and flexibility through options of either private or public cloud model depending on which one fits their requirements. Microsoft also offers comprehensive end-to-end management, and free cloud accelerator solutions with valuable out-of-box functionality. As result, Microsoft cloud computing helps companies increase how quickly they can respond to changes in their business environment and how effectively they can manage...
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...with Microsoft and VMware solutions. It’s almost like a similar rivalry as in Ford versus Chevrolet or Joe Frazier versus Mahammad Ali in the bout of the century. Both are very competitive and defiantly have something to fear from one another. The battle for server virtualization and cloud computing markets is at hand and either entity is giving up without a fight. VMware has been an extremely difficult company to beat when it comes to things such as stability, security and overall market share. Microsoft likes to show off its Heterogeneous hypervisor management capability where as VMware V Center lacks basic management functions for vSphere environments. VSphere host, resource pools and storage and networking are some examples. VMware also has an advantage over Microsoft by advising people that SCvMM requires vCenter Server to manage vSphere environments, which results in much higher cost and complex processes and procedures. VMare has had technology speak as its own voice while challenging Microsoft’s Hyper-V hypervisor which is becoming very competitive and becoming a new and rising threat in the server virtualization market. VMware solutions know that by now it is the time for them to act in order for them to maintain their competitive place in the market. So Which one of these are better? Bogomil Balkansky Vice president of product marketing, Virtualization and Cloud Platform at VMware product marketing, Virtualization and Cloud Platform at VMware states that vSphere...
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...Cloud Resources Vs In-House Deployment (focusing on windows Azure) University Affiliation Student Name Course Code Date Cloud Resources Vs In-House Deployment (focusing on windows Azure) Cloud resources have gained substantial popularity in the recent past owing to its autonomy and the hype of providing instant data management solutions no matter where an individual may be, (GFI Software, 2010). Several factors must be considered when deciding on what type of system will be used to handle the various classes of data within an organization. Data security is key feature; the system settled upon must ensure that the data is safe at all times whether at rest on the server, in transit or while being authenticated, (Bills, et al., 2012). The cost implications of the system to be adopted should be favorable and not compromise the data security for the affordability feature. Cloud resources offer a very lucrative deal to organizations because they will not need to invest on new infrastructure (servers), no software licensing fees, and all the hard work is done by a third party agency, (Cisco, 2012). Designing a cloud system to handle organizational data is an elaborate process that requires consideration of several issues because the cloud has more potential risks that local storage. For instance, a third party protects the data stored in the cloud and there is a possibility of intruders breaking into the server and causing harm, (Jansen & Grance, 2011). In that case, the law...
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...1. Heterogeneous Systems Support Not only should cloud management solutions leverage the latest hardware, virtualization and software solutions, but they should also support a data center's existing infrastructure. While many of the early movers based their solutions on commodity and open source solutions like general x86 systems running open source Xen and distributions like CentOS, larger service providers and enterprises have requirements around both commodity and proprietary systems when building out their clouds. Additionally, cloud management providers must integrate with traditional IT systems in order to truly meet the requirements of the data center. Companies that don't support technologies from the likes of Cisco, Red Hat, NetApp, EMC, VMware and Microsoft will fall short in delivering a true cloud product that fits the needs of the data center. 2. Service Management To productize the functionality of cloud computing, it is important that administrators have a simple tool for defining and metering service offerings. A service offering is a quantified set of services and applications that end users can consume through the provider — whether the cloud is private or public. Service offerings should include resource guarantees, metering rules, resource management and billing cycles. The service management functionality should tie into the broader offering repository such that defined services can be quickly and easily deployed and managed by the end user. 3. Dynamic...
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...2014 Hybrid cloud 2014 Hybrid cloud Introduction A hybrid cloud is a cloud computing environment in which an organization provides and manages some resources in-house and has others provided externally. For example, an organization might use a public cloud service, such as Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) for archived data but continue to maintain in-house storage for operational customer data. Market Survey According to Forrester study, hybrid model of implementing IaaS is particularly enticing for US and European enterprises. 28% of hardware decision-makers report using a hybrid cloud strategy for server resources today, and nearly half predict that they will have workloads in both traditional/on-premises and hosted/service provider cloud environments by 2016. This new architecture will bring unfamiliar challenges, as IT works to integrate resources and workloads in their data centers with those at a cloud service provider. Having infrastructure resources at two locations connected via the network creates need for a whole new level of integrated visibility, management, and orchestration. Hybrid cloud architectures let firm’s provision capacity for typical workload needs and use cloud service provider capacity for demand spikes. This saves them from having to purchase mostly idle peak server capacity for peak needs, such as an extra 50% for end of quarter financial closing or 10x capacity for web marketing flash crowds. And firms only pay for the capacity...
