Virtualization


FireScope Analytics Gives Decision Support in Real Time

FireScope has extended its Unify business services management dashboard with the release of FireScope Analytics, a real-time "drag-and-drop analytics" service.

System Center Orchestrator 2012 Now With Beta Testers

Microsoft unleashed System Center Orchestrator 2012 to beta testers last week.

Top 10 Benefits of Server Virtualization

My list of the best that server virtualization has to offer over physical servers.

SolarWinds Updates, Rebrands Hyper9

SolarWinds this week solidified its line of virtualization management tools, with new versions of its Hyper9 virtualizaztion management solution and SolarWinds Storage Manager.

PerfectDisk 12 Optimizes Disk Performance, Whether Physical or Virtual

Raxco adds new feature called Virtual Awareness, aimed at thwarting fragmentation in virtualized disks automatically.

VMware High Availability and the CLI, or What Is AAM?

VMHA via vSphere works most of the time, but sometimes you'll need to get at those scripts to fix something.

Virtual Infrastructure Performance Management: The Storage View

Storage visibility is essential for managing virtual infrastructure performance

Kemp Releases Hyper-V Load Balancer for Exchange 2010

At this week's Microsoft Tech-Ed conference in Atlanta, Kemp Technologies released its Virtual LoadMaster Exchange for Hyper-V, a load-balancer designed to work exclusively with Exchange 2010 and Microsoft's hypervisor.

WANTED: ESXi in the Public Cloud

I haven't found a public cloud provider yet that allows me to run a nested ESXi server as a virtual machine.

From Tech-Ed: Hyper-V Expands Interoperability with CentOS Support

Hosting solutions providers able to manage various cloud infrastructures from Hyper-V.

Tech-Ed 2011: Exchange 2010 Gets Enhanced Virtualization Hardware Support

Improvements to Exchange 2010 that will avoid supported scenarios when running the software in a virtualized environment was announced by Microsoft at Tech-Ed 2011, currently underway in Atlanta, Ga.

VMware Reaches Agreement To Buy Shavlik Technologies

Shavlik Technologies, a provider of security and management software for desktops and servers, will be acquired by virtualization and cloud provider VMware, the companies announced on Monday morning.

Virtualization Review Roundtable: 3 Major Obstacles to Proliferation of Virtualization, Cloud Computing

Six CTOs tell us what they think is keeping virtualization and cloud computing from proliferating, and offer solutions to get past those barriers.

The Rise of the Virtual Infrastructure Performance Manager

The emerging class of performance management solutions for high-performance virtualization.

How vCenter Operations Can Help You

Your vSphere infrastructure needs monitoring, and that's where vCenter Operations comes in. Let's take a look at how to work with it.

VMware's Cloud Foundry Recovers from Outages

VMware's fledgling Cloud Foundry service experienced two brief outages last week, though the outages pale in comparison to Amazon Web Services' four-day outage that concluded early last week.

Storage Virtualization Pain Points

Depleted resources, storage provisioning, virtual machine sprawl and excessive virtual hard disk files are some of the key challenges facing storage virtualization users.

Analyzing vSphere Performance with Free Xangati

I tried Xangati for ESX to find out why the tool was different from other virtual infrastructure performance-monitoring solutions. Here's what I found out.

Anytime, Anywhere, Any Device: Citrix Wants to Do It All

Citrix has built a global company that wants to "play well with others" and has struck up some key partnerships in the process.

Review: Veeam Backup & Replication 5 Living Up to the Hype

Veeam's latest streamlines processes and shines in vSphere environments.

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