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Former VMware CEO re-emerges
VMware co-founder and former CEO Diane Greene has re-emerged as an investor at Nicira, a Palo Alto, Calif. network virtualization startup. According to the company's website, "Nicira is accelerating the transformation to cloud infrastructure by delivering software that virtualizes the network and enables elastic, scale-out data centers." Greene co-founded the virtualization company VMware Inc. in 1998 with her husband, Mendel Rosenblum, who has also since left the company. She was replaced as CEO by Paul Maritz in 2008. VKernel adds server templates to Capacity Modeler More... IT managers at the University of Buckingham in the U.K. have extended virtualization from the server room to the classroom, giving students access to virtual infrastructure from several computer labs around campus.
Previously, students in the university's Applied Computing program had access to a single computer lab with only eight PCs. Each PC could be configured as a standalone system, limiting the number of students that could take the class and the number of systems they could use in their test labs. Plus, configuring -- and reconfiguring -- those servers was a drain on IT staff. "At first we gave them More... |
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Where are Anil Desai's most recent answers to questions? You've come to an archive of Anil Desai's answers, seen on the previous Ask The Expert page. Anil is still answering IT pros' questions about virtualization. Check out his answer page on IT...
My company uses video streaming technologies a great deal. Are there any options for virtualization here? Depending on the performance requirements, front-end web or database engines delivering the video can most likely be virtualized... What are the data deduplication options in server virtualization? Data deduplication in virtualization was highly anticipated soon after VM adoption in the data center. There are numerous options in this space with all of the major... VIRTUALIZATION GLOSSARY
What is root partition?
A root partition is the isolated area in a Microsoft Hyper-V environment where the hypervisor... What is virtualization stack?
A virtualization stack is the collection of resources that, along with the hypervisor... What is parent partition?
A parent partition is a logical hard drive division in the Microsoft Hyper-V environment that... What is child partition?
A child partition is a logical hard drive division in the Microsoft Hyper-V environment that... In a Citrix XenServer, a physical block device is a connector object that represents the interface between a physical...
SERVER VIRTUALIZATION TIPS
Network consolidation can help a virtual infrastructure run more efficiently and cost-effectively. With...
A virtual host server houses numerous virtual machine (VM) workloads, so it's imperative to keep it secure and bug free. It's... Following patch management best practices for your virtual hosts can save you from a lot of headaches and late nights... With server virtualization all the rage these days, a lot of people approach me with virtualization-related...
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SAN FRANCISCO – At VMworld 2007, the winners of the Best of VMworld Awards were chosen by a panel of experts and editors from TechTarget Inc.'s SearchServerVirtualization.com...
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Sep 12, 2007
VMware Inc.'s new embedded ESX Server 3i has its benefits in terms of reliability and security, but it may also present some problems for existing VMware shops, experts say. That's...
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Sep 19, 2007
The speed and ease with which virtualization allows new servers to be deployed is taxing the management tools and processes developed for an all-physical world, possibly...
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Jul 31, 2007
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