VMware vCenter Operations Manager, also known as vCOPS, is an automated operations management solution that provides integrated performance, capacity, and configuration management for highly virtualized cloud infrastructure. We’ve outlined three reasons why this solution could benefit your environment.

1. vCenter Operations Manager provides a visual dashboard that shows you whether or not all of your machines are running correctly. Within this dashboard, machines are color -coded in green, yellow, or red depending on how well they are performing.  vCOPS is a simple, easy-to understand representation of your entire virtual environment that allows you to recognize malfunctions within the machinery early-on and nip them in the bud.   

Additionally, all of the different components of your virtual environment are monitored and presented in the dashboard. These components include things like storage capabilities and memory capacity.  Based on the virtual environment’s current growth rate, this internal planning feature gives users the ability to project when the next changes should be made and when additional storage or memory will need to be added to the system.

These are just some of the unique and interesting value -adds that vCOPS offers customers.

2. The Chargeback Manager, which used to be a standalone feature, now allows users to place a value on a particular assessment so it can then show how much that assessment is actually costing them. Using this feature is a great way to ensure that you’re sticking within confines of your IT budget -something we all know is appealing to customers.

Exploring deeper levels of this program allows for the ability to expand multiple datacenters directly from the data in your virtual centers and bring it all together on one simple playing field.

This product is a virtual appliance that is simply downloaded from the VMware website and installed in the existing infrastructure with no real installation required.

3. Perhaps the most appealing aspect of VMware’s new service is its ease of use. Not only does vCOPS make life much easier in terms of monitoring your virtual environment when moving to the cloud, it is also offers a free 60-day trial. It is a perfect solution for customers who don’t have a management solution or monitoring program in place and is sure to add significant value to your virtual environment.

Interested in the 60-day trial? We’re more than happy to further discuss the options with you. We’ll even come on site and install it for you! To continue the conversation about this value-added service and receive more information, contact a Mosaic representative today!

      

Don’t Miss this Exclusive FREE Luncheon on Accelerating the Growth of Virtualization

Thursday, May 3, 2012
11:30 am PT – 1:30 pm PT
Daniel’s Broiler
809 Fairview PI B
Seattle, WA

On May 3^rd, Mosaic Technology will host a special luncheon event called Accelerating the Growth of Virtualization.

We are bringing together virtual infrastructure management and data protection leader, Veeam and leading developer of Ethernet storage area network (SAN) solutions, Coraid. Together with Mosaic Technology, these presenters will share best practices for deploying an affordable virtual solution that will enhance your business, save money, and deliver a quick return on your investment.

Technology Deep Dive

This luncheon is focused exclusively on how to accelerate your migration to a virtual environment. We know you want the details and these presenters will uncover the specifics. Hear from these leaders on:

• How Coraid’s Ethernet Storage offers dramatic performance at affordable prices;
• Why Veeam’s Backup & Replication™ v6 won the Best of VMworld Gold award for New Technology;
• Scalability beyond expectations with Coraid’s ability to scale OUT vs. UP and GB to TB to PB just by adding Ethernet ports (1gb or 10gb);
• Scalability beyond expectations with Coraid’s ability to scale OUT vs. UP and GB to TB to PB just by adding Ethernet ports (1gb or 10gb);
• Flexibility that meets your needs with Coraid’s chassis, and SSD, SAS, and SATA.

Guarantee your attendance at this free event by registering below today. Space is limited!

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By my estimation, 2012 marked one of the largest turnouts I’ve seen in recent years, with VMware estimating that there were more than 4,300 attendees. The VMware Partner Exchange brings the ecosystem together to share insights and learn about new technologies or strategies. The main takeaway was – the move to a virtualized environment is continuing full steam ahead.

The technical side of me has to throw in a few statistics to underscore this observation:

• Virtual machines are now being created at a faster rate than babies are being born in the United States. Every six seconds, a virtual machine (VM) is being created somewhere in the world. Every eight seconds, a baby is born in the U.S.
• Virtual desktop grew by 400% last year.
• Forrester Research predicts the opportunity for the private cloud will be $41.5 billion by 2015.

