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VMware rules in the virtual data center and private cloud, but it's second runner up in the public cloud. With hybrid clouds  on their way to being the future of computing and a consistent infrastructure between enterprises and service providers critical to their success, is it any surprise VMware is taking steps to protect its virtual kingdom?

Two-year-old startup offers automated disaster recovery testing for virtual environments that promise stronger compliance with RTO, RPO.

VMTurbo, a workload management system for virtualized environments, seeks to simplify and streamline. It's first stop -- hooking into VMware vCenter.

VMware had a great year in 2011 and has big plans for growing its business in 2012.

If Red Hat has its way,  the Big Three of virtualization will expand to be the Big Four. With RHEV 3, Red Hat may have taken a big step in that direction.

After two years of forcing users to use Windows to manage virtualization, Red Hat is finally bringing its virtualization management tech to Linux.

The System Center 2012 release candidate makes a very clear statement: Microsoft is ready to seize the private cloud  market from VMware.

Data protection firm touts a unified approach for a variety of enterprise platforms, server and storage configurations.

Adopting virtualization technology  often leads companies to carry out security, backup and other day-to-day activities in new and different ways. This often adds unnecessary costs and complexity. Symantec's solution? Keep it simple.

2012 just might be the year the sun gets a chance to set on VMware's empire of server virtualization hegemony.

Server virtualization continued to make inroads in 2011. From the Open Virtualization Alliance to the vSphere 5 hypervisor to the quarterly V-Index, here are the highs and lows.

From hardware and software to partner programs to training HP has launched a trajectory to the cloud.

Predicting the future of a hot technology is never easy, but one CTO weighs in on what he anticipates will go on in the server virtualization market next year.

In the battle of the clouds, public cloud vs. private cloud vs. hybrid cloud, which model is best positioned to win?

V-Commander product promises to help enterprises scale and manage virtual environments as well as support internal private clouds.

But has it? Veeam Software's last V-Index reveals price as the leading driver for enterprises switching up their virtual environments. Cost, however, is far from the only differentiator among virtualization offerings.

Firm's software seeks to help demystify storage complexities for server admins.

Hyper-V may not be today's virtualization market leader, but don't count on it to play second fiddle forever.  The virtualization platform is catching up fast, and its low price point makes it an increasingly easier sell.

VMware updates vCenter Operations Manager, and introduces new vFabric Application Management and IT Business Management suites, while HP introduced HP Technology Consulting Services to help customers blaze a path to the cloud.

As enterprises embrace cloud computing, the vendors are turning up the noise, both in the features they provide and why they are vastly superior to their competitors.

Citrix XenServer doesn't have a huge market share, but it's not without a significant presence and a loyal following. The feature set of the newly released XenServer 6 is sure to please them and win over some new fans.

VMware's data center management tools too high for your organization. The out-of-the-box cloud management and automation solutions from Cloupia offer provisioning, dynamic resource allocation, discovery and monitoring, metering and chargeback, analytics, orchestration, a self-service catalog and more.

Microsoft tends to get things right with version 3 of its products, and with Hyper-V 3, this looks to be the case once again. When Server 8 comes out, Microsoft will have a serious server virtualization platform on its hands that will do everything most companies need.

Effort to grow KVM adoption now has more than 200 members.

When it comes to server virtualization pricing, it seems each vendor has chosen a different fruit. How do you compare pricing when structures vary from per-server or per-processor, or are based on VM usage, bundled guest OS licenses or combinations of all of these?

VMware reigns as leader of the server virtualization market, offering a product range spans from simple server consolidation for SMBs to data center automation and fully fledged cloud computing environments for enterprises and service providers.

Microsoft knocks VMware's virtualization strategy. Some of it rings true but it doesn't seem to matter. Is this a sign of Microsoft becoming less relevant?

Tags: open source server, data center management, server hardware, server software, server os, server security, server review, server virtualization

RHEV 3.0 hits beta, finally removing the dependency of prior versions that required users to run Windows.
Tags: virtualization, Red Hat, RHEV, KVM, server virtualization

Can Bromium, the brainchild of Simon Crosby and Ian Pratt, pull it off? The details are cloudy, but speculation is clear.
Tags: cloud computing, cloud security, server virtualization, virtualization technology, Citrix

Per-CPU socket pricing, vRAM entitlements and pooling -- with VMware's latest pricing schema, figuring out the costs of virtualization is trickier than ever.
Tags: server virtualization, Hyper-V, vSphere, VMware

Getting data on virtualization technology is now easier than ever. A quarterly industry survey of 500 enterprises called the V-Index has just been launched, and the results are simultaneously expected and surprising.
Tags: server virtualization, Hyper-V, Veeam, virtualization technology, VMware

