Posted Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:25:03 +0000  |  By SearchServerVirtualization Blog

By Beth Pariseau, Senior News Writer SAN FRANCISCO — VMware demonstrated its new vShield Edge routing virtual firewall on the VMworld 2010 conference floor, and passersby stopped to give it a look. Most attendees were intrigued by the concept but worried about the cost and complexity of anot... (More)

Posted Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:18:45 +0000  |  By SearchServerVirtualization Blog

By Beth Pariseau, Senior News Writer SAN FRANCISCO — After the splashy, high-level announcement of VMware’s vCloud Director on Tuesday morning, reality set in at a VMworld 2010 session by Kevin Lees, VMware’s global vCloud delivery team lead. Lees detailed the lessons learned from beta deploy... (More)

Posted Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:08:26 +0000  |  By SearchServerVirtualization Blog

By Beth Pariseau, Senior News Writer SAN FRANCISCO — After Tuesday’s VMworld 2010 keynote, there were few details on how VMware would integrate Integrien’s performance analytics code into its products. The next day, Raghu Raghuram, general manager of virtualization and cloud platforms for VMw... (More)

Posted Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:08:00 GMT  |  By Ben Armstrong - Virtual PC Guy

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Posted Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:06:38 GMT  |  By Windows Server Team Blog

In an interesting piece by Ryan Nichols at Computerworld yesterday: Cloud computing by the numbers: What do all the statistics mean, Nichols summarizes some recent research findings on the market potential of cloud computing, quoting impressive market forecasts from sources such as Gartner ($150 bil... (More)

Posted Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:03:22 +0000  |  By SearchServerVirtualization Blog

It’s not quite the “Poker Chip Incident” of 2008, but Microsoft made its presence known at this year’s show with a full-page ad in USA Today, which was delivered directly to hotel rooms belonging to attendees at the show. Photo after the jump. The ad reads, in part: Dear V... (More)

Posted Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:55:27 +0000  |  By Scott Lowe

The general session on the last day of VMworld 2010 focuses on innovation, and three speakers join Rick Jackson to demonstrate innovation in different ways.This article was originally posted on blog.scottlowe.org. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other ent... (More)

Posted Thu, 02 Sep 2010 03:25:06 -0700  |  By Dan Kusnetzky

As the hurricane and two tropical storms slide across the Atlantic ocean towards the U.S., I can’t help but think about the impact virtualization can have on disaster planning and recovery. If we consider each of the layers of virtualization technology (see Sorting out the different layers of... (More)

Posted Thu, 02 Sep 2010 06:13:00 GMT  |  By Brian Madden

(Please visit the site to view this media) Did you know that MokaFive is coming out with a bare-metal hypervisor later this year? In this video, MokaFive's CTO John Whaley gives a quick demo. ... (More)

Posted Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:00:00 GMT  |  By Kevin Fogarty

VMware customers attending VMworld are taking a look at Microsoft's Hyper-V virtualization software, but say it would be problematic to start over after investing heavily in VMware.... (More)