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Your Dedupe Sweet Spot
December 08, 2009 10:30 AM
Running out of storage space? Running out of money? I feel for ya, buddy. Most of us are in a rough spot in the real world looking for a place to cram all our stuff; half the programming on cable channels seems to be about folks de-cluttering their homes, getting rid of stuff they don't need and culling the crap they do keep (10 teddy bears gone-hubby gets to retain one childhood keepsake... belt-buckle collection sold at garage sale- wife gets to keep her 1st place rodeo buckle... you get the idea.)
System Center To Play Nice With Others
April 30, 2008 3:45 AM
This is good news for multi-hypervisor shops. Microsoft pushed out the beta of VMM today, which includes management support of VMWare.
VCharter Pro Offers Insight
April 29, 2008 3:06 AM
Vizioncore announced availability today of vCharter Pro as an enterprise-class, performance monitoring and management solution for ESX shops.
Little Silver Boxes On The WAN
April 14, 2008 1:26 PM
Pano Logic's virtual desktop solution (VDS) is getting a major rev update to 2.0, picks up WAN, wireless and USB support for its tiny, shiny VDI solution.
Symantec Buying AppStream
April 09, 2008 6:03 PM
The biggest news out of ManageFusion so far? Symantec bought AppStream last night & is rolling 'em into the newly formed 'Endpoint Virtualization' group.
Lifecycle Manager, Part II
April 08, 2008 3:11 PM
Here's a follow-up with VMware on the company's new Lifecycle Manager add-on for ESX.
Heading To ManageFusion
April 07, 2008 1:50 PM
Happy Monday -- I'm catching a plane out to the Altiris ManageFusion conference in Vegas.
VM Sprawl?
April 03, 2008 3:47 AM
We all know how it starts. You said, 'sure, just this once.' Someone said, 'psst, buddy, try this out.'
Cradle To Grave, Baby
March 31, 2008 12:49 PM
Virtual Center can support 200 hosts and 2,000 VMs. VMware's new Lifecycle Manager offers hope to automate and track those thousands of containers...
Beyond Consolidation
March 27, 2008 3:01 AM
Should we call this stage two of adoption for virtualization? Am I jumping too soon with my "1x1 makes sense" pitch?
VMware To Double R&D Presence In India
March 24, 2008 12:53 PM
VMware's Bangalore engineering office to grow to 1,000+ in two years. Add in 200 or so other sales and support employees, 160 channel partners, university partnerships and many customers across India to look at the big picture.
Small Post, Tiny Footprint
March 23, 2008 12:12 AM
Ubuntu's JeOS (say 'juice' if you must) weighs in at 151 MB. Want to roll your own VMware miniappliance? JeOS is a pretty good place to start.
Intel's Next Top Model?
March 19, 2008 3:00 AM
Who else wants Mike's job? He gets to hang out at Intel predicting the future of computing.
Liquid Computing Wants To Virtualize Everything
March 12, 2008 4:04 PM
I've been digging into I/O virtualization lately and ended up speaking with some folks who want to virtualize everything. Everything. Data I/O. Network. Entire physical servers. Liquid Computing is hoping to be the next major disruption in the force.
8 Gb FC, Qlogic, HP, And VM I/O
March 10, 2008 3:05 PM
I've spent the better part of the last week reconfiguring gear in the virtualization test lab, getting reacquainted with machine specs and idiosyncrasies. We have a variety of servers connected to a Dell, nee EqualLogic, iSCSI SAN. Half of our HP servers and one Xserve also have 2 Gb Fibre Channel HBAs, unused since we lost our FC SAN. Remember when those 2 Gb FC connections seemed zippy? 4 Gb HBAs have been on the market for a couple years, and a number of recent 8 Gb FC solutions are being touted as a remedy for I/O constraints in virtualized environments.
Novell On Virtualization
March 09, 2008 4:07 AM
Novell's Richard Whitehead and I sat down to a lively discussion on the trials and tribulations of VM management. Whitehead was good enough to remind me of Novell's open source chops on SUSE and Xen...
Intel's VMDq On ESX = Broad Market Goodness
March 06, 2008 1:00 PM
I missed Intel's 10GbE & IOV news. Read on for why you shouldn't make the same mistake.
October in London?
March 04, 2008 3:22 PM
So you liked trekking to Cannes for VMworld? Pony up for autumn in the U.K. to attend the vendor-independent "Virtualization Congress."
VMworld Wrap
March 02, 2008 3:30 AM
VMworld Europe offered a bunch o' news. I/O is big. IOV is getting bigger. VMware and others came out strong on systems management and security tools. I guess they have been listening to their customers.
Stonesoft Guards Against External And Intrahost Threats
February 28, 2008 3:32 AM
I spoke with Stonesoft on Wednesday regarding the company's new security solutions for VMware. Intrahost protection, anyone?
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