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- Does virtualization equal cloud computing?
- I would say yesThere is no need to buy 'stand alone' servers any longer in functionality when you can put it in a Blade 'name your flavor' chassis.Virtualization with VMware/RHEL or some vendor is the best way to get it off bare-metal...Doing baremetal rebuilds is time consuming and it takes...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-25
- Seven great (and free!) applications for Windows 7
- You added Windows 7 to the title for page hits...Any tech enthusiast worth their salt has long known about all these apps. Nah ... ... for page hits I'd have added XP ... bigger user base ... User base yes but Windows 7is what everyone is interested in reading...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-10
- VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting [V4]
- View Available Dates and LocationsThis advanced, lab-intensive course focuses on providing system administrators with the advanced knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully troubleshoot the VMware® vSphere virtual infrastructure. In this course, you will spend most of the time diagnosing and rectifying configuration problems created on VMware ESX/ESXi hosts and VMware...
- Training 2009-11-01
- Change Reporter for VMware 2.0.45 (Windows)
- The freeware reporting tool for change management of your virtual infrastructure. Reports changes to virtual hardware, configuration of ESX servers, resource pools, clusters, and other virtual and physical objects. The tool sends a daily report, outlining all changes made to virtual infrastructure, including previous values of configuration settings. You can...
- Software downloads 2009-09-16
- VMFS-3, How Do I Despise Thee
- Sounds bad... How about Red Hat's new stuff?A nasty experience... Have a glass of fine cognac to recover. No ice (the horror!), no mixing barbaric, at the perfect temperature of 18 degrees Celsius. Cheers. :-)How about Red Hat's new virtualization stuff in RHEL 5.4? Is that a better alternative?http://blogs.zdnet.com/virtualization/?p=1234Salut, Pjotr.RE:...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-04
- Video at VMWorld: A peek inside
- VMware is the bestInstall ESX and clone CentOS machines.Ultimate environment!:)Excellent!Budget cutbacks mean us IT guys can't attend many shows or conferences this year, so "virtual" tours are a great way to at least get a glimpse of what's going on.I like it! I want more! More in-depth technical discussions, more...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-03
- Capacity Analyzer Standard Edition 4.1 (Windows)
- VKernel's patent-pending Capacity Analyzer technology will enable you to achieve maximum performance with the right amount of resources. Capacity Analyzer is the only ESX monitoring software that actually predicts problems days before they occur so you have time to fix them. Designed for enterprise scalability, Capacity Analyzer proactively monitors shared...
- Software downloads 2009-08-21
- Optimizing Business Application Performance With VMware vCenter AppSpeed
- Customers are increasingly using VMware vSphere 4 as a more dynamic platform for running large, business-critical applications such as Web applications, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL and Oracle Database. The presenter begin by describing the outstanding performance capabilities of VMware ESX 4 that enable more than 95 percent of applications to...
- Webcasts 2009-08-19
- Geek Sheet: Virtualizing Free Linux Distributions in Windows Server 2008 R2
- cool.......:)ntAnd why Jason would anyone in their right mind want to do this?ntFor the same reasons...You'd do it in VMWare. The difference is that this solution is free. You want live migration or anything else VMWare does you'll have to pay for it. Hyper-V is an excellent hypervisor.Would you run...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-09
- Building Society Eliminates Potential Risk to Business Continuity With Dell Virtualization Solution
- To protect business continuity and sensitive data, Chelsea Building Society needed to migrate legacy software onto a robust hardware platform. This infrastructure had to integrate with an existing Storage Area Network SAN. Chelsea created a preliminary design before engaging Dell for product advice, detailed design, deployment and knowledge transfer. The...
- Case studies 2009-08-01
- Pivot3 - a different take on unified computing
- Pivot3's Lee Caswell and I spoke about a different take on unified computing architectures and storage centric computing. Lee and I crossed paths while he was with Sun Microsystems. Furthermore, Pivot3's take includes memory virtualization/distributed caching elements as well. Here's how Pivot3 describes itself ...
- Blog posts 2009-07-31
- Windows Server 2008 R2 Releases to Manufacturing
- Windows Server 2008 R2 Releases to ManufacturingVMwareWhy would one buy ESX again?
- Discussion threads 2009-07-22
- Windows Server 2008 R2 Releases to Manufacturing
- Windows Server 2008 R2, which released to manufacturing today, July 22nd, 2009, contains major functionality improvements in virtualization and networking over the previous version. This afternoon, Microsoft has announced the Release to Manufacturing RTM of Windows Server 2008 R2, which incorporates many hundreds...
- Blog posts 2009-07-22
- Backup for VMware ESX Environments With Veritas NetBackup PureDisk From Symantec
- Traditional backup solutions are able to back up virtual guests on a VMware ESX host; however, the resource utilization on the host and the backup time required quickly become areas of concern. The NetBackup PureDisk client running in a virtual guest provides excellent deduplication at the source and can back...
- White papers 2009-07-01
- VMware vSphere: Fast Track [V4]
- View Available Dates and LocationsThis intensive, extended-hours training course focuses on installing, configuring, managing, and troubleshooting VMware® vSphere and integrates advanced command line and scripting. It combines the complete content of the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V4], VMware vSphere: Manage Availability [V4], and VMware vSphere:...
- Training 2009-07-01
- Virtualization of SAP Applications with VMware ESX Server on IBM System x3850/x3950 M2
- This whitepaper looks at how Virtualization is the concept of decoupling the hardware from the operating systems and applications. This can be implemented a number of ways as we will discuss, but fundamentally it is achieved by inserting a layer between the server hardware and software components, to provide either...
- White papers 2009-06-23
- Virtualization of SAP Applications with VMware ESX Server on IBM System x3850/x3950 M2
- This whitepaper looks at how Virtualization is the concept of decoupling the hardware from the operating systems and applications. This can be implemented a number of ways as we will discuss, but fundamentally it is achieved by inserting a layer between the server hardware and software components, to provide either...
- White papers 2009-06-22
- Wind River: Tasty Embedded Linux Treat
- Intel just purchased embedded systems vendor Wind River for a cool $884M. But why? The answer may lie in Linux and device virtualization. For many, Intel's acquisition of Wind River may have gone over this week as just another asset grab by the...
- Blog posts 2009-06-05
- What's Cloud Computing and What's Not?
- What's Cloud Computing and What's Not?Cloud Computing Definition in 4 wordsOther people's virtual serversWhat is the Cloud? What....is computing? These two terms are definitive. We don't need someone trying to define something that is defined already by its terms.Cloud computing is accessing your IT resources through the cloud. The term...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-29
- Cooling future cost inflation
- Cooling future cost inflationMakes senseAlthough you COULD should take those 80+ watt desktops and grid them together in a distributed fashion - thus adding little-used CPU power into a big pool. This allows for ALL computers great and small to be loaded and configured EXACTLY THE SAME. This of course...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-23
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