With so much happening in the market, it is no wonder that the VMware Partner Exchange has grown steadily. I continue to be amazed at how much information VMware is able to pack into three days. There were more than 190 unique breakout sessions, 20 hands on laboratories, and over 91 sponsors and exhibitors in the Solutions Exchange.

One of the noteworthy developments discussed during the event was the new specialization for the small and midsize business (SMB) vertical. The conference unveiled new competencies, programs and incentives for SMB partners. These are designed to prove to a company and its customers that VMware partners are offering the best possible virtual solutions. At the show, VMware acknowledged that one competency does not fit all markets, so they created a specialization for partners that sell to the small business market. As a VMware partner that works with small and midsize businesses every day, we are excited that VMware is investing in the SMB market. We can’t wait to utilize these new VMware tools and training to deliver and a better and more targeted experience to our customers.

Many of the sessions discussed virtual desk infrastructure. At Mosaic Technology, we have been talking about virtual desktops for a while, and how it opens up the possibilities of not only how your users work, but where. We have helped many of our customers set up VMware View 5 Desktop Virtualization. We recommend VMware View to our customers because it intelligently delivers data and applications on a wide variety of computing devices, web applications, and computers.

Network World predicted that virtual desktops would be one of the major trends of 2012, and we agree. Desktop virtualization provides a stable operating system for workers across a company, while decreasing overhead. When you manage your desktop virtualization in one central place, it requires less maintenance and administration by your IT staff, allowing more flexibility when patching, updating, or upgrading desktops. Employees can travel or work from home and use their desktop, without compromising their company’s security. VDI reduces office power utilization by as much as 70% and the cost of desktop ownership up to 50%.

We are looking forward to the new focus on SMBs and the upcoming VMware products this summer, and helping our customers utilize their technologies. We will be at the NEVMUG Spring Break in Newport, RI on April 19^th, and VMware’s flagship event, VMworld 2012, in August.

Did you attend this annual event? Have a favorite VMware show? I’d like to hear your experiences and what you are thinking about for 2012. Post a comment below or send me a “tweet”.

Sure, there will always be a small subset of people who want to have the latest and greatest versions of anything, right away. Those on the fleeting edge will occasionally find bugs in the programs, or find that the new version just doesn’t interact the way the older version did. This creates a learning curve and an additional knowledge base for the early adopters. Typically in four to six months, the new version has had time to be flushed out and an improved solution is ready to be adopted.

That is the wave that we find ourselves in right now. Everyone is ready to upgrade, and for good reason. When vSphere 5 was first released, I wasn’t pushing my customers into an upgrade simply because I’m of the same mindset – “Let’s sit back for a while and let things stabilize.” Now, moving forward, performance has dramatically improved in version five. There are a lot of high-end features to vSphere 5, but it’s the basic features that will impact the everyday VMware admin – and those are the ones that will make the difference.

vSphere 5 has three key benefits that make upgrading worth your while:

1. Data protection – vSphere 5 can now support virtual machines up to four times more powerful than previous versions. This allows for a much better overall end-user experience. With version five, you can have bigger file systems that allow you to put more of your data together in a consistent format. Additionally, you can now thin provision the data that you don’t need, allowing for the proper interaction between the software and the array itself.
2. High Availability – The high availability of protection in version five is much improved and allows for better resilience in the environment. In the event of a failure, high availability is the feature that would automatically start from a virtual machine somewhere else. In order to make this possible, version five was reloaded completely from the ground up and is now far more robust. Different methodologies make sure that the server is really down, as opposed to just having lost its network connectivity. There really are no metrics to measure its efficiency – it just works better and has a lower chance of failing.
3. Storage Optimization – In vSphere 5, storage optimization is much better and more efficient. You can now set the storage policy of your virtual machine and automatically manage the balancing and placing of the VM across your storage resources. IT personnel are no longer needed to monitor or control your storage capabilities.

Do you think it’s time to look at upgrading your vSphere environment to version five? So do we. There are three key things to do ahead of an upgrade to be sure you’re optimizing your existing infrastructure as well. First, do an assessment of your environment – make sure it’s healthy and capable of handling an upgrade. Next, based on those results, optimize your environment as part of ongoing structural changes to make it more efficient along the way. Finally, check to make sure your environment is configured correctly.

