I was just reading an interesting article on ZDNet about how the adoption of Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 7 could be accelerated thanks to virtualization becoming more mainstream.
The worries in the past with almost every new version of Windows have always been that program X or device Y will not be compatible with the latest Windows. [...]
Unless you have been in the clouds for about the last year, you know that cloud computing is a hot topic right now in IT. It is defined in Wikipedia as “a style of computing in which dynamically scalable and often virtualised resources are provided as a service over the Internet.” Notice it says often [...]
It’s pretty common knowledge that USB is not supported on the enterprise virtualization platform (VMware’s ESX and Microsoft’s Hyper-V to name the big players). My question is: why not? I posed to this to our VMware rep recently during a “roadmap” discussion and the best answer that I got was that it’s not in their [...]
New year, new calendar, new budget, and new conferences! Mark your calendars now for the upcoming virtualization conferences that you won’t want to miss in 2009:
VMworld Europe 2009: February 24-26, The Palais des Festivals
VMworld 2009: August 31-Sept 3, Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA
Citrix Synergy: May 4-7, MGM Grand Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, [...]
This free, online, event was brought to my attention and I wanted to share with all of you. It looks like it will be very beneficial and features some great presenters from a diverse set of industry vendors.
You’re invited to attend the free BrightTALK Virtualization Summit from 8-5:30 PDT Nov 4th to engage in a [...]
Last week I did something exciting and slightly profound. I sat down with someone from our internal training department to discuss and develop curriculum for an internal training class for our employees, centered around… you guessed it… virtualization! As it turns out there is a hunger within our walls to learn about virtualization. I’m not [...]
I have already talked about the new Replay Debugging functionality that is now a part of VMware Workstation 6.5 in my previous article (”Replay Debugging: The Future of Software Development“). I truly do believe that this represents the new way that things will be done in the years to come and we will look back [...]