Articles by Doug Baer
Doug Baer is a Principal Consultant and leader of the Virtualization Practice at IT Partners in Phoenix, AZ. He has held technical positions in the software development, education, government, financial, and consulting fields where his job responsibilities have included training, lab management and architecture of directory services, network and storage infrastructure solutions. In his current role, Doug works with customers to architect, upgrade, and expand their virtual infrastructures which frequently includes the implementation of multisite storage networks and array replication for disaster recovery. Doug has been involved with VMworld since 2005 as a session presenter (2005-2007) and a contributor to the Perl and Powershell scripting labs (2008-2009). Doug holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Arizona in Tucson, is a regular contributor on the VMTN forums in between customer engagements and is VCDX # 19.
By Doug Baer
These days, when I talk to people in IT, I hear a lot of requests for “automation.” This buzzword isn’t nearly as sexy as “virtualization,” but it comes up in the same conversations fairly regularly, especially when the discussion inevitably turns towards cloud…
A cloud solution is a combination of technologies and processes rather than an object that can be packaged up and handed over. I encourage a cautious approach that takes into account your environment as well as the state of the technology being considered. To that end, I submit the following top 10 reasons why you’re not ready to adopt cloud computing, along with my apologies to David Letterman…
Following my installation of two-node clusters of Microsoft Hyper-V R2, ESXi 4.0, and XenServer 5.5 in our lab, my next task was to kick the tires a bit on each platform.
Not to spoil the surprise, but I conducted a few simple performance tests and performance was comparable in all three environments.
By Doug Baer, Principal Consultant at IT Partners in Phoenix, AZ.
As part of a recent project, I set out to compare three of the more common and mature bare-metal hypervisors on the market: the offerings from Citrix, Microsoft and VMware. In the spirit of…
