VMware

VMware aims give users more control with vCenter Operations

root — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 01:31:42 -0700

VMware is integrating performance, capacity and configuration management with the launch of vCenter Operations, in an effort to give users more control over growing virtualized IT infrastructures, the company said on Tuesday.

VMware taps ex-Microsoft execs to battle Microsoft

root — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 01:47:35 -0700

VMware's Paul Maritz has given up his title of president to four senior executives who will serve as co-presidents of the EMC-owned company. With Maritz - himself a former Windows executive - continuing to hold the CEO title, three of the top five executives at VMware are now ex-Microsoft officials.

EMC Profit, Revenue Soar on Storage and VMware

root — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 17:46:05 -0700

Surging revenue from storage, security and virtualization brought record financial results at EMC in the fourth quarter, the company reported Tuesday.

VMware sales up 37 percent on continued demand

root — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 22:31:43 -0700

VMware's fourth-quarter revenue jumped 37 percent as businesses increased spending on its virtualization software, the company announced Monday.

Amazon moves VMware's virtual machines to the cloud

root — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 14:27:03 -0700

Amazon Web Services has announced a new feature called VM Import, which allows IT departments to move virtual machine images from their internal data centers to the cloud.

VMware Simplifies Monitoring of Zimbra Appliance With vFabric Hyperic

root — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 10:23:24 -0700

VMware announced that VMware vFabric Hyperic is now offered as part of VMware Zimbra Appliance, an enterprise-class email and collaboration solution delivered as a virtual appliance....

VMotion, the story and confessions

tludwig — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 10:23:19 -0700

By Duncan Epping

There is something I always wanted to know and that is how VMotion(yes I am using the old school name on purpose) came to life. After some research on the internet and even on the internal websites I noticed that there are hardly any details to be found.

Now this might be because the story isn’t as exciting as we hope it will be or because no one took the time to document it. In my opinion however VMotion is still one of the key features VMware offers but even more important it is what revolutionized the IT world. [..]

Oracle praised for switch on VMware RAC support

root — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 10:05:33 -0700

Oracle has reportedly changed its position on support for its RAC (Real Application Clusters) software running in VMware virtualized environments, saying it will provide it under certain circumstances.

Cisco-Citrix XenDesktop Design on VMware vSphere

root — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 23:19:06 -0700

This documents corresponds to the design for XenDesktop on XenServer. Naming aside, we see more XenDesktop deployments on VMware, therrfore this docuemnt is a must-read.

Impact of VMware vCloud Technologies on Cost of Operations

root — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 13:10:48 -0600

I'm thinking about how vCloud Express changes the way that we work at Sarrel Group. It's interesting to look at the evolution of testing, especially virtual machine technology plus all the good cloud stuff. ...