IT 2.0

Lately, there have been many discussions on the Internet and on various forums regarding the implementation of HA clustering technologies (namely and primarily Microsoft Cluster Server) within virtual machine environments (namely and primarily VMware infr…

In the last few months I have been struggling to understand what is so different, in terms of mass adoption, between virtualizing server workloads and virtualizing desktop workloads (also known as "VDI" or "Virtual Desktop Infrastructure").

VMware, at VMworld 2007, announced that next year they will provide an out-of-the-box solution/product for Disaster/Recovery scenarios.

Hardware virtualization these days is a hot topic and we all know that.

Last week I came across a hardware configuration requested ad-hoc by a customer to support their VMware VI3 setup.

"I need to setup a VI3 solution.

A few days ago Microsoft released Release Candidate 0 for Windows Server 2008.

Last week, at VMworld 2007 in San Francisco, VMware announced ESX 3i.

It's interesting that up until a year ago many people were showing their AMD tattoos claiming that Opteron was king of the hill and Intel was going nuts.

For those interested the Session ID is WV27 and the title is "Virtual Appliances and the New Data Center - Changing the Rules" The bad news is that there is going to be a partner on stage (IBM).

A few days ago I was with a Business Partner at an event where one of the customers presented their own consolidation projects.

It is my feeling that there has been a bit of confusion lately around how hypervisors are being positioned by the various vendors.

I recently bumped into a new idea that is "Employee Owned PC".

"Now that Microsoft is coming out with their own enterprise virtualization software who's going to buy VMware products any more?".

In this article I'd like to touch briefly on the different level of virtualization technologies that I see being discussed lately.

There have been quite a lot of discussions lately on the VMware forums about topics related to exposing physical hardware layouts to virtual environments.

It's amazing how many customers have embraced VMware and virtualization in general (that is: VMware) just for the purpose of "out-of-the-box" High Availability and Disaster Recovery features.

I have lately been involved with "Client Consolidation" solutions which is a new (well it's not that new) trend aimed at re-architecting the way companies/organizations think about their standard desktop deployments.