Virtualization vendor wants users to 'pay by the drink' as new pricing model set to take hold.
Tags: Red Hat, vSphere, server virtualization, VMware

New virtualization release includes cloning and tunneling features, as Oracle pushes open source technology forward.
Tags: VDI, virtualbox, Oracle, open source software, server virtualization

Red Hat accuses VMware of raising prices on virtualization, VMware disagrees.
Tags: price, software licensing, VMware, Red Hat, server virtualization

With the launch of vSphere 5, VMware's claim of mission-critical virtualization readiness has increased credibility and boosted the company's significance yet again.
Tags: server virtualization, vSphere, mission-critical, VMware

Cloud Infrastructure Suite debuts with new automation and security capabilities that helps deal with both noisy and nosey neighbors.
Tags: server virtualization, VMware, vSphere

The initial beta of Microsoft's System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 was released to the MSDN community two months ago. We step through our user experience with and provide some tips to get things working optimally.
Tags: System Center Virtual Machine Manager, server virtualization, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, Microsoft, Hyper-V

The virtualization kingpin has company in the Leaders' Quadrant of Gartner's x86 server virtualization Magic Quadrant. With Citrix and Microsoft in its square, shouldn't VMware be at least a little concerned?
Tags: Gartner, server virtualization, VMware, Microsoft, Citrix

Is virtualization technology mature enough to handle your mission-critical applications. Not surprisingly, VMware thinks so. It's reasoning might not be what you think.
Tags: mission-critical, hybrid cloud, desktop virtualization, VMware, server virtualization

Having the right tool for your virtual infrastructure isn't a luxury, it's a necessity. These six tools are the right ones for any size job, from server room to enterprisewide.
Tags: Virtualization Management, server virtualization, virtualization technology

Historically, virtualized environments and regulatory compliance have been like oil and water. Now, with careful planning and execution, the two are not mutually exclusive.
Tags: public cloud, server technology, cloud computing, server virtualization, compliance

A recent survey from Symantec found that for many respondents, virtualization fell short of expectations. Why? The technology underpinnings of some flavors of virtualization aren't quite there yet.
Tags: hybrid cloud, private cloud, desktop virtualization, storage virtualization, server virtualization

V-Commander 4.0 software enables the development of self-service catalogs and rapid virtual machine provisioning.
Tags: IaaS, Embotics, virtualization, server virtualization, private cloud

For large enterprises, choosing a management system typically parallels their choice of hypervisor vendor -- generally, VMware, Microsoft, Red Hat or Citrix. Smaller organizations aren't so lucky. Virtualization Manager from Solarwinds just may fill that gap.
Tags: cloud computing, server virtualization, public cloud, Virtualization Management, hypervisor

Billing itself as a low-cost, simplified alternative to heavyweights like IBM and HP, ScaleXtreme offers a unified, cloud-based console for systems management.
Tags: server management, server virtualization, cloud computing

While Microsoft and others involved in server virtualization are making alliances and supporting each others' products to prepare for a multi-hypervisor world and an increase in interest in cloud computing, VMware remains unconcerned with the competition. Is it in denial?
Tags: virtual, server virtualization, integrated, partner, operating system

Microsoft released a first beta of its upcoming System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 product to the MSDN community in early May. We took it out for a spin, and here's what we found.
Tags: System Center Virtual Machine Manager, server virtualization, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, Microsoft, Hyper-V

Cloud computing, server virtualization, VDI and a far amount of VMware bashing fills the hall of this year's Citrix Synergy.
Tags: Citrix, VMware, server virtualization, VDI, XenServer

Microsoft now supports CentOS as a guest OS on Hyper-V. With support already in place for there for Suse Linux Enterprise Server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, why is Microsoft fishing in a smaller pond?
Tags: server virtualization, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Hyper-V, Windows Server 2008 R2, CentOS

Sure, it's a lot less expensive, but is there a technological reason to choose the Linux leader over the virtualization kingpins? Navin Thadani thinks so and explains why.
Tags: Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, server virtualization, VMware, Microsoft, Hyper-V

Historically, Apple has been very protective of its desktop and server OS. However, with its server hardware line discontinued and its server OS all but gone, Apple may be preparing to change its tune. Some pundits have gone so far as to predict Mac OS X support may be coming in vSphere 5.
Tags: VMware, server virtualization, Apple, vSphere, Mac OS X

Is SAN complexity leading to VM stall? One NAS vendor certainly thinks so, and it's determined to disprove the 'myths.'
Tags: SAN, server virtualization, VMware, NAS, storage virtualization

