Call for speakers – IndicThreads conference on Cloud Computing

IndicThreads, the Pune-based organization that is best known for its annual Java conference that happens in Pune, is now diversifying and holding conferences on other areas of technology. The next conference is on Cloud Computing, and will be held in Pune on 20 and 21st August.

The call for papers is out and the deadline for [...]

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Musings on why Cloud Computing will prevail…

Today’s post is a guest post by Suhas Kelkar. Suhas leads the Innovation & Incubation Lab at BMC Software India. Prior to BMC he was the Vice President of Product Management at Digite, an enterprise software company in the field of Project Portfolio Management. See his linked-in profile for details.

In the recent Hype Cycle for [...]

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Changing Landscape of Data Centers

Suhas Kelkar, the Head of Innovation & Incubation Lab at BMC Software India, highlights changing landscape of data centers. It draws the parallels with the web evolution and shows how data center 1.0 is different from 2.0 to 3.0. It also talks about Cisco UCS and BMC Bladelogic partnership

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Rise of the Virtual Machines – Some thoughts on the impact of virtual machines

Schematic diagram of a Virtual Machine setup. The physical hardware is at the bottom, the virtual machine monitor (VMM) sits in the middle, and multiple actual virtual machines sit on top of the VMM. Image via Wikipedia

(This post by Dilip Ranade on his blog, takes a look at how Virtual Machines are going to change [...]

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Seminar on Xen Virtual Machine – 20th Oct

What: Seminar on Xen Virtual Machine architecture and server virtualization
When: Monday, October 20, 2008 from 5:00pm – 7:00pm
Where: Auditorium, Building “C”, Pune IT Park, Bhau Patil Road, Aundh
Fees and Registration: This event is free for all. Register here
KQInfotech presents a seminar on the Xen Virtual Machines. We would present various server virtualization technologies in general. [...]

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Stop Virtual Machine Sprawl with Colama

This is a product-pitch for Colama, a product built by Pune-based startup Coriolis. For the basics of server virtualization, see our earlier guest posts: Introduction to Server Virtualization, and Why do we need server virtualization. Virtualization is fast emerging as a game-changing technology in the enterprise computing space, and Colama is trying to address an interesting [...]

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Why do we need server virtualization

Virtualization is fast emerging as a game-changing technology in the enterprise computing space. What was once viewed as a technology useful for testing and development is going mainstream and is affecting the entire data-center ecosystem. This article on the important use-cases of server virtualization by Milind Borate, is the second in PuneTech’s series of articles [...]

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Introduction to Server Virtualization

Virtualization is fast emerging as a game-changing technology in the enterprise computing space. What was once viewed as a technology useful for testing and development is going mainstream and is affecting the entire data-center ecosystem. Over the course of the next few weeks, PuneTech is going to run a series of articles on virtualization from [...]

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Chitale Dairy Consolidates Two Datacenters into One with VMware Infrastructure

(news sent in by PuneTech reader Chirag Dalal)
Yahoo! Finance reports that Pune’s Chitale Dairy has used VMWare’s virtualization infrastructure to consolidate their two data centers into one and save costs:
Chitale Dairy, which produces about 400,000 liters of milk per day as well as cream, butter and yogurt, faced operational challenges with 10 physical servers spread [...]

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