Recently, several sources have speculated as to whether or not Microsoft is planning to purchase Citrix. Some sources said that Microsoft would buy Citrix before VMware’s VMworld Conference, but clearly that did not happen. However, it is thought that an announcement, if at all, might be made in the next few days.
This raises the question…why? [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
We all know that PowerShell is the way of the future… at least for administrators in the Microsoft world. Now, VMware admins won’t be left out of all of the PS scripting fun! A couple weeks ago, VMware released version 1.0 of their Infrastructure Tooklit for Windows. Get it here! The toolkit includes more than [...]
I know that I had some problems getting it up and running and from what I have heard/read, I’m not alone. I found a good article that outlines exactly what it takes to get Suse Enterprise Linux 10 SP1 up and running on Microsoft Hyper-V.
http://www.itcomparison.com/blg/virtualization/
hyper-v-suse-linux-enterprise-10-and-component-integration.html
The question is… should it really be this complicated?
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Microsoft Corporation has released SP1 for both Virtual PC 2007 and Virtual Server 2005 R2. Why, you may ask with the final release of Hyper-V quickly approaching? After all, isn’t that going to be the Flagship for Microsoft’s virtualization strategy? The main reason for these updates is to add support for Microsoft’s current operating systems [...]