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  Burning questions: Virtualisation

  Virtualizing x86 infrastructure isn't just a one-step process -- as servers change, the whole data center must change as well. While server hypervisors such as VMware's ESX, Microsoft's Hyper-V and Xen can make IT more efficient and cost-effective, many of the virtualization advantages can be canceled out when data centers rely on technology and processes that haven't been updated for the virtualization age.

  By Jon Brodkin | 26 October, 2010 00:52

  Tags: Configuration / maintenance, Data Center, hardware systems, Microsoft, security, server, server virtualization, storage, Storage Management, Virtualization, VMware

• Desktop Virtualization: Top Vendors Still Miss the Mark

  Desktop virtualization has a predicted growth curve that leaves much of the PC and IT services industries smiling: Yet none of the technologies or service providers promising to offer hosted virtual desktops are ready to step into key roles in enterprise IT infrastructures, according the same well-respected analysts who set the server virtualization market on its ear with a similar conclusion last year.

  By Kevin Fogarty | 25 May, 2010 04:23

  Tags: burton group, Citrix, desktop virtualisation, Microsoft, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), VMware

• 5 virtual desktop pitfalls

  Most CIOs have started considering virtual desktop infrastructure and other types of desktop virtualization, but only a minority has reached the deployment stage. (See related story, "As Windows 7 gains steam, VDI set to rise".) Virtual desktops can potentially provide more flexibility for users, make it easier to apply patches and reduce IT help desk calls, but there are still numerous problems that keep desktop pros up at night. Here are five pitfalls to watch out for.

  By Jon Brodkin | 03 April, 2010 06:49

  Tags: burton group, Forrester, Gartner, Microsoft, san, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), VMware

• Technologies come and go, but managing networks is still about problem-solving

  Technologies come and go, but managing networks is still about problem-solving in a changing world, as these IT executives can attest.

  By Ellen Messmer | 12 February, 2010 08:03

  Tags: Automated Document Solutions, Payment Card Industry, StillSecure, Vancouver Community College, VMware

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  VMware cloud initiative raises vendor lock-in concerns

  VMware talks a good game about interoperability, but its cloud initiative threatens to introduce a type of vendor lock-in that rival virtualization vendors claim they would not impose.

  By Jon Brodkin | 03 September, 2009 23:36

  Tags: Citrix, hypervisor, Microsoft, Virtualization, VMware

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  Platform Computing tackles tech-agnostic cloud management

  Grid vendor Platform Computing has unveiled new private cloud software that aggregates servers, storage, networking tools and hypervisors to create a shared pool of physical and virtual resources.

  By Jon Brodkin | 23 June, 2009 08:07

  Tags: cloud computing, hypervisors, VMware, vsphere

• Data center derby heats up

  Network thoroughbred Cisco jumps into the blade server market. Server stallion HP adds security blades to its ProCurve switches. IBM teams up with Brocade. Oracle buys Sun. And everybody courts that prize filly VMware.

  By Beth Schultz | 16 June, 2009 00:17

  Tags: Cisco, HP, IBM, oracle, servers, sun, VMware

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  Cisco, EMC, VMware form private cloud pact

  The current ratio of IT spend on maintaining IT systems against innovation has become unsustainable according to EMC’s Australian president, David Webster.

  By Tim Lohman | 02 June, 2009 14:22

  Tags: Cisco, EMC, VMware

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  VMware vSphere: Does It Solve IT's Biggest Worries About Cloud?

  For all the hype about cloud computing in the enterprise—hype that Gartner believes is now nearing its peak—IT professionals continue to tell cloud-related vendors that the cloud will not be practical until several serious concerns are addressed. VMware, with its vSphere 4 announcement today, is laying the foundation for what it hopes will be a central role for VMware technology in enterprises making use of both public and private cloud computing systems.

  By Laurianne McLaughlin | 22 April, 2009 11:03

  Tags: virtualisation, VMware, vsphere

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  VMware testing data center OS for managing everything

  VMware believes every business can be like a Google, and have a data center that is highly efficient and automated -- and eventually so completely virtualized it operates not as a collection of networked machines but as a living organism.

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 16 September, 2008 11:56

  Tags: virtualisation, VMware

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  Virtualization rivals step into the ring at VMworld

  VMware expects 14,000 attendees at its annual user conference in Las Vegas this week, including workers from more than 200 trade-show exhibitors. That's a 30 percent increase over last year's attendance -- clear evidence of VMware's influence. But VMworld 2008 will also be the focal point for the gathering storm of competition that the virtualization market leader faces.

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 16 September, 2008 08:31

  Tags: virtualisation, VMware