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It should be clear to most of us by now that server virtualization changes the Disaster Recovery (DR) game dramatically. Rather than having to maintain a server at your DR site for each server in your production environment you can replicate physical, and/or virtual, servers from your production…

One of the hurdles keeping organizations from fully embracing virtualization is cost justification. To combat that, virtualization providers have been developing and offering their own ROI and TCO calculators, and many of them are quite good. It was just over a year ago that VMware launched its own…

Here's a new post from our Developer Center Blog. Welcome, Steve, to the virtualization blogosphere! Check out the Developer Center and Developer Community if you haven't for a while. A lot of solid resources for you. Link: VMware Communities: Developer...

At a recent Apple training event the VMware Fusion team was presenting at, there was an interesting (if geeky) question asked: can you use VMware Fusion to run an OPENSTEP virtual machine? For those who don't know, OPENSTEP was an...

Even as competition continues to heat up in the server virtualization world, virtualization market leader VMware continues to dominate in yet another area of the technology - certifications. Love 'em or leave 'em, those pieces of paper in the IT world can sometimes help an organization track down…

http://communities.vmware.com/message/940884?tstart=0#940884 Check out this great post on the VMWare community talking about blades or rackmounts for virtualization.  I’ve got mixed opinions on this. Rack servers can be a great vehicle for virtualization and I have used them in the past. This…

Sun Microsystems announced the initial version of its opensource OpenSolaris operating system, previously only available in a developer preview release. The OpenSolaris operating system is available as a free download for developers to develop, test, and deploy new Web services and network…

On April 22 the application virtualization firm Endeavors Technologies announced that was about to offer a streamed version of Office according to the new Microsoft Service Provider License Agreement (SPLA) that allows 3rd party vendors to do so.

Unable to find a confirmation in the available SPLA,…

VMware is intent on expanding its embedded presence in servers, adding tools for disaster recovery and software testing, and upping the ante on security, according to Bogomil Balkansky, VMware?s senior director of product marketing....

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Xen cofounder and project lead Ian Pratt said predictions about his virtualization hypervisor?s demise to the newer kernel-based virtual machine (KVM) technology are unfounded, a by-product of his competitors? imaginations. ...

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In my recent article about the realities of managing a virtualised infrastructure, I mentioned the need to patch offline virtual machine images. Whilst many offline images will be templates, they may still require operating system, security or application updates to ensure that they are not…

In an article over at SearchSecurity.com, Simon Crosby, the CTO of Citrix, suggests that "Virtualization vendors [are] not in the security business.". Besides summarizing what is plainly an obvious statement of fact regarding the general omission of integrated security (outside of securing the…

In the following DABCC Virtualization Video Podcast, Douglas Brown interviews Kevin Goodman, CEO and Founder of RTO Software. Doug and Kevin discuss RTO Software's Virtual Profiles solution and how it eliminates user profile data corruption problems, enhances user flexibility, and delivers faster…

Login Consultants has released a Beta version of their Login VSI tool. According to the company, “Login Virtual Session Indexer (Login VSI), is a free and easy to use benchmarking methodology from Login Consultants. The Login VSI is a complete toolset that allows you to easily compare…

Parallels has updated Parallels Desktop to build 5600. With the update, the company has added full support for Windows Vista SP1, Windows XP SP3, and improved compatibility with the MacBook Air. Parallels Desktop users get this update for free via the auto-updater. If you aren't using auto-…

CiRBA Inc., a leader in Data Center Intelligence software, today announced that it will host a live Webcast on Wednesday, May 14, at 12:00 p.m. EDT entitled “Now What?” Successful Strategies for Optimizing Virtual Infrastructure After Consolidation.” This one-hour event will be co-presented…

DataCore Software, the leading provider of storage virtualization SAN software, today announced that Integral Networks will deliver its storage virtualization solutions. Integral Networks, Inc. provides total network consulting, IT management, outsourcing and computer service to companies…

If you haven't started down the path of adding virtualization into your datacenter, what's stopping you? There are so many different benefits offered by the technology, like server consolidation, disaster recovery & business continuity, migrations, and more. And if you aren't sure, just ask a…

I just finished the last session of Partner Exchange 2008 here in San Diego, CA, and wanted to post some thoughts and information from the event. There is quite a bit of information that I can?t discuss because it is under NDA, but I wanted to at least share what information I could....

