This whitepaper discusses the many challenges of a total virtualized solution in light of the integration of virtualized servers and virtualized storage. It reviews the complementary technologies of the VMware and IBM XIV® Storage System environments, while highlighting IBM XIV features that address the different issues. Real-world use cases provided at the end of the… Continue reading IBM XIV with VMWare for Optimized Storage-Server Virtualization
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Virtualization technology news on virtual machine products, hypervisors and new products in the virtualization industry.
How to Upgrade from ESX/ESXi 4.1 to ESX/ESXi 4.1 Update 1
Its been almost 3 months since VMware released an update for its vSphere 4 product. I’ve began upgrading my lab and clients and wanted to share this little how to guide to help you upgrade as well. So let us begin and prepare the host for an upgrade: vMotion all virtual machines from the host… Continue reading How to Upgrade from ESX/ESXi 4.1 to ESX/ESXi 4.1 Update 1
Aerohive Networks Enhances Its Cloud-Enabled Wifi Networking
Aerohive Networks, the pioneer in controller-less Wi-Fi and cloud-enabled networking, today announced significant enhancements to its HiveOS and HiveManager Network Management Software, simplifying the authentication and control of guests and Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs). Aerohive is also adding spectrum analysis to its 802.11 Access Points (APs) and is now offering the industry’s first reseller enablement… Continue reading Aerohive Networks Enhances Its Cloud-Enabled Wifi Networking
Lucid Takes Virtu Graphics Virtualization to More Platforms
New Virtu Universal Immediately Available for Notebooks, All-in-One and Desktop PCs based on Either AMD or Intel Integrated GPUs COMPUTEX TAIPEI 2011 LucidLogix demonstrated today for the first time at Computex 2011 its Virtu™ Universal® GPU virtualization software, on notebooks, All-in-One (AiO) and desktop PCs based on both Intel® and AMD integrated graphics processing units… Continue reading Lucid Takes Virtu Graphics Virtualization to More Platforms
VMware Acquires Enterprise Social Collaboration Provider Socialcast
Socialcast joins growing VMware End-User Computing portfolio, delivering a more efficient way to communicate, share information and conduct business in the cloud era VMware, Inc., the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced the acquisition of Socialcast, a leading provider of social collaboration solutions for the enterprise. Socialcast enables modern business communication by… Continue reading VMware Acquires Enterprise Social Collaboration Provider Socialcast
Leibniz-Institut DSMZ Adopts ScaleMP’s vSMP Foundation
ScaleMP, a leading provider of virtualization solutions for high-end computing, today announced that Leibniz-Institut Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH (DSMZ) has adopted vSMP Foundation. vSMP Foundation delivers an effective alternative to proprietary, costly symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) system, aggregating the power of multiple commodity x86 servers into one larger virtual SMP. “DSMZ did not… Continue reading Leibniz-Institut DSMZ Adopts ScaleMP’s vSMP Foundation
HyperIP Provides WAN Optimization for Veeam Backup & Replication
NetEx, a leading company providing a WAN optimization virtual appliance solution, today announced that it continues to find success in partnering with Veeam Software by optimizing its Backup & Replication solution over latent and lossy networks. Since partnering with Veeam last year, NetEx continues to offer its free 2Mb/s HyperIP software to new and existing… Continue reading HyperIP Provides WAN Optimization for Veeam Backup & Replication
Accelio Software to free VMware users from I/O bottlenecks
IO Turbine, Inc. today announced Accelio software, the first product to intelligently use SSD/Flash on the compute server to solve I/O bottleneck problems in VMware environments. When installed on VMware servers, Accelio transparently identifies the highest priority data and offloads IOPS from primary storage to Flash, delivering performance directly to designated virtual machines. Accelio eliminates… Continue reading Accelio Software to free VMware users from I/O bottlenecks