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Using VMware vSphere and Windows 7 White Paper

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:14:00 0500

vSphere is VMware's enterprise-class virtualization platform, also known as ESX (or ESXi) version 4.0. It was released while Windows 7 was still in beta; thus, the GA version of vSphere is not fully compatible with Windows 7. However, many in the IT industry have adopted Windows 7 and want to be able to administer vSphere using their desktop OS. This white paper will show you several work-arounds to achieve that goal....

Today's New Virtualization Related Community Videos - March 18th, 2010

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 07:30:00 0500

The following new virtualization related videos we added to the DABCC Community Video show where we try to find the best new virtualization videos on the net so you dont have to: Citrix XenDesktop - Understanding the Desktop Virtualization TCO, Citrix XenDesktop User Experience vs. the Competition...

Microsoft Disputes Virtual PC Vulnerability Report

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 04:13:00 0500

Microsoft is disputing Core Security Technologies description of a security issue impacting Microsoft's Virtual PC software as a vulnerability....

Top Storage Considerations in VMware ESX Environments

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 04:12:00 0500

This white paper describes best practices in building storage infrastructure for VMware ESX Environments. Topics covered include: The disk partitioning of an ESX host, VMware snapshots and creating/locating virtual disks, as well as monitoring snapshot files....

Citrix Asks, Do we need fault-tolerant servers to host desktops?

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 04:11:00 0500

I have been wondering about the need for fault-tolerant architectures specifically with regard to the servers hosting the virtual desktops. I definitely believe the supporting infrastructure should be fault-tolerant, but what about the myriads of servers running just a hypervisor and hosted desktops? ...

DataCore Software's SANmelody Storage Virtualization Solution Wins 2010 Network Computing Award For 'Storage Product Of The Year'

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 04:09:00 0500

DataCore Software has once again scooped one of the UK's top networking awards by winning the Storage Product of the Year Award at the prestigious 2010 Network Computing Awards dinner held recently at the Tower Hotel in London. DataCore's SANmelody? beat out tough category competition from finalists EMC, Compellent, LSI, CA, among others. ...

Microsoft White Paper - Security In Cloud Computing Overview

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 03:21:00 0500

The following Microsoft white paper examines the computer security, benefits and challenges of cloud computing....

Transitioning to Citrix XenApp 6 - Upgrade or Migrate?

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 03:17:00 0500

Citrix announced XenApp 6 this past week, and it will be publicly available in a few days. Once you've absorbed the new feature set, you may wonder, "How should I transition to this new XenApp version?"...

The Clouding of Open Source and Virtualization

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 03:01:00 0500

If there is one underlying theme of this year's Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) in San Francisco, it's that the cloud, in all of its forms, represents a very different way of consuming software than we've embraced in the past....

Xiotech Throws Blocks at Hypervisors

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:59:00 0500

Xiotech has got an IAS architecture to embed its storage building blocks better in virtual server environments with snazzy VirtualView automated storage provisioning and management software....

Big Blue Bets Big on Red Hat's Virtualization Technology

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:57:00 0500

For a long time, IBM's allegiance when it came virtualization seemed to be to VMware. That has been slowly changing through the years as IBM, like so many others, recognizes the importance of giving customers choices. On Tuesday, IBM revealed it had chosen Red Hat to provide the underlying virtualization technology for its new cloud for developers....

Security in the Cloud, with Dave Wright of VMware

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:55:00 0500

VMware's Dave Wright began his presentation with a sort of historical overview of server technology, starting with the mainframe environment, describing some of the shifts along the way in the nature of the way people accessed data and, then, with particular emphasis on the security of the solutions....

Cloud or Customers? Why CA wanted Nimsoft

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:53:00 0500

CA can't seem to stop spending money on technologies that could enable the vendor to manage cloud computing environments for customers, but industry watchers say all the shopping could also help CA grow its customer portfolio and create a greater presence in mid-market and service provider markets. ...

VMware Releases ThinApp 4.5 - What's New?

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:17:00 0500

VMware just released ThinApp 4.5, their application virtualization solution. The 4.5 vertsion is packed with a slew up updates and fixes but also a bunch of really powerful new features, such as:...

New VMware ThinApp 4.5 Application Virtualization Solution Speeds Migration Time to Windows 7 by as Much as 40%

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:09:00 0500

VMware today announced the availability of VMware's ThinApp 4.5 application virtualization solution. ThinApp 4.5 enables rapid adoption of Microsoft Windows 7 in the enterprise by providing compatibility for legacy and custom applications across multiple Windows operating system environments....