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Despite being a hot topic, virtualization of storage isn't being taken up as quickly as many think, a Forrester analyst has said. It may be the hot topic of the past few years, but virtualization of storage is still not being taken up by the majority of companies, an analyst has said. ...

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DataCore Software, the leading provider of storage virtualization SAN software, today announced that JMR Construction Corp. has become a DataCore SANmelody customer courtesy of DataCore partner Integral Networks. VMware and DataCore serve as a way forward for the DataCore partner and customer alike.…

Will NFS become the predominant storage deployment method for VMware implementations? NFS didn't need to be saved, but because of VMware its use has been broadened beyond the traditional Unix implementations. Instead of creating a LUN for each VMware Virtual Disk (VMDK), with NFS you manage…

A couple of weeks ago I contacted Rob, the man behind RVTools, and asked him if he could add an export or copy+past functionality to his amazing tool “RVTools”. This amazing tool checks the VMware tools version and gives you the option to update them all at once. Rob updated his tool today:…

ClearCube announced today that its software business is being spun-off and launched as an independent new company called VDIworks. Built on five generations of proven success within enterprise production environments, VDIworks delivers one of the most comprehensive, flexible software management…

In January of this year, ClearCube introduced version 5.6 of its Sentral VDI Management System software. With this release, the company promoted the notion of "No Vendor Lock-Down", meaning that it would provide cross-platform support for hardware from all leading vendors and also provide vendor…

At the IDC Virtualization Forum here, the research firm's analysts portrayed x86 virtualization technology as beginning to move well beyond basic server consolidation and software development to spread into new areas that include disaster recovery, high availability and business continuity....

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After being an analyst for many years I began to notice an interesting phenomenon. Sometimes I couldn't switch being an analyst off. Problem with the car? Let's generate a quick logic tree diagram and fix that puppy. Can't get the top off the pickle jar? No problem, we'll just quickly jot down a…

On the first day of Interop, we joined together with NetQoS to poll 117 Interop attendees and gauge where they stood with emerging technologies. Fifty percent of the respondents were C-level or IT management. The surprise with the polling wasn?t that virtualization is popular, but rather the strong…

Astute readers may have noticed many of my recent blog posts have touched on VM management. I've been doing research for InformationWeek Reports, investigating the state of vendor offerings, real-world experiences and new solutions to handle VM sprawl.

This is the first in a series of posts outlining the feature, methods and ideas surrounding the tool: Ubuntu-VM-Builder. Ubuntu-VM-Builder Caution, security warning: These are default settings for a new virtual machine, you will want to change them immediately or better idea would be to set them…

We have recently been very busy with SAP activities and events, including SAP Virtualization Week in Palo Alto, SAP Sapphire Orlando, the completed VMware Site Recovery Manager project with SAP and NetApp at the SAP Co-Innovation Lab, and the announcement of the SAP Enterprise Virtualization…

virtualization.info has learned that Mike Grandinetti, Chief Marketing Officer at Virtual Iron, left the company recently.

Grandinetti, in Virtual Iron since the beginning in 2003, was the public face of the company.
His role is now covered by the new Chief Strategy Officer Tony Asaro, appointed…

A flu virus was picked up by at least a few attendees to the JavaOne Conference at the Moscone Center, the San Francisco Health Department has warned. It didn't say how many of the 15,000 attendees were affected, but as I read this in the San Francisco Chronicle, I'm feeling poorly [look at his…

In January 2008 VMware, a hardware virtualization company, acquired an application virtualization startup called Thinstall.
The plan is to use the Thinstall technology to stream virtualized applications on the virtual desktops that VMware spawns through its connection broker: the Virtual Desktop…

Seems that VMware is wanting to expand the certification for its product. Not a bad idea as it is the road that most enterprise technologies choose. It is hard to have just one category for "experts" fall in to.

Continue reading "VCDX Certification"

Microsoft just opened the beta program for a new tool, the Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool, which aims addressing a concrete challenge: keep updated a large amount of virtual machines stored in a VM library and acting as templates for cloning operations.

