Daniel Kusnetzky is Principal Analyst at The Kusnetzky Group. He has over 30 years of industry experience. He is responsible for research and analysis on open source software, virtualization software and system software. He examines emerging technology trends, vendor strategies, research and development issues, and end-user integration requirements. In the past, he was Executive VP for Open-Xchange, Inc., and Program VP of System Software Research for International Data Corporation. He can be reached at dan@kusnetzky.net.
Data centers, especially those based upon industry-standard systems and software, have historically been static environments. That is to say, one consisting of a server configured to support a single operating system, data management system, application framework and a number of applications. Systems then access both storage and the network using a pre-assigned configuration that can […]