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Calling all Systems Center Users – You can Tell your Compliance Officer to speak SCOM to You

by Rekha Shenoy

I was visiting a customer last week talking about how they use Tripwire Enterprise. The security and system administrator was by all standards at the top of her game. She and one other person had deployed over 100 Tripwire Enterprise agents in a couple of days and had meaningful reports for their security team in [...]

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Virtual Mythbusting and Overcommitment

by Dwayne Melancon

On Network World’s Microsoft Subnet, there is a very solid article on “9 Myths of Microsoft Virtualization -  Busted or Confirmed."  It’s actually an interview with Microsoft’s Mike Neil (general manager of Microsoft virtualization) and it is a fun read. One of the myths I was very interested in was this one: No. 3. VMware [...]

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Virtualization: Conflicting signals

by Dwayne Melancon

Just catching up on my virtualization news feeds after a week of heavy travel, and I noticed that there are a lot of interesting things going on – mostly involving mixed messages: A well-known research firm, IDC is apparently providing some numbers around virtualization adoption that aren’t sitting well with VMware. They think IDC is [...]

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‘Motional reactions

by Dwayne Melancon

A few days ago, I wrote about how Microsoft and VMware were reaching feature parity on the ability to move “live” VM’s from one host to another, and that the real test for virtualization was who could deliver the best value and return to the business. Well, it turns out Microsoft’s Live Migration feature won’t [...]

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Microsoft Wakes Up to Virtualization

by Michael Lohr

So Microsoft announced this week a change in their licensing so that they will no longer require their operating systems or applications to reside on the same physical machine for 90 days before they are moved. To this I say–Well Duh! I know this is a “big” announcement but this is just common sense now [...]

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Does one ingredient make the winning dish?

by Dwayne Melancon

Kevin Fogarty has started a lively discussion with his blog post called, “Is One of VMware’s Best Features a Really Bad Idea?,” in which he questions the sensibility of VMware’ real-time VMotion capability. To continue the Iron Chef Virtualization metaphor I used the other day, VMware has one special ingredient that their competitors don’t: the [...]

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