Since these virtual machines are not…

Quest Software, Inc. (Nasdaq:QSFT) today reported financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2008. Total revenues increased to $172.8 million compared to the prior year’s first quarter revenue of $149.8 million. As previously disclosed, Quest modified its revenue recognition practices…

VMware, Inc. (NYSE:VMW), the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the datacenter, today announced that VMware President and Chief Executive Officer Diane Greene will present as a keynote speaker at the JP Morgan Technology Conference in Boston, MA on Wednesday, May 21, 2008…

Devon IT, Inc., an alternative desktop solution company and the fastest-growing provider of thin client solutions, today announced their participation in a virtualization event sponsored by Datatrend Technologies, a leading IT solutions provider of server and storage solutions; and structured…

DataCore Software, the leading provider of storage virtualization SAN software, today announced that JMR Construction Corp. has become a DataCore SANmelody customer courtesy of DataCore partner Integral Networks. VMware and DataCore serve as a way forward for the DataCore partner and customer alike.…

I was researching Dell’s latest announcement, Dell Unveils Virtualization Blockbuster – From Servers and Storage to Software and Services and trying to find definitive proof of the $99 price for embedded ESXi or the $299 price for embedded Citrix XenServer Express as reported by…

According to the news that virtualization.info broke yesterday, Dell announces today its new server for virtualization: the PowerEdge R805 and 905 (two sockets the former, four sockets the latter).

The hardware comes with an interesting configuration (AMD Quad-Core, 16 DIMM slots, integrated quad-…

Yesterday, opening its new conference for partners, the Partner Exchange 2008, VMware announced a new technical certification for VAC partners: the VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX).

The VCDX targets virtualization architects who already achieved the VCP certification and it's made by two exams:

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Proxmox Server Solution GmbH is building an open source management tool for virtualization platforms: Proxmox Virtual Environment.

The product, still in beta (0.9), has some interesting capabilities:

• Bare-metal installation (based on Debian Etch 64bit, which includes the supported virtualization…

VMware will be renamed Thinstall to Thinapp. Read it here. Besides this blog a Thinstall employee confirmed this.

In his previous article What is VMware ESX Server 3i (ESXi)?, David Davis covered the basics of ESX Server 3i. In this article, he will show you, step by step, how to install VMware ESX Server 3i. Learn how download a free evaluation and install this powerful new virtualization software!

Scott just finished the last session of Partner Exchange 2008 in San Diego, CA, and wanted to post some thoughts and information from the event. There is quite a bit of information that he can’t discuss because it is under NDA, but he wanted to at least share the information he could.

Overall, the…

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This is Steve from VMware CoDevelopment Engineering. Just want to share with you some sample code and underlying Java APIs on top of VI SDK. This API package:

• Enables OO programming with a well defined managed object model
• Reduces the need to use ManagedObjectReference
• Hides the complexity…

I was reading through my normal routine of blogs and tech news today and came across and article written by Maureen O'Gara. The article was about Dell  really taking it to the competition by OEMing Egenera's PAN manager. The combination of technologies like PAN to handle your Business and Mission…

Yesterday I was a speaker at “Virtualization: Getting from Pilot to Production.” During my second session I claimed that you could VMotion a virtual machine (VM) that uses a Raw Device Mapping (RDM) to access a raw logical unit number (LUN). Two audience members challenged this claim, saying…

VMware Infrastructure 3 Update 1, made available on April 10 2008, introduces some core updates to ESX Server 3.5, VirtualCenter 2.5, and the VMware Infrastructure Management Installer. The biggest reason to upgrade, however, is the inclusion of Storage VMotion. Among the core features now…

What do future generations think about the state of Java and its relevance to their research? The answer may surprise you, and Sun.

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Get four full days of conference activities, including more than 200 breakout sessions around seven tracks and hands-on labs, led by VMware and industry professionals. VMworld officially kicks off on Monday, September 15 with an evening Welcome Reception in the Solutions Exchange. You can…

View and post videos related to VMworld conferences or virtualization topics. From presentations and demos—to contest entries and industry humor, enjoy this new area for the VMworld community to share!



At the end of the VMworld 2007 event in San Francisco VMware launched the “what rocked my…

Today VMware wrapped up Partner Exchange 2008 in San Diego. Here are some of my thoughts from the conference.

