Michael Harding is responsible for marketing emerging data center products for Symantec. He has a total of 20 years of hardware, software, and services marketing management experience and most recently led marketing at Solid Data Systems. Previously, Michael was director of product marketing for Qlusters, where he led the early marketing effort, and before that directed Product Marketing teams at Commtouch Software, Critical Path and EDS. Michael received a degree in business administration from Northeastern University in Boston, and an MBA from Indiana University Kelley School of Business.
Data center managers are quickly realizing the benefits of virtualization,
including reduced power consumption, improved server utilization, increased
availability by reducing planned downtime, and reduced costs. However, with
these benefits comes a new layer of complexity. Heterogeneity is common in
data centers and most include multiple operating systems (both virtual and
physical), different virtual machines, and storage and tape vendors.
Interoperability is critical to managing this heterogeneity.
As many organizations look to realize the benefits of server virtualization
for production, several considerations must be examined before deploying
production applications on virtual platforms. After all, production
environments have tougher availability standards, demand ... (more)
Michael Harding is responsible for marketing emerging data center products for Symantec. He has a total of 20 years of hardware, software, and services marketing management experience and most recently led marketing at Solid Data Systems. Previously, Michael was director of product marketing for Qlusters, where he led the early marketing effort, and before that directed Product Marketing teams at Commtouch Software, Critical Path and EDS. Michael received a degree in business administration from Northeastern University in Boston, and an MBA from Indiana University Kelley School of Business.
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