The Virtualization Room: July, 2009 archives

VMware: Amazon, Google and Azure aren’t real clouds

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Colin Steele

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Colin Steele

VMware User Group

VMware is going to be a cloud company. A real cloud company. That was the message at Thursday's New England VMware User Group summer meeting in Brunswick, Maine. Mike DiPetrillo, VMware's global cloud architect, described the one thing that will set VMware apart from Amazon, Google,...

July 24, 2009 6:40 PM

VMware finally warming up to EMC

Posted by: Colin Steele

Colin Steele, EMC, VMware, VMware User Group

EMC has owned VMware since 2004, but for the most part, the two companies have continued to operate separately. Very separately. That may be changing.

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July 22, 2009 11:37 PM

Microsoft releases Hyper-V R2 to manufacturing

Posted by: Colin Steele

Colin Steele, Microsoft Hyper-V

Microsoft released Hyper-V R2 to manufacturing today, along with Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7. The release to manufacturing (RTM) means the final code is available for...

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July 22, 2009 7:09 PM

Is Microsoft giving up on Windows?

Posted by: Colin Steele

Cisco, Colin Steele, Google, Linux and virtualization, Microsoft Hyper-V, Microsoft Windows, VMware, Windows 7

You probably read the above headline and had a question of your own. Something along the lines of, "Colin, what have you been smoking?" I know, it seems ridonklulous to think that Microsoft would give up on its Windows operating system -- a product that dominates its market like few others in IT...

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July 17, 2009 6:40 PM

Burton Group: XenServer 5.5 is enterprise-ready

Posted by: Colin Steele

Citrix XenServer, Colin Steele, VMware

You may remember that back in February, the Burton Group released a hypervisor comparison report. And in that report, the only hypervisor to meet 100% of the firm's required criteria for...

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July 7, 2009 7:59 PM

Why does VMware care about Virtual Iron customers?

Posted by: Colin Steele

Colin Steele, Oracle VM, Virtual Iron, VMware, vSphere

Good news, Virtual Iron customers: In...

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July 1, 2009 12:39 PM

Will Oracle kill Sun virtualization too?

Posted by: Colin Steele

Colin Steele, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, Sun xVM, Virtual Iron

Oracle has stopped selling Virtual Iron products, terminated its Virtual Iron reseller agreements and...

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