VMware denies banning competitors from VMworld
VMware this week had to reassure industry observers that it will not ban competition from the VMworld conference, after bloggers took the company to task for releasing a policy change that appeared to prevent competing vendors from demonstrating products at the virtualization trade show.
Appliances big opportunity for Linux, Novell says
The modularity and licensing of Linux makes well suited as the platform of choice for software appliances, a Novell executive said at VMworld.
VMworld and Forensics
In discussions with backup companies about digital forensics I discovered some useful items. Specifically that full VMDK backups may be forensically sound and that there is a way to dump the memory of a VM before you kill it like pulling the plug.
VMware customers look past the turmoil
VMware has taken a beating in the press and on Wall Street lately over its management upheaval, slower growth rate and competition from Microsoft, but customers at the VMworld conference here said they were either unaware of or unconcerned by the mounting pressure.
10 things seen and heard at VMworld
14,000 people showed up for VMware's VMworld conferenceat the Venetian in Las Vegas. In case you weren't among them, here are 10 noteworthy things seen and heard.
VMware chief says the OS is history
jfruh
Apple syncing patent can't come soon enough
pasmith
New Twitter features borrow from 3rd party clients
Esther Schindler
Open Source Changes the Software Acquisition Process
mikelgan
How to set up continuous podcast play on the new iTunes
David Strom
Five important Windows 7 mobility features
sjvn
Guard your Wi-Fi for your own sake
Sandra Henry-Stocker
Grepping on Whole Words
Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News
Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
- mburton325
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