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...white pAper: cloud Securit y Securing the Cloud for the Enterprise A Joint White Paper from Symantec and VMware White Paper: Cloud Security Securing the Cloud for the Enterprise for A Joint White Paper from Symantec and VMware Contents Executive summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.0 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Enterprise computing trends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Transitions in the journey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Evolving threat and compliance landscape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 A security strategy for the cloud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2.0 Key elements of cloud security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
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...Week 9 Chapter 13 and 14 Assignment #3 Eddie L. Rhoden Instructor: Dr. Janet Durgin CIS 512 May 31, 2012 Kerberos security model: Kerberos is a security protocol invented by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for computer networks. Using key encryption, Kerberos allows both client and server to mutually verify each other's identity in order to safely transfer data over an otherwise unsecured connection. Since its inception, Kerberos has gained the acceptance of numerous major entities and continues to grow. When a user logs in, an authentication service verifies the user's identity and grants an encrypted ticket, which contains identification credentials (such as a randomly-created session key) and only works for a limited time of eight hours. A user decrypts the ticket with his password and the credentials are stored in the user's cache to gain access to the intended service. Once the time is up, the user will have to log in once again and request a new ticket. The ticket is destroyed when a user logs out. Compared to a firewall, which offers protection from outside attacks but limits the actions a user can perform, Kerberos allows a user to continue to safely operate over an unsecured connection by encrypting the data transfer without limiting a user's abilities. Because Kerberos requires mutual client and server verification, it prevents phishing by keeping malicious entities from posing as the server and...
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...Business Agility and the True Economics of Cloud Computing B u s i n e s s W H iTe PA P e R Business Agility and the True Economics of Cloud Computing Executive Summary New groundbreaking global survey findings demonstrate the true value of cloud computing to the business. While it is understood in the industry that cloud computing provides clear cost benefits, CIOs are having difficulty getting a true fix on the business value that cloud might offer beyond cost reduction. These survey results reveal a direct link between cloud computing and business agility—how business outcomes are associated with agility, the role of IT for agile companies and the importance of cloud computing to business leaders. value to the enterprise. It shows that the hype around cloud computing is maturing into facts about what cloud can really deliver to both IT and the business. Game-changing CIOs think business transformation first, then how technology enables it. They are the ones strategizing with their CEOs and other business leaders to look beyond simple cost calculations to the business agility that cloud computing can enable. Defining Business Agility Business agility is the ability of a business to adapt rapidly and cost-efficiently in response to changes in the business environment. According to McKinsey & Company, the leading global management consulting firm, the benefits of agility include faster revenue growth, greater and more lasting cost reduction, and more effective...
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...mainframe hardware by logically partitioning them into virtual machines. These partitions will allow mainframe computers to perform multiple tasks and applications at the same time.. During the 1980s and 1990s, desktop computing and x86 servers become available and so the virtualization technology was discarded eventually. Client-server applications and the emergence of Windows and Linux made server computing significantly inexpensive. However, new challenges has surfaced which includes high maintenance and management cost, high infrastructure cost, and insufficient failure and disaster protection that lead to the invention of virtualization for x86 platform. VMWare invented virtualization for the x86 architecture in the 1990s to address the above mentioned problems. In 1999, VMW are introduced a virtualization solution...
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...Strayer University Assignment 3: Virtualization Across the Board Dennis R. Roque CIS512: Advanced Computer Architecture Professor Amir Afzal 4 March 2013 Table of Contents 1. Compare & contrast the AMP & SMP architectures 3 2. Determine if hardware virtualization helps businesses and organizations in terms of: 3 Cost management 3 Systems performance and scalability 4 Systems management and administration 4 3. Determine if software virtualization helps businesses and organizations in terms of: 4 Cost management 4 Systems performance and scalability 4 Systems management and administration 5 4. Compare and contrast VMware, Microsoft, and Citrix in terms of:…………………………………….5 Market adoption 5 Technical architecture 6 Technical support 8 5. Determine which vendor you would recommend for a virtualization strategy and explain why: 8 References:……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………9 1. Compare & contrast the AMP & SMP architectures While symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) plays an important role in multi-core systems, the packet processing performance curve in an SMP configuration can flatten after only a few cores, yielding diminishing returns as more system resources are allocated to networking tasks. Wind River’s asymmetric multiprocessing (AMP) technologies provide a clean separation of control plane and data plane functions, which enable greater efficiency of multiple processing cores. The data...
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...VMWARE, INC. FORMReport) 10-K (Annual Filed 02/28/11 for the Period Ending 12/31/10 Address Telephone CIK Symbol SIC Code Industry Sector Fiscal Year 3401 HILLVIEW AVENUE PALO ALTO, CA 94304 (650) 427-5000 0001124610 VMW 7372 - Prepackaged Software Software & Programming Technology 12/31 http://www.edgar-online.com © Copyright 2011, EDGAR Online, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Distribution and use of this document restricted under EDGAR Online, Inc. Terms of Use. Table of Contents UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 Form 10-K (Mark One) ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2010 OR TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 For transition period from to Commission File Number 001-33622 VMWARE, INC. (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter) Delaware (State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization) 3401 Hillview Avenue Palo Alto, CA (Address of principal executive offices) (650) 427-5000 (Registrant’s telephone number, including area code) Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act: Title of each class Name of each exchange on which registered Class A Common Stock, par value $0.01 New York Stock Exchange Securities registered pursuant to section 12(g) of the Act: None Indicate by a check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned...
