New Vblock Announcements at EMC World 2011 (Kendrick Coleman)
EMC isn't the only company with some news to unveil at EMC World 2011. VCE has some announcements as well all revolving around the BRAND NEW VBLOCKS! The first announcement that effects VCE is the...
View ArticleHints of Things To Come – EMCWorld Day 2 (Professional VMware)
In lieu of a longer post later (tomorrow morning) I thought it would be worthwhile to drop a note about a few things. First was Paul Maritz’s keynote… There was quite a bit of good info in there: - it...
View ArticleMicrosoft release patches for May (Blade Watch)
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms11-may.mspx Version: 1.0 This bulletin summary lists security bulletins released for May 2011. With the release of the security bulletins for May...
View ArticleVMworld Session Voting is now Open!! (PlanetVM)
The Voting is open This year there are a record 1164 sessions that you can vote for and if you vote for any, vote for Session 1843 – why I hear you ask? Well to be fair it is a shameless plug but that...
View ArticleVMware vSphere SiteSurvey Plug-in (VMware Virtualization Evangelist)
VMware SiteSurvey is a free add-on utility which analyzes vSphere ESX and ESXi hosts for VMware Fault Tolerance (FT) compatibility. My good friend Eric Siebert wrote in depth about this piece of...
View ArticleCatalyst 2011 User-Centric Computing Track Speaker Line-up (Chris Wolf)
The speaker line-up for Catalyst 2011’s user-centric computing track has been finalized and I wanted to take a moment to share it with you. A prominent CTO has called Catalyst “the most intellectual...
View ArticlePerformance Study - VMware vSphere 4.1 Networking (NTPRO.NL)
<img>While I enjoyed a holiday and was drinking my piña colada cocktail at a sunny beach in the south of France, my virtualization friend Duncan Epping over at Yellow-Bricks.com has snagged away...
View ArticleThe Power of Innovative Datacenter Stacks (The Virtual Storage Guy)
Joe Onisick at Define the Cloud posted a thought provoking article titled, “The Power of Innovative Datacenter Stacks” where he shares his views regarding the value and abilities delivered with...
View ArticleDell announces expansion of network, storage and blade platforms (Blade Watch)
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110508005038/en/Dell-Expands-Enterprise-Solutions-Portfolio-Customers-Existing ROUND ROCK, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Dell today expanded its networking, server and...
View ArticleHP announces the HP FlexNetwork architecture (Blade Watch)
http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2011/110509xa.html HP today announced the HP FlexNetwork architecture, the industry’s only unified architecture for the data center, campus and branch, which...
View ArticleDell firmware spreadsheet updated (Blade Watch)
Some time ago, I put together a spreadsheet containing Dell firmware versions with the date and a link to the firmware on the Dell site. The pdf is here. We use it on a day to day basis as a baseline,...
View ArticleVMworld Session 2185 – VMware View Design Mega-Session (myvirtualcloud.net)
Jason Langone and I have designed a session for VMWorld 2011 to cater for those VDI technical Jedi and Ninjas that are interested in some real-life large deployment (technical) design information. We...
View ArticleVMware Newsletter for May 2011 (Virtual Insanity)
Download The Newsletter VMware Newsletter May 2011 Hello, it looks like from the downloads we are tracking, the newsletter is around to stay for a while. If you have any suggestion or would like to...
View ArticleStretched Clustering Presentation (blog.scottlowe.org)
This is the presentation I delivered on May 5, 2010 at the Carolina VMware User's Summit in Charlotte, NC. The topic was the pros and cons of using stretched clusters.This article was originally posted...
View ArticleMicrosoft set to release Windows Thin PC in June (virtualization.info)
Back in February, Microsoft announced a new version of Windows 7 tailored for VDI access, named Windows Thin PC. A preview is available since March, as reported by virtualization.info. Karri...
View ArticleVMworld 2011 Public Voting - PowerCLI Sessions (vSphere PowerCLI Blog)
The VMworld sessions have now been submitted and are awaiting the public vote on VMworld.com, following on from last years successful PowerCLI session there have been 12 PowerCLI focused sessions...
View ArticleRelease: Microsoft Azure Toolkits for Mobile devices (virtualization.info)
Microsoft announced the availability of development toolkits for its cloud computing platform Azure targeted on various mobile devices, namely Windows Phone, iOS and Android (even though in preview)....
View ArticlePaper: VMware vSphere 4.1 Networking Performance (virtualization.info)
VMware recently published an in-depth analysis about the latest vSphere network performance. The paper, downloadable here without any registration, goes into details explaining how VMware handles...
View ArticleBriForum Europe 2011 London Review Day-1 (Thinstall Guru)
The first day of Brian Madden’s BriForum Europe 2011 London comes to an end. There were a lot of different sessions. Mostly about virtual desktops and other VDI related solutions. Although I expected...
View ArticleUbuntu to leave Eucalyptus for OpenStack (virtualization.info)
After supporting the Eucalyptus platform, reaching 25.000 cloud deployments and customers as large as Nasa, Ubuntu will abandon Eucalyptus for OpenStack, said today at the Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS)...
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