Redmond's building some serious momentum as more Microsoft customers become familiar with its virtualization and cloud wares.
Vendor View: IT seeking to accommodate the proliferation of virtualization projects
- By Heidi Biggar
- 10/05/2010
Why, when it comes to virtualization, do-it-yourself design is often a bad thing.
- By Greg Shields
- 10/01/2010
VirtualBox users are out there and alive and well in the virtualization community -- so much so that the inaugural Virtumania podcast topic was the free type 2 hypervisor.
- By Rick Vanover
- 09/01/2010
As Mel Brooks once declared -- and as more than one VMware employee has since crowed -- "It's good to be king."
Jeff McNaught's career, in a nutshell: started software company; worked on TRS-80; co-developed first Windows-based thin client at Wyse that remains model for all thin clients sold today.
VMware Go is a free, Web-based product initially released at VMworld 2009.
As of July 1, Microsoft will bundle VDI/VDA licensing for the Windows client OS into Software Assurance (SA). Here's how the changes may affect you.
- By Greg Shields
- 07/01/2010
Awhile back, we did a reader survey that I've used as a guideline for the way we shape our editorial product -- the goal being to supply you, the readers, with the content that you find most interesting and useful.
Being a one-man editorial shop at a magazine and Web site dedicated to virtualization is like blowing up Grand Coulee Dam and trying to catch all the spillover in a paper cup.
VMware Labs is a venue for VMware Inc. engineers to demo their pet application development projects.
I've spoken to a number of organizations that have upgraded to vSphere, and I've seen that many of them haven't enlisted all of the new features.
- By Rick Vanover
- 06/01/2010
Although there are many critical VDI components to consider in your implementations, the choice of display protocols should never be taken lightly.
- By Rick Vanover
- 05/01/2010
Here's a situation where the nice guy finishes as President and CEO.
How Microsoft can give its VDI solution, Remote Desktop Connection Broker, much-needed credibility.
The memories of working in the IT industry in a post-Cold-War Russia remain vivid for Virsto CTO Alex Miroshnichenko.
Planning your storage architecture in a VMware environment is one of the most critical design elements. Even more critical: sizing of VMFS datastores.
- By Rick Vanover
- 04/26/2010
Windows Insider has returned to Redmond -- and it feels good to be home!
- By Greg Shields
- 04/01/2010
You might say that geeks are naturally disposed toward virtualization. In the early years of virtualization's adoption, you would've been correct.
For infrastructure administrators, there has always been a gray area where the infrastructure stops and the application teams take over.
- By Rick Vanover
- 03/01/2010