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vSphere Storage Appliance: The fruit of a conflict of interest

Posted October 11, 2011 - 4:19 pm

The new vSphere Storage Appliance has serious limits. Is the EMC relationship keeping VMware from realizing its full potential?
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Desktop virtualization smackdown: Parallels vs. VMware vs. VirtualBox

Posted October 11, 2011 - 3:43 pm

If you're looking to virtualize guest OSes on your desktop, there's a three-way battle for your affections. Find out what the contenders have to offer -- and where each falls short.
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VXLAN is a missed opportunity

Posted October 5, 2011 - 5:24 pm

VMware misses a great chance to push the networking world toward next-gen standards and delivers a narrow-minded work-around instead.
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VMware launches Lion ready Fusion

Posted September 15, 2011 - 10:17 am

VMware, the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, has launched VMware Fusion 4, which provides an easy way for users to run Windows applications with Mac.
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Best feature in Windows 8: Potential to take 'PC,' ditch the OS

Posted September 14, 2011 - 4:01 pm

With virtualization, cloud and portability, Microsoft may be building its first actual operating environment focused on the end user, despite years of claiming that's what Windows was.
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VMWorld 2011: The business case for cloud computing

Posted August 30, 2011 - 6:23 pm

Consona’s Milt Volosyn is used to mergers and acquisitions. As CIO for the software and services company, he is responsible for managing about 14 different software products for business-critical tasks such as ERP, financing and marketing services and support.
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Avoid downtime with Storage vMotion

Posted August 30, 2011 - 4:52 pm

Storage vMotion is often derided as an unnecessary feature you'll never need -- don't believe that for a second
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In VMworld keynote, Maritz describes a VMware driving full speed in every direction

Posted August 30, 2011 - 3:39 pm

At the VMworld conference, VMware CEO Paul Maritz described efforts to lead virtualization in half a dozen markets at once, only one of which it unquestionably owns now.
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VMware CEO: Cloud to end computer desktop era

Posted August 29, 2011 - 10:18 pm

VMware CEO Paul Maritz urged customers to think beyond the desktop computer. It is a dead metaphor, he insisted, one ill-suited for today's workforce.
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VMware launches cloud-packaged Postgres

Posted August 29, 2011 - 8:00 am

Augmenting its line of software to support cloud deployments, VMware has created a package for running the Postgres database in a virtualized environment, the company announced Monday.
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Start-up releases all-in-one VMware server, storage appliance

Posted August 16, 2011 - 6:09 am

Start-up Nutanix released its flagship product, a VMware-based server combined with SSD and hard drive storage, today to deliver a clustered system that grows over time.
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The dumbest thing VMware has done recently could help customers move to cloud

Posted August 9, 2011 - 12:14 pm

VMware's concessions on vSphere 5 prices aren't perfect, but keep incentives that give customers a better grasp of cloud by making them pay according to rules of the fog, not the VM.
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Virtualization: What to do when vSphere goes down

Posted August 4, 2011 - 4:10 pm

VMware's vSphere virtualization platform is known for its reliability and offers built-in features like High Availability (HA) to ensure that physical server failures have only minor effects on end-user applications. But not everyone chooses to use these features and, as with any technology, bad things can happen even if you do use them. So, what do you do when the unexpected happens -- when a virtual machine is slow or down or when an ESXi server or vCenter is unresponsive?
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Important facts about vSphere 5's new pricing model

Posted July 15, 2011 - 10:33 pm

The newly announced VMware vSphere 5 has a new "pooled" pricing model that charges customers based on the virtual memory configured in a virtual server. The model does away with limitations on the amount of RAM and number of cores, and it is the only way to buy the new vSphere version.
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VMware, EMC release new virtual storage, smaller VMAX array

Posted July 15, 2011 - 9:16 am

In conjunction with VMware's release of its vSphere 5 cloud OS, EMC has released virtual storage appliance software and a new, lower-end version of its high-end virtual storage array, VMAX.
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VMware to launch cloud infrastructure suite

Posted July 12, 2011 - 1:38 pm

Setting the stage for cloud deployments, VMware will update many of its core products and bundle them into an integrated release, called the Cloud Infrastructure Suite, the company announced Tuesday.
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Microsoft, Citrix join VMware at top of Gartner's Magic Quadrant

Posted July 5, 2011 - 4:48 pm

It's getting harder for VMware to argue that it's the only game in town for big-time virtualization projects.
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NYSE launches cloud service for Wall Street

Posted June 20, 2011 - 6:13 am

NYSE Euronext announced that it's planning to offer a cloud service that will provide on-demand computing resources to Wall Street broker-dealers.
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VMware takes two shots at cost of its products

Posted June 14, 2011 - 11:34 am

VMware, criticized by competitors and some customers for its high cost, takes aim at the bottom line with better cost reporting and analysis and making app dev costs vary with use.
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CloudSwitch makes cloud easier to manage, by lying to it

Posted June 8, 2011 - 3:45 pm

Software vendor CloudSwitch supports all hypervisors and most clouds with an abstraction layer designed to keep your VMs from knowing they're running somewhere other than your data center.
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VMware CEO: What we plan for the post-PC era

Posted June 7, 2011 - 12:31 pm

Paul Maritz, CEO of VMware, sees virtualization as one piece of the platform VMware intends to offer a mobile, cloud-enabled world
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Using VMware Fusion to fire up old games. Or not.

Posted June 2, 2011 - 6:41 pm

Gibbs wants to run "Star Wars Episode I: Racer" on a W98 VM but runs into compatibility problems.
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NYSE launches VMware-based cloud for financial firms

Posted June 1, 2011 - 10:48 am

NYSE promises robust security, performance in cloud for financial industry.
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Citrix repackages your mess of phone and Web apps as 'Personal Cloud'

Posted May 25, 2011 - 1:36 pm

There are some impressive things in Citrix' biennial rush of product announcements, but many look focused only on unseating VMware, not creating real benefit for customers.
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Selling to SMBs makes virtualization, cloud cheaper, simpler, more available

Posted May 25, 2011 - 12:11 pm

SMBs are driving a lot of the cloud market, which drives IT vendors to cater to them. SMBs aren't just motivated by cost, though; they use cloud to get more mobile, grow faster, increase sales.
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