December 16, 2010 5:21 PM
Posted by: Colin Steele
Colin Steele,
Hyper-V vs. VMware,
Microsoft,
Oracle,
Paul Maritz,
VMwarePaul Maritz knows VMware has a target on its back.
The VMware CEO was the latest guest on Fortune's "Connected with Adam Lashinsky," where he talked about VMware's standing in...
September 15, 2010 6:38 PM
Posted by: Colin Steele
Citrix,
Colin Steele,
Microsoft. Intel,
Novell,
Oracle,
Red Hat,
VMwareThe New York Post got the scoop today that Novell is selling itself in two parts: its SUSE Linux business will go to a mysterious "strategic buyer," and the rest to a private...
September 2, 2010 8:18 PM
Posted by: Colin Steele
cloud computing,
Oracle,
VMware,
VMworld 2010By Beth Pariseau, Senior News Writer
SAN FRANCISCO -- After the splashy, high-level announcement of VMware’s vCloud Director on Tuesday morning, reality set in at a...
April 30, 2010 5:46 PM
Posted by: Colin Steele
Citrix,
Colin Steele,
KVM,
Novell,
Oracle,
Red Hat,
XenIn case you missed it, News Director Alex Barrett has a very interesting story up on our sister site SearchEnterpriseLinux.com. It's about the Linux community and what she calls its "mass...
February 1, 2010 4:09 PM
Posted by: Colin Steele
Colin Steele,
Oracle,
Sun MicrosystemsThis Q&A was supposed to be part of our This Week in Virtualization podcast on Oracle's Sun acquisition and future virtualization plans, but we ran into some technical difficulties and...
January 28, 2010 2:19 PM
Posted by: Colin Steele
Colin Steele,
Microsoft,
Oracle,
Oracle Enterprise Manager,
Oracle VM,
Sun Microsystems,
VMware2009 was the year of Microsoft vs. VMware. Is 2010 shaping up to be the year of Oracle vs. VMware?
During yesterday's five-hour
January 6, 2010 4:35 PM
Posted by: Colin Steele
Citrix,
Colin Steele,
Oracle,
Oracle VMOracle is finalizing its deal for Sun Microsystems and already bought Virtual Iron. But an even bigger virtualization acquisition -- Oracle-Citrix Systems -- may be on the horizon.
Oracle is sizing up...
April 27, 2009 7:00 PM
Posted by: Alex Barrett
IOPS,
Oracle,
performance,
VMware,
vSphereWhen it comes to IOPS performance, VMware has its proverbial panties in a bunch. Plagued by the public perception that IO-intensive workloads don’t perform well in a virtual machine, the company is on a mission to prove otherwise, throwing tremendous amounts of engineering resources at the...
A surprisingly high number of database administrators attended last week's New England VMware User Group meeting in Brunswick, Maine. Maybe they came for the...
