Top story: VMware will unveil Project Redwood, its cloud computing initiative for large businesses and hosting providers, at VMworld 2009. VMware consultant Lew Smith talks about VMware’s strategy for winning over these customers, who primarily use open source Xen hypervisors.
Top story: VMware says it will virtualize the Google Chrome Operating System upon its release in the second half of 2010.
Also: Virtualization expert Greg Shields calls in to discuss Microsoft’s new Linux drivers for Hyper-V. Hyper-V R2 releases to manufacturing. And there’s cloud computing news from the New England VMware User Group summer meeting.
Top story: With Hyper-V R2, Microsoft is ready to take on VMware in the server virtualization market, according to solutions providers at this week’s Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans.
Top story: VMware offers Virtual Iron customers a 40% discount if they switch to vSphere 4 and vCenter Server instead of Oracle VM. But why does VMware care about such a small customer base?
Top story: Red Hat will focus on KVM, not Xen, in its upcoming Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization release. Navin Thadani, senior director of the company’s virtualization business, calls in to discuss the shift and how it will help Red Hat compete in the market.
Also: This Week in Virtualization will be off next week for the July 4 holiday, but new episodes will resume July 10.
Top story: VMware limits third-party support for ESXi, which could drive customers to use Microsoft virtualization instead — especially once Hyper-V R2 comes out in October.
Also: Microsoft issues the System Center Virtual Machine Manager R2 release candidate, and This Week in Virtualization is now available on iTunes.
Top story: NetApp and EMC, VMware’s parent company, stage a bidding war to acquire Data Domain. Meanwhile, virtualization users look for new ways to save money on storage for virtualization.
Also: Microsoft announces the Hyper-V R2 release date, setting up a showdown with VMware.
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Top story: VMware will unveil Project Redwood, its cloud computing initiative for large businesses and hosting providers, at VMworld 2009. VMware consultant Lew Smith talks about VMware’s strategy for winning over these customers, who primarily use open source Xen hypervisors.
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