Release 3.1 of Oracle VM Server for x86 offers enhanced ease of use for virtualization administrators and improves storage availability.
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.
New research indicates that nearly 90 percent of IT managers struggle with backing up data in virtualized environments.
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.
Server-based computing is alive and well, delivering the benefits of centralized administration and data storage benefits of VDI, without the cost and maintenance of VDI.
British firm seeks to spread its on-demand computing model to North America, touting cost and efficiency savings of virtual server offering.
Management suites for server virtualization platforms is an area that continues to heat up. Not only are there more choices, but more vendors are also offering more products.
Touting the unique challenges of managing performance in the virtualization era, company offers "cross-silo" tools to keep tabs on diverse virtual and physical assets.
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.
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?
RHEV 3.0 hits beta, finally removing the dependency of prior versions that required users to run Windows.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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vSphere, server virtualization, Red Hat, VMware
New virtualization release includes cloning and tunneling features, as Oracle pushes open source technology forward.
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open source software, server virtualization, virtualbox, Oracle, VDI
Red Hat accuses VMware of raising prices on virtualization, VMware disagrees.
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price, VMware, software licensing, 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.
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server virtualization, mission-critical, vSphere, VMware
Cloud Infrastructure Suite debuts with new automation and security capabilities that helps deal with both noisy and nosey neighbors.
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vSphere, server virtualization, VMware
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.
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Hyper-V, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, server virtualization, Microsoft, System Center Virtual Machine Manager
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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Gartner, Citrix, server virtualization, VMware, Microsoft
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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mission-critical, hybrid cloud, server virtualization, desktop virtualization, VMware
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.
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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.
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public cloud, server technology, server virtualization, compliance, cloud computing
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.
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hybrid cloud, storage virtualization, server virtualization, private cloud, desktop virtualization
V-Commander 4.0 software enables the development of self-service catalogs and rapid virtual machine provisioning.
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IaaS, Embotics, server virtualization, private cloud, virtualization
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.
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server virtualization, public cloud, Virtualization Management, hypervisor, cloud computing
Billing itself as a low-cost, simplified alternative to heavyweights like IBM and HP, ScaleXtreme offers a unified, cloud-based console for systems management.
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server virtualization, server management, 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?
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operating system, partner, server virtualization, virtual, integrated
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.
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Hyper-V, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, server virtualization, Microsoft, System Center Virtual Machine Manager
Cloud computing, server virtualization, VDI and a far amount of VMware bashing fills the hall of this year's Citrix Synergy.
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VDI, server virtualization, VMware, Citrix, 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?
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server virtualization, Windows Server 2008 R2, Hyper-V, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, 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.
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VMware, Hyper-V, server virtualization, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Microsoft
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.
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server virtualization, Apple, vSphere, VMware, Mac OS X
Is SAN complexity leading to VM stall? One NAS vendor certainly thinks so, and it's determined to disprove the 'myths.'
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storage virtualization, VMware, server virtualization, SAN, NAS
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.
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hypervisor, server virtualization, Veeam, Virtualization Management
When it comes to beefing up the security of your virtualized IT environment, to whom are you going to turn?
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Security Advisory, hypervisor, server virtualization, virtualization technology, security
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?
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application virtualization, Server App-V, SCVMM, Microsoft, server virtualization
A recent survey of x86 virtualization penetration shows few enterprises exceeding 50 percent and many running into SLA issues.
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VMware, server virtualization, virtual server, sla, Hyper-V
Dell and HP announced new software offerings designed to make managing virtual environments easier. Is the future for server manufacturers virtual?
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HP, virtual appliance, server virtualization, Dell, Microsoft
There are 10 forces driving you toward a more agile data center. May the forces be with you.
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server virtualization, agile data center, Top 10, cloud computing, data center management
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.
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public cloud, Cisco, cloud computing, virtualization technology, server virtualization
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.
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supercomputing, SMP, clustering, ScaleMP, server virtualization
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.
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server virtualization, desktop virtualization, Fedora, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, hypervisor
