June, 2008

Lab management streamlines asset allocation, saves costs

Traditionally, developing and testing applications is a labor-intensive and time-consuming process that requires IT departments to create testing environments that mirror production environments. Once a testing environment is created—with production operating systems, network configurations and...

Microsoft to ship Hyper-V … finally

Word has it that Microsoft is finally getting it together and releasing Hyper-V, putting the tech world on notice that it is now safe to exhale. Phew, we were all about to turn...

Overheard on the blogosphere: VMware and Apple can whip Microsoft

  Overheard on the blogosphere:

"Together VMware and Apple could make a run at redefining the desktop (it's clear that...

Getting to know Sun xVM VirtualBox snapshots

Desktop virtualization packages rely on snapshots and virtual drive functionality. The de facto functionality standard here is found in VMware Workstation and VMware Server, but the tools in Sun's VirtualBox may be setting a new standard. Let's take a quick look at how snapshots and virtual drives...

New virtualization management tools take on VM sprawl

As server virtualization technology makes its way from test environments into production, IT organizations are struggling to keep up with the inherent management challenges involved in dealing with virtual environments. The ease with which VMs are created makes it that much easier for VMs to be...

VMware virtualization used to cut costs at 900 universities

Attention, college students: your tuition may soon decrease! Well, maybe not. However, VMware Inc. reported today that 900 universities including top tier schools such as Harvard and Yale are saving big bucks using VMware Inc. virtualization. Many renowned...

Using VRDP to view VirtualBox virtual machines remotely

In last week's blog, I wrote about my first experiences with

Red Hat announces new cross-platform VM management tools

Today at Red Hat Summit in Boston, two of Red Hat’s emerging technology engineers, Dan Barrange and Richard Jones, presented the new tool sets that their team has developed for work with Xen virtual machines (VMs), including command line...