Depleted resources, storage provisioning, virtual machine sprawl and excessive virtual hard disk files are some of the key challenges facing storage virtualization users.
Citrix has built a global company that wants to "play well with others" and has struck up some key partnerships in the process.
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.
Veeam's latest streamlines processes and shines in vSphere environments.
Windows Server 2008 R2, Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 can only perform server virtualization using Intel's Core vPro processors if SP1 is applied.
Your vSphere infrastructure needs monitoring, and that's where vCenter Operations comes in. Let's take a look at how to work with it.
When your virtualization or cloud project sputters in efficiency, network automation can get that project some new life.
- By Steve Garrison
- 04/21/2011
VMware Lab's ThinApped vSphere client allows running the client without installing it.
The typical IT gauges don't translate well for measuring virtualization efficiencies. You'll need to look at it from a different angle.
- By Andrew Hillier
- 04/14/2011
Keys to Microsoft's first service pack for Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 are dynamic memory and RemoteFX.
VMware today announced the debut of Cloud Foundry, which the company is touting as the first "open platform as a service," or PaaS.
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/12/2011
What VMware, Dell, NetApp and DataCore are doing to add support for tiered storage in their offerings.
- By Dave Bartoletti
- 04/07/2011
Dell today said it is investing $1 billion in cloud computing under a two-year plan to build out datacenters that will let customers subscribe to virtualized compute infrastructure and storage.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/07/2011
For private clouds to become viable, organizations must embrace several steps to advance their private cloud strategies.
Storage is at the heart of the problems some companies have in deploying VDI.
- By Dave Bartoletti
- 03/31/2011
Vendors build proof-of-concept environment on top of OpenStack's cloud OS to show customers what's possible in the cloud.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/30/2011
Microsoft's Free Hyper-V needs a GUI. In the meantime, a third-party provider has filled in the gap.
VMware customers looking for openness in cloud solutions might see vSphere support in the forthcoming OpenStack Compute "Cactus" release as a opportunity.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/28/2011
Acknowledging that some enterprise customers don't want to share computing resources, Amazon Web Services (AWS) today launched what it calls EC2 Dedicated Instances.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/28/2011
Systems Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 will include new feature that will allow Windows apps not designed for Windows Azure to be deployed on Microsoft's cloud platform.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/24/2011