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.
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.
mValent Inc. recently expanded its mValent Integrity product with the addition of the Virtual Automation Module.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/29/2008
Vizioncore Inc. today announced it has launched vCharter Pro, a monitoring tool designed for enterprise virtualization deployments running on VMware's ESX Server.
IT execs are focusing on cutting costs rather than investing in technology this quarter, according to a report by research analysts at IDC.
The Microsoft Windows operating system has become unwieldy and is choking on the amount of code that needs to be maintained.
When it comes to infrastructure and operations, research firm Gartner says that virtualization will be the most significant trend through the next four years.
According to a recent study by Dublin-based Research and Markets released today, virtualization and virtualization-related services spending will reach $1.35 billion (U.S.) by 2010.
Virtualization technology imposes costs and management stress on datacenter managers in addition to boosting the complexity of installations, according to senior IT managers. But those same executives also have learned that overcoming virtualization headaches ushers in a brave new world of datacenter performance.
- By Wilson P. Dizard III
- 04/02/2008
AMD, the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based CPU chipmaker, announced its collaboration efforts with Microsoft leading up to Microsoft's big launch yesterday.
Redmond officially rolls out Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008 in Los Angeles event.
European Union fined Microsoft 899 million Euros for failure to comply with the EU's 2004 finding that Redmond was engaged in monopolistic practices.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/27/2008
Double-Take Software has released Double-Take for VMware Infrastructure 3.0, a software solution that protects virtual machines running on VMware ESX Server, a component of the VMware Infrastructure software suite
- By James E. Powell
- 02/26/2008
Today at VMworld Europe in Cannes, France, VMware announced that within the next 60 days ESX 3i hypervisor will ship embedded in servers from its partners Dell, IBM, HP and Fujitsu-Siemens.
IBM today announced the debut of its new System z10 mainframe computer for enterprise data centers.
Open source developer XAware announced earlier this month that the latest version of its data integration platform, XAware 5.0, is now live
If you're running VMware and update your Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition, you may be heading for a "Blue Screen" crash -- i.e., a bug check error, value of 0x0000008 (otherwise known as a Stop8 error), in Windows Server 2003.
One of the great things about virtualization is that it makes it incredibly easy to add a new server -- or 10, or 100 new servers.