Beyond the Perimeter Podcast Series Episode 56: "Unifying Virtual and Bare Metal Computing, Part 1"

BEYOND THE PERIMETER PODCAST SERIES EPISODE 56:

“UNIFYING VIRTUAL AND BARE METAL COMPUTING, PART 1”

Emeryville, Calif.— November 2, 2009

News Facts

• In the most recent episode of Beyond the Perimeter, “Unifying Virtual and Bare Metal Computing, Part 1,” Amrit Williams, BigFix CTO, speaks with Vikram Desai, president and CEO of Liquid Computing, on optimizing virtual and bare metal computing to improve service provision to end users.
• Key words include: unified computing infrastructure, automated data center, bare metal, virtualization, open architecture solution.

Background and Context

• Beyond the Perimeter is an interview-style podcast series that began publishing in February 2009, hosted by BigFix, Inc., CTO Amrit Williams.
• Beyond the Perimeter guests include luminaries and decision makers with expertise in enterprise information technology, computer security, system management and IT best practices. The content expressed on Beyond the Perimeter is the sole responsibility of the respective speakers and do not reflect the views of BigFix, Inc.
• Amrit Williams has held a variety of engineering, management and consulting positions in the IT industry including research director in the Information Security and Risk Research Practice at Gartner, Inc. and engineering/management positions at nCircle Network Security, Consilient Inc., Network Associates, and McAfee. Williams is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM).

Episode #56 Notable Quotes from Vikram Desai 

• “The specific area that Liquid Computing focuses on is the provision of software control of underlying IT, physical IT assets. So [it’s] servers, switches, and storage that are relied upon by both bare metal and virtualized operating systems.”
• “A recent survey indicated that the coordination of server switching and storage configuration, whether virtualized or bare metal, is one of the biggest problems that data centers are facing today.”
• “Data centers really don’t want to be locked into any particular brand or label, if you will. They traditionally want to have multiple vendors. They want to be able to choose the best of breed based upon what the application’s needs are.”

Information Resources

• Beyond the Perimeter Homepage: http://blogs.bigfix.com/beyondtheperimeter/
• Amrit Williams’ Personal Blog, Observations of a Digitally Enlightened Mind: http://techbuddha.wordpress.com/
• Amrit Williams’ “Beyond the Perimeter” blog in Computerworld UK: http://tinyurl.com/qt5ctj
• Amrit Williams' Twitter feed: @amrittsering

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