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Hyper-V Licensing: Make Sure You're Compliant

Read the fine print to understand Hyper-V licensing, which comes with some caveats.

Managing Public and Hybrid Cloud Systems

Managers are asking the tough questions about public and private clouds and it boils down to one thing: trust.

Andres Rodriguez Plays Corporate Judo with Your Data

Nasuni CEO Andres Rodriguez believes he can handle the large data problem by leveraging the endless capacity of the cloud.

Storage Problems and Proposed Solutions

Storage presents a lot of problems. It's expensive, it accumulates in all kinds of places where you can't find it, it's a hassle to move from point A to point B and it isn't always compatible from one vendor to the next.

Are the Big 3 Well-suited to Sell SMBs Virtualization?

Vendor View: Smaller companies have special requirements

Separating VMs in a Sub-Cluster

You may want to implement a sub-cluster within a VMware DRS cluster for a number of reason.

Make the IT People Smile: A Hypervisor Story

Unidesk President and CEO Don Bulens is in a rut, but a profitable one at that.

Configuring the New vSphere 4.1 Active Directory Authentication

VMware officially announced that the vSphere 4.1 release will be the last one to offer the company's full ESX Server hypervisor with a console operating system.

Creating a Virtualization Service Catalog

All too often, organizations function without a Service Level Agreement (SLA) in the face of stringent expectations.

Impressions of Microsoft in the Cloud

Redmond's building some serious momentum as more Microsoft customers become familiar with its virtualization and cloud wares.

The Benefits of Server and Storage Integration

Vendor View: IT seeking to accommodate the proliferation of virtualization projects

Virtualization and the Second Death of the 'White Box'

Why, when it comes to virtualization, do-it-yourself design is often a bad thing.

Why I Like VirtualBox

VirtualBox users are out there and alive and well in the virtualization community -- so much so that the inaugural Virtumania podcast topic was the free type 2 hypervisor.

TAKE 5: Impressions of VMware

As Mel Brooks once declared -- and as more than one VMware employee has since crowed -- "It's good to be king."

A Man of Many Hats Tells Us About His Early Years Developing The Thin Client

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.

Using VMware Go to Virtualize Servers Gratis

VMware Go is a free, Web-based product initially released at VMworld 2009.

Understanding Microsoft's New Windows Virtual Desktop Licensing with Software Assurance

As of July 1, Microsoft will bundle VDI/VDA licensing for the Windows client OS into Software Assurance (SA). Here's how the changes may affect you.

Impressions from Our Reader Survey

Awhile back, we did a reader survey that I've used as a guideline for the way we shape our editorial product -- the goal being to supply you, the readers, with the content that you find most interesting and useful.

Companies that Caught My Eye

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.

VMware Labs Flings

VMware Labs is a venue for VMware Inc. engineers to demo their pet application development projects.

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