With a tiered pricing structure designed to undercut VMware's offerings, Citrix has announced the availability of XenDesktop, its much anticipated and discussed product offering in the increasingly important desktop virtualization arena.
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.
With a few tweaks, you can run XenServer from an external USB drive.
Microsoft's first effort at enterprise-level virtualization is a good start, but lots of rough edges remain.
Sanbolic's chairman Bill Stevenson sees clustered file systems as a key technical piece in the virtualization puzzle.
mValent Inc. recently expanded its mValent Integrity product with the addition of the Virtual Automation Module.
Vizioncore Inc. today announced it has launched vCharter Pro, a monitoring tool designed for enterprise virtualization deployments running on VMware's ESX Server.
"Greyhound" comes to a screeching halt in the virtual world.
- By Greg Shields
- 04/28/2008
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.
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.