Srinivas Ramanathan is the founder and CEO of eG Innovations (www.eginnovations.com), a global provider of performance monitoring and triage solutions for both virtual and physical IT infrastructures. The company’s eG VM Monitor software was chosen as the Gold level winner in the Application and Infrastructure Management category in the Best of VMworld 2008 Awards. He has a PhD in computer science and engineering from the University of California, San Diego.
With virtual infrastructures becoming prevalent in production environments
and often supporting critical business services, the second phase of
virtualization is here. In Virtualization 2.0, it's all about manageability.
The shifting emphasis to business service management rather than just virtual
machine management means that it is no longer sufficient to simply monitor
the uptime or resource usage of virtual machines and servers and believe that
the entire IT infrastructure is working well.
This article highlights the key challenges that virtualization administrators
and architects face in Virtualization 2.0, and defines the core functionality
that any Virtualization 2.0 monitoring and management solution must possess.
The first phase of virtualization, Virtualization 1.... (more)
Srinivas Ramanathan is the founder and CEO of eG Innovations (www.eginnovations.com), a global provider of performance monitoring and triage solutions for both virtual and physical IT infrastructures. The company’s eG VM Monitor software was chosen as the Gold level winner in the Application and Infrastructure Management category in the Best of VMworld 2008 Awards. He has a PhD in computer science and engineering from the University of California, San Diego. 
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