Virtualization

VMware engineers caution IT pros: Use Fault Tolerance sparingly

One of the most anticipated features in the next version of VMware Virtual Infrastructure, vSphere, is

Microsoft: With vSphere, now we’re even cheaper than VMware!

Microsoft is nothing if not persistent. The folks up in Redmond have fired yet ANOTHER salvo against VMware. This time it's in the form of a blog post by Edwin Yuen, the senior technical product manager for Microsoft's integrated virtualization team. (You may know him as "Laughing Guy" from the...

Microsoft TechEd, virtualization and you

Windows 7 is supposed to be the star of next week's Microsoft TechEd show in L.A., but the conference will also have a ton of stuff for all you virtualization users out there. Some sessions will focus on Windows Server...

The VMware User Group: A boys club

I attended the New England VMware Users Group meeting in Newport, RI on Thursday, and as usual, I was one of only a small handful of women there.

Face-Off: VMware vs. Microsoft in the hypervisor wars

The great virtualization debate: VMware vs....       0 Comments     RSS Feed     Email a friend May 1, 2009  12:43 PM Virtualization: The swine flu cure? Posted by: Craig Hatmaker business continuity, desktop, telecommute, VDI, Virtualization Why virtualize? There are many reasons why it’s beneficial to virtualize your environment, but the current       0 Comments     RSS Feed     Email a friend April 27, 2009  7:00 PM VMware bristles at suggestions of lousy IOPS performance Posted by: Alex Barrett IOPS, Oracle, performance, VMware, vSphere When 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...       0 Comments     RSS Feed     Email a friend April 27, 2009  6:34 PM Open source hypervisors face an uphill battle Posted by: Colin Steele Colin Steele, Microsoft Hyper-V, Open source, Oracle, server virtualization, Sun Microsystems, VMware VMware vs. Microsoft is the hot debate in virtualization these days, but what about proprietary vs. open source hypervisors? Forrester Research has an interesting take on that topic. The...       0 Comments     RSS Feed     Email a friend April 27, 2009  2:52 PM Consolidation ratios are yesterday’s news Posted by: Craig Hatmaker hypervisor, Virtualization, Why choose server virtualization? Ever notice that when you talk to someone about virtualizating, it always seems to come down to, "So, what's your consolidation ratio?" Everyone seems to care only about the number of virtual machines you can house on a single host system. While consolidation ratios are important, they're...       1 Comment     RSS Feed     Email a friend April 20, 2009  3:36 PM Oracle-Sun: A threat to VMware? Posted by: Colin Steele Colin Steele, Oracle, Oracle VM, server virtualization, Sun Microsystems, Sun xVM You may have heard this morning that Oracle acquired Sun...       0 Comments     RSS Feed     Email a friend PREV...9101112131415161718...3040...NEXTLAST About This Blog A server virtualization blog covering virtual machine (VM) management and administration, VMware, Xen, Microsoft, server consolidation and hardware, backup and disaster recovery, VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure) and more. >> READ MORE ABOUT THIS BLOG Browse This Blog’s Tags Andrew Kutz, Application virtualization, Blade servers, Citrix, Citrix XenServer, cloud computing, Colin Steele, Desktop virtualization, EMC, Eric Siebert, hardware, High availability and virtualization, Hyper-V vs. VMware, Joseph Foran, Linux and virtualization, Microsoft, Microsoft Hyper-V, Microsoft Virtual Server, Networking, Oracle, Oracle VM, P2V, Product announcements, Red Hat, Rick Vanover, Servers, server virtualization, Storage, Sun xVM, Uncategorized, VDI, Video, VirtualBox, Virtual Iron, Virtualization, virtualization costs, Virtualization management, Virtualization platforms, Virtualization security, Virtualization strategies, Virtual machine, VMware, VMworld, VMworld 2008, VMworld 2010, vSphere, vSphere 5, Why choose server virtualization?, Xen, XenSource Server Virtualization News and Opinions Columbia Sportswear's move from virtualization to private cloud computing Columbia Sportswear parlayed server virtualization into a private cloud. 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