VMworld 2008 Be part of THE event that defines the virtualization industry. Don’t miss the only conference where you can get information about virtualization best practices, participate in hands on labs and network with thousands of your peers to gain the knowledge you need to implement virtual…

Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS), the global leader in application delivery infrastructure, today announced the availability of Citrix XenServer™ software factory integrated on Dell PowerEdge™ servers. Building on the announcement made on October 23, 2007, Citrix and Dell Inc. have partnered…

It seems everywhere I look these days, people are talking about stateless computing. In just the past week, I?ve had 3 encounters with this phenomenon....

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I had the great fortune to attend a presentation from Microsoft earlier this week where we spent a couple hours with one of the senior engineers in their server group discussion the future of the server OS, focusing specifically on virtualization. For the most part it was a discussion on serve…

One of the hands on labs I attended at VMware Partner Exchange was the Site Recovery Manager (SRM) lab. In the lab I was able to get a good understanding of the technical details of how the yet to be released product is configured. The lab then walked us through the fail over process and [...]

In my post titled "The Four Horsemen Of the Virtualization Apocalypse" I brought to light what I think are some nasty performance, resilience, configuration and capacity planning issues in regards to operationalizing virtualized security within the context of security solutions as virtual…

As Microsoft readies Hyper-V, the new hypervisor software that forms the foundation for virtualization in Windows Server 2008, VMware is finally facing some real competition in the Windows server virtualization market. Unfortunately, Microsoft has followed in VMware's footsteps by creating its own,…

After a little 3-day hiatus of flying a single engine airplane across the country from San Diego, CA to Massachusetts, I am back in action. Spending 3 days in a little single engine plane using nothing but ground references to pick my way across the United States is a trip I will never forget and…

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Arnold Veenema a colleague of mine wrote an interesting item on his website about how to create your own bootable USB stick with ESXi (Previous called ESX 3i) using the download of the ESXi installable ISO-image. In twelve easy steps you will be able to use your own…

Things are heating up in the hypervisor and virtualization software space with Microsoft's release of the Hyper-V within Windows Server 2008 and adding VMware support to Microsoft System Center products. (The standalone Hyper-V release is a few months out.) ...

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Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX) today announced that EMC Corporation has qualified the Emulex LightPulse(r) LPe12000 family of 8Gb/s Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs) for the EMC(r) CLARiiON(r), EMC Celerra(r) and EMC Symmetrix(r) networked storage system families. Emulex 8Gb/s HBAs, which are…

One of the industry’s most scalable virtualization servers is now available from Dell and based on the Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processor, AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced. Enterprise customers interested in consolidating server infrastructure may turn to two new virtualization servers from Dell…

Xsigo Systems, Inc., the technology leader in data center I/O virtualization, today announced that it has added two new channel partners in the United States to distribute its award-winning I/O virtualization technology to leading enterprise customers. By using Xsigo’s technology, it is estimated…

Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS), the global leader in application delivery infrastructure, today announced it was named one of the top 10 places to work in the annual ranking of "100 Best Places to Work in the Bay Area” by the San Francisco Business Times, Silicon Valley/San Jose Business…

At VMware Partner Exchange 2008, VMware, Inc. (NYSE:VMW), the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the datacenter, today announced new and enhanced strategic enhancements to its world-class, award-winning channel partner programs. The enhancements build on initiatives…

Virtutech, Inc., the leading provider of virtualized software development solutions for advanced electronic systems, today announced that General Dynamics C4 Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE:GD), is deploying Virtutech Simics for the ground segment of the U.S. Navy’s Mobile User…

Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS), the global leader in application delivery infrastructure, today announced the availability of Citrix XenServer™ software factory integrated on Dell PowerEdge™ servers. Building on the announcement made on October 23, 2007, Citrix and Dell Inc. have partnered…

ScaleMP, a provider of virtualization solutions for high-end computing, today announced details of its channel partner program. The program, designed to assist channel partners in providing unique server solutions for their customers’ high-end computing needs, offers resellers and system…

Tek-Tools Software, a leading provider of IT resource management software solutions, today announced that its growth continues with 40 new customers and several existing customers expanding installations of Profiler Suite in the first quarter of 2008. Increasingly, new and existing customers are…

Virtualization on the Mac is starting to get up to speed, with the latest software releases containing many of the features that the rest of the IT industry takes for granted....

