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VMTurbo Seeks to Put Virtualization on the Fast Track

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


Tags: server virtualization, vCenter, cloud computing, VMware

VMware Delivers Real Financial Results for Virtualization Business

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


Tags: earnings, VMware, server virtualization

The Beginning of the End of the Server Virtualization Landscape as We Know It

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


Tags: server virtualization, VMware, Hyper-V

VMware Extends View Virtual Desktop Clients to Mac, Linux

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.


Tags: desktop virtualization, VDI, VMware

Server Virtualization: The Year in Review

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.


Tags: Citrix, server virtualization, Hyper-V, KVM, VMware, vSphere, VDI, open virtualization alliance, Xen

VDI: The 'Other' Virtualization Technology

Unlike server virtualization, desktop virtualization, aka VDI, has been a hard sell for enterprises due largely to its high upfront costs. Still, VDI offers many benefits. Do they outweigh the costs?


Tags: Citrix, Quest, Microsoft, desktop virtualization, VDI, VMware

Predicting 2012 Server Virtualization Mega-trends

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.


Tags: server virtualization, hypervisor, vCenter, cloud computing, VMware

Embotics Boasts Turnkey VM Management, Private Cloud

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


Tags: server virtualization, Embotics, vSphere, VMware

Survey Reveals Server Virtualization Has Gone Commodity

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.


Tags: Microsoft, commoditization, Veeam, server virtualization, Citrix, VMware

The iPad, Saving VDI One Tablet at a Time

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.


Tags: iPad, VDI, tablet, desktop virtualization, VMware, Thin clients, Citrix

VMware, HP refresh Cloud Computing Offerings

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.


Tags: virtualization, HP, server virtualization, vCenter, cloud computing, vFabric, VMware

Slogans vs. Substance--Finding Your Way Through the Cloud Computing Jungle

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.


Tags: Salesforce, server virtualization, Google Cloud Connect, public cloud, cloud computing, VMware

Build a Data Center Cloud Utopia With Cloupia

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.


Tags: cloud computing, VMware, server virtualization, cloud management, cloud management tools

Hyper-V 3--Microsoft's Virtualization Platform Grows Up

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.


Tags: Hyper-V, Microsoft, VMware, windows server 8, server virtualization

Server Virtualization Pricing: Apples to Oranges to Pears

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?


Tags: Hyper-V, KVM, vSphere, Microsoft, Citrix XenServer, server virtualization, Red Hat, VMware

VMware Updates Workstation and Fusion

Workstation now an on-ramp to the cloud as Fusion expands Windows on Mac capabilities.


Tags: workstation virtualization, VMware

5 Backup Products for Virtual Machines

Mitigate one of your primary pain points with enterprise backup software for your virtual infrastructure.


Tags: Veeam, Tivoli, Tivoli Storage Manager, VMware, Quest, backup, virtual machine, Symantec, storage virtualization

Server Virtualization Buyer's Guide -- VMware

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.


Tags: vcloud, vCenter, virtualization technology, vSphere, server virtualization, VMware ESX Server, hypervisor, VMware, esxi, buyer's guide

Microsoft or VMware -- Who's Really Stuck in the IT Past?

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: Microsoft, VMware, vmotions, server virtualization, virtualization, Hyper-V

VMware Expands Its View and Horizon

VMware positions itself for the post-PC era with new virtual desktop and gateway technologies for hybrid clouds.


Tags: virtualization technology, Android, VDI, VMworld, VMware, LG, virtualization, virtual desktop

Oracle Takes on VMware with Oracle VM 3.0

Oracle looks to advance its server virtualization technology with new management capabilities and performance enhancements.


Tags: virtualization, Oracle, VMware, VM

How Much Will That vSphere Deployment Really Cost You?

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: vSphere, Hyper-V, VMware, server virtualization

V-Index: Measuring Virtualization Technology's Reach

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: virtualization technology, Hyper-V, VMware, Veeam, server virtualization

VMware Realizes Big Revenues from Virtualization

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

Does VMware's New Pricing Make Virtualization More Expensive?

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

vSphere 5, A Key Landmark on VMware's Path to Glory

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: VMware, mission-critical, vSphere, server virtualization

VMware Launches vSphere 5

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

What, VMware Worry?

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, VMware, server virtualization, Citrix, Microsoft

Mission-Critical Virtualization

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: server virtualization, desktop virtualization, mission-critical, VMware, hybrid cloud

VKernel Capacity Tools Aim to Balance Performance, Cost

Virtualization startup looks to help administrators manage capacity as it prepares to take on industry heavyweights.
Tags: performance management, virtualization, VMware, virtualization technology

Virtualization Comes Together at Citrix Synergy

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

VMware Gets new Horizon for Apps

VMware launches integrated approach for matching user identity and authentication with cloud apps.
Tags: VMware ESX Server, VMware, cloud computing

Why Choose Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Over VMware or Microsoft?

