Virtualization Review

What's New

• Forrester: Worst May Be Over for IT Market

  IT purchasing has been so bad recently that things have got to be looking up. 07/02/2009 read more

• Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 Beta 2 Released

  Microsoft last week announced the availability of beta 2 of Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010. 06/30/2009 read more

• Advanced Virtual Conversion Flowchart

  Procedural approach for conversions can aid conversions of any type. 06/30/2009 read more

• Report: Disaster Recovery Improving, but Downtime Still Hurts

  A Symantec survey reveals the "rising [disaster recovery] pressures on organizations caused by soaring downtime costs and more stringent IT service-level requirements to mitigate risk to the business." 06/30/2009 read more

• Thin Provisioning: Under Control

  Should the storage system or the virtualization platform be in control when thin provisioning? Your thoughts... 06/30/2009 read more

• Survey: IT Salaries Getting Pinched in 2009

  The general economic downturn is leaving its mark on IT salaries, according to an independent study released on Monday. 06/29/2009 read more

• Storage Sizing with VMFS Volumes

  There is no clear answer, but there are strategies. 06/29/2009 read more

• Type 1 and Type 2 Hypervisors Explained

  Important distinction necessary for understanding of broader virtualization landscape. 06/24/2009 read more

• Microsoft: Some IT Orgs Spending Strategically in Bad Economy

  The downturn in the economy is affecting the role and spending strategies of IT organizations, according to a Harris Interactive survey commissioned by Microsoft. 06/23/2009 read more

• Microsoft Releases Planning Toolkit Beta

  Microsoft last week rolled out a beta of its new planning tool, which is designed to help its partners and customers migrate to products within the Microsoft stack. 06/23/2009 read more

• Dell Introduces Virtualization Consulting Services

  Dell has expanded its virtualization technology portfolio to assist organizations striving to make datacenters and IT operations work more efficiently. 06/22/2009 read more

• Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 Beta Released

  Microsoft last week released a public beta of Configuration Manager Service Pack 2. 06/22/2009 read more

• Thin-Provisioned Disk Monitoring Critical with vSphere

  New feature is a change for storage administration for virtual environments. 06/22/2009 read more

• Oracle Kills Virtual Iron

  Another strange chapter in Oracle's developing virtualization story. 06/22/2009 read more

• Up to 32 Virtual CPUs with VirtualBox 3

  32 vCPUs per guest highest among hypervisors. 06/19/2009 read more