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Palo Alto, Calif.-based VMware, Inc. announced that Rochester General Hospital (RGH) deployed VMware Infrastructure 3 to scale and manage its growing IT environment.
RGH, a community-based teaching hospital, has an IT infrastructure supporting business applications and patient-critical systems as well as massive amounts of data storage that is growing exponentially.
“We started using virtualization to address power [...]

After years of pressure, Microsoft has altered its virtualization licensing policy for volume license holders by lifting its 90-day reassignment rule to allow for live migration of virtual machines. But there’s a catch.

In June 2008 Microsoft formally launched its Server Virtualization Validation Program (SVVP) to extend the support on its products when they run as virtual machines on 3rd party virtualization platforms.
Today the company announces that 31 back-end servers are now supported on Citri XenServer, Novell SUSE Enterprise Linux, Sun xVM Server and Virtual Iron thanks to [...]

Over the last few months the speculations around Cisco entering the server virtualization market were supported just by rumors. Below a list of news related to the topic:

March 2008 - Cisco puts KVM in its IOS (the company denied that this ever happened)
April 2008 - Cisco or IBM may acquire Citrix
June 2008 - [...]

A well-documented procedure for physical-to-virtual (P2V) conversions still lacks the valuable information learned by experience. In this video blog, Rick Vanover introduces the stage configuration phase of a P2V conversion. When this phase and other phases of a conversion are used in a procedural manner, the success target will increase from accomodation of most scenarios [...]

Organizations that have virtualized their environments often virtualize only a portion of their servers, leaving some servers running on standalone physical hardware. Is a 100% virtualized environment possible? Certainly it is, because almost all workloads can be virtualized, but there are some arguments against completely virtualizing your environment.

I recently wrote about an experience I had [...]

In the last two years Microsoft worked to release more virtualization-friendly license agreements. The process has been slow but the results are remarkable: unlimited virtual servers paying one Windows 2008 Datacenter Edition, unlimited virtual databases paying one SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition, up to unlimited virtual desktops paying a Windows Vista Enterprise [...]

SearchStorage.com published a short blog article saying that Paul Maritz, the CEO that replaced Diane Greene on July 8, called the NetApp CEO, Dan Warmenhoven, on the phone the same day he was appointed.
During the call Maritz reaffirmed the relationship with NetApp and took some steps to further strengthen it.

Maybe this is a typical [...]

In 2006 VMware pioneered the idea of a modular data center by offering pre-configured virtual machines to its customers. The company called them virtual appliances.
For several reasons (security, manageability, performance tuning, portability, etc.) the approach didn’t take much traction among customers so far and only few vendors followed VMware in delivering virtual appliances.

It’s important to [...]

As you may know by now, we asked our keynote speakers to introduce themselves and talk a bit about their sessions at the Virtualization Congress 2008, the independent conference about virtualization technologies arranged by virtualization.info.
In the past months we had the pleasure to host Simon Crosby, CTO of Virtualization and Management Division at Citrix, and [...]