With the capabilities of virtualization technology now exceeding those of the management systems most enterprises use to control their IT environments, a new set of of complexities has arisen. A recent survey commissioned by Veeam Software provides insight on what has happened and the impact.
Tags: Veeam, Virtualization Management, hypervisor, server virtualization

When it comes to beefing up the security of your virtualized IT environment, to whom are you going to turn?
Tags: hypervisor, security, Security Advisory, server virtualization, virtualization technology

With System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 and Server App-V, Microsoft aims to simplify the bits and pieces needed to run a virtual infrastructure by virtualizing at the application level. Will it change the perception of server virtualization management?
Tags: Server App-V, application virtualization, server virtualization, Microsoft, SCVMM

A recent survey of x86 virtualization penetration shows few enterprises exceeding 50 percent and many running into SLA issues.
Tags: sla, server virtualization, VMware, virtual server, Hyper-V

Dell and HP announced new software offerings designed to make managing virtual environments easier. Is the future for server manufacturers virtual?
Tags: virtual appliance, Microsoft, HP, server virtualization, Dell

There are 10 forces driving you toward a more agile data center. May the forces be with you.
Tags: agile data center, data center management, server virtualization, Top 10, cloud computing

A new Cisco sponsored study of public cloud computing usage found deployments are still in the early stages, as security and stability top the list of concerns.
Tags: Cisco, public cloud, cloud computing, server virtualization, virtualization technology

Virtualization isn't just about slicing and dicing. Sometimes it's about bringing systems together, as ScaleMP demonstrates with its latest release of vSMP Foundation.
Tags: server virtualization, ScaleMP, clustering, supercomputing, SMP

Virtualization and cloud were key components of two recent OS releases: Fedora Linux 14 and Windows Server 2008 SP1. Suddenly, the OS isn't such a dinosaur after all.
Tags: server virtualization, Fedora, hypervisor, desktop virtualization, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1

Windows Server 2008 R2's latest service pack adds appealing new features, including enhancements to desktop and server virtualization. In the developer corner, however, things are a bit dimmer with Microsoft expressing some confusing statement about the future of Silverlight at its Professional Developer's Conference.
Tags: server virtualization, Silverlight, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008

The cost savings that comes with virtualization makes an easy selling point, but there are other reasons the technology makes sense. Here are 10 reasons to consider virtualization that, although not top of mind, are worthy of consideration.
Tags: snapshots, infrastructure, virtualization, Top 10, server virtualization

NEC's FT Express5800 can now run Hyper-V, providing a new fault-tolerant virtualization environment for Windows shops. Can virtualized mission-critical apps be far behind?
Tags: Fault Tolerant, NEC, VMware, Hyper-V, server virtualization

Microsoft is nearly ready to release the first service pack for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7.
Tags: server virtualization, OS, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, release candidate (RC)

With version 9 of its flagship product, Simpana, CommVault is taking a 'modern approach' to data management -- and the way it manages virtual machines is key.
Tags: storage virtualization, virtualization, server virtualization, CommVault, deduplication

Six months ago, IDC said new virtual servers will exceed physical server purchases in 2010. This week, Gartner said only 25 percent of all server workloads will be in a virtual machines this year. Can both be correct? Dell hopes so.
Tags: IDC, server virtualization, Gartner, Dell, Virtual Server Management

'Security through virtualization' is a strategy that's bound to fail. So how do you protect your virtual machines? By testing virtualization systems methodically. One way to accomplish this is to break virtualization by switching to virtual 8086 mode.
Tags: virtual server, 8086 mode, server virtualization, Virtual Server Security, security

If fear is preventing you from making the change from a physical to virtual infrastructure, you must put that phobia aside and consider KVM, Red Hat's enterprise server virtualization alternative.
Tags: open source servers, data center management, KVM, server virtualization, Red Hat Enterprise Linux

VMware may be in talks with Novell to purchase its SUSE Linux division. What could the server virtualization vendor want with an OS?
Tags: VMware, server virtualization, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, acquisition, Novell

The company is touting engineering giant CH2M Hill as its latest example of how the Hyper-V virtualization platform is beating out VMware.
Tags: server virtualization, Hyper-V, VMware

The tool provides details on how much energy can be reduced by decreasing some programs or increasing server virtualization.
Tags: carbon footprint, server virtualization

Tips for choosing storage protocols and systems for a virtual server infrastructure.
Tags: Storage, virtual server, server virtualization

New release of Microsoft's self-service portal aims to improve data center administrators' ability to quickly provision virtual machines for internal customers.
Tags: Microsoft, Hyper-V, server virtualization, System Center Virtual Machine Manager, virtual machine