June 21, 2011 4:47 PM
Posted by: KeithKessinger
cloud computing,
VMwareCelebrities occasionally evolve beyond what made them famous. A great example is Jesse Ventura, who went from professional wrestling villain to governor of Minnesota. But others aren't so lucky. Just look at Eddie Murphy's singing...
June 20, 2011 6:58 PM
Posted by: AlyssaWood
PCI DSS,
Virtualization securityPCI DSS 2.0 clarified that credit-card-handling organizations could, in fact, use server virtualization. But the question still remained: How, exactly?
A new information supplement from the...
May 16, 2011 2:48 PM
Posted by: Colin Steele
Colin Steele,
Virtualization management,
VMwareVMware's acquisition spree continues today with Shavlik Technologies.
Shavlik is VMware's partner in VMware Go, a service designed to help SMBs deploy and manage virtualization more quickly and easily. The 18-year-old...
May 10, 2011 3:23 PM
Posted by: Colin Steele
Colin Steele,
Hyper-V vs. VMware,
KVM,
Red HatAt last week's Red Hat Summit, company execs painted Microsoft as their bitter rival. But the two vendors may have more in common than you'd think.
I was reading Beth Pariseau's...
May 5, 2011 10:56 AM
Posted by: AlyssaWood
KVM,
P2V,
Red Hat,
XenBOSTON -- By nature, virtual machines (VMs) are movers and shakers. The tools in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 perform the essential tasks of virtual-to-virtual (V2V) conversions,...
May 4, 2011 2:48 PM
Posted by: Colin Steele
cloud computing,
Colin Steele,
Red Hat,
VMwareBOSTON -- Your choice of hypervisor is a vote for the future of IT. And to choose VMware is to vote against the promise of cloud computing.
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April 15, 2011 6:20 PM
Posted by: KeithKessinger
management,
Microsoft,
scvmm,
scvmm2012,
vCenter,
Virtualization,
VMware,
vSphereVirtualization has always posed management problems for IT departments. And as more IT shops deploy multiple hypervisors, the problems are getting worse.
In companies that deploy both VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V, 71% have difficulties managing both hypervisors from a single console,...
April 4, 2011 10:12 PM
Posted by: Colin Steele
cloud computing,
Colin Steele,
EMC,
Mozy,
VMwareVMware acquired Mozy, the hosted backup service, from its parent company EMC today.
At first glance, VMware's Mozy acquisition seems like another one of its cloud pick-ups -- see: SpringSource, Zimbra, etc. -- that...
March 22, 2011 4:37 PM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
Hyper-V vs. VMware,
Microsoft Hyper-V,
System Center Virtual Machine ManagerMicrosoft Corp. revealed its new beta of System Center 2012 today.
At the Microsoft Management Summit...
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