Posted Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:01:22 +0000  |  By Chris Wolf

This year’s Catalyst North America conference is in San Diego from July 27-31. With the speaker lineup all set, I thought it would be a good time to share more conference details. This year we have 2 1/2 days of cloud and virtualization coverage, with a special focus on architecture, performan... (More)

Posted Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:00:57 +0000  |  By Dan Kusnetzky

It’s been quite a while since I last spoke with the folks from DataCore. I believe that the last post on this company was back in August 2008 (see Datacore - nothing but storage.) Last time the discussion focused on the need organizations should recognize to pair virtual storage solutions with... (More)

Posted Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT  |  By Kevin Fogarty

Cisco is looking to accelerate the rate at which customers adopt virtualization in their data centers, company officials said at the Cisco Live event this week.... (More)

Posted Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:06:56 +0000  |  By Tarry Singh

Look at it yourself. and here are the features This version is a major update. The following major new features were added: * Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only; see chapter 3.7.2.2 of the user manual) * Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications [...]... (More)

Posted Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:38:00 GMT  |  By David Marshall VM Blog

DataCore Software, the leading provider of storage virtualization, business continuity and disaster recovery software solutions, today announced that Read more at VMblog.com.... (More)

Posted Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:16:14 +0000  |  By Tarry Singh

As you all know, openQRM is my favorite open source data center management product. Look at those new cool features… Some more highlights of openQRM 4.5 : A new plugin now integrates with Dell Equallogic Storage to support direct deployment of physical systems or virtual machines from the ... (More)

Posted Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:23:00 +0200  |  By Maarten Goet

Full details on the transition and migration path for existing customers on SMSE and new customers moving to SMSD System Center Server Management Suite Enterprise is versionless and product use rights are determined by the status of System Center Server Management Suite Enterprise Software Assura... (More)

Posted Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:08:00 GMT  |  By HyperVoria

Ben Armstrong: In Windows Server 2008 R2 we have made some surgical changes to the way virtual machine snapshots work and how they are exposed in the system in order to address some key customer pain points.  Changes include:    * You can now export a single snapshot from a vir... (More)

Posted Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:13:08 +0000  |  By Scott Lowe

This post is one of a series of posts that I published at Storage Monkeys in late 2008, but it appears that all of this content has now gone offline. I'll be republishing relevant posts here over the next few weeks. In this post, I discuss myths regarding VMware over NFS.This article was originally ... (More)

Posted Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:39:53 +0000  |  By SearchServerVirtualization Blog

Oracle has stopped selling Virtual Iron products, terminated its Virtual Iron reseller agreements and seen the departures of two top Virtual Iron execs. We still don’t know what Oracle’s plans are for the Virtual Iron technology it acquired in May, but in light of these developments, a m... (More)