September 2009

• September 03, 2009 03 Sep'09

  VMworld 2009 vibe with Greg Shields

  Virtualization expert Greg Shields of Concentrated Technology discusses the overall vibe of the show at VMworld 2009.  Continue Reading

• September 03, 2009 03 Sep'09

  ISVs say VMware is more competitive, 'difficult' to work with

  This summer's VMware-Veeam flare-up wasn't a onetime thing; other VMware ISV partners say the company has acted competitively toward them.  Continue Reading

• September 03, 2009 03 Sep'09

  SearchServerVirtualization.com's VMworld 2009 winners

  At VMworld 2009, SearchServerVirtualization.com held its third annual VMworld 2009 awards and designated Gold and finalist winners in eight categories. Check out the winners at a glance here.  Continue Reading

• September 03, 2009 03 Sep'09

  RSA posts security dos and don'ts: News in brief

  A new RSA report offers best practices to ensure security compliance in a virtual world.  Continue Reading

• September 03, 2009 03 Sep'09

  CA Wily demonstration at VMworld

  CA demonstrates its latest Wily technology at VMworld for Jan Stafford, executive editor for SearchSoftwareQuality.com.  Continue Reading

• September 03, 2009 03 Sep'09

  A bag of swag from VMworld 2009

  Editor Hannah Drake looks at some free goodies available at this year's VMworld conference.  Continue Reading

• September 03, 2009 03 Sep'09

  Brian Madden TV No. 17: From the VMworld floor

  At VMworld 2009, Brian Madden and Gabe Knuth discuss vendor announcements, show virtualization product demos and talk about VMware's plans.  Continue Reading

• September 02, 2009 02 Sep'09

  Citrix takes to taxis at VMworld 2009

  SAN FRANCISCO -- Much has been made about VMware's crackdown on competitors at VMworld 2009. Its goal is to keep the focus on VMware and its loyal partners, but really all it does is force the ...  Continue Reading

• September 02, 2009 02 Sep'09

  Double-Take, Reflex and Zenoss: Product news in brief

  Double-Take Software, Reflex Systems and Zenoss have announced several developments and updated versions of their virtualization products at VMworld 2009.  Continue Reading

• September 02, 2009 02 Sep'09

  VMware Go, vCloud Express

  Gabrie van Zanten shares his thoughts on the opening keynote on day one at VMworld.  Continue Reading

• September 02, 2009 02 Sep'09

  Users wary of VMware's move beyond core virtualization

  VMware's moves into desktop virtualization, consumer markets and cloud computing are very ambitious, but they lack real-world traction, VMworld attendees said.  Continue Reading

• September 02, 2009 02 Sep'09

  Internal clouds first, please

  Before the external cloud takes off, techs would like to use internal clouds -- which could be a deterrent from vCloud Express adoption.  Continue Reading

• September 02, 2009 02 Sep'09

  HyTrust wins Best in Show at VMworld 2009

  Eric Chiu of HyTrust discusses his company's Best of Show placing in the Best of VMworld 2009 awards and its gold medal in Security and Virtualization category for its HyTrust Appliance.  Continue Reading

• September 02, 2009 02 Sep'09

  Switching from VMware to Hyper-V

  Roger Johnson, an enterprise systems group team leader at Crutchfield, explains why he switched from VMware to Hyper-V.  Continue Reading

• September 02, 2009 02 Sep'09

  Microsoft Hyper-V R2 not ready, researcher reports

  Burton Group compared VMware's vSphere, Citrix's XenServer 5.5 and Microsoft's Hyper-V R2 for production environment readiness, and it dismissed Hyper-V once again.  Continue Reading

• September 02, 2009 02 Sep'09

  Maritz's Q&A: No plans to give VMotion away

  Eric Siebert recounts Paul Maritz's Q&A session. Topics: Free VMotion, VMware's focus and more.  Continue Reading

• September 02, 2009 02 Sep'09

  Vizioncore wins Best of VMworld 2009 award

  Vizioncore's Grace Krokidas talks about vRanger 4.0 Pro, which won gold in the Business Continuity and Data Protection Software category.  Continue Reading

• September 02, 2009 02 Sep'09

  Addressing data center pain points

  Doug Long of Verizon-Altel discusses how VKernel might address some of the pain points in his virtualization environment, including analysis of workloads on hosts and deduplication.  Continue Reading

• September 02, 2009 02 Sep'09

  Experts dish on standout features of Cisco's UCS

  Edward Haletky and a systems engineer from Cisco Systems discuss the architecture of the Unified Computing System and its promise.  Continue Reading

• September 02, 2009 02 Sep'09

  Best of VMworld Awards: AFORE Solutions

  Jon Osanitsch and Rob Marson from AFORE Solutions discuss being named finalists in the Best of VMworld 2009 Hardware for Virtualization category for their ASE3300 product.  Continue Reading