Virtualization by Davis: “VMware pricing under fire from Hyper-V, cloud” plus 10 more

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• VMware pricing under fire from Hyper-V, cloud
• The all-new VDI-in-a-Box content from Citrix Syndication has landed.
• Move your business into the fast lane with these top picks from the Citrix Summit Catalog
• New VDI malware analysis tool aids virtual desktop security
• Access Gateway powers MDX technologies for secure mobility and BYOD
• Protecting your critical data when disaster strikes!
• For the Hosted Services Provider, Citrix Summit is Also About Business
• Release: Savision Vital Signs for VMM 1.0
• Virtualization & Microservers: Why HP Moonshot Matters
• Despite the appeal of IT automation, don't rush to automate everything
• OpenPegasus CIM Server (cimserver) memory leaks troubleshooting tips

VMware pricing under fire from Hyper-V, cloud Posted: 19 Apr 2013 09:23 AM PDT VMware customers can use the emergence of Hyper-V and other competitors to get better deals. If not, adopting these platforms is now a viable option.

The all-new VDI-in-a-Box content from Citrix Syndication has landed. Posted: 19 Apr 2013 01:01 PM PDT   Get your hands on the latest content refresh from Citrix Syndication. Now you can quickly transform your website with the latest VDI-in-a-Box content and lead-generating resources, in just a few simple steps! The new showcase has now officially launched – check out all there is to offer in our sample site. Here, you'll find fresh new content, simplified navigation and up-to-date resources, designed to… Read More

Move your business into the fast lane with these top picks from the Citrix Summit Catalog Posted: 19 Apr 2013 12:38 PM PDT Citrix Summit in Los Angeles will provide training, information and context about mobile workstyle solutions so you can move your business into the fast lane. Summit will give you a first look at what's new and exciting today, what's on the horizon and what it all means for your customers and your business. This two- day event is jam packed with hot breakout sessions –… Read More

New VDI malware analysis tool aids virtual desktop security Posted: 19 Apr 2013 07:00 AM PDT An update to HBGary's malware analysis tool will allow IT pros to make virtual desktops more secure without taxing resources.

Access Gateway powers MDX technologies for secure mobility and BYOD Posted: 19 Apr 2013 10:11 AM PDT Mobility is hot! Every enterprise wants to go BYOD. Employees are loving it, Execs are loving it, and IT is confused. Fear not, cause Citrix Access Gateway (as a part of Citrix Xen Mobile) is here to help. If you have followed enterprise mobility over the last few months, there is no way you are not aware of all the super cool stuff that's happening… Read More

Protecting your critical data when disaster strikes! Posted: 19 Apr 2013 08:44 AM PDT Centralized application delivery and data stores enable mobile work-styles and the users love the ease of use and ubiquitous availability of apps and data. But are you confident that you have the ability to recover from a catastrophic disaster that seems to happen all too frequently? Have you taken a close look at how you are protecting your data? Highly likely you have setup a… Read More

For the Hosted Services Provider, Citrix Summit is Also About Business Posted: 19 Apr 2013 07:26 AM PDT Growing a hosted services provider business is about engaging the right technologies to deliver top-notch workplace services to your customers, plus developing a sales, marketing and operational strategy to achieve your goals. While Citrix Summit includes a wealth of the latest technical information for Citrix Service Provider partners, also plan to attend the business-oriented sessions to learn about marketing, selling and supporting hosted desktops. Plan… Read More

Release: Savision Vital Signs for VMM 1.0 Posted: 19 Apr 2013 09:08 AM PDT Savision, a company providing added solution on top of Microsoft System Center has released an extension which customers using System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) to manager Microsoft Hyper-V environments can install. The extension which can be downloaded for free will analyzes your Hyper-V environment for problems, and then provides specific and detailed recommendations to tune virtual machines and hosts for better performance and availability. Later this year, Savision plans to update the plugin with the ability to also apply the recommendations given by the tool. The free plugin is released in order to make users acquainted with Vital Signs. Vital Signs is Savision's paid product which can be installed on top of System Center providing an enhanced Hyper-V management pack for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager and it provides several dashboards for Capacity Management, Windows Server, SQL Server and Exchange Server which integrate with System Center Operations Manager and System Center Service Manager. Vital Signs is provided in two editions, a standard edition offering monitoring functionality and the Enterprise edition offering dashboards as well. Labels: Release, Savision

Virtualization & Microservers: Why HP Moonshot Matters Posted: 19 Apr 2013 06:35 AM PDT HP recently announced their Moonshot System, which is about packing a very large number of sub-10 W compute or storage nodes into a fraction of the space of what's been available until now in the enterprise server market. In this post, I examine what role virtualization has to play in a world where there are thousands of servers per rack, and how the Xen hypervisor is now running on the ARM processor architecture, which will used in the near future in the Moonshot System.

Despite the appeal of IT automation, don't rush to automate everything Posted: 11 Apr 2013 09:34 AM PDT IT automation isn't for everyone. Deciding what and how much to automate is an important point to consider before jumping headfirst into automation.

OpenPegasus CIM Server (cimserver) memory leaks troubleshooting tips Posted: 19 Apr 2013 03:34 AM PDT It's not a secret that there are some memory leaks in our CIM Server and it looks like not only XenServer has this kind of problems. Recetly I spent some time helping my colleague to troubleshooting problem like this and decided to share below procedures Procedure 1: Using core files. Set core file destination and pattern: sysctl -w kernel.core_pattern="/var/tmp/core.%e.%h.%p" sysctl -q kernel.core_pattern Above command sets… Read More

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