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- VDIworks2Go
- VDIworks has been working on how to better create, deploy, access and manage virtual desktops for years and often develops creative solutions to the challenges organizations have faced. Recently, the company launched VDIworks2Go as a way to overcome some of the impediments mobile staff members face. by Dan Kusnetzky
- Tags: Virtual Desktop, Virtual Machine, VDIworks, Desktop Virtualization, Desktops, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- Nielsen Mobile, an Altor Networks Customer
- I recently had the opportunity to speak with Nick Portolese, Senior Manager of Data Center Operations for Nielsen Mobile, an Altor Networks customer. He spent a few moments sharing his experiences with their software. Nick's comments follow. Please tell me who you are and what...
- Tags: Network, Environment, Network Security, Server, Virtual Machine, Tool, VMWare ESX, Nielsen Mobile, Altor Networks, Nielsen, Productivity, Data Centers, Ip storage, Networking, Security, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- Interview: rPath's Billy Marshall on how enterprises can virtualize applications as precursor to cloud use
- The cloud forces the older notion of "write-once, run anywhere" into a new level of "deploy correctly so you can exploit the benefits of cloud choices and save a lot of money." by Dana Gardner
- Tags: Dana Gardner, Benefits, Human Resources, Application, Hypervisor, Infrastructure, Virtual Machine, rPath, Desktop Virtualization, Virtualization, Data Centers, Hardware, Storage, Data Management
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- Live migration across different platforms demonstrated
- A while back I received a note from Red Hat's PR company that exclaimed that Red Hat and AMD had successfully migrated a running virtual machine from a dual socket Intel Xeon DP Quad Core E5420-based system to a system based on the forthcoming 45nm Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processor, utilizing...
- Tags: Red Hat Inc., Microprocessor, Migration, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Virtual Machine, Desktop Virtualization, Semiconductors, Processors, Open Source, Hardware, Components, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- VMware follows in Virtuallogix's footsteps
- My friends at VMware recently sent me a note telling me 1) that they had acquired Trango Virtual Processors and 2) they were jumping into the mobile device virtual machine market.Trago VMware has chosen to rename Trago's product as VMware Mobile Platform. This isn't the only entry into this market,...
- Tags: Phone, Handset Company, Mobile, Operating System, Handset, VMware Inc., Hardware, Virtual Machine, VMware Mobile Virtualization Platform, Mobile Virtualization Platform, Telecom & Utilities, Desktop Virtualization, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-11-13
- What's next after server virtualization
- Virtualization in the form of the use of virtual machine software isn't the panacea that many seem to believe. While the use of this technology is very helpful if an organization's goal is consolidation to achieve some level of cost reduction, cost avoidance or, on occasion a more agile environment,...
- Tags: Virtual Machine, Organization, Virtual Machine Software, Desktop Virtualization, Data Centers, Server Virtualization, Virtualization, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Servers, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-11-07
- Telecom Company Uses Virtual Machines to Speed New-Service Rollout and Reduce Costs
- Czech telecommunications company Telefonica O2 faces intense competition and rapid market growth. To speed the rollout of new services, the company is using the Windows Server 2008 operating system with Hyper-V technology to accelerate server deployment, reduce operational costs, provide nonstop application availability, and improve server utilization. Telefonica O2 can...
- Tags: Telecommunications Company, O2 Plc., Telefonica, Virtual Machine, Telecom & Utilities, Telephony, Telecommunications, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Servers, Networking, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Hardware
- Case studies 2008-10-27
- Microsoft Hyper-V Server
- Microsoft was kind enough to let me know that the Hyper-V Server, that is a dedicated, minimal Windows 2008 Server platform dedicated to being a bare metal, type-1 hypervisor, is now available. It joins products of this type available from VMware, Citrix and several Linux distributions. ...
- Tags: Industry Standard, Supplier, Microsoft Corp., Virtual Machine, Virtualization, Microsoft Windows, Server Virtualization, Tools & Techniques, Channel Management, Desktop Virtualization, Servers, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- Neocleus secure access
- Neocleus secure accessNeocleus is not secureNeocleus security architecture is flawed at its basic level. The architecture uses a software mechanism to provide direct physical device assignment to virtual machines, such as graphics cards and wireless networks. It does not support hardware based direct I/O assignment or hardware based...
- Tags: desktop virtualization, SECURITY, Neocleus, virtual machine, hardware
- Discussion threads 2008-09-25
- VMware Fusion (php)
- VMware Fusion is a desktop application that lets you create and run virtual machines on your Intel-based Mac. Fusion provides an intuitive user interface for creating virtual machines, and for running preconfigured virtual machines created with VMware Workstation, GSX Server, VMware Server, and ESX Server. You can also download virtual...
