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- Live Event on Sept. 5th: Dell EqualLogic & VMware Infrastructure 3 Product Demonstration
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- Webcasts 2008-09-05
- Red Hat draws its line in the virtual sand with Qumranet
- The caves of Qumran, located in in the highly disputed region of the West Bank that sits between Israel and Jordan and is populated by both Palestinians and Jews, is where the famous Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered. The scrolls are said by many Judaic scholars...
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- VMware ships patches for 'highly critical' server flaws
- Virtualization specialist VMware has shipped a mega-patch to cover several "highly critical" vulnerabilities affecting its server and workstation product lines. In all, the patch batch addresses at least 16 documented vulnerabilities affecting the VMware Workstation, VMware Player, VMware ACE, VMware Server and VMware ESX server. ...
- Blog posts 2008-09-02
- The biggest open source threat to Microsoft
- The biggest open source threat to MicrosoftDid he.......no...False alarm. He didn't buy a Laptop. Never mind. ;)What makes it different from Wine then?or Mono for that matter? I had worked on Win-OS2, which is a Windows 3 inside OS/2, during OS/2's heydays. It failed miserably even with IBM's...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-15
- VMware re-issues ESX 3.5 Update 2 to remove embarassing timebomb
- VMware re-issues ESX 3.5 Update 2 to remove embarassing timebombA CEO's impactI'll confess, you appear to have an odd understanding of what a CEO can accomplish. If this bug was in any way the fault of the CEO, it was the fault of the previous CEO, not the current...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-15
- News to know: Windows 7; Graphic card upgrades; Psystar; Netflix outage
- Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Where on earth are these Microsoft patches? Ed Bott: Sinofsky dishes on Windows 7 Mary Jo Foley: Sinofsky to dish on Windows 7? Wishful thinking System Center Online: Another Microsoft-hosted cloud service in the making ...
- Blog posts 2008-08-15
- VMware re-issues ESX 3.5 Update 2 to remove embarassing timebomb
- VMware released today a refresh of its recently released ESX 3.5 and ESX 3.5i Update 2 software that eliminates the embrassing timebomb that killed the software's use on Aug 12. The code was in the beta, and was designed to pull the plug on the software's use...
- Blog posts 2008-08-14
- Timebomb in VMware's ESX 3.5 and ESXi 3.5 (Update 2)
- Timebomb in VMware's ESX 3.5 and ESXi 3.5 (Update 2)test what?so you are supposed to test EVERY day of every month of every year to see if there is a time bomb? if a customer put beta software in production without consent of the company then it is their...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-14
- Timebomb in VMware's ESX 3.5 and ESXi 3.5 (Update 2)
- VMware appears to have neglected to remove the timebomb, that is software that stops a product from running on a specific date and time, from its VMware's ESX 3.5 and ESXi 3.5 (Update 2) software when the company transitioned the software from beta test to the released product. This meant...
- Blog posts 2008-08-14
- VMware blames stray code for 'time bomb' hiccup
- VMware boss Paul Maritz is blaming "a piece of code" mistakenly left in the final release of ESX for the time-bomb hiccup that crippled virtual machines around the world. In a message posted online, Maritz said the glitch caused a license expiration hiccup that caused virtual machines...
- Blog posts 2008-08-13
- VMware bug causes worldwide disruption
- VMware bug causes worldwide disruption"Move the clock backwards on the server"?!!"Move the clock backwards on the server"? What kind of critical resource management is that? No processes, no interprocess, intermachine, interdepartmental, intersite dependencies--hmm, to start, NTP...--will suffer heartburn from that and/or from its later rectification?"Move the clock backwards on the...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-13
- VMware bug causes worldwide disruption
- VMware virtual machines on all hosts with the company's latest hypervisor, ESX 3.5 Update 2, in enterprise configurations have found that it will not power on after being turned off. Update at 8:35 a.m. PT on Wednesday: Since ZDNet UK published this article, a patch for the flaw has...
- News items 2008-08-13
- News to know: SAP; Microsoft patches; Nvidia; iPhone
- Notable headlines: Dennis Howlett: SAP: Oracle price-gouges customers even more than we do Michael Krigsman: Business Objects Influencer Summit: Strategy to execution Larry Dignan: Microsoft plugs IE, Office in big patch haul Roland Piquepaille: No more need for...
- Blog posts 2008-08-13
- VMware launches new system builder, certification programs, joins Linux Foundation
- VMware launches new system builder, certification programs, joins Linux FoundationJust FYI - VMware ESX doesn't run "on" LinuxThe hypervisor in VWware's ESX enterprise product does not run on top of Linux. The Hypervisor/OS/ kernel is created solely by VMware. There is a Linux Red Hat based "Service...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-07
- VMware launches new system builder, certification programs, joins Linux Foundation
- VMware is investing more resources in the channel and IT community -- and getting more involved in the Linux community -- to preserve its lead in the virtualization software market. At LinuxWorld and Next Generation Data Center Conference this week, the Palo Alto, Calif. virtualization software leader...
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- Everywhere I look, I see Clouds
- Everywhere I look, I see CloudsThe only eruption of clouds...is by bloggers. The only ones actually using the cloud are small businesses that either don't have the money for their own network or don't have the qualified IT personnel to do their own.Bloggers need to get a handle on reality....
- Discussion threads 2008-08-05
- How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Windows Vista
- The Mother-in-law versus Vista battle cold war never ends. Every week, it's something different that goes wrong that brings us to the brink of annihilation, and I have to swoop in on the weekends to fix the inevitable new problem that comes up. Fortunately, I have the system more or...
- Blog posts 2008-08-04
- Neocleus and Endpoint virtualization
- Recently I've had the opportunity to speak with Ariel Gorfung, CEO, and Etay Bogner, CTO, both of Neocleus about their concept of "Endpoint Virtualization." At first I didn't understand how this differed from the various forms of desktop virtualization that others are speaking about. Now I understand that they're bringing...
- Blog posts 2008-07-31
- The magic commoditizing virtual machine manager
- I recently noticed VMware's second free hypervisor, a commentary by Gordon Haff of CNET (one of ZDnet's sister companies). He offered an interesting analysis of VMware's recent move to make it's embedded ESX Server available at no charge starting on July 28. I'd like to add a few thoughts of...
- Blog posts 2008-07-28
- News to know: Geek sheets; Cuil; Apple; DNS patch
- Notable headlines: Jason Perlow: Geek Sheet: A Tweaker's Guide to Solid State Drives SSDs and Linux Gallery: Crucial Micron Solid State Drives My Sunday Afternoon: Fun with VMWare ESX 3i Dana Blankenhorn: The Microsoft way with Apache ...
- Blog posts 2008-07-28
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