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In the May 2008 edition of the VMware Partners email newsletter I received this week there is news of the official availability of the VMware Certified Design Expert certification or VCDX. From the email: Advanced Certification for VMware Infrastructure Design The VMware Certified Design Expert…

Dell announced yesterday that ESXi will cost only $99. (source: virtualization.info) Citrix Xenserver will cost you $299. I’m really curious how HP, IBM and Fujitsu are going to respond to this. And what is Microsoft going to do with this very competitive pricing. Anyway, what ever happens Dell…

Citrix Systems, Inc. announced the availability of Citrix XenServer? software factory integrated on Dell PowerEdge? servers. Building on the announcement made on October 23, 2007, Citrix and Dell Inc. have partnered to make integrated server virtualization technology a reality for customers of all…

Before an audience of more than 4,000 IT professionals and partners at Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) last week, Brad Anderson, General Manager in the Management and Services Division at Microsoft, kicked off the day with the keynote "Managing the Dynamic Desktop". As part of the keynote, Brad…

Server virtualization has saved business supply giant Corporate Express AU$1.8 million and allowed it to ditch more than 90 percent of its existing server hardware. But achieving those benefits required a major shift in the company's storage infrastructure and business engagement with data…

VMware Project Northstar (formerly Thinstall) Beta 2 release is now available. If you're a little fuzzy on application virtualization, here is our description: VMware application virtualization (powered by Thinstall) technology lets you deploy applications without conflicts quicker then ever…

I ended up with a Toyota Prius as my rental car for the week in San Diego. I’ve never driven a Prius before, and honestly, I’ve never really had an interest in the car until now. Like most, I knew that the Prius uses a Hybrid Synergy Drive (HSD) engine, but I had no idea [...]

Want to try out desktop virtualization? Take a look at Sun's latest open source VirtualBox -- I bet it has a binary with your name on it.

It has been reported by Private Equity Hub that Waltham, MA-based virtualization software company Leostream finally completed a $3 million Series A round of funding which was led by Meakem Becker Venture Capital. What's particularly interesting about this news to me is that I have somewhat of a…

Citrix Systems, Inc. announced today the availability of Citrix XenServer virtualization software factory integrated on Dell PowerEdgeTM servers.  It will be available in the Express and Enterprise Editions and will be the only virtualization solution to be fully integrated with the Dell OpenManage…

VMWare, Inc. has announced the first Beta release of its next generation of Mac virtualization. That, of course is Fusion 2.o. So what new features have made their way into the first Beta? True Support for Multiple Displays Virtual Printing to your Mac printer New High Resolution icons (we’ve…

This installation of Virtualization Short Take is especially short, given that most of my time this week has been taken up with VMware Partner Exchange in San Diego.

VMware has updated VMware Converter to version 3.0.3, fixing a number of issues and adding the ability to create OVF-based virtual appliances.

VMware says it's received a bad rap when it comes to security. The company's problems started with a 2006 presentation at the Black Hat security conference by Joanna Rutkowska, CEO of Invisible Things Lab. Ironically, Rutkowska's "Blue Pill" talk had nothing to do with VMware. It was about creating…

Our partners at Dell have published the first VMmark results using the new AMD quad-core Barcelona processors. Both the 2-socket (8-core) R805 platform and the 4-socket (16-core) R905 platform have been tested. You can find all of the details on...

One aspect of the staggered release of Hyper-V and VMM 2008 is the focus on how to manage virtualization ... any virtualization environment, but specifically Microsoft's. What this article also points out is that VMM 2008 starts out by demonstrating its capabilities to manage multi-vendor…

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Here at Virtualizationstuff we have rolled out the following methodology for implementing a virtualization project. The Acronym is APPLES. The beauty of the methodology is its simplicity and the fact that most organizations can do a lot of the work minimizing costs…

Ken Abendshien is CIO of Midwest Health Systems Data Center, a tech support organization that provides outsourced data center services to 27 small county hospitals and long-term care facilities in Kansas, and two in Nebraska. Some of those sites are really tiny -- treating one or two patients a day.…

Neocleus, a pioneer in virtualization that is fundamentally changing how endpoints operate, today announced that it has completed more than 18 months of work to enhance the Xen hypervisor to work directly on endpoints such as desktops and laptops. Neocleus will contribute these enhancements to the…

In the following DABCC Virtualization Video Podcast, Douglas Brown interviews Kevin Goodman, CEO and Founder of RTO Software. Doug and Kevin discuss RTO Software's PinPoint that provides real-time performance and critical-path monitoring, root-cause analysis and end-to-end visibility of…

A new startup enters the virtualization market today with a soft launch: Neocleus.

