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 [...]
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 [...]
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!
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 are nearly a month away from the largest virtualization show to date: VMworld 2008 in beautiful Las Vegas! If you are still thinking about attending, it’s not too late to register.
For the rest of you, keep VMHero in your bookmarks as we bring you live-blogging coverage througout the week of all the highlights!
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Ok, so, by now you’ve heard the news (unless you’ve been too worried about standing in line for your new iPhone). Earlier this month we were shocked to find out that Diane Greene was removed as CEO of VMware, to be replaced by Paul Maritz. I’m not going to go into the all of the [...]