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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.

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.

VMware products and features: A virtualization overview

David Davis, Contributor — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:37:56 EST

Perplexed by the steady stream of VMware products? This overview dissects VMware features and product bundles and helps identify if VMware suits your virtualization environment.

VMware ESX maintains an edge over Citrix for VDI

Alex Barrett, Bridget Botelho — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:24:13 EST

Regardless of the connection broker used, VMware's ESX hypervisor still trumps Citrix XenServer in VDI environments.