Virtualization is obviously going to be part of the IT industry for the forseable future. VMware has always had ties to academia as a pioneer in the field, but they recently have taken it a step further by launching govirtual.org. This new website was created specifically for virtualization researchers and academics.
From VMware’s Academic Programs Team:
“Govirtual.org [...]
As you probabaly know, VMware hosted a contest a while back that challenged admins to use the new PowerShell Toolkit to create the most valuable tool. The winner of the contest was Hugo Peeters. I wanted to draw attention to this because his web site is a great resource for PowerShell scripting. Check it out [...]
Last night VMware released Fusion 2.0. I got to see a first hand demo this morning and I was very impressed with the finished product. As I indicated in my post with the last RC released, they have really taken a great product and put the finishing touches on it.
Especially catching my eye was the [...]
9:04 - “Will it be moist and chewy?” - Additional Desktop Preview tracks now available and roadmap keynote will go more in depth.
9:02 - VMware View will provide Server-Based management capabilities, a full PC User Experience, and Universal Client capabilities.
8:56 - Live demo of VMware View.
Can successfully map virtualized apps even to 3D hardware acceleration on [...]
VMware has let out the annoucement about its Virtual Data Center OS (VDC-OS). Check out Scott Lowe’s blog for all the details:
http://blog.scottlowe.org/2008/09/15/follow-up-on-the-vdc-os-announcement/
Look for some more details to come out of tomorrow morning’s keynote address.
Alistair Croll of GigaOM wrote a great article yesterday about a new tool released for free from Embotics to help “fight” VM Sprawl called ‘V-Scout’.
http://gigaom.com/2008/09/03/embotics-releases-free-tool-to-fight-vm-sprawl/
Why free? According to the Embotics web site, awareness of sprawl is merely the first step. They sell several tools to help get it under control and prevent it in the [...]
VMware Fusion 1.0 was and is great. I have always been a big fan of the product. Fusion 2.0 is promising to be even better! You can get your first look at what the finished product will look like with the release of RC-1. The upcoming new version (and currently in the release candidate) promises [...]
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 [...]