{"id":4328,"date":"2010-04-02T14:37:14","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T20:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/2010\/04\/02\/virtualappliances\/"},"modified":"2010-04-02T14:37:14","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T20:37:14","slug":"virtualappliances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/2010\/04\/02\/virtualappliances\/","title":{"rendered":"Running and Managing Virtual Appliances &#8211; Recorded Panel Discusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago I was part of a panel discussion with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.groundworkopensource.com\/\">GroundWork Open Source<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.novell.com\">Novell<\/a> about using and managing virtual appliances. It was a &#8220;live podcast&#8221; (a recorded webinar) and the recording is now up. You can have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.groundworkopensource.com\/resources\/webcasts\/managing-virtual-appliances.html\">a listen here if you&#8217;re interested<\/a> (also from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogtalkradio.com\/gwos2\/2010\/03\/10\/running-and-managing-virtual-appliances-in-production\">here<\/a>). It was fun talking about the uses, strategies, and benefits for virtual appliance use.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the panel participants and summary:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Panelists:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.novell.com\/prblogs\/?author=27\">Matt Richards<\/a>, Director, Emerging Technology Marketing, Novell<\/li>\n<li>Michael Cote, Analyst, Redmonk<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/simonpbennett\">Simon Bennett<\/a>, Sr. Dir. of Product Management, GroundWork Open Source<\/li>\n<li>[And <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/davidpdennis\">David Dennis<\/a> who MC&#8217;ed the event]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Virtual appliances can make life a whole lot easier for IT managers. And with their increased use in production IT and cloud settings, our panel of experts will discuss:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Benefits of using virtual appliances vs traditional deployments.<\/li>\n<li>Most popular types of virtual appliances.<\/li>\n<li>Trends in virtualization adoption.<\/li>\n<li>How to monitor and manage virtual appliances.<\/li>\n<li>Performance tuning virtual appliances.<\/li>\n<li>Migrating virtual appliances to and from the cloud.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>There&#8217;s also a Q&amp;A at the end.<\/p>\n<p><b>Disclosure:<\/b> GroundWork Open Source is a client.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Panel discussion on dealing with virtual appliances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,34],"tags":[330,550,809],"class_list":["post-4328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcasts","category-systems-management","tag-groundwork-open-source","tag-novell","tag-virtual-appliances"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}