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IBM delves into VMware security: News in brief

Alex Barrett, News Director — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:22:41 EST

Working with VMware VMsafe application programming interfaces, IBM announced Virtual Server Security for vSphere, and other virtualization product news.

VMware releases vSphere 4.0 Update 1

Alex Barrett, News Director — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:06:14 EST

The first major update to vSphere 4 delivers highly coveted support for Windows 7 as a host and as guest operating system.

VMware extends vSphere Enterprise licensing, but it's a catch-22

Eric Siebert, Contributor — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:08:37 EST

Originally VMware planned to expire Enterprise licensing on Dec. 12, 2009. Plans have changed, but upgrading later could be drastically more expensive. Meanwhile, VMware still isn't paying enough attention to the SMB market, which it needs to if it wants to stay on top.

VMware Ready logo extended to software

Alex Barrett, News Director — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:12:59 EST

As more software vendors support their applications running in virtual machines, VMware has extended its VMware Ready logo to these applications.

VMware at a glance: AT&T enters the cloud; VCE concerns; View 4 commentary and more

Hannah L. Drake — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:04:09 EST

This week's VMware at-a-glance news roundup includes AT&T's venture into the cloud, how users responded to the Virtual Computing Environment initiative, VMware Ready software and middleware, View 4 and more.

VMware View 4 release coming as ESX dominates for VDI back end

Colin Steele, Site Editor — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:44:12 EST

The VMware View 4 release targets the desktop virtualization market, and VMware ESX is the dominant server virtualization platform for VDI.

ParaScale Cloud Storage clustered NAS serves applications, boots virtual servers

Beth Pariseau, Senior News Writer — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:56:41 EST

With the addition of synchronous replication capabilities, ParaScale positions its PCS clustered NAS software as a host for applications, server virtualization and storage.

Understanding VMware ESXi features

David Davis, Contributor — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:37:03 EST

If you're concerned about the ostensible 'limitations' of ESXi – VMware's scaled-down free hypervisor – an expert outlines ESXi's core features and compares ESXi and ESX.

Understanding VMware ESX features

David Davis, Contributor — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:35:57 EST

An expert outlines VMware ESX features and ESX hardware compatibility and installation concerns.

VMware High Availability's benefits and limitations

David Davis, Contributor — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:34:55 EST

VMware High Availability (VMHA) is a key disaster recovery tool, enabling failover of virtual machines to another physical host in a cluster -- as well as VM monitoring. But it has some limitations compared with other fault tolerance technologies.