Dell's announcement that it was buying EMC will be the mega-merger to end all mega-mergers. How will it affect VMware, which thrived with the hands-off policy of its former bosses?
As the calendar flips over to 2016, it's time for our contributing editors to look back and take stock of those products that they loved best in the last year.
Old ideas of virtualization still hold, even in 2016.
- By Dan Kusnetzky
- 01/04/2016
Creating custom stacks from the command line for use in vMotion and Provisioning.
It's a new feature for Hyper-V.
Buying EMC opens the enterprise door much wider.
- By Dan Kusnetzky
- 10/12/2015
The security flaws affect both vCenter Server and ESXi.
The best part? They're free to use.
Breaking down virtualization's most powerful company, category by category, and assessing its competition.
- By Dan Kusnetzky
- 08/28/2015
VMware's direction has changed in unpredictable ways.
Few IT companies can say they have forever changed the datacenter more quickly, or completely, than VMware.
Just because a site has just one server doesn't mean it can't -- or shouldn't -- be virtualized.
- By Rick Vanover
- 08/26/2015
It's a two-horse race at the top, but the smaller players are also helping shape the industry's direction.
The head honcho dishes on his company's relationship with Microsoft, whether containers will overtake virtual machines, what attendees at VMworld 2015 can expect and more.
Dan remembers a meeting with the Citrix CEO that ended on 9/11.
- By Dan Kusnetzky
- 08/07/2015