vCloud Director may be comprehensive, but it's also relatively expensive and arguably overkill for the needs of many enterprises. That's where alternatives like V-Commander come into play.
With Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware vSphere tackling virtualization in their own distinct ways, it's important to know the key advantages and disadvantages of each design architecture employed by the two.
VMware expects continued growth in 2013 as it goes after a $50 billion total addressable market opportunity.
What impact will PayPal's recent move to drop VMware have on the virtualization company's hopes of becoming a dominant player in cloud computing infrastructure?
In less than a year VMware has spent over a billion dollars acquiring the missing parts needed to turn its software-defined data center vision into a reality.
What's the dominant hypervisor today? While VMware may be the obvious answer, HotLink's CEO has a different take on the matter.
Open source OpenStack cloud vendor gets a little help from Cisco in a new round of funding.
A virtualization expert weighs in on how to effectively handle the mission-critical applications that tend to be the hardest to virtualize.
VMware grows its 2012 revenues as it plots a course forward for 2013.
VMware makes strategic investment in open source-based configuration management technology - what does it all mean?
Three key actions from VMware punctuate the changes in the server virtualization ecosphere over the last twelve months, but what exactly do they mean for the future?
VMware and EMC are taking both a back-to-basics and a forward-looking approach in committing key technologies and resources to the Pivotal Initiative.
Our latest tutorial reveals how you can use VMware Player's Virtual Network Editor to create custom virtual adapters and then assign them to VMs.
Linux vendor takes aim at VMware with upcoming virtualization platform update.
Managing a large number of VMs and all the associated networking and storage is no small feat, but new features in vSphere 5.1 make it possible to accomplish that job from literally anywhere you can connect to the network.
Like the infamous villains in James Bond flicks, VMware would very much like to rule the world -- the cloud world in this case.
VMware executives explain how the new licensing changes for vSphere 5 are being favorably received.
Having difficulties when trying to set a network adapter on a VMware Player machine in Bridged mode? Our latest tutorial reveals a solution for the bridged network issue.
VMware CTO Steve Herrod tells OpenStack that he want to join the party.
The company's latest vCloud Suite update provides new automation capabilities.
Will political in-fighting and dissent over open and closed cloud platform alternatives prevent cloud providers from helping make the cloud enterprise a reality?
Is VMware's elimination of the hated "vTax" a sign that the company is changing its focus to where the real money is?
VMware's new CEO backtracks on last year's vSphere pricing change as new virtualization solutions debut at VMworld.
The latest version of VMware View debuts with new functionality to improve the overall user experience, but are the enhancements enough to warrant an upgrade for your environment?
VMware has enjoyed record growth and innovation during Paul Maritz's time as CEO, so why exactly is EMC's Pat Gelsinger set to take over on September 1st?
The virtualization firm shows just how serious it is about the Software-Defined Networking (SDN) market, spending $1.2 billion to acquire Nicira.
You have to balance adequate failover capacity with the ability to remain productive and cost-efficient. Admission control in VMware allows you to do both.
The recent barbs traded between VMware and Microsoft can mean only one thing -- each sees the other as a real threat in the server virtualization and private cloud computing markets.
Just how realistic is VMware's endgame of a data center where everything is virtualized and controlled via software?
Working in vCenter is great until the unthinkable happens -- you have a "stuck" VM. You can't do anything with it except use some command-line magic.
The software-defined data center is not a threat to server vendors.
While VMware vSphere can already handle some of the most complex virtual machine configurations you can throw at it, version 5.0 brings even more flexibility to the HA and storage capabilities with an eye toward performance and scalability.
Was VMware's recent security breach a bombshell or something barely worth raising an eyebrow about? A security expert weighs in.
The latest release of the company's Virtualization Manager lets IT manage both VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V environments in a single view.
VMware's CEO emphasizes his company's strength in both private and public cloud infrastructure as revenues continue to grow.
The company is currently giving away its Management Pack for free, but there's a catch of course -- three, in fact.
HotLink recently refreshed SuperVISOR, its VMware hypervisor management system, with an eye on making it easier to administer heterogeneous hypervisor environments from vCenter.
Thanks to an abstraction trick, this young startup is enabling enterprises to manage multiple virtualization platforms from a single console.
Cloud security, or lack there of, is increasingly proving to be a barrier to adoption and revenue for companies that sell public cloud services. VMware aims to remedy this by partnering with these eight top guns in the security market place.
VMware, Microsoft and Citrix are the Big 3 of server virtualization and public cloud. It may soon be time to add Red Hat and rebrand them the Big 4, however. With more mission-critical Linux servers being virtualized, more servers are running RHEV, and cloud providers are not exempt from this trend.
The virtual infrastructure management company doubles down on Veeam One hypervisor options.
Security software provider secures virtual machines running Windows and hints at markets beyond VMware.
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.
2012 just might be the year the sun gets a chance to set on VMware's empire of server virtualization hegemony.
Aiming to help IT organizations make their virtual desktop infrastructure more flexible, VMware has released a "technology preview" of its View client for Mac OS X Lion, and has promised similar previews of clients for Ubuntu Linux and the Kindle Fire in coming weeks.
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.
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.
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.
VDI, despite its lengthier history, has yet to gain the traction that server virtualization has. End-user owned devices, such as iPads and other tablets, just might give provide the nudge needed to win over acceptance from employees and employers alike.
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.
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.
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?
Workstation now an on-ramp to the cloud as Fusion expands Windows on Mac capabilities.
Mitigate one of your primary pain points with enterprise backup software for your virtual infrastructure.
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?
VMware positions itself for the post-PC era with new virtual desktop and gateway technologies for hybrid clouds.
Oracle looks to advance its server virtualization technology with new management capabilities and performance enhancements.
Per-CPU socket pricing, vRAM entitlements and pooling -- with VMware's latest pricing schema, figuring out the costs of virtualization is trickier than ever.
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server virtualization, vSphere, VMware, Hyper-V
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.
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VMware, virtualization technology, Hyper-V, Veeam, server virtualization
Virtualization vendor wants users to 'pay by the drink' as new pricing model set to take hold.
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Red Hat, vSphere, VMware, server virtualization
Red Hat accuses VMware of raising prices on virtualization, VMware disagrees.
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Red Hat, server virtualization, price, VMware, software licensing
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.
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Cloud Infrastructure Suite debuts with new automation and security capabilities that helps deal with both noisy and nosey neighbors.
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vSphere, VMware, server virtualization
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?
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Citrix, server virtualization, VMware, Microsoft, Gartner
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.
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hybrid cloud, server virtualization, mission-critical, desktop virtualization, VMware
Virtualization startup looks to help administrators manage capacity as it prepares to take on industry heavyweights.
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VMware, virtualization technology, performance management, virtualization
