There are no one-size-fits-all storage solutions, so I've come up with some basic questions to ask the vendors who will be trying to get your attention.
- By Dave Bartoletti
- 10/05/2011
In another example of Microsoft's outreach to open source communities and projects, the company announced on Tuesday it is collaborating with team members of the OpenNebula project to add Windows Server Hyper-V support.
Microsoft's new extensible virtual switch in Hyper-V 3.0 for Windows Server 8 has already been implemented by 5nine, Broadcom, Cisco, inMon and NEC, among others.
During his Build conference keynote on Wednesday, Satya Nadella, president of Microsoft's Server and Tools Business, called Windows Server 8 "the most cloud-optimized OS" being developed by Microsoft.
SCVMM 2012 RC includes many new features for hypervisor creation/management, resource optimization and service lifecycle management. It's also on a new schedule for general availability in early 2012.
- By Michael Domingo, Chris Paoli
- 09/09/2011
Xsigo Systems lays claim to first fully virtualized infrastructure for cloud-optimized data centers.
F5 Networks has bought the intellectual property of Israel-based Crescendo Networks and will be hiring some of its engineering team.
Before you update that older vSphere, gain some insight into your licensing requirements for vSphere 5 with this nifty tool.
Virtualization management suite broadens scope of platform support by including Microsoft's hypervisor in the mix.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/10/2011
In a move that strengthens its XenDesktop product against VMware View, Citrix announced its acquisition of the company that carved out market share with its vDesk solution set.
Version 2 of its NetWrix Change Reporter also adds real-time and snapshot reporting capabilities.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/10/2011
VMware listened to the growing din around its vSphere 5 vRAM entitlements, and announced an increase of vRAM limits in a blog Wednesday.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/04/2011
Microsoft has continued interoperability support for Red Hat Linux operating systems running on its Hyper-V hypervisor.
In the recently posted "The World Runs on VMware vSphere" infographic, WiredCPU.com shows how just in the last 10 years (2001-2011) we have gone from virtually NO server virtualization in use to more than 50 percent of the servers in the world being virtualized (and over 20 million vSphere virtual machines running every day).
Less than a month after its beta release, the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 6.0 (MAP 6.0) became generally available on Monday.