Comments on: SRM For VMware (Thank God!) http://blog.fosketts.net/2007/08/01/srm-for-vmware-thank-god/ Understanding the accumulation of data Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:22:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Chuck Hollis http://blog.fosketts.net/2007/08/01/srm-for-vmware-thank-god/comment-page-1/#comment-14 Chuck Hollis Wed, 01 Aug 2007 20:29:41 +0000 http://blog.fosketts.net/2007/08/01/srm-for-vmware-thank-god/#comment-14 Hi Stepehen I'd look more closely at this announcement to see what's really there before getting too excited. I have no hard evidence, but consider the following: - VMware support is very hot in the market right now. - the SRM market share leader (EMC) announced full-featured support for VMware in ControlCenter 6.0, so they have to respond in some fashion. - doing end-to-end SRM in VMware turned out to be really, really hard: discovery, visualization, new forms of reporting at multiple levels, provisioning, et. al. I don't want to take anything away from the Symantec guys, but I want to make sure that they're not getting away with a bit of marketing puffery here. Hi Stepehen

I’d look more closely at this announcement to see what’s really there before getting too excited.

I have no hard evidence, but consider the following:

- VMware support is very hot in the market right now.

- the SRM market share leader (EMC) announced full-featured support for VMware in ControlCenter 6.0, so they have to respond in some fashion.

- doing end-to-end SRM in VMware turned out to be really, really hard: discovery, visualization, new forms of reporting at multiple levels, provisioning, et. al.

I don’t want to take anything away from the Symantec guys, but I want to make sure that they’re not getting away with a bit of marketing puffery here.

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