Episode 38: Accelerating Virtual Machines

Air Date: October 23, 2008

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At a Glance:
Server virtualization can easily be classified as among the most impactful changes to have occured in IT in recent years. Almost every organization of every size has found measurable benefit. New technologies bring new capabilities and new challenges that must be addressed as things mature. The real benefits are present only when one can go from simply virtualizing servers to actually virtualizing the infrastructure. Network virtualization has often been talked about as the most logical place to address current shortcomings but only now has this become a reality. The true benefits of mobility, visibility security, and a re-establishment of control over the network and its resources can now be realized.

Technical Workshop: November 6 @ 10 AM PST Title: Charge your Application Performance with WAAS Jimmy Ray dives deeper on WAAS advancements with TechWiseTV engineering favorite, Noam Syrkin

Segmentation:

Segment 1: The Pros and Cons of Virtualization

Top 5 Obstacles slowing down the benefits of Server Virtualization

Segment 2: Virtual Ports Eliminate Roadblocks

Guest: Dan Hersey, TME
More info from Doug Gourlay on the Cisco Data Center Blog - nice little video update from Barcelona
Nice write up from Colin McNamara

Segment 3: Application Acceleration Gets Virtualized

Guest: Noam Syrkin, TME "King of WAAS"
Windows on WAAS - great entry on our Data Center Blog

Segment 4: Virtualization Assessment, Planning, and Design Services

Guest: Dev Patel, Business Development Manager

At a Glance:
Server virtualization can easily be classified as among the most impactful changes to have occured in IT in recent years. Almost every organization of every size has found measurable benefit. New technologies bring new capabilities and new challenges that must be addressed as things mature. The real benefits are present only when one can go from simply virtualizing servers to actually virtualizing the infrastructure. Network virtualization has often been talked about as the most logical place to address current shortcomings but only now has this become a reality. The true benefits of mobility, visibility security, and a re-establishment of control over the network and its resources can now be realized.

In this episode, we will fully define, explore and diagram the:

• The benefits of server virtualization
• Specific challenges that must be overcome to accelerate those benefits beyond their current limitations
• Joint innovation from Cisco and VMware from over and above (as well as inside) the hypervisor layer
• Virtualization for application specific acceleration
• Acceleration of SSL

More Reading

• Cisco Data Center 3.0
• Virtualization 2.0: Beyond Server Consolidation
• WAAS and the Olympics
• www.cisco.com/go/dcservices
• Cisco's Next Big Bet (great article in Forbes)
• Not your Fathers VLAN (Network World)
• Windows on WAAS - great entry on our Data Center Blog
  

For more on WAAS, check out Episode 20 'Accelerating Applications' when Noam Syrkin 'first' appeared on TechWiseTV.