The Virtualiation Practice Announces New Virtualization News And Analysis Site

July 7, 2009 - PRLog -- Wrentham, Ma.  – The Virtualization Practice, a new news and analysis site focusing upon the virtualization and cloud computing industries goes live today with analytical coverage of the major topics in virtualization and cloud computing, by a set of leading industry analysts, bloggers, authors and virtualization practitioners.

The Virtualization Practice is pioneering a new model in how first class industry analysis is delivered to readers. This new model is based upon the following elements:

•   The analysis is free to the reader. There are no subscription fees, or membership fees to readers for The Virtualization Practice
•   Analytical articles include real, objective, in depth treatment of the important issues, topics, vendors and products in the virtualization and cloud computing industries
•   The analysis is broken down into topics each of which addresses an important segment of the virtualization industry. Each topic has an analyst who is an experienced consultant and practitioner in the subjects covered by the topic
•   The Virtualization Practice is not an advertising driven site. While the Virtualization Practice does accept sponsorships of topics by vendors who have products that address these topics, the goal is to engage the reader in deep interaction with content about the topic as opposed to just driving clicks on ads.

The Virtualization Practice Topics and Analysts
The Virtualization Practice breaks virtualization and cloud computing down into the following topics, each covered by the analysts listed below:

Edward Haletky
Analyst – Virtualization Security
Analyst – SMB Virtualization
Analyst – Virtualization Backup and Recovery
Analyst – Cloud Computing

Edward L. Haletky is the author of VMware vSphere and Virtual Infrastructure Security: Securing the Virtual Environment as well as VMware ESX Server in the Enterprise: Planning and Securing Virtualization Servers. Edward owns AstroArch Consulting, Inc., providing virtualization, security, network consulting and development. Edward is also vExpert, a guru and a moderator for the VMware Communities Forums, providing answers to security and configuration questions.

Bernd Harzog
Analyst – Virtualization Performance and Capacity Management
Analyst – Virtualization Management
Analyst – Virtualization Personalization

Bernd Harzog is the CEO and founder of APM Experts. APM Experts focused upon the Applications Performance Management industry in general, and drilled down into three important segments of the APM industry; 1) the management of applications performance when systems have been virtualized,  2) the measurement of true end user experience and 3) the measurement of business transaction performance.

Tom Howarth
Analyst – Data Center Virtualization
Analyst – Application Virtualization

Tom Howarth is TVP’s Data Center Virtualization Analyst. Tom is a vExpert, a moderator of the VMware Communities forum and is ranked #13 among all participants on the VMware forums. Tom owns TCA Consulting and PlanetVM.Net.  He regularly does huge virtualization projects for enterprises in the U.K. and elsewhere in EMEA.

Joe Jessen
Analyst – Desktop Virtualization

Joe Jessen is the Director of Professional Services for Gotham Technology Group, a technology consulting firm in the New York Metro area.  Joe has extensive practical experience in enterprise solution implementation, application delivery, system integration and security.  Over the past 12 years, Joe has helped organizations plan, architect and optimize their application, desktop and server infrastructures.

Nick Allen
Analyst – Storage Networking
Analyst – Backup and Recovery

Nick is a veteran storage industry guru with more than 40 years' experience in information technology who now consults on best practices in information storage at The Tod Point Group which he founded. Previously, Nick spent 20 years with Gartner Inc. as Vice President and Research Director where he focused on information storage, storage networking and storage management. Prior to Gartner, he was a senior management consultant specializing in system planning, capacity and storage performance management. Previously, he worked in IT management, operating systems, and business and scientific applications.

Andrew Wood
Analyst – Presentation Virtualization (Server Based Computing)

Andrew is a Director of Gilwood CS Ltd, based in the North East of England, which specializes in delivering and optimizing server and application virtualization solutions.  With 10 years of experience in developing architectures that deliver server based computing implementations from small-medium size business to global enterprise solutions, his role involves examining emerging technology trends, vendor strategies, development and integration issues, and management best practices.  

Michael Keen
Analyst – Business and Technology Agility

Michael is the Director and Senior Solutions Architect in the Enterprise Architecture group at Alliance Technologies in Des Moines, Iowa.  He is an innovative, results-oriented architect and executive. With over ten years of experience using technology to reach business objectives and eliminate barriers to business growth, his expertise is in high demand.

About The Virtualization Practice
The Virtualization Practice    is a news and analysis web site devoted to providing participants in the virtualization community with an independent objective source of real analysis on the important topics, vendors and products in the virtualization and cloud computing industries. Coverage of each topic at The Virtualization Practice is lead by an analyst with deep experience in the technologies, products and markets pertinent to that topic. Vendors that sponsor topics are invited to present their premium content (white papers, etc.) in their sponsored topics so that readers can get value added content from The Virtualization Practice and sponsoring vendors in one convenient place. For more information about The Virtualization Practice please visit us at http://www.virtualizationpractice.com.

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The Virtualization Practice is a news and analysis web site devoted to providing an independent objective source of real analysis on the important topics, vendors and products in the virtualization and cloud computing industries.