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For anyone not already aware, VMware released Workstation 6.5 and Server 2.0 for public download on Sept 23. I'm a HUGE fan of both products (as well as VMWare Converter and of course: ESX). Download Workstation here: http://www.vmware.com/download...
Microsoft held a big shindig today to announce new goodies for the "Get Virtualized" marketing campaign. Among the notable items was the announcement that Hyper-V Server 2008, a new bare metal hypervisor product (sans Windows Server 2008) will...
I posted a rather knee-jerk thought on my personal blog about this, but I wanted to expound a bit here since the audience is a bit more serious (*a-hem*). It seems that everyone is buying up virtualization products and services like plywood at a hurricane...
Have you heard someone around you say something like "I would really like to play with Windows Server 2008, but I can't afford it"? Or maybe "I would like to play with WS08 but I don't have a *server* laying around to try it on...
So, I couldn't resist this post on Daniel Petri's web site describing how to install VMware Tools "additions" (chuckle) inside a Windows Server 2008 Core Edition guest machine. The thing that caught my attention was the caveate notes...
Catchy, huh? So, maybe you're younger than me (probably) and think all this Virtualization is "new stuff" and really "new" and "cutting edge". Take a guess at what year all this stuff was first widely blabbered about...
I am indeed not worthy. During my time as a roaming consultant, I was "exposed" to a lot of stuff around virtualization. That term really makes me chuckle. Talk about a vague, overused term. Anyhow, I ran across Scott Lowe's blog and I have...
That's right. According to this post on the WSUS Team Blog , they made Hyper-V Release Candidate (RC) available via WSUS today. Share this post:
I've been a moderate user of SMS and systems management and software deployment technologies for almost as long as I've worked in the realm of software development. That comes to around twenty years, so sys mgt comes to about twelve or so I think. Like...
I know this sounds like I'm getting ready to point these two head-to-head, but really, I'm simply trying to contrast the two, not elect one of them king of the application virtualization world. I just finished Brian Tucker's blog post about The Reality...
While EMC / VMWare has been steadily collecting it's game pieces for Hypervisor partnering, VDI, application virtualization ( Thinstall ) and infrastructure management, there's also an increased focus on centralized storage (EMC) and combinatorial benefits...
I finally got to get my hands on an eval of Thinstall and see what it does differently than SoftGrid. It's actually pretty nice. For those of you already familiar with Thinstall, ignore the rest of this post, as it will probably seem dumb and juvenile...
Did I get your attention? Good. Here's a situation... (pretend this is a MCSE exam question) You are a consultant for an IT services company and are meeting with a customer that asks you the question: "What is virtualization, any way?" How do you answer...
Sitting in on a partner demo on VDI technologies by VMware. Amazing how something from decades ago gets a new name and new terminology and is seen as radically new. Don't get me wrong: it's a great idea and will probably catch on with customers very well...
No. This time it wasn't me. But not because I'm smarter than this guy, but because I don't the kind of hardware laying around to try it on. If I did, (and I wish I did), I probably would have done the same thing though. That's just how I am: bleeding...
After sitting through demos, presentations, lectures and watching video demos like this one , I still walk away thinking "mainframe". Nothing really new here besides the mechanisms by which the technology is implemented. I admit that HP's approach (combined...
According to Mary Jo Foley's blog posting today (Jan 21), Microsoft has revised the EULA regarding virtualized installations of Windows Vista. While the basic terms make sense, some people seem to be confused by the additional terms which mention DRM...
Word came out today that Microsoft is buying VDI provider Calista Technologies in order to acquire much-desired VDI technology and product offerings to grow their vritualization and system center world a bit more (my guess). They also announced a renewed...
VMware announced today that they are going to acquire Thinstall, a key competitor to Softricity and SoftGrid, which was acquired by Microsoft last year. The result of this seems obvious: Microsoft and VMware will continue to duke it out and we should...
I've been working with SoftGrid for a few weeks now, after my company sent me out to a week-long training class at Microsoft in Redmond. Very cool stuff. All the buzz this year already. "Application Virtualization". Indeed. After years of suffering through...