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Results tagged "hypervisors"

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Forget Multiple Hypervisors

July 09, 2012 10:24 AM
Multiple hypervisors in the data center may seem like a good idea: You get leverage during negotiations, and potentially avoid vendor lock-in. But dig deeper and the arguments begin to fall apart.

Xsigo Systems Upgrades Open Fabric Architecture

June 05, 2012 03:02 PM
The company's vendor-neutral software, hardware improves SDN management and supports five major hypervisors.

VMware's Lost Source Code: Not A Panic Situation

April 27, 2012 11:00 AM
VMware lost some of its ESX source code. Cue the sky-is-falling claims. Don't worry, there's no need to panic.

Where Do Hypervisors Go From Here?

April 05, 2012 09:00 AM
The history of the personal computer is a series of wars--operating system wars, network OS wars, browser wars and then virtualization wars. But while virtualization at first followed the lead of the OS in battles between hypervisors, such as VMWare’s vSphere and Microsoft’s Hyper-V, virtualization is increasingly following the leads of the other pieces of infrastructure before it and is enabling user organizations to set up heterogeneous virtualization networks by supporting multiple hypervisors.

VMTurbo Faces Uphill Battle With VMware And Crowded Virtualization Management Market

February 14, 2012 09:00 AM
VMTurbo, which makes management software for virtualized computing environments, has added support for Citrix XenServer, as well as new application performance measurement capabilities that discover and profile Windows applications so IT administrators can establish priorities for applications. Other enhancements to version 3.0 of its VMTurbo Operations Management include integration with VMware vCloud Director, the ability to manage multiple hypervisors with one virtual appliance, and improvements to its capacity planning capabilities. The software now supports Citrix XenServer, VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisors, and is also expected to support the Kernel-based Virtual Machine hypervisor for the Linux kernel in the middle part of this year.

New Virtual Iron CEO Tackles VMware and Citrix

October 29, 2007 07:16 PM
Former General Manager of EMC joins Virtual Iron with a goal: to clarify the difference between Virtual Iron and XenSource's Xen-based hypervisors.

Sun Unveils Virtualization Platform

October 04, 2007 08:15 PM
The xVM Server is based on the open source Xen hypervisor and includes a minimized version of Solaris.

Gartner: Virtualization Can Weaken Security

April 05, 2007 10:38 PM
Research firms says companies that adopt virtualization without having best practices in place run the risk of jeopardizing enterprise security.

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