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: Hyper-V, server virtualization, VMware, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Microsoft

ActiveState Stackato Delivers Perl and Python to the Cloud

ActiveState chooses VMware's Cloud Foundry instead of Red Hat OpenShift for new platform.
Tags: OpenShift, VMware, Red Hat, Cloud Foundry, ActiveState

Internap Delivers OpenStack and VMware Clouds

This cloud provider isn't placing all its eggs in one basket, and it explains why it makes sense to have a multicloud technology strategy.
Tags: OpenStack, VMware, cloud computing

Will vSphere Slice the Apple?

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, Mac OS X, Apple, server virtualization, vSphere

Pancetera Looks to Cut the Hassle Out of Virtual Machine Backup

With its flagship offering, Pancetera Unite, a virtual appliance, the company aims to remove the mystery and complexities surrounding virtual machine backup.
Tags: virtual appliance, virtual machine, VMware, backup

SANs and Your Virtualized Environment -- Breaking the Cycle of Codependency

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

VMware Launches Open Source Cloud Foundry

New open source efforts from VMware aims to open up a platform-as-a-service offering enabling multi-cloud deployments.
Tags: cloud computing, open source software, Apache, VMware

Zenoss Delivers Datacenter Insight

Data center monitoring gets new analytics service for planning, provisioning and analysis.
Tags: Zenoss, VMware

Is Virtualization Hitting the Wall?

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

VMware Widens Road to the Hybrid Cloud

VMware added a lane in its highway to the cloud with three new cloud provider partners and vCloud Connector, which bridges the private cloud to the public cloud.
Tags: hybrid cloud, vcloud, VMware, vSphere, virtualization technology

VMware Updates Zimbra

The first release of the open source Zimbra email collaboration software since leaving Yahoo debuts. What's new and what's different about VMware's spin on the popular open source software?
Tags: virtualization, mail server, open source software, Zimbra, VMware

Virtualization Technology Moves Forward As New Year Begins

With VMware's stock soaring to new heights, the future continues to look bright for virtualization. It's 2011 and virtualization no longer means just servers -- a recent CDW report finds desktop virtualization deployments on the rise.
Tags: desktop virtualization, CDW, virtualization technology, VMware, virtualization

Will VMware Bring Virtualization Technology to Your iPhone?

A recent deal between VMware and LG brings virtualization technology to the mobile device world. Could the iPhone be next?
Tags: virtualization technology, iPhone, Android, LG, VMware

Paul Maritz Named Visionary CEO by InternetNews.com

InternetNews.com chose VMware CEO Paul Maritz to receive a 2010 CEO Vision Award. The leader of the virtualization king pin was selected for his leadership in continuing to push the technology's value proposition forward.
Tags: VMware, Paul Maritz, virtualization, CEO Vision Awards, InternetNews.com

Cisco Takes Aim at the Virtual Desktop

Virtualization Experience Infrastructure is set to deliver a virtual desktop with new partnerships and technologies.
Tags: desktop virtualization, Cisco, Citrix, cloud computing, VMware

NEC Adds Hyper-V Fault Tolerance

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: server virtualization, Fault Tolerant, VMware, Hyper-V, NEC

Government Bodies Embrace Cloud Computing

Is government driving the cloud computing adoption bus? Limited budgets and expanding desktop computing costs made virtualization a popular choice among government entities, then the cloud beckoned.
Tags: virtualization, VMware, government, cloud computing, private cloud

Cisco, EMC and VMware Going Orange

New Flexible 4 Business alliance aims to deliver turnkey cloud computing services around the globe.
Tags: VMware, cloud computing, EMC, Orange, Cisco

Server OS Landscape Rolls With the Punches

These days, the UNIX and Linux server OS landscape would play on the big screen as well as a combination Jackie Chan, James Bond, and Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure movie all rolled together.
Tags: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Novell, VMware, server os, Oracle

VMware, Novell to Dance Server Virtualization Tango

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

VMware CEO Says SaaS Could Leave IT 'Holding the Bag'

In his VMworld keynote, CEO Paul Maritz warned that IT needs new tools to deal with the growing wave of cloud-based applications and consumer devices enterprise users are adopting. The solution? IT as a Service.
Tags: VMware, SaaS, VMworld

VMware Weaves vFabric as Its Cloud Computing Application Platform

At VMworld, the virtualization giant delivers its vision of the cloud as an IT service for applications, leveraging its SpringSource technologies.
Tags: vFabric, cloud services, Spring, cloud computing, VMware

