Jul 24 2009 6:40PM GMT
Posted by: Colin Steele
VMware,
VMware User Group,
EMC,
Colin Steele
EMC has owned VMware since 2004, but for the most part, the two companies have continued to operate separately. Very separately.
That may be changing.
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May 5 2009 7:36PM GMT
Posted by: Bridget Botelho
VMware,
Fault tolerance,
vSphere,
vLockstep,
VMware fault tolerance,
virtual machine failover,
VMware User Group,
vSphere Advanced Edition,
VMware High Availability
One of the most anticipated features in the next version of VMware Virtual Infrastructure, vSphere, is Fault Tolerance, but VMware engineers caution IT pros to use it sparingly.
During the New England VMware User Group meeting in Newport, RI on April 30, VMware engineers who gave a session called “What’s Next for VMware Virtual Infrastructure” said not to use the upcoming fault tolerance (FT) feature as a general replacement for High Availability because it requires more resources. Instead, only use it where absolutely no downtime can be tolerated.
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May 5 2009 2:52PM GMT
Posted by: Colin Steele
Microsoft Hyper-V,
VMware,
VMware User Group,
server virtualization,
vSphere,
Colin Steele
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 now-notorious “Microsoft Mythbusters” video.)
Microsoft has always said VMware is more expensive than Hyper-V, and Yuen uses the upcoming release of vSphere 4 to drive that point home even further in his post, “VMware vSphere pricing - Meet the new price; same as the old price, only more.”
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May 1 2009 6:31PM GMT
Posted by: Bridget Botelho
women in technology,
VMware,
VMware User Group,
Virtualization,
technology jobs
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.
Sure, the whole tech industry is male dominated, but it seems even more so at VMware events, where the females stick out like sore thumbs and get stirred at like alien beings on a foreign planet.
My “outsider” paranoia was made poignantly clear when the older gentleman sitting beside me during lunch asked out of sincere curiosity, “So, why do you write about technology? Wouldn’t you rather be writing about fashion or something?”
My imaginary response was “Why, Yes! I would also love to spend my days writing about the latest additions to the My Little Pony collection and playing with Barbie dolls.” In reality, I was too insulted to think of anything witty to say, and was trapped in a flashback to when my brothers told me I couldn’t play G.I. Joes because I’m a girl.
With that, I made it my mission to speak to almost all of the women at the event about what they do and their virtualization projects. Which means I spoke to three women.
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