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by Davey Winder
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Friday, 26 September 2008 |
VMware has been puffing it's chest up and pulling it's stomach in to talk up the promise of stretching business applications across data centres in a federated cloud fashion. Of course, in the real world when you hold your tummy in your trousers fall down...
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by Stuart Corner
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Wednesday, 17 September 2008 |
Cisco and VMware have teamed up to embed Cisco networking software into VMware's server virtualisation software to enable the management of multiple virtual servers running on one, or several, physical servers to be integrated into the overall management of a data network.
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by Stuart Corner
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Wednesday, 17 September 2008 |
Cisco and VMware have teamed up to embed Cisco networking software into VMware's server virtualisation software to enable the management of multiple virtual servers running on one, or several, physical servers to be integrated into the overall management of a data network.
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by Stephen Withers
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Thursday, 11 September 2008 |
The hype around Hyper-V, Linux and Windows continues building as Microsoft and Novell jointly announce full support for SUSE Linux Enterprise Edition as a guest operating system under Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V.
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by Davey Winder
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Tuesday, 09 September 2008 |
Microsoft wants you to 'Get Virtual Now' and in order to help things along will let you have a copy of Hyper-V Server 2008 absolutely free...
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by Stephen Withers
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Monday, 08 September 2008 |
Sun has rolled out a major update to the open source and commercial versions of its VirtualBox virtualisation software.
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by Stephen Withers
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Thursday, 04 September 2008 |
When Microsoft eased its datacentre software licences to accommodate the needs of customers using virtualised environments, it also promised better technical support for third-party virtualisation products. The first hypervisor has now been qualified under the program.
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by Stuart Corner
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Thursday, 04 September 2008 |
HP has released the results of commissioned global research claiming it shows virtualisation widespread but only in the early stages of exploitation for business advantage.
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by Davey Winder
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Thursday, 04 September 2008 |
A new survey reveals that 38 percent of British business has already adopted virtualised infrastructures, and of those who have not some 52 percent are planning to do so.
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by Stephen Withers
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Wednesday, 20 August 2008 |
Microsoft has relaxed its licensing restrictions on datacentre software to allow for the growing use of virtualisation. Significantly, Microsoft has chosen to drop its previous 90-day reassignment rule, allowing server software to be moved around a server farm as often as necessary. The change is especially significant for customers running virtualised environments.
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by Stephen Withers
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Monday, 18 August 2008 |
An embarrassing blunder has forced VMware to issue a second version of ESX 3.5 Update 2 and ESXi 3.5 Update 2 to fix a bug that caused licences to incorrectly expire. The problem arose because a time limitation from a beta version of the virtualisation software was incorrectly left in the code that was shipped.
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by David M Williams
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Monday, 11 August 2008 |
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When it comes to virtualising Linux, VMWare has always had the edge of Microsoft’s Virtual PC which has limited video display support. Although these were the best two, there have been other lesser-known options like XENSource. Here’s Sun’s VirtualBox and why it is truly kick-ass.
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by Stuart Corner
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Thursday, 07 August 2008 |
Virtualisation software developer, VMware, has unveiled three separate initiatives in the past week designed to cement its lead role in the virtualisation market.
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by David M Williams
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Wednesday, 06 August 2008 |
With virtualisation becoming a mainstream technology, it’s becoming reasonable that Linux distros like Ubuntu will not always require a dedicated computer but instead be contained within a virtualised environment, whether on a Windows desktop or as part of a consolidated server farm. It’s not always plain sailing though – here are some problems you might encounter as well as their solutions.
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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Wednesday, 06 August 2008 |
Symantec is aggressively expanding into the “endpoint virtualisation”
space by seriously upgrading its virtualisation capabilities and
credentials, buying out nSuite, a ‘virtual workspace management’
company whose product competes with VMware’s VDI solution, Citrix’s
XenDesktop and XenApp combo and other competitors.
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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Monday, 04 August 2008 |
After reading good things about Sun’s VirtualBox, I decided to download
version 1.6.2 two weeks ago to run Ubuntu 8.04 as a virtual machine
within Windows Vista. While it worked perfectly at first, the
installation of the virtual tools in Windows caused a complete system
crash, which I could only fix by doing a System Restore. What happened,
and now that VirtualBox has just had a maintenance upgrade to 1.6.4,
will I try it again?
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by Stuart Corner
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Monday, 04 August 2008 |
On Wednesday August 6 IBM Australia & New Zealand will stage a day long virtual conference for IT professionals. It's just like a real conference with keynote speakers, multiple streams, an exhibition area and networking opportunities And you even get a lanyard, virtual of course!
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by Stuart Corner
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Monday, 04 August 2008 |
A survey by US research firm TheInfoPro (TIP) show VMware firmly entrenched as the lead player in a rapidly growing virtualisation market, but, TIP warns that complacency would be misplaced.
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