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The Battle for the Cloud Rumbles On

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


Tags: private cloud, server virtualization, cloud computing, public cloud, hybrid cloud, virtual machine

5 Backup Products for Virtual Machines

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


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

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, backup, virtual machine, VMware

Microsoft Bows Self-Service Virtual Machine Tool

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

3 Ways to Secure Your Virtualized Data Center

Server virtualization may have caught on far and wide, but the technology for securing virtual environments lags. Regaining visibility at the access layer is critical to keeping your data safe. Here are three ways to accomplish this.
Tags: virtual machine, server virtualization, data center, virtual server, security

Server Virtualization Myths -- 10 to Debunk

Myths about technology are often difficult to burst, and few are more trying than those concerning server virtualization.
Tags: Top 10, virtual server, server virtualization, virtual machine, virtualization technologies

Eucalyptus Enterprise Edition Supports Microsoft VM

Eucalyptus Enterprise Edition (EE) 2.0 includes support for Windows virtual machines.
Tags: VM, virtual machine, Cloud, Eucalyptus

VMware Renovates Desktop Virtualization Technologies

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

AppAssure Releases Microsoft Hyper-V Backup Solution

The software performs a single application-aware snapshot spanning the entire host machine and an unlimited number of guest machines in a Hyper-V environment.
Tags: Hyper-V, backup, virtual machine, virtual server

VM6 Automates Hyper-V Management

The VM6 VMex 2.1 suite automates management of virtual servers based in Hyper-V virtual machine software.
Tags: Hyper-V, server tools, virtual machine

Issues to Consider Before Moving VMs Over the WAN

Moving virtual machines between physical systems may not work over the WAN.
Tags: physical machine, WAN, VM, virtual machine

Using Encapsulation to Manage Virtual Hard Disk Data

The ability to encapsulate Virtual Hard Disk data has many making the jump to virtualization technologies.
Tags: virtual machine, Encapsulation, virtualization technologies

Setting Up Tunneling With a VirtualBox Guest Machine

Tip of the Trade: VirtualBox makes it easy to set up and run virtual machines on your own desktop. It is not perfect, however, and by default, the guest VM is invisible to the host or any other machines on the network. Here's an easy way to relay instructions to it.
Tags: server virtualization, virtual machine, OS, virtualbox

A Speedier Open-source Xen Hypervisor

An update to the Xen hypervisor offers improvements to performance, memory usage and security.
Tags: VHD, virtual machine, hypervisor, Xen, applications

Cirrus Announces Xen VM Hosting Plans

Cirrus Tech expands services in to the virtualized hosting market.
Tags: virtual environment, VM, Xen, hosting, virtual machine

Red Hat's Virtualization Technology Rev

Virtually Speaking: Red Hat has announced an update for its virtualization technology suite. Is it time to add Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization to your short list?
Tags: virtual machine, RHEV, Windows, KVM, virtualization technologies

Microsoft Offers Free Datacenter Management Kit

The company is offering its Datacenter Management and Virtualization Enablement Kit via Microsoft Connect.
Tags: SI, data center management, virtual machine, Microsoft

VKernel Offers Free VMware Capacity Management Tool

VKernel offers system management virtual appliances for VMware ESX Server and Microsoft Hyper-V environments.
Tags: VMware ESX Server, Hyper-V, server tools, VMware, virtual machine

Put Virtual Machine Management to the Test (and Development)

Frugal Server Admin: Accelerate your testing and development efforts with the agile nature of virtual machine management.
Tags: virtual machine, frugality, testing tool, virtual machine management

VMworld Opens With Much Virtual Fan Fare

It's off to the races for VMworld 2009, as VMware and its ecosystem partners focus on all things virtual.
Tags: VMworld, VMware, virtual machine, virtualization, BMC

Pondering a Host of Golden Virtual Server Deals

Cover Your Assets: Forget about cloud computing. Virtual Private Servers look and feel like the real thing.
Tags: hosted services, virtualization, virtual machine

Virtualization Tales From the Front Lines

Virtually Speaking: User enterprises weigh in how virtualization has benefited and not benefited their organization, as well as where they see cloud computing in their infrastructure.
Tags: virtual machine, cloud computing, virtualization

The Journey to Virtual Freedom

Cover Your Assets: Head for the shores of virtualization's peaceful and freeing refuge.
Tags: VMware, virtualization, frugality, virtual machine

VMware Adds Virtual Chargebacks, App Monitoring

Virtually Speaking: As businesses-critical workloads get moved to virtual servers, VMware looks to manage a new set of pain points.
Tags: testing, virtualization, virtual machine, VMware

You Can't Afford to Save This Much Money

Cover Your Assets: When you convert from a physical to a virtual infrastructure, is the money you save real or virtual?
Tags: VMware, virtual machine, hardware, frugality, virtualization

DOS: A Virtual Legacy

Cover Your Assets: Are DOS applications still driving you crazy? A DOS virtual machine may be the solution.
Tags: backup, DOS, virtual machine, virtual desktop, virtualization