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...Table of Contents I. Proposal a. Subject of Proposal b. Business Problem Statement c. Solutions d. Benefits e. Audience II. Milestone 1 a. Business Issues b. Benefits of Solving the Problem c. Business/Technical Approach d. Solution III. Milestone 2 a. Cloud Virtualization Vendor b. Value of Approach c. How to accomplish it IV. Milestone 3 a. Summary of Plan b. Overall Conclusion Proposal/ Problem Statement Going to the doctor’s office for an appointment can turn into a very long and tiresome affair. Upon arriving, you have to check in, only to wait in a very long line to put your name down. Next, comes the seemingly endless process of waiting to get your name called which often takes up to an hour on a busy day. Finally, after being taken to the examination room, there is yet another half hour wait. So, what ends up taking only about five minutes of the actual doctors time, leaves you with half the day gone. These issues of several different waiting periods are what many patients deal with and often lead to hesitation in actually making an appointment. The lackluster communications involved in this structure is what makes this a bad business to operate. Essentially, a doctor’s office is a business, and like any other business, customers are vital. However, in a fast moving society where the economy is struggling, time is money and many people do not have the luxury to sit and wait. These inefficient...
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...When it comes to Microsoft and VMware solutions for virtual computing there is several factors that make both different and yet similar at the same time.; however, when it comes to corporate use a lot of the times cost effectiveness is what makes or breaks the decision making as to which virtual computing system to go with. Which in the case of Microsoft and VMware Microsoft is the way to go since VMware’s systems are composed of components that make up their cloud solution; which in order to have an effective system one would need more of the components which would come at as part of a higher tie license which means more expenses. Looking at both from a functional perspective Microsoft and VMware offer private and public virtualization, both offer combined server, storage, networking, applications and operating system support. Microsoft hypervisors claim that management is compatible with VMware however; only to a certain degree and not very effective. It is possible to mix both which would offer the best of both worlds as far as features the only downside would be having to train personnel in both systems to be able to manage both interfaces. Microsoft utilizes windows familiarity when it comes to their systems minimizing the learning curve for staff to be able to operate this interface. Microsoft also allows better management for both physical and virtual environments enhancing the performance and workload. VMware’s Pros include allowing users to obtain more power from their...
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...Microsoft and VMware With the Microsoft Cloud OS vision, people get one consistent platform that goes beyond just virtualization, and includes management, automation, development platform, network, data, and identity. Microsoft offers a platform that supports peoples’ needs from bare metal up through applications and out to devices, including mission-critical workloads, from leading solution providers that include Microsoft, Oracle and SAP. People can choose the platform that's right for their entire business, and adapt as the needs of their business change. In-text reference: (Microsoft, 2014). Microsoft changes Hyper-V in each version, which creates a learning curve for IT staff with every new Windows release. In-text reference: (IT World, 2014) VMware has publically changed its product roadmaps several times over the last few years. VMware touts these changes as product evolution, but existing people are left behind with a product that might be unsupported or unfit for the future. VMware's approach is to virtualize everything, and other components like apps, management, identity, and data are viewed through that lens only, without true consideration for the benefits provided by cloud services like application portability, resiliency, and elasticity as well as a common identity platform. Unlike Windows Server and Azure, VMware is not certified and supported by Oracle. In-text reference: (Microsoft, 2014). With its 2 initial product launch in 2000, VMware has been...
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...When it comes to Microsoft and VMware solutions for virtual computing there is several factors that make both different and yet similar at the same time.; however, when it comes to corporate use a lot of the times cost effectiveness is what makes or breaks the decision making as to which virtual computing system to go with. Which in the case of Microsoft and VMware Microsoft is the way to go since VMware’s systems are composed of components that make up their cloud solution; which in order to have an effective system one would need more of the components which would come at as part of a higher tie license which means more expenses. Looking at both from a functional perspective Microsoft and VMware offer private and public virtualization, both offer combined server, storage, networking, applications and operating system support. Microsoft hypervisors claim that management is compatible with VMware however; only to a certain degree and not very effective. It is possible to mix both which would offer the best of both worlds as far as features the only downside would be having to train personnel in both systems to be able to manage both interfaces. Microsoft utilizes windows familiarity when it comes to their systems minimizing the learning curve for staff to be able to operate this interface. Microsoft also allows better management for both physical and virtual environments enhancing the performance and workload. VMware’s Pros include allowing users to obtain more power from...
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