Release: Citrix XenServer 6.0 beta (virtualization.info)
On July 5th Citrix announced the availability of XenServer 6.0 beta (formerly “Project Boston“), based on the Xen 4.1 Hypervisor. This beta is public and available for download here (a...
View ArticleOnline Event: Raising the Bar, Part V (vNinja.net)
July 12, 2011 9am-Noon Pacific Time: Join this online event, and get all the details on “the next generation of cloud infrastructure”! VMware CEO Paul Maritz and CTO Steve Herrod will be presenting on...
View ArticleNews: VMTurbo Raises the Bar for Free vSphere Monitoring – Again...
VMTurbo's unique Service Assurance capabilities (and the ability to charge for them in the paid products) allows VMTurbo to make baseline performance and capacity management for vSphere environments...
View ArticleEricom blazes forward with an HTML5 Client for VDI (Virtualization Practice)
Ericom AccessNow is the first HTML5 client for Microsoft RDP/VMware View. An HTML5 offers the option of organisations delivering access to services not only from personal devices, or kiosk terminals,...
View ArticleFive Capacity Management Challenges for Private clouds (ESX Virtualization)
A new Free resource whitepaper which can help private and public cloud providers lower the cost of virtual infrastructure. This new free resource Whitepaper, which comes from vKernel addresses some...
View ArticleGartner x86 Server Virtualization Infrastructure Magic Quadrant Report Update...
Research and advisory firm Gartner have released the latest update to their x86 Server Virtualization Infrastructure ‘Magic Quadrant’ report. This ‘Magic Quadrant’ provides a graphical representation...
View ArticleSMB/LAB NAS Review (virtualfuture.info)
Intro In the beginning of this year I, was looking for a new NAS for my home lab. I was curious to what was possible with NAS devices these days. I had a QNAP TS110 back then so I knew ... <img>...
View ArticleWebcast: Quantifying the Business Value of VMware View (That's My View)
Thanks to Angelo Luciani for bringing this webcast up on Twitter. Please join Ridwan Huq in the webcast: Quantifying the Business Value of VMware View. [VMware Webcast] Quantifying the Business Value...
View ArticleBrownBag Follow-up – Storage, Virtualization, and NetApp (Professional VMware)
The Summary! No, it’s not that I was too lazy to fill out the template for the post, really. In fact, it was an excellent call with Julian Cates from NetApp. All in all a pretty good discussion. Video...
View ArticleGet Ready for Desktop Virtualization with VMware View! New FREE Training...
By Courtney Burry; Product Line Manager, Enterprise Desktop BU Starting July 19 through July 29th, join our VDI experts for a FREE 9-part bootcamp training series. In these online sessions-we will show...
View ArticleHelpful tool for View admins (VMware View)
As a View developer, I spend a lot of time accessing remote desktops using the vSphere client and I don't really use 95% of the vSphere client's features. As a result, I tend to do what I can to avoid...
View ArticleVMware Labs present its latest fling - Boomerang (NTPRO.NL)
It looks like the vmClient has a competitor. Boomerang is a simple client application that makes it easy to use multiple vSphere servers simultaneously. Users can easily perform tasks like power...
View ArticleCloudCamp – The Return (vspecialist)
It’s been about a year since I last went to CloudCamp. In honour of my return and as an homage to CloudCamp London’s compere, Simon Wardley, I have adorned this post with a suitable image. Ta-da! (For...
View ArticleVIDEO: Cloud in the Real World by VMware’s Mike DiPetrillo (@mikedipetrillo...
In this video, from the Charlotte Carolina Regional VMUG, VMware’s Mike DiPetrillo (@mikedipetrillo of MikeDiPetrillo.com), a VMware Global Cloud Architect, covers the status of cloud computing (and...
View ArticleA look at VMware’s lobbying efforts (Server Virtualization Blog)
VMware always gets IT people talking, but on Capitol Hill, the company is pretty quiet. Today I stumbled across a Hewlett-Packard blog post about how much money certain IT vendors spent on federal...
View ArticleMaybe its time for a new job. (It's Just Another Layer)
I got back from a 10 day vacation where I was completely disconnected from work. The work emails started getting downloaded and the initial filter went through them. I have 666 unread ones in my...
View ArticleVisit VCE @ Cisco Live! (blog.aarondelp.com)
It's that time of the year, conferences, conferences, conferences... This year VCE is a Platinum Sponsor for Cisco Live! 2011. Here are some highlights for folks interested in what VCE has to offer:...
View ArticleHelpful Tool for View Admins -- VMware Boomerang (VMware End User Computing)
By Adam Gross, VMware Enterprise Desktop Team As a View developer, I spend a lot of time accessing remote desktops using the vSphere client and I don't really use 95% of the vSphere client's features....
View ArticlePowerCLI & vSphere statistics – Part 5 – Rollup Types (LucD notes)
In my previous posts in this series, I showed how you can use metrics to produce statistical reports. One aspect of the metrics that we haven’t touched till now is the roll up types for metrics. If we...
View ArticleHyper-V, XenServer catching up to VMware (VMware tips and tricks)
Microsoft and Citrix have joined VMware as server virtualization leaders in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant. Hyper-V and XenServer are gaining with SMBs. Add to digg Add to StumbleUpon Add to del.icio.us Add...
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