Earlier this week Citrix both announced and re-branded their flagship presentation layer virtualization product: “XenApp 5″ formerly Presentation Server (formerly MetaFrame). It touts lower price points, drastic performance improvements (up to 10x faster launch times), and a much better end-user experience. In addition, Citrix has now created a unified product line to handle all of [...]
Modern OSes take steps to reduce the power usage of the system. Things such as throttling the CPU speed and putting the CPUs in to a halted state when they are not being used.
An article on Computer World points out that hypervisors today push the peddle to the metal on the host system whenever even [...]
Remember those days of needing to defrag Windows machines? Oh wait… those days are still with us. And now the situation is worse with virtual machines and the disk mapping between the guest and host.
Well… Diskeeper has announced that their Diskeeper 2008 product has been certified by Microsoft for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. It will [...]
Microsoft announced today that it will eliminate its licensing restrictions that prevented customers from being able to move its virtual applications to a different virtual server more than once every 90 days. This is important as the world moves closer and closer to being hardware agnostic. Prior to today, it was technically neccessary for administrators [...]
This month, the Xen hypervisor was named the “Best of Open Source Software (BOSSIE)” award for the category of server virtualization from InfoWorld. This is a fairly high-profile accolade for Citrix to put in their portfolio. This is especially so, considering that open-source (Xen) is doing things at a very high level that Microsoft has [...]
For those of you who have registered and have been waiting to plan your time in Las Vegas next month, the wait is over! The schedule builder officially went live tonight. Let the races begin to get into the sessions and labs you want!
I just read an article that says Sun’s server virtualization product is close to being released! We wrote an article a few months back about their desktop virtualization product (VirtualBox) and followed up with a review on it (in comment #1). We were fairly impressed by their desktop product, especially considering it is free and [...]