Virtualized all the way to my desktop
Among the many email responses to my Splunk for VMware blog post, several were from people deploying thousands of virtual desktops in their environment, wondering how to get enough visibility to be able to troubleshoot user issues. Will Hayes started working on this virtualization problem a few months ago, for Citrix Xendesktop and his blog describes the deep levels of visibility our Splunk for XenDesktop solution provides.
We’re showcasing this solution at Microsoft Management Summit this week and are pretty excited to see the levels of interest and enthusiasm around this new solution. For those who are running VMware View, we don’t have a solution yet, but can provide some (hopefully helpful) pointers.
VMware View consists of…
Largest SplunkLive yet hits the Nation’s Capital featuring IT Gurus from The Washington Post and Federal Agencies
More than 200 people joined us last week in Washington, DC for our largest SplunkLive ever–doubling the number of attendees from the 2009 SplunkLive DC event! Representatives from great companies like BAE, Comcast, Lockheed Martin, McAfee, Qwest Communications, Verizon and representatives from nearly every branch of Federal government were in attendance.
Splunk’s Co-Founders Erik Swan and Rob Das started the day detailing why they created Splunk. Everyone knew there was value in IT data, but the way to search and understand it was complex and troublesome. Google was great for easily and logically finding information on the World Wide Web. Why not apply the same thinking to our log files and IT data? And…
Splunk your VMware environment
Have you ever received a call from one of your users saying, “My application is running too slow – I want a real server, not a virtual one?” or how about a call saying, “All my virtual machines just got powered off! “. As the administrator for your VMware environment, your job is a tough one. You know your environment is really stable and VMware is saving you lots of cash … and yet, your users tend to turn around and blame virtualization for their problems. Some of these problems are real and many of them imaginary. Wouldn’t it be great to know about problems in your hypervisor before they happen? How about reporting on historical data so people have…
Chad’s Army
I stumbled upon this unexpected post from Chad Sakac of EMC talking about the VMware/EMC/Cisco collaboration.
For anyone who has spent their career on the start-up track in Silicon Valley this is not a novel story.
Isn’t it fantastic to see some large companies still have the mojo of entrepreneurship and fast moving initiatives that survive outside of the normal organizational structure?
While it remains to be seen how successful VCE, Acadia and Vblock will be, it sure is exciting to have the industry talking about radically new approaches to simplify computing! Here is a great post summarizing Vblock from Mark Bowker @ Enterprise Strategy Group. Now if we can only get access to that…
