VM-Aware

Just as most people suspected, HP have released a comparable product to IBM’s BladeCenter S product. (more…)

John Chambers is a bit of a full on guy and I would liken him to an intelligent car salesman, a very good car salesman, but a car salesman nonetheless.

He did deliver the most exciting and occasionally humorous keynote to date. It was very sales level orientated and not particularly technical so I wasn’t that interested until they showed vFrame in action. (more…)

Today the winners of the prestigious Vanguard awards were announced:

• The Virtual Vanguard Award for Innovation: Rochester Institute of Technology
• Best Enterprise Desktop: IQOR/IRMC
• Most Successful VA Developed by an ISV: BEA Systems
• Best Overall ROI and Operational Benefits: Cerner
• Green Award: Energy Savings: Interior Health – Canada
• Most Advanced VMware Implementation: Virginia Farm Bureau
• Best Disaster Recovery Solution: Computershare
• Best Infrastructure Optimization Solution: Mayo Clinic
• Best Infrastructure Optimization Solution by an SMB: Medavant HealthCare Solutions
• Best Development and Test Solution: Bobst Group

The Virtual Vanguard Awards program is an annual program to honor VMware customers and independent software vendors (ISVs) who have demonstrated exceptional use of virtualization technology.

Ubuntu have announced a new version of their Operating System that has been specifically designed for deployment as a virtual machine. (more…)

Sometimes it is nice to meet the people behind products that you use all the time. Especially when they are smaller companies with approachable staff.

Veeam are at VMworld showcasing the new version of Veeam Reporter amongst other things. (more…)

Firstly let me say, that I find the Storage Virtualisation vendors very confusing. I understand the technology and am very keen to start implementing it where appropriate. However, I cannot get a straight answer from any of them on where their competitive advantages are.

What I mean is, they all say “we can do this and they can’t” despite the fact that the “they”, they are talking about told me 2 minutes previously that they can. Clear as mud? Exactly! (more…)