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Tom Parish
         

 

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"I think there is a lot of hardware on the floor of most data centers that is underutilized both on the server and the storage side,"says Mark Settle.

How is the credibility of your IT organization among your R & D colleagues? Are you able to deliver what they need on time, every time? How well are you using your server inventory across locations? Are you looking to reduce your footprint in your server room, lower maintenance and labor costs, while better using your existing server space?

 

Join us as we talk with Mark Settle, Chief Information Officer at BMC Software, and find out how BMC's own virtualization project helped the company became even more responsive to business needs, while reducing costs and increases productivity.

 

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Bio

 

Mark Settle is the Chief Information Officer at BMC Software. Mark joined BMC in June 2008. He has served as the CIO of four Fortune 300 companies: Corporate Express, Arrow Electronics, Visa International, and Occidental Petroleum. He is a former Air Force officer and NASA Program Scientist.

 

 

Questions

 

  • What else was unique about this, especially as compared to what you've done in the past?
  • When you first started the project, how did you describe the goals to Senior Management? Did you end up meeting or exceeding their expectations, how did all that go?
  • Why didn't you think the 18 to 1 ratio was possible? What made it possible?
  • When we talk about the process of configuring these new tools for improvement and productivity of the virtual servers, is there a kind of cookbook approach that will work? Does it have to be totally unique for every situation?
  • So stepping back, what was the learning curve like?
  • What are some of the key things you learned along the way? Were there some unexpected benefits?

 

Resources

 

BMC Industry Insights: Uncover the Benefits of Virtualization (pdf)

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Tom Parish

"Customers are often using Cloud as a code word to refer to their next-generation data center efforts," says Herb VanHook

 

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Cloud computing is becoming more common, and a host of new technology is emerging out of public cloud providers. If you're thinking about cloud computing you may be asking yourself these quesitons:  What cloud computing model is right for your organization? What role does virtualization play in the cloud? How do BMC's management solutions fit in with cloud computing?  Join us as we talk with Herb VanHook for a lively discussion about cloud computing.


Bio

Herb VanHook, is Vice President of Business Planning, at BMC Software. Herb has held several key positions at META Group (most recently serving as Interim President and Chief Operating Officer), and has more than 30 years of experience in information technology, including senior positions at IBM, Computer Associates, and Legent Corporation.

Questions

  1. What are the various models for cloud computing?
  2. Is there anything really here, or is it mostly all marketing hype?
  3. I recently heard the term public cloud, what exactly is that, what would be the advantages of something like that?
  4. What are the advantages and disadvantages of this approach?
  5. What are enterprise IT organizations doing about cloud computing, what benefits are the looking for out of this?
  6. How are private clouds related to virtualization?
  7. You talked about hybrid cloud a little earlier. Let's talk more about that?
  8. Does BMC offer solutions for private cloud options?
  9. What solutions do customers require for hybrid cloud success?
  10. What can we expect from BMC in the future in this area?
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Tom Parish

"You need intelligence behind any kind of automation—a traffic light without intelligence behind it is just going to create traffic jams," says Dave Wagner.

 

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Dave Wagner

 

 

Capacity Management has long been viewed as a discipline for the mainframe to help control hardware costs. In today's environment—with a proliferation of servers and with distributed and virtual environments becoming more and more common—capacity management is even more relevant for all data centers and IT

 

We all want to optimize our existing IT investments and reduce operational costs, while maintaining performance and service-levels. While capacity management can certainly help organizations achieve these sometimes opposing goals, we can increase the likelihood of success by adopting a proven process.

 

Whether you have a formalized capacity management process in place—and the tools to get it done—or you simply recognize the need to get started with Capacity Management, the best-practices discussed in this podcast will help you to optimize the delivery of Capacity Management in your organization.

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Bio

David Wagner is Vice President of Sales and Marketing with Solution Labs, Inc, a strategic partner of BMC Software. Before joining Solution Labs, Dave was Director of Solutions Marketing at BMC software. Dave has more than 27 years of technology experience and background in performance analysis and optimization. His career-long goal has been to make technology as efficient as possible by helping customers optimize their performance and capacity.

 

Resources

Economic Challenge and Capacity Management, White Paper by David Wagner of Solution Labs, Inc. (PDF)

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Tom Parish

"I don't think cloud computing will take over everything ..." says whurley

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Is cloud computing going to take over the data center as we know it? Are you thinking about the cloud as a means to achieve greater flexibility, with lower complexity and less hands-on time with configuration management? Will writing scalable applications be a thing of the past? If that's your current train of thought maybe it's time for some down-to-earth thinking.

 

Join us as we talk about cloud computing with whurley, chief architect of open source strategy at BMC Software. Listen in as whurley discusses some of the benefits of cloud computing as well as cracks open a few myths, discusses how cloud computing currently fits into the data-center picture, and talks about some of the newer open source players in the cloud.

 

Bio

whurley (William Hurley) is the chief architect of open source strategy at BMC Software, Inc. Also known as "whurley," he is responsible for creating BMC's open source agenda and overseeing the company's participation in various free, and open source software communities to advance the adoption and integration of BSM solutions. A technology visionary and holder of 11 important patents, whurley brings 16 years of experience in developing groundbreaking technology. He is the chairman of the Open Management Consortium, a non-profit organization advancing the adoption, development, and integration of open source systems management. Named as an IBM Master Inventor, whurley has received numerous awards including an IBM Pervasive Computing Award and Apple Computer Design Award.

Questions

  1. Will traditional enterprises embark on Cloud computing anytime soon? How does this contrast with the hype that Cloud will take over the entire computing model?
  2. Does cloud computing add another level of complexity on the management side of things? What are the trade offs?
  3. How about this, just because you move your apps to a cloud, doesn't mean you don't need configuration management. Is that true or not?
  4. I heard Ubuntu is getting into open source cloud computing. What do you think of that?
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