What VMware, Dell, NetApp and DataCore are doing to add support for tiered storage in their offerings. 
                    
			            - By Dave  Bartoletti
- 04/07/2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    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. 
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    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
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Target turns to Microsoft's hypervisor technology to reduce physical servers and save on power and maintenance costs among its 1,755 U.S. stores. 
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    There's browsing the Web, and then there's kinda browsing the Web with vSphere. Here's a tool that removes the "kinda" part.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Read the forgetful manual. It'll save you some pain later on when troubleshooting vSphere.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Rahul Bakshi of SunGard Availability Services doles out managed services.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The push to the cloud is putting heavy pressure on virtualized datacenters to change with the dynamic times.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The best way to learn anything is by doing it. You want to learn more about VMware vSphere? Build a lab.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Here are five random items that are worthy of comment.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Flings, SDKs, open source stuff ... there's more to free tools than ESXi and the vSphere client. 
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Last week, Oracle rolled out enhancements to its Sun Fire x86 product, bolstering the company's line of enterprise-class rackmount and blade servers for private cloud and highly virtualized deployments.