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Virtualisation News

23 July 2008

VMware offers free software to battle Microsoft

By Elizabeth Montalbano and James Niccolai, IDG News Service

VMware is to offer the small-footprint version of its ESX virtualisation software free, responding to pressure from Microsoft and other companies that are threatening VMware's market lead. Read more...

Virtualisation Blog Entries

09 July 2008

VMware parts company with CEO

By Tom Jowitt, Techworld

The IT industry can at times be a pretty brutal place. No more so than in the complex atmosphere of IT management hiring and firings. Read more...

Virtualisation Insight

24 July 2008

Brocade deal to help drive data-centre transition

By Stephen Lawson, IDG News Service (San Francisco Bureau)

Its acquisition of Foundry Networks brings together two technologies that are already heading for a merger, according to analysts. Read more...

Virtualisation Briefings

28 May 2008

HP winning VMware-Microsoft virtualisation battle

By Kevin Fogarty, CIO.com

Despite the claims and counterclaims of superiority by Microsoft and VMware - and now Citrix and VMware - it's becoming increasingly clear who's going to be the winner in the rapidly growing market for server virtualisation: Hewlett-Packard. Read more...

Virtualisation Interviews

25 June 2008

Security's virtual badlands

By Bryan Betts, Techworld

We hear from Sourcefire CTO Martin Roesch why virtualisation is still Terra Incognita for network security technologists - and why he believes his company is worth more its rivals and the stock market seem to think. Read more...

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Virtualisation Whitepapers

28 May 2008

Tackle the challenges of virtualisation management

By BMC Software

To tackle the challenges of virtualisation, you must do more than simply migrate services from physical to virtual assets. You must control the full lifecycle of virtualisation in your data center ? from planning to configuration to management ? across a broad range of virtual and physical server technologies. Read more...

Virtualisation Product Reviews

27 June 2008

Microsoft Hyper-V RC1

By Randall C. Kennedy, Infoworld (US)

  • List price: $28
  • Pros: Great management; Competitive pricing
  • Cons: System has to be taken offline when shifting VMs; Poor Linux support Read more...

Virtualisation How-Tos

19 May 2008

Assembling a 'Network A-Team'

By Denise Dubie, Network World

Have you spent millions on management software, yet struggle to quickly determine the root cause of network performance problems? Here's one way out. Read more...

Virtualisation Case Studies

07 April 2008

The 11 year-old network manager

By Ellen Messmer, Network World

When this school's IT overseer left suddenly, one of its pupils stepped in for the learning experience of a lifetime. Read more...

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