The company, founded in 2006 and based in US (with the R&D center in Israel) received a first round of investments in 2007: $5 million from Battery Ventures and Gemini Israel.

Neocleus has a strong focus on security…

I've been updating most of the Top 10 lists so they reflect some of the newer content that is now available. Be sure and check them out, I'm also in the process of adding a bunch of new ones.

Scouring the internet to collect links is hard, time-consuming work and it's difficult sometimes to always find the time. I've just added a batch of about 100 new links to the VMware Links page. I've started noting new links on the page and the date they were added. Enjoy!

The Launchpad has been re-organized and many new websites have been added to it, check it out. The Launchpad is your one stop shop for all the good VMware-related websites including news, blogs, reference and much more.

I've signed up to be a regular blogger on Tech Target's SearchServerVirtualization.com website. Be sure and check out my blog posts over there. I've also been writing feature articles for SearchVmware.com, check out my latest articles on Snapshots: Part 1 and Part 2

Here is a cheap way of building an VMware ESX and Virtual Center development / demo environment with iSCSI which includes all the Virtual Center high availability functions, including HA, DRS and VCB. You will need to following to build this environment:...

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During the Dutch VMUG Meeting in December 2007 the VMUG team announced that it would organize smaller meetings focussing a specific subject.

The first meeting of this kind will be held on Thursday June 5, 2008 at NetApp.

Important! To attend you will have to sign up because the number of attendees…

Oracle is integrating virtualization management into its grid control product, the company?s chief corporate architect said. Oracle VM, a server virtualization product based on the Xen open source virtualization hypervisor, made its debut last November. The VM software supports Oracle and non-…

VizionCore announced last week the first enterprise-class performance monitoring solution designed specifically for large virtualization deployments. If you're a user of VMware's VirtualCenter, you know that it includes nominal performance monitoring tools within the Virtual Infrastructure Client.…

The VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX) on VMware Infrastructure 3 is an advanced certification developed for design architects of VMware enterprise deployments. There are four core validation components to achieve VCDX.

(1) Must be certified as a VMware Certified Professional (VCP) on VMware…

The company's problems started with a 2006 presentation at the Black Hat security conference by Joanna Rutkowska, CEO of Invisible Things Lab. Ironically, Rutkowska's "Blue Pill" talk had nothing to do with VMware. It was about creating undetectable malicious software using the virtualization…

Some virtualization vendors have an online ROI/TCO calculator that prospects and customers can use to justify the purchase of their hyperivsors: VMware has one, Parallels has one.

Microsoft, which is preparing to release Hyper-V 1.0, now has one as well: the Microsoft Integrated Virtualization ROI…

Qumranet, the US startup that supports the development of KVM (the hypervisor included in the Linux kernel), announced its first product in September 2007: Solid ICE, an all-in-one VDI solution (the virtualization server based on KVM, the management console, the connection broker and the accelerated…

Having just emerged from some serious white paper writing it seems like a great time for a new post. We released three new papers last week, and before I put my pen down I will keep the momentum going for a few more paragraphs so I can chime in on what we, and the market, have been up to....

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At VMware Partner Exchange 2008, VMware, today announced new and enhanced strategic enhancements to its world-class, award-winning channel partner programs. The enhancements build on initiatives announced in February 2008 to enhance the VMware VIP Partner Program, helping VMware's more than 13,000…

Gerben just blogged about it, and I blogged about it several times over the last couple of months but as of next month the new certification is available: source The VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX) on VMware Infrastructure 3 is an advanced certification developed for design architects of…

Veeam Software introduced a new program designed to support and enhance the virtualization practices of top value-added resellers, systems integrators and consultants. Veeam ProPartner includes a members-only online portal with fast access to NFR license keys, discounts on Veeam software for resale,…

VMware Converter 3.0.3 is a maintenance release of VMware Converter. It has the following enhancements:

• Contains bug fixes described in Resolved Issues and known issues described in Known Issues.
• Can convert individual volumes on a single physical disk from the source physical machine to separate…

Dell today announced its broadest lineup of dedicated virtualization solutions ever. More than a dozen new servers, tools, and services simplify the deployment and management of virtualization in Enterprises of any size. “Virtualization is quickly moving beyond hypervisors and hardware…