Although 54 percent of large enterprises around the globe rate management of their virtual server environment as a critical or high IT priority, fewer than half (45 percent) think their companies are doing it effectively, according to CA's global survey about virtualized environments released this week.
- By James E. Powell
- 02/21/2008
A global enterprise virtualization survey released today confirms that virtualization is becoming stronger and stronger in the enterprise, with server virtualization leading the wave.
Late last week, Canonical Ltd. announced that Ubuntu users will now be able to access the Parallels Workstation virtualization software through the Ubuntu Partner Repository.
Microsoft reversed an earlier decision that would have forced IT pros to wait until mid-March to get their hands on Windows Vista Service Pack 1.
VMware might be far out in front, but don't count Microsoft out.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 01/27/2008
Microsoft and Citrix have banded together even more tightly in the virtualization space, hoping to take on industry leader VMware.
Microsoft now says it will allow more versions of the desktop OS to be virtualized.
VMware, the world's largest maker of virtualization software, is expanding its empire with the acquisition of application virtualization vendor Thinstall.
Microsoft and others embrace virtualization, but support varies.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 01/01/2008
Microsoft's new server products are supposed to sprout early in 2008. Partners prepared for those launches can expect a bumper crop of business later in the year.
With this handy tool, your Windows VMs will be smaller and run faster than ever.
Use WinINSTALL LE 2003 to create a vmrc.exe deployment package.
Avoiding iSCSI pitfalls with SATA or IDE drives.
This free tool is great for managing VMware ESX Server virtual MAC addresses.
Here’s how to audit and configure virtual MAC addresses on Virtual Server VMs