- Tags: VMware Fusion, PHP, VMware Inc., Virtual Machine, Desktop Virtualization
- Software downloads 2008-09-22
- VMware rolls out Fusion 2.0 for Mac virtualization
- VMware on Tuesday unveiled its latest version of Fusion, its Windows to Mac virtualization software. Fusion 2.0, which will run you $79.99 for a new license, has more features such as virtual machine snapshots, the ability to launch any Mac file with a Windows program and custom...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Virtualization, VMware Inc., Virtual Machine, Mac OS X Leopard Server, Desktop Virtualization, Desktops, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-16
- SteelEye Technology Announces DR for Hyper-V
- As Microsoft's Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V makes its way into the market, quite a number of virtualization technology suppliers have announced support. Recently SteelEye, a company with deep expertise in high availability/clustering solutions, joined the party by announcing SteelEye DataKeeper support for the Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V ...
- Tags: SteelEye Technology, Microsoft Windows Server, Disaster Recovery, Virtual Machine, DataKeeper Cluster Edition, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-09-15
- Fortisphere Virtual Essentials 2.0
- As I'm clearing my desk to prepare for Citrix's event this week, I thought it would be good to post about Fortisphere's recent move. Fortisphere, a Kusnetzky Group Client, recently launched version 2 of its Virtual Essentials. Virtual Essentials is a tool that provides agentless, policy-based mangement of virtual machines....
- Tags: Virtual Machine, Fortisphere, Virtual Essentials, Desktop Virtualization, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-09-08
- Managing Virtualization With System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008
- The presenter of this webcast reviews the features and capabilities of the upcoming release of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008. The presenter also discusses the installation and configuration of SCVMM 2008 and demonstrate the capabilities of managing Hyper-V and strategies to make using Hyper-V even easier.
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Virtual Machine, Capability, Virtualization, Desktop Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage
- Webcasts 2008-09-04
- Xen engine 3.3 released
- On August 27th, the Xen engine version 3.3 was released on Xen.org, the site that houses the open source Xen project. In the words of the organization, "Xen 3.3 includes enhancements that further advance its position as a fast, scalable, secure virtualization engine for the industry's broadest range of server...
- Tags: Xen, Virtual Machine, Xen Client Initiative, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-09-03
- The Tolly Group - Oracle VM Benchmark
- Read this Tolly Group report to see how Oracle VM Server Virtualization Software supports a variety of workloads efficiently in a virtualized environment with nominal overhead compared to a bare-metal server. It also demonstrates scalability by reporting a 72% performance improvement with two virtual machines compared to a single virtual...
- Tags: Tolly Group, Oracle Corp., Virtual Machine, Desktop Virtualization
- White papers 2008-09-01
- Rumors about changes in Microsoft Licensing
- Microsoft's licensing rules have been the focus of quite a bit of negative comments for as long as I can remember. The company has different licensing rules for its operating systems, server software, development tools, productivity tools. This makes it difficult for a company that is doing its best to...
- Tags: Operating System, Microsoft Corp., Virtual Machine, Tool, Desktop Virtualization, Productivity, Operating Systems, Software, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-08-15
- Virtual Machine Software Announcements - Why Now?
- Virtual Machine Software Announcements - Why Now?Virtual machine worthless.http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/08/12/vmware-update-bombedUnless you are running two different OS', why would you run a virtual machine? My Windows and Linux machines multi-task just fine with only one instance of the OS loaded. Especially as cheap as hardware is today, VM's simply add a layer...
- Tags: desktop virtualization, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Servers, virtual machine, server, operating system
- Discussion threads 2008-08-13
- Virtual Machine Software Announcements - Why Now?
- There is a great deal of activity in the virtual machine software market part of the virtual processing layer of the Kusnetzky Group model of virtualization technology. My colleague, Paula Rooney, published Next XenServer — code named Orlando — now in beta* testing. A while back...
- Tags: Virtual Machine, Virtual Machine Technology, Desktop Virtualization, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-08-13
- Next XenServer -- code named Orlando -- now in beta* testing
- Citrix recently released a beta test version of its next generation XenServer, code named "Orlando," which is expected to ship in September. Th next version will offer a variety of new features including automated high availability, support for the Xen hypervisor 3.2 and Windows Server 2008 guests, performance statistics,...
- Tags: Performance, Citrix Systems Inc., Virtual Machine, Desktop Virtualization, Microsoft Windows, Performance Management, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-08-12
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