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 [...]
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 [...]
With the recent release of Hyper-V, Microsoft is full steam ahead on it’s virtualization strategy. There new catch-phrase/tagline is “getVIRTUALnow“. They will be officially kicking things off with the official Microsoft Virtualization Launch in Bellevue, Washington on September 8th.
Check out the details and register now if you will be in WA next month!
Although no details [...]