Podcast: Managing Virtual Environments

Whether you’re just starting out with virtualization - or are well down the path - you need to listen to this detailed 30 minute podcast. Andi Mann, Research Director at Enterprise Management Associates, and Joseph Fitzgerald, configuration and systems management expert and CEO of ManageIQ, join to discuss key issues associated with managing virtualized environments. You’ll hear about:

• How virtualization affects management - for better and worse
• The importance of configuration management to controlling and managing virtual infrastructure and systems.
• What risks virtualization introduces to your environment.
• New requirements for people, process, and technology to successfully manage virtualization.

About The Participants

Andi Mann

Andi Mann, Research Director at Enterprise Management Associates, comes to EMA with over 20 years of experience across four continents, with large-scale enterprise systems software on mainframe, midrange, server, and desktop systems. He focuses on the intelligent and automated management of IT, specifically surrounding systems and applications management, configuration management, provisioning, and virtualization of systems and applications. Andi’s breadth and depth of experience provides EMA and its clients with a unique and extensive range of knowledge in Enterprise Management solutions.

Joseph Fitzgerald

Joseph Fitzgerald, CEO and Co-Founder of ManageIQ, enjoys over 26 years of experience providing operations, systems and configuration management solutions to hundreds of IT organizations worldwide. Before founding ManageIQ, he was CTO and Director Product Development for Hewlett-Packard’s Change & Configuration Management Software Business, where he was named HP distinguished technologist in 2005. Joe joined HP as part of the Novadigm acquisition, a company he co-founded, and where as CTO he spent more than 12 years pioneering large-scale configuration management solutions. He is the author and co-author of numerous patents, including those underlying Novadigm’s adaptive management technologies.