Shavlik Technologies, a provider of security and management software for desktops and servers, will be acquired by virtualization and cloud provider VMware, the companies announced on Monday morning.
Six CTOs tell us what they think is keeping virtualization and cloud computing from proliferating, and offer solutions to get past those barriers.
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.
VMware's fledgling Cloud Foundry service experienced two brief outages last week, though the outages pale in comparison to Amazon Web Services' four-day outage that concluded early last week.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/03/2011
Depleted resources, storage provisioning, virtual machine sprawl and excessive virtual hard disk files are some of the key challenges facing storage virtualization users.
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.
Citrix has built a global company that wants to "play well with others" and has struck up some key partnerships in the process.
Veeam's latest streamlines processes and shines in vSphere environments.
What some folks (folks being Chris Wolf, Simon Bramfitt, Greg Stuart and Citrix's own Simon Crosby and Mark Templeton ) have to say about Citrix.
Deploying and configuring the Kaviza package is a breeze.
As a virtualization administrator, do you feel awkward building a physical server? 5 tips for making it less so.
- By Elias Khnaser
- 05/01/2011
Which is more perilous: fleeing the Soviet Union before the fall of communism or starting up a cloud-computing business with no venture funding? Igor Papirov has survived both.
Salesforce.com's Director of Platform Research offers his thoughts on his company running with the SaaS tag, as well as how virtualization and cloud computing are impacting business.
Windows Server 2008 R2, Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 can only perform server virtualization using Intel's Core vPro processors if SP1 is applied.
Your vSphere infrastructure needs monitoring, and that's where vCenter Operations comes in. Let's take a look at how to work with it.
When your virtualization or cloud project sputters in efficiency, network automation can get that project some new life.
- By Steve Garrison
- 04/21/2011
VMware Lab's ThinApped vSphere client allows running the client without installing it.
The typical IT gauges don't translate well for measuring virtualization efficiencies. You'll need to look at it from a different angle.
- By Andrew Hillier
- 04/14/2011
Keys to Microsoft's first service pack for Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 are dynamic memory and RemoteFX.