by Chris Wolf | December 11, 2012 | 2 Comments
Heterogeneous virtualization has been a hot topic among clients and last week at the Gartner Data Center conference in Las Vegas I presented a session on the subject. During the session, I polled the audience on their heterogeneous virtualization plans. Fifty participants responded to each polling question. The first question I asked was about the [...]
Category: Cloud Server Virtualization Tags: citrix, cloud, microsoft, oracle, redhat, Virtualization, vmware
by Chris Wolf | December 10, 2012 | 5 Comments
At the Gartner Data Center conference in Las Vegas last week I asked several polling questions regarding desktop virtualization adoption plans and trends, and thought that they were worth sharing. Note that the poll was taken in my session on “Desktop Virtualization: Tales from the Trenches,” so the audience was already at least considering the [...]
Category: Client Virtualization Tags: citrix, gartnerdc, microsoft, vmware
by Chris Wolf | September 20, 2011 | 6 Comments
Remember the days of Windows NT Server? I was among the many who mocked it as a serious data center server operating system. Then came Windows 2000 Server, and perceptions began to change. With the release of Windows Server 2003, Microsoft turned the tide of server OS dominance in the data center, placing Microsoft on [...]
Category: Server Virtualization Tags: microsoft, vmware
by Chris Wolf | September 8, 2011 | 4 Comments
In a recent Gartner field search study, two early internal IaaS cloud adopters noted that if Amazon was the benchmark by which they are measured in terms of cost, then they had to make tough decisions regarding best-of-breed vs. good enough. In particular, the two clients cited whether deploying a third party virtual switch (i.e., [...]
Category: Cloud Server Virtualization Tags: citrix, microsoft, vmware, vmworld
by Chris Wolf | November 10, 2010 | 9 Comments
Today EMC’s Chad Sakac blogged about a significant update to Oracle’s support policy for VMware ESX environments – Oracle no longer explicitly excludes Oracle RAC from being virtualized. It should also be noted that Oracle’s support is limited to “issues that either are known to occur on the native OS, or can be demonstrated not [...]
Category: Cloud Server Virtualization Virtualization Tags: amazon, citrix, microsoft, oracle, vmware
by Chris Wolf | September 16, 2010 | 10 Comments
Today the Wall Street Journal reported “VMware in Talks to Buy Novell Unit.” The rumor likely comes as no surprise to those who have followed the recent VMware/Novell OEM agreement. The agreement resulted in VMware including a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) subscription with vSphere licenses. VMware and Novell first started talking about an extended [...]
Category: Cloud Server Virtualization Virtualization Tags: microsoft, novell, oracle, vmware
by Chris Wolf | September 15, 2010 | 4 Comments
Once upon a time an IT user named Goldie Locks tried to access her company’s applications… I’ll spare you the rest of the analogy. Some devices are too big, others too small, and some are just right. Of course, “just right” often depends on the application being consumed. I talk a lot with clients about [...]
Category: Client Virtualization Cloud Tags: apple, citrix, cloud, microsoft, vmware
by Chris Wolf | August 11, 2010 | 2 Comments
I have three sessions at this year’s VMworld North America conference and thought I would post them here in the event you’re interested in attending one of them. Each session will run two times, and the session descriptions, times, and locations are listed below. I hope to see you at the conference. The in-depth discussions [...]
Category: Client Virtualization Cloud Server Virtualization Tags: citrix, microsoft, vmware, vmworld