Virtual Acquisitions Coincide With VMworld

As VMworld kicks off, it is clear that a consolidation of virtual players is under way.
Tags: 3PAR, VMware, Citrix, VMworld, HP

Microsoft Server Virtualization Beats VMware

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

VMware Takes VMworld to the Cloud

VMware's big show is on the way, with cloud computing front and center.
Tags: VMworld, vSphere, cloud computing, xsigo, VMware

VMware Takes Zimbra to the Cloud

Six-months post-acquisition, VMware has absorbed Zimbra from both organizational and developmental perspectives. This week's product release reveals much about its future positioning in the VMware ecosystem.
Tags: Zimbra, vSphere, cloud computing, server virtualization, VMware

Zimbra Products Fully Integrated with VMware

Customers can run Zimbra Appliance in their own data center or via one of VMware's vCloud partners.
Tags: VMware, VMware vSphere, cloud computing

VMware Expands Hyperic Management in 4.4 Release

New systems management release offers improved virtualization integration for enterprise users.
Tags: Zenoss, Hyperic, SpringSource, VMware

Hyperic 4.4 Enhances Application Monitoring

Through enhanced integration SpringSource Hyperic 4.4 maintains a continually updated inventory of VMware vSphere ESX and ESXi hosts.
Tags: VMware, Hyperic, VMware vSphere

VMware, Cloudy With a (Strong) Chance of Server Virtualization

VMware's Tuesday release of VSphere 4.1 is more than a typical point release, and it's about more than server virtualization.
Tags: vSphere, VMware, server virtualization, virtualization technology, cloud computing

VMware Updates vSphere 4.1 for Massive Cloud Computing Scale

For a point release, vSphere 4.1 packs an awful lot of new features, functionality and improvements. And it's SMB friendly, to boot.
Tags: vSphere, VMware, cloud computing, server virtualization, hypervisor

VMware, ManageEngine Join Forces to Drive Virtual Server Management

ManageEngine adds VMware APIs and a host of other functionality to its latest release of OpManager. Will this virtual server tool take the monitoring market by storm?
Tags: virtual machine management, virtual server, ManageEngine, monitoring software, VMware

Testers Say StorageVIEW Outshines VMware Reporting

Virtualization admins claim StorageVIEW is easier than VMware's vCenter and VKernel's licensed Capacity Analyzer tool.
Tags: vCenter, virtualization, StorageVIEW, VMware

VMware Go Gets Tweaked for Hyper-V Competition

VMware has updated its free online virtual machine builder in the hopes of appealing to g to small and medium businesses.
Tags: VMware, Hyper-V

Virtual Server Strategy Goes Native for NEC

NEC partners with VMware to bring virtualization to its FT line. Is this the start of mission-critical apps running on virtual servers becoming commonplace?
Tags: NEC, VMware, vSphere, server virtualization, virtual server

NEC Fault Tolerant Servers Provide VMware Support

The NEC FT server series can now deliver continuous VMware processing and availability in the event of outages.
Tags: Fault Tolerant, server, VMware

Red Hat Sees VMware at the Biggest Competitor

Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst recently stated that VMware was the open source software vendor's largest competitor.
Tags: cloud computing, virtualization, Red Hat, VMware, open-source

Has VMware Won the Server Virtualization War?

Virtually Speaking: It's accolades all around for VMware, even from Microsoft users.
Tags: Hyper-V, TechEd, Microsoft, server virtualization, VMware

Will Server Virtualization Save Novell?

Virtually Speaking: Or, rather, will an alliance with VMware save the beleaguered company?
Tags: VMware, Novell, server virtualization, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, virtual appliance

VMware Embraces Novell's SUSE Linux OS for Appliances

New deal will see SLES packaged with vSphere appliances as VMware chooses a default Linux distribution for its offering.
Tags: linux os, VMware, vSphere, SUSE Linux, server virtualization

VMware Renovates Desktop Virtualization Technologies

The company has optimized Workstation 7.1 and added new hypervisor tweaks.
Tags: virtual machine, virtualization technologies, VMware, desktop virtualization

Storage Software with System x Servers

The position of IBM is covered here with regards to the Oracle/Sun deal, and the alliance between EMC,Cisco and VMware.
Tags: IBM, server, VMware, Oracle, Storage

ScaleMP Steps Up Server Virtualization Aggregation Software

The company started out with a server virtualization aggregation tool that makes many boxes look like one. Now, it's enhancing its formula and splitting that image into a second virtual machine.
Tags: ScaleMP, SMP, server virtualization, VMware, Linux