Virtualization


Virtualization with the vSphere Storage Appliance

Shared storage is one of the main enablers of enterprise features in virtualization.

Citrix Announces Slew of Cloud, Desktop Virtualization Products

Citrix Systems rolled out several new products on Wednesday during its Synergy partner conference in Barcelona.

What Drives VMware CTO Stephen Herrod? Customers, Challenges, The Cloud

A Q&A with the tech chief on what keeps the company looking above the cloud.

How To Choose Virtualization Disaster Recovery Solutions

My list of features to help me narrow my buying decisions after the DR vendor has made its pitch.

Cisco Working With Citrix on Many Virtualization Fronts

Cisco and Citrix Systems have formed an alliance that has them working together to deliver Citrix-supported Cisco hardware and devices to Cisco's customers

Citrix Gets Cloud Storage with ShareFile

The acquisition gives Citrix a foot in a crowded cloud storage segment competing with Dropbox, Apple and others.

Verizon Wireless To Virtualize Its Mobile Phones for Personal, Biz Use

Verizon said it's working with VMware to offer phones that can make the transition from home to work without hiccups or headaches for IT.

Update: 4 More Free Tools for vSphere

Not the same ol' "Free Tools" session; we cover new tools that have come out since VMworld.

How to Get Started with VMware's Socialcast

Socialcast is the "Facebook" for the internal communications crowd. And it's a VMware product.

Searching for Intelligent Storage for Virtual Workloads

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.

Microsoft Reaching Out to OpenNebula with Windows Server Hyper-V

In another example of Microsoft's outreach to open source communities and projects, the company announced on Tuesday it is collaborating with team members of the OpenNebula project to add Windows Server Hyper-V support.

Microsoft Partners Already Implementing Hyper-V 3 Virtual Switch

Microsoft's new extensible virtual switch in Hyper-V 3.0 for Windows Server 8 has already been implemented by 5nine, Broadcom, Cisco, inMon and NEC, among others.

VMware Workstation 8, VMware Fusion 4 Released

VMware has released upgrades to two virtualization platforms, VMware Workstation 8 and VMware Fusion.

Microsoft Opens Up on 'Cloud-Optimized' Windows Server 8 at Build

During his Build conference keynote on Wednesday, Satya Nadella, president of Microsoft's Server and Tools Business, called Windows Server 8 "the most cloud-optimized OS" being developed by Microsoft.

System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Now at RC Stage

SCVMM 2012 RC includes many new features for hypervisor creation/management, resource optimization and service lifecycle management. It's also on a new schedule for general availability in early 2012.

VMware, Cisco Announce Virtual Extensible LAN for the Cloud

VMware and Cisco have debuted the new Virtual Extensible Local Area Network (VXLAN) architecture, which forms the basis of a scalable LAN for the cloud.

Hyper-V Not Disappearing from Windows 8, Microsoft Confirms

According to an announcement made today by Microsoft, Hyper-V hypervisor will be included in the company's next operating system.

End of VMworld Product Roundup

Trend Micro, SolarWinds, F5 demonstrate new and improved solutions around the VMware tool ecosystem

Failure, Fighting: Crosby's Keys to Success in the Virtualized World

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.

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