Microsoft revved up its cloud marketing message on Monday with the release of a whitepaper titled "Microsoft Private Cloud: A Comparative Look at Functionality, Benefits and Economics."
The company claims its Virsto for VDI plays very well with VMware's vSphere.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/30/2011
Sungard provides what it calls the first cloud disaster recovery service of its kind for VMware VMs.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/29/2011
Monitoring, reporting on public cloud services provided through partnership with Goliath Technologies.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/29/2011
AppSense partners with Lakeside Software to help customers figure out how virtualization can impact computing environment.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/29/2011
VMware's newest hypervisor upgrade officially released before the company's VMworld Conference taking place next week in Las Vegas.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/26/2011
VMware on Wednesday released the beta of Micro Cloud Foundry, a complete version of its Cloud Foundry Platform as a Service (PaaS) designed to run on developers' PCs or Macs.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/24/2011
China Standard Software Co. Ltd. (CS2C) signed a legal and interoperability deal with Microsoft today as part of a parnership deal with Linux server technology.
Xsigo Systems lays claim to first fully virtualized infrastructure for cloud-optimized data centers.
F5 Networks has bought the intellectual property of Israel-based Crescendo Networks and will be hiring some of its engineering team.
Before you update that older vSphere, gain some insight into your licensing requirements for vSphere 5 with this nifty tool.
Virtualization management suite broadens scope of platform support by including Microsoft's hypervisor in the mix.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/10/2011
In a move that strengthens its XenDesktop product against VMware View, Citrix announced its acquisition of the company that carved out market share with its vDesk solution set.
Version 2 of its NetWrix Change Reporter also adds real-time and snapshot reporting capabilities.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/10/2011
VMware listened to the growing din around its vSphere 5 vRAM entitlements, and announced an increase of vRAM limits in a blog Wednesday.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/04/2011
Microsoft has continued interoperability support for Red Hat Linux operating systems running on its Hyper-V hypervisor.
Amitabh Srivastava, the former head of Microsoft's Server and Cloud Division (SCD), has been named president of EMC Corp.'s Advanced Storage Division.
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).
Less than a month after its beta release, the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 6.0 (MAP 6.0) became generally available on Monday.
You and my clients have the same challenges and objectives in the pursuit of desktop virtualization.
- By Dave Bartoletti
- 07/14/2011