Now comes our first detour off the virtualization path. As I mentioned in my first-ever blog entry, this is mostly about virtualization, but not all.
If you hate jazz, don't waste any more time reading this. If you love jazz, welcome, my friend! This list will be nothing new to you. If you're just getting into jazz, I wanted to give you a list of my favorite albums, and something to get you started on your own jazz journey. So now, I hereby offer my first bloglist: Keith's Top 5 jazz albums of all time.
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Posted by Keith Ward on 01/29/20082 comments
Are you a Xen developer with "deep open source experience" and "low level C programming" skills? Do you have a desire to start getting paid mega-bucks for your vast skills? Yes? Then VMware
wants you
! You might have what it takes to join the Core Technology Group. The world could be your oyster, whatever that means!
Maybe "Tom M" will even interview you!
Posted by Keith Ward on 01/24/20082 comments
Had a briefing this morning with
Veeam Software
, a startup that focuses on extending the functionality of VMware in a number of ways. They have products that improve on VirtualCenter's reporting, monitoring, configuration and (coming soon) backup capabilities. The company, led by legendary Russian entrepreneur Ratmir Timashev, is coming out with a host of new product versions, along with new products, in 2008.
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Posted by Keith Ward on 01/24/20082 comments
Welcome to this historic moment, and congratulations. You are reading the first-ever blog entry for
VirtualizationReview.com
! OK, maybe not so historic, but pretty doggone cool, wouldn't you say? No? OK, then how about something else to waste your time with, rather than actually, you know, working. Word!
I'm Keith Ward, editor of Virtualization Review magazine, quite literally (as I write this in late January 2008) the only print publication dedicated solely to coverage of IT virtualization. And this is my blog.
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Posted by Keith Ward on 01/23/20087 comments
I really think this whole issue about Windows Update, that I
reported on
yesterday, is being overblown. At first, I too was flabbergasted that Microsoft would update anything on a user's computer without notifying or asking permission of said user. The initial press reports had the same amazed tone. But after talking with Shavlik's Eric Schultze, who knows a lot about this stuff, and reading Nate Clinton's explanation, I'm persuaded that it really isn't that big a deal.
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Posted on 09/14/20070 comments
It just feels good to have another reason to hate
"Clippy,"
doesn't it?
Posted on 09/14/20077 comments
I use a 17" MacBook Pro (2GB, Intel Dual Core, OS 10.4.10) as my main work computer. I'm having ginormous problems getting this thing to work with my VPN so I can get to corporate e-mail. I keep getting an "Error 51 cannot connect to the vpn subsystem with the Cisco VPN client..." message. Thus, I have to use Outlook Web Access to get my e-mail. OWA is OK for when you're on the road and all, but trying to use it day-to-day for e-mail is a fate worse than death.
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Posted on 09/14/20072 comments
Uncle Walt has
registered
his verdict on "user-friendly" desktop Linux -- the Ubuntu distro -- and finds it wanting for the average user.
The Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg, the planet's most influential personal technology columnist, says that the OS is too quirky right now. He pointed to a lack of drivers for various audio/visual functionality as a big sore spot, along with general flaky behavior, as when his volume control went MIA every time his review Dell laptop woke from sleep.
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Posted by Keith Ward on 09/14/20076 comments