Virtualization, end-user experience and the management conundrum

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Read full story Related News: Vizioncore unveils trio of freeware at VMworld Vendors flooded the VMworld show floor this week with their latest tools that add more management, security and control in a virtual environment. Managing storage as part of the virtual strategy Virtual systems management software maker Veeam updates backup and replication product to enable IT managers to better and more easily backup and restore virtual environments. Virtual systems management vendors gear up for VMworld Embotics and Surgient separately upgrade product suites to showcase at VMworld 2009 in San Francisco. Managing application performance in a virtual environment Xangati upgrades its AppMonitor suite to help enterprise IT managers better track application performance across a virtual environment down to the end-user desktop. New IT job: Virtual Infrastructure Architect IT departments adopting virtualization across IT domains such as network, servers, storage and desktops should consider creating a new position designed to address the technology at an enterprise level. No virtualization skills? Better get started Virtualization know-how is becoming a standard requirement across IT disciplines. Weighing the pros/cons of desktop virtualization Companies that have deployed virtual servers don't need to start from scratch for their desktop virtualization deployments, but there are a lot of new challenges to tackle. Virtualization cost savings hard to come by, Interop survey finds Network Instruments polls Interop Las Vegas 2009 attendees to learn more about how server virtualization impacts their environment. HP automates management of VMware, other virtualization systems HP upgraded software designed to reduce the manual tasks associated with managing VMware, other virtual environments. 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