Upgrading to vSphere 5 is a great starting point and foundation, especially if you want to roll out VMware View or Site Recovery Manager, or looking to extend out into the cloud. All of these things integrate with version five, so just making that first step puts you in a good position for future upgrades and enhancements to your virtual environment.

Does it sound like vSphere 5 could be right for you? We’re ready to come in and perform that assessment of your environment. We can take you through the upgrade and ensure that it’s both quick and painless. At Mosaic Technology, we’re here to make sure you’re getting the most out of your virtual environment. Contact us today to get the ball rolling.

Interestingly enough, many companies have still not made the move to the cloud. In a 2009 survey of IT and business executives, many expressed concern about moving to the cloud, citing security, availability and performance as some of their main reasons. The facts, according to Gartner, show that the cloud is a disruptive force and has the potential for broad long-term impact in most industries.

We believe that while the cloud offers a lot of business opportunities, what will happen first is the move to the private cloud otherwise known as virtualization. Throughout 2011, we talked a lot about the benefits of migrating to a virtual environment. There are also a number of Mosaic customers that were willing to provide a behind-the-scenes look at what virtualization did for their business. All that said – while cloud computing is what every marketing person wants to discuss, it is virtualization that many businesses are seriously considering in 2012.

Many of the concerns raised in the past are dually address with the product advancements from 2011. Below we’ve outline five important developments that we think should put your fears at ease.

Improved Security – The information that you store in your datacenter is incredibly important.  Storing this data locally can allow for many mishaps like hard drive crashes that could make you lose everything. When you store this information in the cloud, there is a whole foundation behind it consisting of data backups, servers, and administrators that are making sure the data is protected at all times.

Faster Speeds – When you’re working in the cloud – you’re operating on network speeds, which by nature are faster than the speeds you’d experience in a connected environment.

Superior Storage – Most organizations are managing Terabytes of unstructured data and also have to protect it. Storage cloud providers can do this for you. Almost 80 percent of your unstructured data makes up the majority of your storage problems. By archiving it to the cloud, you’ll never have to back it up again – and the cloud now becomes responsible for the availability of the data.

Lower Costs – Moving to the cloud is going to save you money – guaranteed. Cloud computing allows you to do the same amount of work with fewer machines. This means reducing your organization’s need for hardware and software going forward, as well as the ability to cut down on the amount of manual labor needed. Cloud services are also monitored and controlled by the cloud service provider – and organizations are only billed for what they use.  

Ability for a Mobile Workforce – The cloud is a great resource for mobile workforces. Even if a company is unable to virtualize, they can still put a lot of their services out into the cloud. Information is made available by a secure weblink, which in turn gives you the ability to reach out to mobile workers, a non-traditional practice, because these services are abailable from everywhere.

When making the decision to switch to a virtual architecture, consider all of the items listed above but at the same time, make sure you’re making the best decision for your organization. Be sure you understand the value of your applications and data and what moving to a virtual environment would mean for them. Also be sure to determine your requirements in order to find a solution provider that can deliver them while keeping the risks down. And above all, consider the cost of moving to a virtual architecture compared to your existing costs.

At Mosaic, understanding your requirements, challenges, and technology goals is the foundation of our customer-focused approach. Our sales and technical staff are at the ready to work with you through a collaborative process consisting of accessing your environment, analyzing your hardware, software and services to meet your needs, using industry best practices to design a plan, implementing and executing on it. Interested? Contact a Mosaic representative today – we’re ready and waiting to begin the process.

Thursday June 7, 2012
8:30AM – 1:00PM
The Back Bay Hotel
350 Stuart Street
Boston, MA 02116 

Mosaic Technology is proud to announce that on March 29th, it is partnering with industry leaders, Dell, Enterasys Networks, and Veeam. At this 1/2 day session in Boston, Mosaic will bring together some of the best technologies available that provide the foundation for a successful virtual deployment. You’ll learn everything about virtual infrastructure from switching to backup to storage and server platforms. You’ll get have a firsthand look at the solutions that make virtualization a top trend within the enterprise.

Bringing a complete solution together.

Please join us at this free event.  We will showcase how today’s leading technology vendors are helping organizations across the Northeast use the latest solutions to meet their business requirements today and utlize adaptable platforms for future growth.

