August 20, 2009 7:24 PM
Posted by: Colin Steele
Colin Steele,
Hyper-V vs. VMwareEric Siebert should be commended for the blog he wrote today, calling on the major virtualization vendors to "stop bickering with each other ... and work towards...
August 18, 2009 3:18 PM
Posted by: Colin Steele
Colin Steele,
Hyper-V vs. VMwareImagine seeing a car commercial where the announcer said, "Sure, the car doesn't have air conditioning, a radio or a trunk, but at least it doesn't spontaneously explode!"
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August 11, 2009 5:17 PM
Posted by: Colin Steele
Colin Steele,
VMware,
VMworld 2009It's now less than three weeks away, and I am really getting excited for VMworld 1979.
Oh, I'm sorry. I mean VMworld 2009. You'll have to excuse my confusion. It's just that, ever since VMware announced the band playing the VMworld Party, I've had a little trouble figuring out what year...
July 27, 2009 3:08 PM
Posted by: Colin Steele
cloud computing,
Colin Steele,
VMware User GroupVMware 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
Posted by: Colin Steele
Colin Steele,
EMC,
VMware,
VMware User GroupEMC has owned VMware since 2004, but for the most part, the two companies have continued to operate separately. Very separately.
That may be changing.
July 22, 2009 11:37 PM
Posted by: Colin Steele
Colin Steele,
Microsoft Hyper-VMicrosoft 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...
July 22, 2009 7:09 PM
Posted by: Colin Steele
Cisco,
Colin Steele,
Google,
Linux and virtualization,
Microsoft Hyper-V,
Microsoft Windows,
VMware,
Windows 7You 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...
July 17, 2009 6:40 PM
Posted by: Colin Steele
Citrix XenServer,
Colin Steele,
VMwareYou 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...
July 7, 2009 7:59 PM
Posted by: Colin Steele
Colin Steele,
Oracle VM,
Virtual Iron,
VMware,
vSphere
Good news, Virtual Iron customers: In...
