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by Scott Wilson on April 24, 2009
I've read through all the press releases at least twice now for VMware's vSphere, and I'm still not clear on how it is much more than a routine upgrade from the company's VMWare Infras...
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by Scott Wilson on February 25, 2009
We've seen Microsoft coming after them in it's own clumsy but powerful way, and various cloud-based offerings threaten the company at an even more conceptual level, but now old-school termin...
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Virtualization
by Scott Wilson on September 18, 2008
Although people have been saying it's an exciting event and indicating their commitment to VMWare, no one has been able to point to anything yet that much distinguishes what is being presented the...
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Virtualization
by Scott Wilson on September 17, 2008
I've been keeping half an eye peeled on VMWorld this week, waiting to see what the virtualization leader's response to last week's Microsoft Get Virtual launch would be, but despite a flur...
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Virtualization
by Scott Wilson on September 11, 2008
I know that I have mentioned application virtualization as a potential "next big thing" here a couple of times, but with Microsoft getting seriously into the field now I think its time is ab...
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Virtualization
by Scott Wilson on September 10, 2008
I should start a new category called "More Bad News for VMWare." It would be seeing some heavy use this week.
After yesterday's scene of Microsoft rolling up its shirt sleeves in prepar...
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Virtualization
by Scott Wilson on September 2, 2008
The increasing adoption of virtualization technologies has left hardware manufacturers in something of a bind: while it's clearly an aggressively expanding trend which they would like to jump on t...
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Virtualization
by Scott Wilson on August 13, 2008
It continues to seem like VMware is set on being their own worst enemy in the battle to dominate the enterprise virtualization market. After firing their CEO, dropping revenue expectations, and doing ...
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Virtualization
by Scott Wilson on August 12, 2008
Virtual Iron announced the release yesterday of version 4.4 of its eponymous software package with a new feature called LivePower which aims to reduce power consumption in large virtual server farms w...
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Virtualization
by Scott Wilson on July 25, 2008
Next Monday, VMware's ESXi hardware-integrated hypervisor goes from a list price of $495 to nothing, in a move apparently calculated to strike a blow against Microsoft's recently released comp...
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Virtualization
by Scott Wilson on July 16, 2008
Kensho may be a bit over-reaching to describe Citrix's recently announced toolset allowing the creation and migration of hypervisor-independent virtual application workloads, but that's the na...
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Virtualization
by Scott Wilson on July 15, 2008
VMWare has been spitting out a flurry of press releases of late, perhaps to try to smother all the bad news about earnings and CEO ousters. I'll give them a hand by talking instead about their lau...
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by Scott Wilson on July 9, 2008
Former Microsoft exec Paul Maritz has replaced company co-founder Diane Greene as CEO of VMWare in a move which coincides with a warning of lower expected revenue forecasts for 2008.
While VMWare has...
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Virtualization
by Scott Wilson on July 2, 2008
Microsoft last week released their Hyper-V virtualization server for Windows 2008, finally showing all their cards in the latest round of betting against dominant virtualization platform provider VMwa...
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Virtualization
by Scott Wilson on May 13, 2008
Dell and VMWare have announced a robust disaster recovery solution combining VMWare's Site Recovery Manager (SRM) software with Dell's EqualLogic storage arrays. SRM is a significant stand-alo...
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Virtualization
by Scott Wilson on May 8, 2008
Dell launched two new server products yesterday which it is touting as being virtualization-optimized, the R805 and R905 models. Apparently "optimized" simply means beefed-up memory and I/O ...
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Virtualization
by Scott Wilson on March 19, 2008
Microsoft announced today that their Windows Server 2008 hypervisor "Hyper-V" has gone to release candidate status and will be freely available online to customers and partners sometime this...
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Virtualization
by Scott Wilson on February 27, 2008
It's official: I talk about virtualization enough that I've added the subject as its own category finally. To inaugurate its new status, I will fittingly discuss the virtualization king, VMwar...
