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July 15, 2009

Oracle's acquisitions of Virtual Iron and Sun still raises questions in the virtualization community

Virtualization Report 7/15/09 Podcast: Questions around Oracle's plans for Virtual Iron customers has lead to VMware offering those users a hefty discount to switch; and Sun is pushing forward with VirtualBox - announcing the release of a 3.0 version.

Tags: Oracle, Virtual Iron, VMware

July 06, 2009

Improve control in your virtual environment with solutions from F5 Networks or Virtual Computer

Virtualization Report 7/6/09 Podcast: F5 Networks introduces integration between its BIG-IP solution and VMware vSphere and vCenter. And Virtual Computer announces NxTop 1.1 to help retain end user personalization with shared virtual images.

July 01, 2009

HP Tech Forum 2009 covers more than just servers

Virtualization Report 7/1/09 Podcast: HP is investing in virtualization and the cloud, and that was evident during HP's Technology Forum and Expo in Las Vegas last month.

Tags: Hewlett-Packard (HP)

June 16, 2009

Virtualization and networking: Vyatta and Voltaire

Virtualization Report 6/16/09 Podcast: As virtualization and cloud technologies continue to take over the data center, keep your eyes on the changing network environment. Vyatta raised $10 million thanks to Citrix and others. And Voltaire is scaling out environments with its latest 10 Gigabit solution.

June 09, 2009

Virtualization gets mobile; and even defragged on Exchange

Virtualization Report 6/9/09 Podcast: Virtualization is everywhere. Cell phone providers are now finding virtualization in their mobile devices. And datacenters are going to find virtualization on their Exchange mail servers.

June 02, 2009

Lanamark adds storage module; and EMC acquires new technology

Virtualization Report 6/2/09 podcast: Lanamark introduced its new storage design module that accelerates the design of end-to-end desktop and server virtualization solutions. And EMC is acquiring configuration and compliance management software as well as data deduplication technology.

Tags: Data Domain, EMC

May 27, 2009

Oracle gets Virtual Iron and Vizioncore updates backup solution

Virtualization Report 5/27/09 podcast: Oracle acquired Virtual Iron to build out its virtualization platform, but the NY Times recently reported the financial standing of Virtual Iron as not so great. Vizioncore on the other hand appears to be doing well, and announced an updated version of their widely popular backup solution, vRanger Pro 4.0.

Tags: Oracle, Virtual Iron

May 19, 2009

Community launches Xen 3.4 and 3Tera launches an appstore for the cloud

Virtualization Report 5/20/09 podcast: Xen's community pushes to create a powerful, efficient, and ubiquitous virtualization hypervisor - announces Xen 3.4. And 3Tera announced that it is going to launch an AppStore portal, offering public, private and hybrid AppLogic cloud deployment packages.

Tags: Xen

May 14, 2009

Citrix launched a number of free technologies at Synergy 2009

Virtualization Report 5/14/09 Podcast: The Citrix Synergy show in Las Vegas was a five day mega conference that showcased the latest virtualization and application delivery technologies -- many of which are or will be absolutely free!

Tags: Citrix Systems

May 06, 2009

Neocleus ships next generation client virtualization solution; Eucalyptus debuts open source cloud offering

Virtualization Report 5/5/09 Podcast: Neocleus has announced its latest product, NeoSphere, the company's desktop and laptop management platform built on top of their second generation, Type 1 client hypervisor. And after getting $5.5 million in a Series A round of funding, Eucalyptus Systems is bringing to market its open source private cloud software.