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A server virtualization blog covering virtual machine management and more.
Recent Posts
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Time is up for vSphere 5.5 users: Upgrade or pay to stay
- Editorial Director 05 Sep 2018 -
Top 10 VMworld 2018 sessions to look forward to
- Assistant Site Editor 17 Jul 2018 -
Laws to guide the IT career growth of a virtualization admin
- Assistant Site Editor 31 Jan 2018
LAS VEGAS – A large portion of VMware customers face a decision as the end of support for vSphere 5.5 draws near: Risk foregoing commercial support and security updates or pay up for a 12-month ...
VMworld 2018 promises a tour of emerging technologies, established products, high level strategy and technical deep dives. Plan your conference around these top 10 VMworld 2018 sessions, which ...
Attendees at a Virtualization Technology User Group event learned about five laws for IT career growth that are particularly useful for the virtualization admin in a changing industry.
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Dell going public? Here we go again
- Senior Executive Editor 26 Jan 2018 -
Virtualization divination: Which expert predictions came true in 2016?
27 Jan 2017 -
Virtualization product winners and losers of 2016
19 Dec 2016 -
VMware brings the steak – without the sizzle
- Senior Executive Editor 01 Sep 2016 -
Top 10 VMworld session picks for 2016
- Editorial Director 15 Jul 2016 -
Nobody told Citrix the hypervisor war is over
03 Jun 2016 -
Executive churn continues as VMware evolves and Dell-EMC deal looms
- Editorial Director 02 Mar 2016
Drowning in debt from its 2013 leveraged buyout, Dell Technologies might get a life line if it once again becomes a public company. But for customers it may create waves of uncertainty.
We asked our Advisory Board to look into the future and predict what trends would be big in virtualization in 2016. Looking back, how successful were they?
We took a look at the virtualization product news surrounding VMware, Microsoft, Citrix and Red Hat over the past year and crowned the overall winners and losers of 2016.
LAS VEGAS — There have been some years at VMware's annual VMworld conference where the company sold more sizzle than steak when introducing new technologies and their associated roadmaps. At this ...
Not sure which VMworld 2016 sessions to sign up for? We've scoured the agenda and picked our top 10 favorites.
In an attempt to close the gap in the race for hypervisor supremacy, Citrix rolled out XenServer 7 in May 2016.
The shakeup at VMware continues, as the company confirmed this week that COO Carl Eschenbach is leaving for venture capital firm Sequoia Capital.
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VMware using VSAN to redefine hyper-convergence, but is it the right move?
- Editorial Director 12 Feb 2016 -
VMware ready to drop the axe on vCloud Air, Fusion groups
- Senior Executive Editor 26 Jan 2016 -
VMware vSphere licensing changes -- decoded
- Editorial Director 28 Aug 2012 -
Veeam releases free backup tool for VMware and Hyper-V
- Senior News Writer 04 Jun 2012 -
Veeam scales out with Backup and Replication 6
- Senior News Writer 22 Aug 2011 -
Netflix streaming, VMware licensing and the end of the world as we know it
01 Aug 2011 -
VMware mum on vRAM changes
- Senior News Writer 29 Jul 2011 -
vSphere vs. Azure: The real battle
13 Jul 2010 -
VDI planning primer on DHCP scope options
- Veeam 30 Sep 2008 -
Recovering servers, virtual machines after power failure
29 Jul 2008 -
Using VRDP to view VirtualBox virtual machines remotely
- Veeam 19 Jun 2008 -
VMware entering final phase of virtualization evolution: Cloud computing
22 May 2008 -
Using ISO files with virtual machines
29 Apr 2008 -
The Value of the VCP (VMware Certified Professional)
- FSW, Inc. 12 Oct 2007 -
How Onaro, VMworld Award winner, aids VMware ESX deployments
13 Sep 2007 -
Citrix and Xen - the Fruity Flavored Path to Nirvana
- FSW, Inc. 21 Aug 2007 -
Xen vs. KVM, the pros and cons, from LinuxWorld 2007
- Features Writer 08 Aug 2007
VMware unveiled the latest version of its Virtual SAN software this week, and while the release includes welcome improvements, VMware's marketing message is missing the mark.
The bloodletting at VMware has begun. Reports published over the past several days about VMware laying off as many as 900 of its 18,000 or so employees are proving correct.
Beth Pariseau, Senior News Writer -- As expected, VMware made a grand show of ending the much-reviled vRAM pricing program this week at VMworld 2012 in favor of per-CPU licensing and bundled up its ...
VMware and Hyper-V admins can now get a free set of tools from Veeam for backing up, copying and transporting virtual machines. Veeam Backup Free Edition has no time limit on use, but it is limited ...
Hyper-V support was the headline when Veeam previewed its Backup and Replication 6 product at Microsoft TechEd. But with the new release, which will begin shipping in the fourth quarter, Veeam’s ...
At its core, virtualization is the abstraction of data from the physical world. We tend to look at virtualization as the abstraction of operating systems and applications from servers and PCs, but ...
A VMware spokesperson declined to confirm a blog report of imminent changes to the vSphere 5 licensing model Friday afternoon, but users should stay tuned. We’ve been told VMware is planning a ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Hyper-V vs. vSphere is SO last year. Cloud computing is the main theme at this week's Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, and Hyper-V has taken a backseat to Windows Azure. ...
Fellow virtualization expert Andrew Kutz has argued that future virtual desktop infrastructure technologies (VDI) need to lose the desktop to truly advance VDI technology, and I agree. But until ...
An event like a complete data center power failure is something you never want to experience. Having recently gone through one I thought I would share some lessons learned from it. This particular ...
In last week's blog, I wrote about my first experiences with Sun's xVM VirtualBox 1.6.2. I like the interface and the features available to this free desktop virtualization product. Among these ...
As new vendors enter the x86 virtualization space, pioneer VMware, Inc. is moving on to the next frontier, cloud computing, said VMware President and Chief Executive Officer Diane Greene in her ...
ISO files offer an advantage to virtual machines (VMs), chiefly as a means of loading operating systems and applications on virtual servers without the hassle of using physical media. Many tools ...
The VMware Certified Professional exam isn't the easiest exam in the world, nor the hardest (many diverge on whether Red Hat, Citrix, or Cisco win that title for their premier certification ...
Onaro's Bryan Semple describes a new product that brings storage and server teams together to deploy ESX.
XenSource is now going to be a part of Citrix, an interesting move that answers a question that a lot of Citrix aficionados, myself included, were wondering - "What is Citrix doing to remain ...
Software engineers Jeremy Fitzhardinge of XenSource Inc. and Avi Kivity of Qumranet Technologies laid out the pros and cons of Xen and KVM in a LinuxWorld 2007 session, titled “Xen and KVM: ...