As virtualization's popularity grows, so, too, does the presence of virtualization vendors at Microsoft's annual Tech-Ed North America conference. This year's show promises to feature more of them than ever, giving attendees the chance to sample more virtualization technologies.
At a time when everyone is watching the bottom line, there is an increasingly strong impetus to virtualize IT environments.
- By William Jackson
- 04/23/2009
Virtualization leader VMware sees a cloudy future for the datacenter. To that end, today the company announced vSphere 4, the next generation of what was formerly called VMware Infrastructure.
On April 21, VMware will take the wraps off of vSphere, the next generation of its infrastructure suite currently known as VMware Infrastructure.
Sun Microsystems has released VirtualBox 2.2, an update to the company's free and open source desktop virtualization solution.
VMware believes it can save you at least half on your server hardware
through virtualization. It's so confident of the savings that the
company is announcing that it will work for you for free if it can't
meet that goal.
Defining the security model for your first foray with Hyper-V.
- By Rick Vanover
- 04/02/2009
Considering using the free ESXi? above all else, give some thought to the storage.
- By Rick Vanover
- 04/01/2009
The Distributed Management Task Force has released the first finished version of the Open Virtualization Format, a set of metadata tags that can be used to deploy a virtual environment across multiple virtualization platforms.
- By Joab Jackson
- 03/25/2009
Cisco Systems Inc., the IT industry’s leading supplier of routers and other networking hardware, is expanding its hardware offerings to include blade servers as part of a comprehensive push into the white-hot world of virtualization.
New research from Gartner predicts that sales of virtualization software could jump by nearly 50 percent this year.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 03/03/2009
Is there really a performance difference between hypervisors from VMware, Microsoft and Citrix? We put them under a microscope and stress-tested them for days to find out the answer.
- By Rick Vanover
- 03/02/2009
Microsoft's virtualization management offering gets the job done.
Redmond's virtualization management tool doesn't have all the bells and whistles that VMware's vCenter has. But it doesn't have the same hefty price tag, either.
It's hyped as a must-have for data centers, but you can get similar fault tolerance from some Microsoft products, including Exchange.
- By Danielle Ruest and Nelson Ruest
- 03/01/2009