This Week in Virtualization: March 12, 2010

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This Week in Virtualization: March 12, 2010

This Week in Virtualization: March 12, 2010

This Week in Virtualization: March 12, 2010

Date: Mar 12, 2010

The March 12, 2010 edition of This Week in Virtualization covers these three stories:

SpringSource promotion: SpringSource will give away its new tc Server Spring Edition to customers that buy VMware vSphere, vCenter, ThinApp or View.

Oracle virtualization: Will Oracle be able to take on VMware once Oracle VM 3 comes out this spring?

VMware Labs:: VMware launched a new site to show off some of its in-development projects.

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Open source virtualization at Red Hat Summit 2010
VIDEO - Red Hat's Navin Thadani discusses the company's open source virtualization and cloud computing strategy at Red Hat Summit 2010 in Boston.
Virtual machine security guidelines
VIDEO - Virtual machine security should be a top priority. Expert Eric Siebert shares some security guidelines for protecting your virtual infrastructure.
Choosing a server: How to select hardware for virtualization
VIDEO - It's a challenge to select hardware for virtualization. Expert David Davis offers some tips for choosing a server that meets your needs.
Quiz: Private cloud characteristics and strategies
Tutorial - Before you take the private cloud quiz, review this study guide and the lessons in our Virtualization School on private cloud computing.
VMware Lab Manager users want clarity on vCloud Director
News - With significant overlap between key VMware products, users see the writing on the wall for Lab Manager, Will vCloud Director take Lab Manager's place?
( Oct 26, 2010 )
virtual switch
Definition - A virtual switch is a software program that allows one virtual machine (VM) to communicate with another.
virtual appliance
Definition - A virtual appliance is a virtual machine image file consisting of a preconfigured operating system environment and a single application. It is typically deployed as a subset of a virtual machine running on irtualization technology, such as VMware Workstation. A virtual appliance is designed to deliver a specific set of services by including a bare-bones operating system and one application... (Continued)
virtualization stack
Definition - A virtualization stack is the collection of resources that, along with the hypervisor, make up the Microsoft Hyper-V environment.

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