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July 7, 2009  7:59 PM

Why does VMware care about Virtual Iron customers?



Posted by: Colin Steele
Colin Steele, Oracle VM, Virtual Iron, VMware, vSphere

Good news, Virtual Iron customers: In...

May 26, 2009  8:49 PM

Can you afford vSphere?



Posted by: Eric Siebert
Eric Siebert, VMware, vSphere

vSphere is out, and it contains lots of new features and functionality. But can companies afford to upgrade right now? vSphere is a great release -- if your hardware is supported and you...


May 5, 2009  7:38 PM

Get virtual with Sid Smith



Posted by: Colin Steele
Colin Steele, Microsoft Hyper-V, server virtualization, VMware, vSphere, Xen

Looking for another expert perspective on server virtualization? Sid Smith, who runs the Daily Hypervisor, now has a new blog here on IT Knowledge Exchange.


May 5, 2009  7:36 PM

VMware engineers caution IT pros: Use Fault Tolerance sparingly



Posted by: Bridget Botelho
Fault tolerance, virtual machine failover, vLockstep, VMware, VMware fault tolerance, VMware High Availability, VMware User Group, vSphere, vSphere Advanced Edition

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


May 5, 2009  2:52 PM

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



Posted by: Colin Steele
Colin Steele, Microsoft Hyper-V, server virtualization, VMware, VMware User Group, vSphere

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...


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...