There's only one Microsoft. Or is there? Talk to enough third parties, analysts and customers, and you'll soon believe that VMware should be headquartered in Redmond instead of Palo Alto.
Whether consolidating servers or using computing resources more efficiently, server virtualization products come into their own.
- By Peter Varhol
- 06/01/2008
The hardware giant's strategy may be straightforward, but that's just what some in IT need.
The world's biggest hardware vendor offers comprehensive virtualization solutions.
Yankee Group's survey offers hard evidence of cost and efficiency of virtualization efforts.
There aren't many more innovative industries within IT than virtualization.
When you have most of the marbles, it never hurts to have a few more.
Hewlett-Packard has expanded its role in the desktop virtualization arena with new mobile thin client hardware, extended software offerings and deeper industry alliances.
- By Rutrell Yasin
- 05/20/2008
With a tiered pricing structure designed to undercut VMware's offerings, Citrix has announced the availability of XenDesktop, its much anticipated and discussed product offering in the increasingly important desktop virtualization arena.
Citrix today announced a new Desktop Appliance Partner Program. Appliances and thin clients are important elements in the emerging value chain for hosted desktop virtualization solutions both in terms of end user expectations for performance and ease of installation.
Microsoft today published a new release candidate (RC1) of its first enterprise-class hypervisor, Hyper-V. The release marks the next step of what has been a quick march to commercial availability for a critical product in Microsoft's emerging virtualization lineup.
Microsoft last week released a beta version of its Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool on the Microsoft Connect site.
- By Michael Domingo
- 05/15/2008
On Monday, VMware announced the release of two new virtualization management products: VMware Site Recovery Manager, a data and disaster recovery tool for datacenters, and VMware Stage Manager, designed for automating the delivery of virtualized applications and environments.
Virtualize your Exchange server? It's almost a no-brainer.
- By Greg Shields
- 05/12/2008
With a few tweaks, you can run XenServer from an external USB drive.
Deepening its existing partner relationship with Dell as a new competitive dynamic and pricing model unfolds, Citrix has announced the availability of a Dell-specific embedded version of XenServer for Dell PowerEdge servers.
Microsoft's first effort at enterprise-level virtualization is a good start, but lots of rough edges remain.
Sanbolic's chairman Bill Stevenson sees clustered file systems as a key technical piece in the virtualization puzzle.
Every type of hardware -- from chips to PCs to wireless LANs -- is evolving to support new enterprise demands for mobilization, virtualization and conservation.
- By Joanne Cummings
- 05/01/2008
mValent Inc. recently expanded its mValent Integrity product with the addition of the Virtual Automation Module.