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Citrix Rides A Wave Of Virtualization Success

Mon, 12 May 2008 01:09:00 -0500

It's shaping up to be a critical summer for Citrix Systems, the 26-year-old company that has reinvented itself at least twice, suffered at least two near-death experiences and now sees untold opportunity before it....

VMware Exec Outlines Virtual Vision

Sun, 11 May 2008 02:53:00 -0500

VMware is intent on expanding its embedded presence in servers, adding tools for disaster recovery and software testing, and upping the ante on security, according to Bogomil Balkansky, VMware?s senior director of product marketing....

KVM and Xen Virtualization Solutions Cofounders Engage In War Of Words

Sun, 11 May 2008 02:20:00 -0500

Xen cofounder and project lead Ian Pratt said predictions about his virtualization hypervisor?s demise to the newer kernel-based virtual machine (KVM) technology are unfounded, a by-product of his competitors? imaginations. ...

Microsoft Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool

Sun, 11 May 2008 02:05:00 -0500

In my recent article about the realities of managing a virtualised infrastructure, I mentioned the need to patch offline virtual machine images. Whilst many offline images will be templates, they may still require operating system, security or application updates to ensure that they are not vulnerable when started (or when a cloned VM is created from a template)....

Citrix's Crosby & The Mother Of All Cop-Outs

Sun, 11 May 2008 01:19:00 -0500

In an article over at SearchSecurity.com, Simon Crosby, the CTO of Citrix, suggests that "Virtualization vendors [are] not in the security business.". Besides summarizing what is plainly an obvious statement of fact regarding the general omission of integrated security (outside of securing the hypervisor) from most virtualization platforms, Crosby's statement simply underscores the woeful state we're in:...

RTO Software Virtual Profiles - Citrix/ Terminal Services / Desktop Virtualization Personalization Solution -Technical Overview Video with Kevin Goodman - DABCC-TV #6

Sat, 10 May 2008 21:31:00 -0500

In the following DABCC Virtualization Video Podcast, Douglas Brown interviews Kevin Goodman, CEO and Founder of RTO Software. Doug and Kevin discuss RTO Software's Virtual Profiles solution and how it eliminates user profile data corruption problems, enhances user flexibility, and delivers faster logons. ...

VMware Partner Exchange Wrap-Up

Sat, 10 May 2008 15:01:00 -0500

I just finished the last session of Partner Exchange 2008 here in San Diego, CA, and wanted to post some thoughts and information from the event. There is quite a bit of information that I can?t discuss because it is under NDA, but I wanted to at least share what information I could....

Virtualization Of Storage Is 'Tepid', Says Analyst

Sat, 10 May 2008 13:28:00 -0500

Despite being a hot topic, virtualization of storage isn't being taken up as quickly as many think, a Forrester analyst has said. It may be the hot topic of the past few years, but virtualization of storage is still not being taken up by the majority of companies, an analyst has said. ...

JMR Construction Builds Virtual Infrastructure with DataCore Storage Virtualization and VMware

Sat, 10 May 2008 13:01:00 -0500

DataCore Software, the leading provider of storage virtualization SAN software, today announced that JMR Construction Corp. has become a DataCore SANmelody customer courtesy of DataCore partner Integral Networks. VMware and DataCore serve as a way forward for the DataCore partner and customer alike. The combination provides a cost effective alternative that made it practical for JMR to save by not having to invest in additional, physical servers....

Will NFS Be Saved By VMware?

Sat, 10 May 2008 10:11:00 -0500

Will NFS become the predominant storage deployment method for VMware implementations? NFS didn't need to be saved, but because of VMware its use has been broadened beyond the traditional Unix implementations. Instead of creating a LUN for each VMware Virtual Disk (VMDK), with NFS you manage multiple VMDK files on a single NFS Volume. This makes sense because VMDK's are files, not actual disks. ...