The typical IT gauges don't translate well for measuring virtualization efficiencies. You'll need to look at it from a different angle.
- By Andrew Hillier
- 04/14/2011
What VMware, Dell, NetApp and DataCore are doing to add support for tiered storage in their offerings.
- By Dave Bartoletti
- 04/07/2011
For private clouds to become viable, organizations must embrace several steps to advance their private cloud strategies.
Storage is at the heart of the problems some companies have in deploying VDI.
- By Dave Bartoletti
- 03/31/2011
Microsoft's Free Hyper-V needs a GUI. In the meantime, a third-party provider has filled in the gap.
There's browsing the Web, and then there's kinda browsing the Web with vSphere. Here's a tool that removes the "kinda" part.
In this new column, Taneja Group lead virtualization analyst Dave Bartoletti will offer his personal insights and findings on all trends virtual and cloud.
- By Dave Bartoletti
- 03/07/2011
Read the forgetful manual. It'll save you some pain later on when troubleshooting vSphere.
Ellen Rubin's success with startups continues at CloudSwitch, a developer of a software appliance that enables companies to securely run applications in the cloud while remaining integrated with their datacenters.
The best way to learn anything is by doing it. You want to learn more about VMware vSphere? Build a lab.
In case you haven't heard, the messaging at VMware nowadays revolves around cloud computing.
- By Rick Vanover
- 03/01/2011
Here are five random items that are worthy of comment.
Flings, SDKs, open source stuff ... there's more to free tools than ESXi and the vSphere client.
With VMware vSphere 4.1 update 1 now generally available, what do you need to know about it and how do you upgrade to it? Let's find out.
Read the fine print to understand Hyper-V licensing, which comes with some caveats.
- By Greg Shields
- 02/14/2011
Managers are asking the tough questions about public and private clouds and it boils down to one thing: trust.
- By Manny Vellon
- 02/10/2011
Nasuni CEO Andres Rodriguez believes he can handle the large data problem by leveraging the endless capacity of the cloud.
Storage presents a lot of problems. It's expensive, it accumulates in all kinds of places where you can't find it, it's a hassle to move from point A to point B and it isn't always compatible from one vendor to the next.
VirtualBox users are out there and alive and well in the virtualization community -- so much so that the inaugural Virtumania podcast topic was the free type 2 hypervisor.
- By Rick Vanover
- 09/01/2010
As Mel Brooks once declared -- and as more than one VMware employee has since crowed -- "It's good to be king."