Virtualization

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization’s Next Test

• March 30, 2010

Red Hat made a lot of noise with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) back in November 2009. But the open source company has been pretty quiet about RHEV since that time. Until now. Arriving this week is RHEV Beta 2.2 — with a bunch of new features. More than a server strategy, RHEV also has […]

AMD’s Opteron 12 Core CPUs: Disrupting Intel?

• March 30, 2010

JumpBox: Delivering “Open Source as a Service”

• March 28, 2010

Microsoft Office Communications Server 14 Revealed

• March 25, 2010

Microsoft has unveiled Office Communication Server 14. If your customers are looking for that all-in-one VOIP, instant message, e-mail and unified communication server program, Microsoft wants to talk to you. Microsoft showed off OCS 14 this week at VoiceCon in Orlando. Here’s some perspective. Of course, we’ve got to give a tip of the hat […]

Spiceworks Adds Free Virtualization Management

• March 24, 2010

Spiceworks, the totally free IT management software provider, has released a new version of their namesake product that brings, among other things, virtualization management capabilities. Here’s some analysis. Initially, we expressed some skepticism about the Austin-based Spiceworks’ business model. But Spiceworks seems to keep on attracting customers and MSPs with its efforts. The new release […]

Siemens, VMware: Virtualized Unified Communication

• March 24, 2010

Here’s an interesting combination: Siemens Enterprise Communications and VMware are connecting the dots between unified communications and virtualization. Here’s the story, which emerged at the VoiceCon trade show, and the implications for channel partners.

ADTRAN’s NetVanta Customizes Unified Communications

• March 23, 2010

ADTRAN, the networking company known for their communications and “last mile” work, says they’ve expanded opportunities for channel partners who are looking to target vertical markets. And how are they doing this? The answer involves unified communications… ADTRAN is going to be providing a customized “Unified Communications NetVanta Business Application Server,” which means it has included […]

CORAID: Some ‘SAN’ New

• March 23, 2010

Microsoft, Citrix Attack VMware With Special Promotion

• March 19, 2010

The Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) battle is getting aggressive. The latest move involves Microsoft and Citrix ganging up against VMware, hoping to switch VMware customers over to VDI solutions that leverage Microsoft and Citrix virtualization technologies. Microsoft is also changing its Windows licensing model to potentially speed VDI deployments. Here’s the scoop. At first glance, […]

Paragon Software Offers Corporate Migration For Windows

• March 18, 2010

Paragon Software, whose expertise is in data management and security, is launching  Virtualization Manager 2010 Corporate Edition. The software could help VARs and solutions providers with Windows environment software migrations. Here’s a quick look at the potential benefits. Virtualization Manager 2010 Corporate has been designed with — you guessed it — the corporate environment in […]

Startup Wanova Launches Distributed Desktop Virtualization

• March 17, 2010

Wanova is a software virtualization company that’s making some ripples in the big virtualization pool. Launching today comes some new Distributed Desktop Virtualization software and it’s designed to cut costs and be future proof. Does that sound too good to be true? Here’s the deal on the new offering… Wanova is making some waves with […]

Devon IT: Virtualization Meets Thin Clients, Citrix

• March 16, 2010

VMWare Workstation 7.1 Beta: Free ‘Till May 2010

• March 15, 2010

VMWare, one of the most prominent names in virtualization, is launching Workstation Version 7.1 as a public beta release. The best part is, it’s free ’till May. What are the new features? Read on…

Obviously, we’re not moving a whole version number here, so we’re not going to be bumping up anything tremendous, but there are a nice slew of new features and according to VMWare “hundreds of minor improvements”…

Virtualization: Citrix Launches XenApp 6

• March 12, 2010

Citrix Systems continues to bolster its virtualization story. Sometime later this month, the company expects to ship XenApp 6, a virtualization and application “delivery product” that lets users connect to corporate applications. You can also host apps with XenApp, or stream them direct to the local user. Here are some more details.

SpringSource: Free Offer to VMware Channel Partners

• March 10, 2010

With spring around the corner in North America, it seemed like the right time for SpringSource to ‘spring’ into action make their big announcement. SpringSource is unleashing SpringSource Server Spring Edition as “the best place to build and run Spring applications.” There’s a free promotion involved. Plus, this is the first time SpringSource will be offered through the VMware channel. Here’s the skinny…