VMware acquires performance management software company B-hive Networks
VMware, Inc. today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire B-hive Networks, Inc., a privately-held application performance management software company with headquarters in San Mateo, California and...
Virtualization Competitive Analysis in the middle of an ROI Calculator?

Microsoft recently published their Integrated Virtualization – ROI Tool, and I thought “That’s great. When the...
Friends don’t let friends, like VMware, act like Google
I like VMware. I like Google. Heck, both of them keep me more than busy with development ideas. But I have a problem with them. Google started it with Gmail. Although it is hard to remember now, Gmail was in beta forever. Oh wait, it still is? Huh. I guess I just figured it *must* have hit...
Adding a remote datastore to VMware Server 2.0 beta

I have been evaluating the VMware Server 2.0 beta on Windows and CentOS Linux systems since the release in November of 2007. The second beta of Server 2.0 was released in March, and both versions support adding remote datastores for guest virtual...
VMware’s Virtualization Forum 2008 in New York vendor centric
When attending a vendor sponsored conference, you expect that most - or all - of the sessions will focus on that vendor's products along with partner products. So, I wasn't all that surprised when I found that to be the case at
VMware: beware of bridge-building competitors
VMware may be king of the virtualization mountain now. But it should beware of bridge-building competitors. Chris Wolf, an analyst with the Burton Group, warned that Novell Inc. was similarly at the...
Use VI3 maps to visualize storage distribution

You may not have used the maps feature within the VMware Infrastructure Client because large environments become difficult to decipher. The maps view has become an important part of visualizing certain elements of the overall configuration of an ESX environment. One of the more useful mapping views...
VMware announces new desktop virtualization services, thin client certification
VMware, Inc. recently made two announcements surrounding its Virtual Desktop Infrastruture (VDI) product--a new certification program for thin client...
VMware versus the mainframe
Bogomil Balkansky, Senior Product Marketing Manager at VMware, gave the keynote address at the VMware virtualization forum a couple of weeks ago in New York City. His presentation focused on how...
Is hypervisor competition really just about the hypervisor?
