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Oldest Independent Virtualization & Cloud Resource Site Turns 13! Happy Birthday DABCC.com

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 19:12:00 PST

The Virtualization & Cloud Computing world's oldest independent resources site is now a teenager! Yup, today is DABCC.com's 13th Birthday!! I'm a proud Daddy!!!...

Introducing PaperShare: The Backstory (Starting with Cloud and Virtualization)

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 00:25:00 PST

I'm very happy to announce the official release of thePaperShare Social Content Network for our first industry: Cloud computing & Virtualization....

PaperShare Introduces First Social Content Network for Collaboration and Sharing of Business Materials and Technical Information

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 18:51:00 PST

Cloud and virtualization industry professionals and companies tap PaperShare to distribute, access and discuss white papers, case studies, webinars and apps; more than 28,000 items shared to date ...

Snap out of it ? fundamental change is needed to application deployment in virtual environments

Sun, 08 May 2011 21:58:00 PDT

Layering is the "flavor of month" it seems. There has been a steady up-tick in articles being posted about the concept so this one is no exception. But when we talk about layering,what are we really discussing? Applications, user persona or both? Are we discussing some sort of streaming technology or virtual disks? Regardless, what we are really discussing is a new layer of abstraction for virtual machines. Therefore, we must take a step back and ask ourselves where the value resides in "layer...

The Official Guide to Citrix XenClient 1.0 Service Pack 1 Best Practices Released for Download!

Wed, 09 Feb 2011 22:36:00 PST

Welcome to version 1.0 of the Official Guide to Citrix XenClient: Reference Design, Best Practices, and Additional Resources Guide. My goal for this guide is to provide you with the knowledge required to understand the architectural requirements and configuration best practices to successfully deploy and evaluate the new Citrix XenClient 1.0 Service Pack 1 client virtualization solution. This includes design requirements, best practices, and links to additional resources....

Microsoft Updates Hyper-V Linux Integration

Thu, 01 Apr 2010 20:25:00 PDT

Microsoft has released enhancements to the Hyper-V Linux Integration Services that the company contributed to the Linux community last year. - Microsoft has released enhancements to the Hyper-V Linux Integration Services that the company contributed to the Linux community last year.Last July, in a move many compared to seeing pigs fly, Microsoft submitted source code for the Hyper-V Linux Integration Services to the Linux Kernel Communit......

DABCC Virtualization News Player iPhone App Available on Apple App Store

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:03:00 PST

"I'm extremely happy to announce the release of the DABCC Virtualization News Player for the iPhone or iPod Touch for download from Apple's App Store!" ? Doug Brown...

Wanova: A New Face In The Virtual Desktop Space

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:30:00 PST

There are many complexities to desktop virtualization like user personalization, settings, image management, offline capability, etc, but there is one company that seems to have the answer to a lot of the complexity around implementing and managing virtual desktops. I caught wind of Wanova recently and have been digging into the solution. I spoke to Michele Borovac at Wanova recently and she gave me the run down of who Wanova is and what their product, Mirage, is and how they are resolving so...

Are Business IT Investment ROI Expectations Making Virtual Desktop Projects Harder To Do?

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:00:00 PST

I spend a lot of my time talking to CIOs, CTOs, and business-side executives and how to better integrate IT into the strategic fabric of organizations. I was having a discussion recently with an IT executive from a major corporation around his expectation of virtual desktops and he made a statement that started me thinking; his business executives are requiring a six month, or sometimes less, return-on-investment (ROI) on significant IT projects, "can a virtual desktop project give me tha...

DynamicOps Integrates Virtual Resource Manager with BMC Blade Logic Ops Manager

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:00:00 PST

I wrote about DynamicOps back in October when I highlighted them as one of my 2009 VMWorld vendors to watch. On Monday, DynamicOps announced that they have integrated their Virtual Resource Manager with BMC's Blade Logic Ops Manager product. DynamicOps has now increased its options in helping its customers in automating the deployment of OS images and applications in a standard and consistent manner thereby increasing agility and reducing TCO in customer environments....