Good Virtualization Basics Article

One of the Emulex engineers has a nice article about the basics of Virtualization that’s up on the IBM Developerworks site.

Microsoft Hands Out 16,000 SUSE Linux Subscriptions

Damn, they did it…  We all knew there were these 70,000 subs for MS to hand out to customers, but seeing them use them, and for such large customers, it’s shock and awe…

Survey Says!…

2100 IT professionals polled and the results are in:  The MS/Novell deal is a good thing.

MS & Novell Take Their Partnership to the Streets

Customers are more interested in interoperability and virtualization than patent protection and intellectual property issues, despite the stir Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is creating in the open source community, says Novell.

MS and Novell: Good for Enterprises, Linux and OSS

Andi Mann’s treatise that does a good job of proving why the MS/Novell deal is actually a good thing.

Virtualization Hits the Big Time

Deploying virtualization everywhere increases benefits but creates management headaches.

IBM Delivers Free Management Dashboard for Virtual/Physical Resources

IBM today is making available a free software download that the company says can help enterprise IT managers configure, administer and monitor virtual and physical resources across heterogeneous server environments.

The Benefits of Going Virtual

Business continuity is critical, so operations must be up and running 24×7. Data center virtualization could be the key IT needs.

SearchDataCenter’s List of Virtualization Steps

This is a great set of guides and implementation articles and studies for why and how to use virtualization in your data center.

What are VMWare’s Competitors?

Article intro: “Market-starter VMware may be still a giant step ahead of the competition, but other vendors, including Microsoft, are working hard at catching up. A look at VMware’s competitors:”

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