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Cisco Nexus 1000V to support Hyper-V 3.0

Cisco Systems Inc. is preparing to support Windows Server 8 Hyper-V with its Nexus 1000V virtual switch, which previously only supported VMware. A newly extensible virtual switch was among the new 

Microsoft moves beyond SMI-S with NetApp

By Beth Pariseau, Senior News Writer ATLANTA -- NetApp and Cisco have issued another reference architecture in partnership with a virtualization vendor. This time it's Microsoft. The

The preconfigured stack craze – if IT vendors build it, will users come?

While vendors and vendor coalitions are putting together preconfigured bundles of storage, networking, virtualization and applications, industry analysts say interest among IT pros in turnkey stacks...

Oracle VM machine targets Cisco, HP

Appliances like Cisco's Unified Computing System are designed to help you kick-start a virtualization deployment. Now, Oracle is banking on an appliance to do the same for its lagging virtualization market share. Our sister site SearchITChannel.com reports that a so-called "

Joe Tucci’s EMC World Q&A highlights

BOSTON -- EMC CEO Joe Tucci took 45 minutes after his keynote this morning to answer the media's questions here at EMC World 2010. Here's what he had to say on a variety of topics:

• EMC's acquisition strategy: He's always been a bigger fan of acquiring many small companies, as opposed...

Blades vs. rack servers: A different perspective

Our recent blades vs. rack servers face-off between Chris House and Rick Vanover has spurred some hot debate. Virtualization blogger Aaron...