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Articles by Sean Shea

Over 20 years of sales experience of going to market early VMware 02, EqualLogic 03, PlateSpin & Vizioncore 04, Akorri 07, AutoVirt 09. Sean has a history of immediate results in helping start up firms get traction in the virtualization market & advising end user clients to stay ahead of the curve. Sean Shea is also the Founder of the online virtualization publication Virtual Strategy Magazine and was most recently Business Development Manager at GreenPages Technology Solutions.

Why Socket-Based Pricing is Better than Per-VM Pricing
June 13, 2011 – 11:28 pm | No Comment
Why Socket-Based Pricing is Better than Per-VM Pricing

Spring is VMUG season, and we have been at many, many VMUGs and vForums. Beyond the excitement about vOPS 3.0, another theme keeps emerging. Virtualization admins and their managers don’t like pricing models based on …

Stratus ‘Uptime Assurance’ Virtualization Package Sets the Pace for Price & Reliability
May 25, 2011 – 10:25 pm | No Comment
Stratus ‘Uptime Assurance’ Virtualization Package Sets the Pace for Price & Reliability

Superior uptime, simpler to manage and maintain, with competitive offerings costing up to 46% more
Stratus Technologies, the industry leader for uptime assurance, is offering a specially priced ftServer 2600 fault-tolerant server package for virtualization in …

Pancetera Looks to Cut the Hassle Out of Virtual Machine Backup
May 7, 2011 – 6:28 am | No Comment
Pancetera Looks to Cut the Hassle Out of Virtual Machine Backup

Pancetera maintains an ROI calculator, where curious IT professionals can submit information about their virtualized environment, such as the number of virtual machines.

Interview with Virtual Instrument on VirtualWisdom – The Fortune 2000′s Virtual Infrastructure MRI
March 11, 2011 – 12:39 pm | No Comment
Interview with Virtual Instrument on VirtualWisdom – The Fortune 2000′s Virtual Infrastructure MRI

Part Two of our interview with Len Rosenthal, the Vice-president of Marketing at Virtual Instruments. He is one of the early employees of the company, having joined them in late 2008. His impressive background includes …

Pragmatic path to cloud management: Embotics
March 10, 2011 – 11:18 pm | No Comment
Pragmatic path to cloud management: Embotics

By Sean Shea
Embotics‘ PR team sent me an interesting white paper a while back. It is called “The Pragmatic Path to Cloud Management.” Embotics is putting forward their view of of the following topics.

Private cloud …

Virtual money: Embotics scores multimillion-dollar financing
March 1, 2011 – 1:57 am | No Comment
Virtual money: Embotics scores multimillion-dollar financing

While many Ottawa startups are still struggling to dig up the funds to survive in a parched financing environment, virtualization technology company Embotics isn’t one of them – it announced Wednesday that it rang in …

Deploying Virtualized Mission-Critical Apps? I/O Troubleshooting: When “good” is NOT enough
February 18, 2011 – 12:25 am | No Comment
Deploying Virtualized Mission-Critical Apps? I/O Troubleshooting: When “good” is NOT enough

Last week, I had the pleasure of speaking with Len Rosenthal, the Vice-president of Marketing at Virtual Instruments. He is one of the early employees of the company, having joined them in late 2008.
His impressive …

The New Game-Changers of Backup & Recovery
November 28, 2010 – 3:44 pm | One Comment
The New Game-Changers of Backup & Recovery

By Sean Shea
Back in August at VMworld 2010 (San Francisco) , Veeam announced vPower and Veeam Backup & Replication 5.0.
After taking a quick look at their press release and viewing an introductory webinar, I am …