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- VMworld is bringing out the vendors
- VMworld is bringing out the vendorsVMAs it once was sed.."veri interestingting"..Seriously.. There is a lot of talk about VMware lately and all of it competition..Hope that you do a follow-up article...Sleep well..Puppa
- Discussion threads 2008-09-05
- VMworld is bringing out the vendors
- Planning for an announcement is a challenging task. Large suppliers know that just about whatever they do will be picked up by the media and presented to the world. Smaller vendors have a much more difficult time getting heard. So, picking the right place and time for an announcement is...
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Live Event on Sept. 5th: Dell EqualLogic & VMware Infrastructure 3 Product Demonstration
- Join Dell, and Dell Inc. Product Marketing Consultant William Urban, for a one-hour live presentation and product demonstration of a virtualized server and storage infrastructure based on VMware ESX Server 3.0 and the PS Series family of intelligent, iSCSI-based storage solutions. Register now for this event on Friday, September...
- 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
- Silicon Valley's gender gap
- I recently spoke with Judy Estrin, one of Silicon Valley's top entrepreneurs, about her new book "Closing the Innovation Gap." But what about closing the gender gap? I asked her why there are so few, and now fewer--with Diane Greene out as CEO of VMware--women in senior...
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- How important is boot performance?
- How important is boot performance?Boot performance is very importantA computer should only take as long to get to working state as a television - 10 seconds tops - with either the option of restoring the exact shutdown state or a fresh rebooted OS.Moderate importance overallBootup speed is not really a...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-04
- My first Linux laptop is the Asus EeePC netbook
- My first Linux laptop is the Asus EeePC netbookTotally different machines.A netbook is a full laptop. Yes, the industry is trying to keep the impression that it is only for casual use, etc, but there is little only constrained by ram these netbooks can't do (well, with Linux). ...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-04
- Dell repair adventure, day 5, with updates
- Since our last episode, our hero has been communicating with Bob Pearson, Dell's VP of Communities & Conversations, and Bill Bivin, Dell's Community Liaison, about getting my Dell Lattitude D620 back up and running. Both Bob and Bill give every impression of trying very hard to deal not only with...
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Dell's Mini packs Ubuntu, XP
- Dell's Mini packs Ubuntu, XPAt this point you may as well wait for integrated 3GPrices are coming down so fast, plus these things are perfect for carrying around everywhere no matter where you go. Plus the 3G providers will probably subsidize them anyway.That's exactly the netbook I want!I only hope...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-04
- Live Demonstration on Sept. 4th: Disaster Recovery with VMware Site Recovery Manager and Dell EqualLogic PS Series
- Join Dell to discover how the PS Series virtualized iSCSI SAN and VMware Infrastructure 3 enable simple, affordable disaster recovery using Dell EqualLogic Auto-Replication and VMware Site Recovery Manager. This one hour live Webcast on Thursday, September 4th at 11:00 am ET / 8 am PT will...
- 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...
- Blog posts 2008-09-03
- News to know: Google Chrome; WinMobile's future; WiFi's big success; VMware
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: First look at Google Chrome One day after Google inadvertently discloses the impending release of Chrome, we get to see the browser first-hand. See my gallery tour...
- Blog posts 2008-09-03
- 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
- VMware's R&D chief quits after 9 months
- VMware said Tuesday that its executive vice president of research and development has resigned after nine months on the job. In a terse statement, VMware said that Richard Sarwal quit to go back to Oracle. Sarwal joined VMware in December 2007. VMware CEO Paul...
- Blog posts 2008-09-02
- Google confirms new browser initiative, probably not a good idea
- Google confirms new browser initiative, probably not a good ideaI would switchI am a firefox user on Linux. On both my boxes - CentOS at office and Ubuntu at home - firefox stops responding every once in a while when I visit certain pages, and the only way out is...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-01
- Weekend Gadget Guidance: Speed up Vista installation via thumb drive
- Weekend Gadget Guidance: Speed up Vista installation via thumb driveHate to say this...I never have to do a periodic re-install of the OS on my Mac. OK, let the games begin...My speedy install method is ...1. Reformat the hard disk with lots of partitions for different OS's, one for...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-29
- XenApp 5 - Citrix removes desktop virtualization inhibitors
- XenApp 5 - Citrix removes desktop virtualization inhibitorshow about allowing me to move sessions between serversthats what i want. Need to take a server down.. great.. move all the sessions.No i dont want to use vmware, its too expensive.RE: XenApp 5 - Citrix removes desktop virtualization inhibitorsTesting 123For it...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-25
- Conversation with AppSense
- In preparation for the upcoming VMworld, I've been speaking with representatives of quite a few suppliers who are offering something in the virtualization software space. A few days ago, I had the opportunity to speak with Martin Ingram, Vice President of Strategy for AppSense. Although I can't...
- Blog posts 2008-08-22
- Google gains share again, should Microsoft give up?
- Google gains share again, should Microsoft give up?Google and Search are ONE.Yin/yang, Google is search, search is Google, they are one, inseperable and harmonious. To tear them apart would rip the fabric of the universe.Google won when it became a verbSeriously, I'm surprised Google only has 62%. Like the...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-21
- Novell-Microsoft interop pact may look sweeter to IT shops these days
- Novell-Microsoft interop pact may look sweeter to IT shops these daysOn the outside looking inIt's more like MS is on the outside looking in.Hyper-V is a proprietary lock-in solution. Xen, Citrix XenSource, SUN xVM, VMware all let IT run bare-metal Windows on Linux.It's a whole new ballgame."I am merely...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-20
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