J. Tyler "T-Rex" Rohrer, chief revenue officer and co-founder of Liquidware Labs, was never shy about selling himself and his ideas.
Which is more perilous: fleeing the Soviet Union before the fall of communism or starting up a cloud-computing business with no venture funding? Igor Papirov has survived both.
Ellen Rubin's success with startups continues at CloudSwitch, a developer of a software appliance that enables companies to securely run applications in the cloud while remaining integrated with their datacenters.
Nasuni CEO Andres Rodriguez believes he can handle the large data problem by leveraging the endless capacity of the cloud.
Unidesk President and CEO Don Bulens is in a rut, but a profitable one at that.
Jeff McNaught's career, in a nutshell: started software company; worked on TRS-80; co-developed first Windows-based thin client at Wyse that remains model for all thin clients sold today.
Being a one-man editorial shop at a magazine and Web site dedicated to virtualization is like blowing up Grand Coulee Dam and trying to catch all the spillover in a paper cup.
The memories of working in the IT industry in a post-Cold-War Russia remain vivid for Virsto CTO Alex Miroshnichenko.
Early in my editorial career, I'd occasionally cross paths with a well-known, well-connected and highly paid consultant who once declared, "Once the trade press stops writing about a technology, users start to use it."
Just in case you haven't caught one of my blogs, please allow me to introduce myself as the new editor in chief of Virtualization Review.
VMworld 2009 has come and gone-in a puff of cloud, you might say. It was a good show, still valuable, but not a great show like last year.
When it comes to virtualization offerings, how can you get the performance of a Lexus at the price of a Honda?
Remote Desktop Services and XenApp are much more efficient solutions than traditional VDI -- by a large margin.
Virtualization continues to shine amid economic distress in other IT segments.
On hypervisors, pricing strategies and innovations that need to continue, even as you each continue to claim your spots in the virtualization market.