Register below to reserve your spot today!

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SALEM, NH, December 21, 2011 – Mosaic Technology, a leading expert in virtualization and data storage technology, donated a few pallets of food to the Salem Food Pantry. The company has more than a 25-year history within the local community of Salem, NH. In response to the growing need, Mosaic made this gift on behalf of its customers this holiday season.

Mosaic is committed to the State of New Hampshire. The company is one of the Top 100 Private Companies in the state of NH and is actively involved in the community. Earlier this year, Mosaic hosted a small business roundtable with presidential candidate Governor Mitt Romney to give small business an opportunity to share their concerns.

“We hope that our donation will help families in need get back on stable footing this holiday season,” said Tom Desmet, founder and CEO, Mosaic Technology. “Everyone is dealing with a tough economy these days, but we consider ourselves lucky to be able to give back in honor of our customers and support the community that we live and work in.”

Six Mosaic employees, including the Founder and CEO, Tom Desmet, personally delivered two full pallets of food to the Food Bank on December, 20, 2011, including pastas, cereals, rice and canned goods.

The Salem Food Pantry, located on Lawrence Road in Salem, NH, supports multiple towns in Rockingham County. Food banks serve a big role, especially around the holidays, in providing basic essentials to families in need.

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Salem, NH, December 7, 2011 – Mosaic Technology, a leading expert in virtualization and data storage technology, today announced the availability of the new, award winning, Veeam Backup and Replication v6 that is designed to deliver the best in data protection for the virtual server world.

Mosaic Technology is a leading provider of virtual desktop and server infrastructure solutions. The company is a trusted partner to businesses across the United States delivering end-to-end solutions that meet today’s business challenges. Mosaic is enhancing its virtual data protection solutions with the latest technology from Veeam given the continual growth in businesses migrating to virtual architectures. This new technology from Veeam will complement Mosaic’s other offerings and provide increased functionality including:

• Enterprise scalability: Enhanced distributed architecture streamlines deployment and maintenance of remote office/branch office (ROBO) and large installations. Also speeds up backup, replication and restore over WANs.
• Advanced replication: Accelerates replication by 10X, streamlines failover and provides real failback with delta sync.
• Multi-hypervisor support: Reduces the cost and complexity of managing multi-hypervisor environments with new support for Windows Server Hyper-V and Microsoft Hyper-V Server within Veeam’s existing data protection infrastructure (one install and one console).
• Numerous enhancements, including 1-Click File Restore: Extends Veeam′s existing file-level recovery with delegated, web-based restore directly to the original virtual machine (VM), without requiring a direct network connection or in-guest agent.

“The role of value added resellers is changing as information technology solutions increase in complexity in scope. Over the last 15 years, Mosaic has partnered with some the best technology providers in the industry to deliver solutions that meet our customers’ requirements”, said Tom Desmet, President and CEO of Mosaic Technology. “Veeam has one of the best backup products available for virtual infrastructure and their tight integration with VMware makes them a true industry leader. We are proud to work with leaders like Veeam as they help our customers deliver the future today.”

With v6, Veeam becomes the first vendor to deliver capabilities for image-based data protection that organizations have come to expect with traditional file-based backups. The new functionality includes enterprise scalability, advanced replication, multi-hypervisor support and numerous enhancements – including 1-Click File Restore.

This release won the Best of VMworld Gold Award for New Technology. Veeam now holds the record for the most Best of VMworld awards at a single event and the most awards overall – demonstrating their commitment to keeping its customers at the forefront of what’s possible with virtualization. Judges were impressed with the new release because v6 “takes virtual data protection farther.”

This new offering enables Mosaic to continue to offer their customers the best-advanced technology available. The new Backup & Replication v6 allows for high-performance, resource-friendly, image-based data protection that protects your virtual machines at all times.

Mosaic Technology is pleased to announce that they are now offering the new Veeam Backup and Replication v6 technology. This new, award-winning technology is designed to deliver the best in data protection for the virtual server world.

