[RUMOR] VMware to buy Novell?

30 June, 2010

This week I’ve had some questions from people on how this “Strategic Partnership” between Novell and VMware, could be the first step to VMware buying Novell or a number of products from Novell. This got me thinking on if that could really be an interesting move for VMware.
Let’s see what Novell has, that could be [...]

Must have apps for the iPad

26 June, 2010

You probably wonder what has gotten in to me, iPad postings have nothing to do with virtualization. Yes you’re right, but lately I see so many tweets of people in the virtualization community asking for “must have” apps for their iPad, I decided to write this little post about my “must have” apps. Here we go:

Interview with Matt McSpirit – Partner technology advisor at Microsoft UK

25 June, 2010

Matt McSpirit is a Partner technology Advisor, who works with Microsoft Partners in the UK, enabling them to build practices around Microsoft Virtualization and Management Technologies.  Matt’s role stretches across Server, Desktop and Application Virtualization, along with the associated System Center Management technologies.
Gabe: Matt, why has Microsoft reached out to some bloggers in the community [...]

How to supply resources for Citrix XenApp on VMware?

21 June, 2010

I bet many of you that are virtualizing Citrix XenApp, have read the Project VRC whitepapers and want to implement their best practices. Especially in small environments however, it can be a headache creating the design. My biggest headache was and is, is the way I can guarantee no CPU over commit for the pCPU’s [...]

VMware Data Recovery 1.2 released

14 June, 2010

Because of the news of the release of update 2 for VMware ESX 4.0, you may have missed the news about the release of VMware Data Recovery 1.2 on June 10th. The vDR team announceses it with great expectations: “While it is only a dot one increase in terms of version number (don’t ask, long [...]