| Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery: How Virtualization can help? |
A Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery plan should address four key components of any business:
People
Process
Resources
Technology ... More |
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| Active Directory virtualization best practices |
| Brad Bird offers this set of best practices for virtualizing the Microsoft Active Directory role with particular attention paid to time synchronization, fault tolerance, high availability, and FSMO role positioning. ... More |
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| VMware Server |
VMware Server is a free-of-charge virtualization-software server suite developed and supplied by VMware, Inc.
VMware Server has fewer features than VMware ESX, software available for purchase, but can create, edit, and play virtual machines. It uses a client–server model, allowing remote access to virtual machines, at the cost of some graphical performance (and 3D support). It can run virtual mac ... More |
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| Xen |
| The Xen® hypervisor, the powerful open source industry standard for virtualization, offers a powerful, efficient, and secure feature set for virtualization of x86, x86_64, IA64, ARM, and other CPU architectures. It supports a wide range of guest operating systems including Windows®, Linux®, Solaris®, and various versions of the BSD operating systems ... More |
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| Open VZ |
OpenVZ is container-based virtualization for Linux. OpenVZ creates multiple secure, isolated containers (otherwise known as VEs or VPSs) on a single physical server enabling better server utilization and ensuring that applications do not conflict.
Each container performs and executes exactly like a stand-alone server; a container can be rebooted independently and have root access, users, IP addr ... More |
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| Virtual Box |
| VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2. ... More |
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| Cisco VXI Integrates Desktop Virtualization, Collaboration |
Cisco is rolling out its VXI desktop virtualization solution, which brings together virtualization, communications and data center technologies from itself and partners. - Cisco Systems is using its broad product portfolio
and extensive partner ecosystem to offer enteprises a complete desktop
virtualization offering of collaboration, data center technologies and
high-level connectivity capabili ... More |
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| VMware View 4.5 Gains Windows 7, Mac OS X and Disconnected Local Mode |
| The VMware View 4.5 virtual desktop platform gained enterprise features including role-based administration, Local Mode (formerly known as Offline Desktop), full support for Windows 7 and a View client for Mac OS X, making this version the pace setter for virtual desktop infrastructure. View 4.5 started shipping Sept. 13. View Premier, the version that enables Local Mode and most other storage and ... More |
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| VMware View 4.5 VDI Goes Local |
VMware View 4.5 VDI gains Windows 7, Mac OS X and Local Mode. - VMware View 4.5 gained enterprise features including role-based administration, Local Mode (formerly
known as Offline Desktop), full support for Windows 7 and a View client
for Mac OS X devices, making this version the pace setter for
virtual desktop infrastructure.
View 4.5 started shipping... ... More |
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| New Trends in Storage Virtualization and How to Virtualize Your Storage Now |
| Storage virtualization is a hot technology trend in information technology. How to virtualize storage in conjunction with server virtualization, desktop virtualization and network virtualization is a new technology development that information technology managers need to understand. In this exclusive, news interview, David Sobel, CEO of Evolve Networks takes part in the IBM Deeper Thinking series ... More |
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| Managing Data Centers Efficiently: 10 Cost-Saving Techniques |
| Data center managers have had to face recurring issues like these for years: How does one manage a data center and keep up with daily demand when dwindling resources threaten production output? How does one indoctrinate an undertrained staff when there are frequent new technical requirements they need to learn and implement? There are others, to be sure. In general, there are other excellent resou ... More |
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| PCI Updates Data Security Standard to Clarify Virtualization Rules |
PCI DSS 2.0 clarifies the one-function-per-server rules to allow PCI compliant systems to run on virtual machines. - New data security guidelines for processing credit card payments clarifies the virtualization questions that have stymied organizations trying to move ahead with their cloud strategy, said HyTrust on Oct. 29.
The first major change to the PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Secu ... More |
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| VMware Validates E-Mail Security Appliances for Zimbra |
The VMware Ready Mail Security products offer Zimbra customers e-mail security software that has been pre-validated to work with the e-mail and collaboration platform. - Eight additional security vendors have signed on to offer
e-mail security products for Zimbra e-mail and collaboration platform, said
VMware on Oct. 28.
The virtualization vendor expanded its VMware Ready
Program to include Spa ... More |
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| Virtual Machine Ghosts Multiply: How to Exorcise them from the Data Center |
| A group of Hewlett-Packards staff members, coordinated by Nick van der Zweep, director of Industry Standard Servers and Software at HP, have created created a list of strategies they contend can rid a data center of "virtual machine ghosts." A virtual ghost is a VM that has been created, may or may not have run an application, and then was either forgotten about, marginalized, or abandoned ... More |
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| F5 Brings Scalability and Performance Enhancements to VMware View 4.5 |
F5 networks helps enterprises embrace Virtual Desktop Infrastructure technology with new WAN optimization and acceleration technology that improves performance for VMWare View 4.5 sessions. - F5 networks brings added oomph to VMware Virtual Desktop
Infrastructure deployments with its Application Ready Solution for VMware View
4.5, an add-on capability for F5s BIG-IP Edge Gateway that consists o ... More |
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| Kemp Technologies Adds Hyper-V Support to Virtual Load Balancer |
Kemp Technologies Virtual LoadMaster now supports Hyper-V and VMware, letting users to create application-specific VMs to support Microsoft applications. - Kemp Technologies added Microsoft Hyper-V support to its virtual
load balancing appliance, which will provide customers running Microsoft
applications with load balancing, scalability and high availability, the
company said on Oct. 19.
The V ... More |
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| VMware Reports 46% Q3 Revenue Increase, but Stock Buyers Unimpressed |
VMware's revenue for the third quarter was $714 million (20 cents per share), up 46 percent from a year ago. Despite beating Wall Street estimates, the stock price fell 6.6 percent. - VMware reported another highly profitable financial quarter after the New
York Stock Exchange bell Oct. 18, and even though its results exceeded Wall Street expectations, its stock price took a sharp 6.6 percent h ... More |
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| CA Technologies Revamps Cloud Automation Suite |
The new CA Automation Suite features new and enhanced products to automate and standardize virtualization and cloud management tasks. - CA Technologies revamped and relaunched its CA Automation Suite for
virtualized dynamic cloud computing environments, CA said Oct. 18.
The new CA Automation Suite features two new products and enhancements to
four other products, including The CA Server Automat ... More |
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| Unidesk Brings VDI Success |
Unidesk's innovative platform greatly simplifies virtual desktop infrastructure management and deployment for both VMware View and Citrix XenDesktop. - Version 1.0 of Unidesk's self-named VDI management tool
enables organizations deploying virtual desktop infrastructure to take
advantage of the centralized management perks of VDI without sacrificing the
individual desktop flexibility that users ... More |
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| Wyse Highlights Virtual Desktop Capabilities |
With new enhancements to its desktop virtualization software, Wyse is addressing network latency issues and rich-media content delivery. - Wyse Technology announced enhancements to its suite of desktop
virtualization software, including Wyse Virtual Desktop Accelerator and Wyse
TCX Suite, on Oct. 11.
In a separate announcement, Wyse also said
that its thin- and zero-client platforms can utiliz ... More |
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