The role of value added resellers is changing as information technology solutions increase in complexity in scope. At Mosaic, we’ve partnered with some of the best technology providers in the industry over the last fifteen years to deliver solutions to meet our customer’s requirements. Veeam has, without a doubt, one of the best backup products available for virtual infrastructure.

Veeam won the Best of VMworld Gold Award for New Technology this year for the second year in a row. Judges said that Veeam’s Backup & Replication v6 impressed them because “it takes virtual data protection farther.” Veeam now holds the record for the most Best of VMworld awards at a single event and the most awards overall. Veeam is truly committed to keeping their customers at the forefront of what’s possible with virtualization.

According to a new study by Gartner, which recognized virtualization as the New Normal, 63% of enterprise IT directors reported experiencing problems every month when attempting to recover a server. The study also found that enterprises are not virtualizing mission-critical workloads due to concerns around backup.

This is no longer a concern with Veeam’s Backup & Replication v6. It provides fast, flexible and reliable recovery of virtualized applications and data and brings together backup and replication in a single solution. It delivers capabilities for image-based data protection that organizations have come to expect with traditional file-based backups.

Given the continual growth in businesses migrating to virtual architectures, Mosaic is constantly enhancing its virtual data protection solutions with the latest technologies from industry leaders like Veeam. v6 will without a doubt complement Mosaic’s other offerings and provide increased functionality including enterprise scalability, which will streamline deployment and maintenance of remote offices and large installations. Advanced replication will accelerate replication by 10x, streamlining failover and providing real failback with delta sync. Multi-hypervisor support will reduce the cost and complexity of managing multi-hypervisor environments, and 1-Click File Restore will extend Veeam’s existing file-level recovery with delegated, webbased restore directly to the original virtual machine (VM), without requiring a direct network connection or in-guest agent.

At Mosaic, we’re constantly getting excited about the successes of our partners. This new offering from Veeam enables us to continue to offer our customers the best-advanced technology available.

Are you in the market for a high-performance, resource-friendly, image-based data protection that protects your virtual machine at all times? Just looking to get some more information about v6 or other technologies and services that Mosaic provides? Contact a Mosaic representative today – we’d love to bring this conversation directly to you.

Salem, NH, November 23, 2011 – Mosaic Technology, a leading expert in virtualization and data storage technology, today announced it has been recognized by Business NH Magazine as a part of their Top 100 Private Companies list. This annual list honors the top 100 private companies responsible for driving business growth in New Hampshire based on annual revenue.  

Mosaic Technology has been an important part of New Hampshire economy for the last 15 years with its corporate headquarters in Salem, NH. The company is recognized as a trusted partner to organizations across the world for delivering information technology solutions that meet today’s business challenges. Mosaic dramatically simplifies the deployment of network architectures for virtual desktop and server environments by providing and integrating the best technologies together in a complete solution. The company completes the interoperability, test and any final assembly at its facilities in Salem, NH.

Each year, Business NH Magazine invites thousands of companies to participate in the annual survey of the Top 100 Companies in New Hampshire. This year’s businesses were ranked by 2010 sales. According to Business NH, this list includes a diverse group of Granite State businesses making significant contributions to NH’s overall economy.

“We are incredibly pleased that Mosaic Technology has been recognized for the third year in a row for its positive impact on the economy of New Hampshire. I believe we have some of the most talented professionals in NH working with us,” said Tom Desmet, CEO of Mosaic. “It is an excellent example of what the best companies can do to overcome these challenging economic times: invest in our people. Thanks to their hard work – our customers have continued to choose Mosaic as their technology partner and the results can be seen in the award today.” 

Mosaic was also recently recognized by Everything Channel as part of CRN’s VAR500 list, which ranks the top technology integrators in North America. Their recent addition of Dell’s new storage arrays to their vast portfolio is only one of the many reasons why they are regarded as one of the Top 100 Private Companies in NH.

Mosaic also supports the growth of business in the state of New Hampshire. The company recently hosted presidential candidate Mitt Romney at their headquarters in Salem, NH for an industry roundtable discussion about the current state of small business in the United States. They also are an active participant within the Greater Salem Chamber of Commerce, the American Red Cross and local food banks.

Mosaic Technology’s inclusion in the NH’s Top 100 Private Companies was featured in the September 2011 issue of Business NH Magazine.