September 03, 2008 | TrackBacks: (1)

Sun and Tek-Tools integrate products

Sun Microsystems expands its strategic alliance with Tek-Tools Software and will sell its partners software alongside its Sun Common Array Manager software, which is used to manage Sun's storage arrays. more

TAGS: General News

September 02, 2008 | TrackBacks: (0)

VMware Fusion 2.0 reaches RC1 stage

Fusion 2.0, VMware's latest desktop virtualization software for the Apple Mac, is almost ready for release more

TAGS: Desktop Virtualization

September 01, 2008 | TrackBacks: (0)

Xen 3.3 is live, time to propose new features for 3.4

The open source Xen community is moving quickly to enhance the feature set of the Xen hypervisor technology more

TAGS: Server Virtualization

September 01, 2008 | TrackBacks: (0)

Catbird joins McAfee's security alliance program

Security concerns do not go away with virtualization. And thanks to a new security alliance, Catbird and McAfee customers will enjoy a common security management interface across their physical and virtual environments. more

TAGS: General News

August 29, 2008 | TrackBacks: (0)

Former PlateSpin employees return to small companies

Novell loses two key employees gained from the acquisition of long time virtualization solution provider, PlateSpin. more

TAGS: General News

August 27, 2008 | TrackBacks: (0)

Citrix application virtualization announcement around XenApp 5

The Citrix flagship product of Presentation Server has been improved and renamed to Citrix XenApp 5 in keeping with the company's Xen product line of XenDesktop and XenServer. more

TAGS: Application Virtualization

August 27, 2008 | TrackBacks: (0)

VMware hires ex-IBM exec for China post

VMware appoints a former IBM exec as its new President for the Greater China Region -- adding another suit into its relaxed corporate culture. more

TAGS: General News

August 26, 2008 | TrackBacks: (0)

Avnet helping Sun and IBM is in the clouds with resiliency centers

Avnet Technology Solutions recently announced new services to help Sun Microsystems' partners to capitalize on the growing virtualization market. And IBM continues its push to expand business continuity and resiliency services with a $300 million investment.   LISTEN!... more

TAGS: Podcast

August 26, 2008 | TrackBacks: (0)

Microsoft updates the Hyper-V Planning and Deployment Guide

Haven't installed Microsoft's Hyper-V in your environment yet? This guide should be on your To-Do list! more

TAGS: White Papers, Reports & Books

August 25, 2008 | TrackBacks: (0)

Is Surgient's success causing them to exit the hosting business?

Virtual Lab Application solution provider, Surgient, seems to be having a successful year. But does that mean the company is exiting its virtualization software hosted business in favor of on-site installations? more

TAGS: General News

August 25, 2008 | TrackBacks: (0)

HP takes the top spot on VMware VMmark scores for 16- and 32-cores

VMware's VMmark virtual machine performance benchmark tool can be used as a marketing tool for hardware vendors. HP recently submitted the highest VMmark scores for both 16- and 32-core hardware platforms. more

TAGS: General News

August 22, 2008 | TrackBacks: (0)

Security from Check Point Software and Altor Networks

Check Point Software recently moved from securing just the physical environment to securing the virtual with the introduction of its new VPN-1 product. And Altor Networks is also looking to secure the virtual world -- and the company also recently received a reader award as recognition for its Virtual Network Security Analyzer.   LISTEN!... more

TAGS: Podcast

August 20, 2008 | TrackBacks: (0)

Sun xVM VirtualBox finds new OEMs

Sun is taking their desktop virtualization solution to market with help from the OEM community, which includes the likes of Avanquest Software, Q-layer, and Zenith InfoTech more

TAGS: Desktop Virtualization

August 20, 2008 | TrackBacks: (0)

VMware creates a new book on business continuity and disaster recovery

VMware gets into the book-writing business and offers its first book to the community, covering business continuity and disaster recovery more

TAGS: White Papers, Reports & Books

August 19, 2008 | TrackBacks: (0)

Microsoft makes great strides with virtualization licensing and support

After years of pressure from the virtualization community and quite a few digs from VMware via blogs or report write-ups, Microsoft officially updated its licensing and support rules to be more "virtualization-friendly." more

TAGS: General News

August 19, 2008 | TrackBacks: (0)

Xen Community proposing the latest feature set for 3.3

The upcoming release of Xen 3.3 is near and the Xen Community is sharing some of the latest features for review. The open source Xen hypervisor continues to attack the challenges being faced in the virtualization community. more

TAGS: Server Virtualization

August 18, 2008 | TrackBacks: (0)

Interview with Brad Rowland on Symantec's Endpoint Virtualization

Symantec sees the opportunities available within the virtualization market. The company acquired Altiris SVS and AppStream to create its Endpoint Virtualization Group, and they've recently acquired nSuite to help round out their offering. I spoke with their marketing director Brad Rowland to find out the latest. more

TAGS: Interviews

August 15, 2008 | TrackBacks: (0)

VMware completes a patch fix; Surgient eyes the future

One of the big news items this week had to be the startling revelation many folks had on the morning of August 12th -- their VMware ESX virtual machines couldn't be powered on. And they couldn't figure out why! As VMware worked to complete a fix for the patch problem, the new CEO apologized. And one company who has made a business around VMware's offerings appears to be doing quite well at the moment. An article recently came out that stated that Surgient, an early virtualization adopter, is close to an IPO or acquisition after reporting good financial numbers.   LISTEN!... more

TAGS: Podcast

August 13, 2008 | TrackBacks: (0)

Microsoft creates virtualization launch event and user group

Microsoft's Hyper-V and its other virtualization technologies help push the company further into the virtualization community -- a new product launch event and user group could be the start. more

TAGS: General News

August 12, 2008 | TrackBacks: (0)

VMware ESX 3.5 Update 2 bug causes morning jitters

VMware customers woke up this morning to one of their worst nightmares: Virtual machines on their ESX or ESXi 3.5 servers with Update 2 would not power on or VMotion because of a bug in the update software. more

TAGS: General News

August 11, 2008 | TrackBacks: (0)

Sun xVM Server starting early access

Sun Microsystems is close to releasing its latest virtualization product to market: the company's first and anticipated server virtualization hypervisor technology, xVM Server. more

TAGS: Server Virtualization

August 11, 2008 | TrackBacks: (1)

Virtual Iron's latest release optimizes power usage

Virtual Iron is taking on additional power management in the virtual infrastructure with the release of version 4.4 that includes a new feature called LivePower. more

TAGS: Server Virtualization

August 08, 2008 | TrackBacks: (0)

VMware DRS Performance and Best Practices whitepaper

Familiar with VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler but want a little more help with its proper setup and configuration to get the most efficient benefit from it? Read this whitepaper from VMware if you use DRS in your virtual infrastructure environment. more

TAGS: White Papers, Reports & Books

August 07, 2008 | TrackBacks: (0)

Symantec expands its endpoint virtualization vision with nSuite

Symantec is expanding its endpoint virtualization solution with the acquisition of nSuite, which helps give Symantec's virtual workspace offering the ability to allow end-users to take their business desktops with them on the go. more

TAGS: General News