Citrix App Streaming - AppSense Environment Manager

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:07:00 0500

Some time back, I wrote a post on file system filter drivers and load altitude which included discussion of kernel mode filtering and how "filter altitude" affects interaction of App Streaming file system filtering and anti-virus. Today's post discusses application level hooking of registry operations and how this can cause collisions between application level entities, specifically, Citrix App Streaming with AppSense Environment Manager (EM). ...

User Topology and Your Desktop Virtualization Architecture

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:05:00 0500

One office with one type of desktop... Easy. Hundreds of offices with any type and age of desktops... Difficult but not impossible. Most organizations find themselves in the difficult camp. A user's desktop can be completely different (in terms of hardware, resources, applications and configuration) than the person sitting next to them doing a similar job. ...

VMware Hires Key Developer for Redis

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:04:00 0500

I am pleased to announce that Salvatore Sanfilippo, the key developer for Redis, has decided to join the VMware engineering team. Redis is a high performance and scalable advanced key-value store where values can be data structures such as lists, sets, and hashmaps, as well as strings and blobs. Redis supports atomic operations on these data structures, allowing extremely high performance with consistent state to many client applications....

Versiera Enables Cloud and Enterprise Network Visualization

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:03:00 0500

NetCraft Communications is pleased to announce the immediate release of a major update to its Versiera Infrastructure Management System, including new groundbreaking technology for rendering and visualizing large-scale cloud and enterprise network infrastructures....

Paragon Software Releases Virtualization Manager 2010 - Seamless Migration for Corporate Windows Environments

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:01:00 0500

Paragon Software Group today announced the release of Virtualization Manager 2010 Corporate to provide high-end migration for corporate Windows environments....

Expand Networks Continues Virtualization Drive with ExpandView Virtual

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:59:00 0500

Expand Networks has taken another significant step in its virtualized product strategy with the launch of ExpandView Virtual. ExpandView is a fully featured centralized management system that overcomes the challenges associated with large scale deployment, configuration, proactive reporting and alerting across its range of physical and virtual Accelerator devices, and within physical or virtual environments. ExpandView delivers ?Application fluent network visibility' to optimize application per...

CA Fortifies Virtualization Platform

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:57:00 0500

The world's leading information technology (IT) management software company CA Inc. (CA) recently disclosed through a press release that its virtualization management solutions now support Sun's Solaris Zones virtualization platform....

Xiotech Introduces Intelligent Application Storage

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:53:00 0500

Addressing the business challenges and infrastructure burdens created by trends including massive data growth, virtualization, cloud computing and green data centers, Xiotech Corporation unveiled its vision and roadmap to deliver the market's first and only solution for Intelligent Application Storage....

How Virtual Servers Make the Cloud More Elastic

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:52:00 0500

If you're using server virtualisation for more than consolidation, how about aggregation?As more companies begin to move their applications into the cloud, many are finding out that not all applications are created equally. By that, I mean not all applications are tailor-made to migrate into the cloud....

Citrix Webinar: Disaster Planning - Leveraging your IT Infrastructure for Workforce Continuity Featuring Forrester Research

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:15:00 0500

In the following Citrix webinar you will learn how organizations best address workforce continuity and disaster recovery through virtualization by connecting a dispersed workforce to the data, business applications, and collaboration technology they need when disruptions occur....

Cloud Computing and the Great Security Debate

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 04:06:00 0500

I've been reading about the recent Gartner report on cloud computing security issues and here. I think there are a ton of holes in this report. The first point is the statement that 60% of virtual servers are not as secure as the physical servers they replace and that's not going to change until 2015. Really? ...

VMware's SpringSource Revamps Java App Server

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 04:04:00 0500

SpringSource, the Java middleware developer acquired by VMware last August, has released an update for its Apache Tomcat-based TC Server application server, promising to make it easier for Java application developers to work together with managers deploying those applications in operations....

Understanding Network Interface Virtualization

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 04:03:00 0500

In late November 2009, I published a post on understanding NPIV (N_Port ID Virtualization) and NPV (N_Port Virtualization); you can read the full post here. In that post, I described a pair of virtualization technologies?NPV and NPIV?for Fibre Channel storage area networks (SANs)....

Core Security Technologies Discovers Vulnerability in Key Microsoft Virtualization Technology

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 04:01:00 0500

Core Security Technologies issued an advisory disclosing a vulnerability that could affect large numbers of organizations and consumers using Microsoft's Virtual PC virtualization software and leave them open to potential attack....

How to Increase VMware Application Availability with Shared Storage White Paper

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 03:55:00 0500

In this paper, we will show you how SAN software empowers the VMware administrator to use high availability storage with the high availability features of VMware and we'll illustrate how StarWind Software delivers the most advanced and cost-effective "shared storage" for VMware on the market. ...