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Webinar - High Availability and VMware - How To Increase VMware Application and Data Availability
REGISTER NOW: Wednesday, February 10, 12:00 PM GMT Wednesday, February 10, 2:00 PM EST Learn how to eliminate downtime and configure a High Availability (HA) environment not only by clustering your VMware hosts but also by extending active-active HA / synchronous mirroring with automatic failover to your shared storage. Topics covered on this webinar include: • Increase VM application and data availability • See how Clustering and Automatic Failover work • Build your own SAN for VMware ESX & vSphere27 January 2010
Gauging the virtualization suites: A close race
Although VMware is the dominant virtualization software provider it’s in a close race with Microsoft and Citrix. ZDNet Australia recently put the virtualization suites through their paces and gave a slight edge to Citrix’s XenServer 5.
The testing process looked at bare metal hypervisors, which don’t require a operating system, and virtual machine monitors, which do.
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16 April 2009
An application-centric approach to virtualization
February 4, 2009 (Network World) To increase the ROI of their virtualization efforts, organizations are virtualizing servers that support business-critical applications. While many tools help manage virtual servers, they provide little real-time, actionable data on how the virtualized applications are performing and how they interact with one another and the infrastructure on which they reside. Read more12 February 2009
HP, Citrix Are Bringing Virtualization to PC Blades
Hewlett-Packard and Citrix are looking to combine virtualization and PC blades into a new offering aimed at creating a more centralized desktop infrastructure. The two companies are looking to combine Citrix’s XenDesktop 3 virtualization software with new HP BladeSystem PC blades that are based on AMD processors. HP also offers different hardware bundles with VMware’s virtualization software. Read more12 February 2009
UBS Analyst Says "Sell VMware" Stock
If you currently own VMware stock or just work and play in VMware's world, I'm sure you're keeping a watchful eye on their stock price. The Motley Fool makes it sound like a great buying opportunity, but UBS analyst Heather Bellini dropped her rating of the stock from "Neutral" to "Sell", and she cut her rating on the stock from $21 down to $15.
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9 December 2008
