Not the same ol' "Free Tools" session; we cover new tools that have come out since VMworld.
Socialcast is the "Facebook" for the internal communications crowd. And it's a VMware product.
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
The Bromium cofounder and former Citrix CTO views his public battles as an essential element in his strategy to bring technology to the people by making sure they understand it.
These virtualization vendors will be getting more than your attention in the coming months.
All three of the most popular virtualization hypervisors are available in free editions: Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2, VMware vSphere Hypervisor and Citrix XenServer.
Before you update that older vSphere, gain some insight into your licensing requirements for vSphere 5 with this nifty tool.
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).
You and my clients have the same challenges and objectives in the pursuit of desktop virtualization.
- By Dave Bartoletti
- 07/14/2011
Did you know that VMware offers VMware Data Recovery (VDR), a virtual infrastructure backup and recovery solution?
J. Tyler "T-Rex" Rohrer, chief revenue officer and co-founder of Liquidware Labs, was never shy about selling himself and his ideas.
We highlight the near-limitless technology breadth and depth of our expert panel.
You can create some advanced virtual networks with this nifty tool. Have you tried it? Plus: Upcoming VMware Webinar July 12!
My list of the best that server virtualization has to offer over physical servers.
VMHA via vSphere works most of the time, but sometimes you'll need to get at those scripts to fix something.
Storage visibility is essential for managing virtual infrastructure performance
- By Dave Bartoletti
- 05/24/2011
I haven't found a public cloud provider yet that allows me to run a nested ESXi server as a virtual machine.
The emerging class of performance management solutions for high-performance virtualization.
- By Dave Bartoletti
- 05/06/2011
Your vSphere infrastructure needs monitoring, and that's where vCenter Operations comes in. Let's take a look at how to work with it.
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.