Read an interesting atricle todat from Patrick Thibodeau about VMware announcing their new product called Virtual Datacenter Operating System (VDC-OS). Just like many people already predicted, VMware is moving into cloud-computing, managing a complete datacenter. The product isn’t there yet at and will be expected somewhere next year.
Read all about it at: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9114679
And just a [...]

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Just last night, Arne from ICT Freak blog , talked to me on MSN about an article he just read. Microsoft was to buy Citrix and it will be announced within a few days.
After reading this article: http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=8564 by Douglas Brown, a close friend of mine talked to me on MSN, confirming the sudden stop [...]

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How to unlock locked files on your ESX host
I recently used VMware Converter to do a P2V of a physical host to virtual. After Converter was at 100% and everything seemed find, I removed the Converter CDrom from the physical server. I then got a blue screen on my physical server, probably because I removed [...]

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Source: Virtualization.info
virtualization.info just received a confirmation from a trusted source: VMware co-founder and Chief Scientist Mendel Rosenblum resigned.
His wife, Diane Greene, that founded the company with him and led it as CEO since 1998 was removed by the board of directors in July for much unclear reasons. After that, the risk that his husband would [...]

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Thanks to Scott Lowe’s posting who drew my attention to this:
http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/svvp.html
VMware is now officially supported as virtualization platform, providing VMware customers who run Windows Server and Microsoft applications with access to cooperative support from Microsoft and VMware.
That will make it a lot easier to convince those customers who first didn’t want to because of lack [...]

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