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Is a Linux JeOS on VMware's roadmap?

Alex Barrett, News Director — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:45:31 EST

VMware says it won't develop a general-purpose Linux distro, but it may have other tricks – such as a Linux Jeos virtual appliance -- up its sleeve.

Think everyone is virtualizing? Think again

Barb Golworm, Contributor — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:47:51 EST

Some IT shops still haven't virtualized, according to a recent survey by Focus. In this article, we explore the most common protests and debunk most of those arguments.

Cisco-VMware-EMC coalition leaves IT users cold

Alex Barrett, News Director — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:20:39 EST

The Virtual Computing Environment backed by Cisco, VMware and EMC promises easier virtualization and private clouds, but IT pros aren't sold.

Simon Crosby explains Citrix's open source XenServer move

Editors, SearchServerVirtualization.com — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST

Why is Citrix making XenServer's core components available to the open source community? Find out in this interview with Simon Crosby, Citrix CTO and XenSource founder.

First major VMware vSphere update expected shortly

Alex Barrett, News Director — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:45:56 EST

A VMware vSphere 4 update is on the way, and users hope it will include full Windows 7 support, particularly for the vSphere Client.

Citrix open sources XenServer components

Colin Steele, Site Editor — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:01:36 EST

First, Citrix Systems decided to give away its XenServer hypervisor for free. Now the company is making core components of the XenServer code open source.

Xen hypervisor users defend virtualization choice

Alex Barrett, News Director — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:34:33 EST

Citrix XenServer and Novell SUSE Xen proponents say these virtualization offerings give them what they need -- at a lower cost than VMware and with more features than Hyper-V.

Virtual-to-physical conversions: Why and how

Eric Siebert, Contributor — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:11:33 EDT

Physical-to-virtual or P2V conversions are well-known in the virtualization field. Virtual-to-physical, or V2P, may be less so. But V2P conversions are still important to know how to do -- especially when it comes to application vendor support calls.

VMware takes first stab at capacity planning: News in brief

Alex Barrett, News Director — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:47:26 EDT

VMware has released the long-awaited CapacityIQ -- but only for ESX 3.x virtualization environments; IBM and Fortisphere have launched new virtual management tools.

VMware reverses course on vSphere Enterprise Edition

Alex Barrett, Barb Darrow — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:17:27 EDT

After customer pushback, VMware will continue selling VMware vSphere Enterprise Edition, which was scheduled to be discontinued in December.