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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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Compliance is not a river in Egypt

by Dwayne Melancon

I was on a compliance panel at VMworld last week. It was well-attended and followed by a bunch of good questions from the audience. One of the most common questions was “Is VMware PCI compliant?” The answer is “No. VMware is not inherently ‘compliant’ with PCI or any other regulation.” Why? Because technology is not [...]

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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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Hardening Guides are just the beginning

by Dwayne Melancon

This week, I’m pleased to welcome a guest author to our blog: Charu Chaubal of VMware, the author of the VMware Infrastructure 3 Hardening Guide. As you may know, Tripwire has worked closely with VMware to help make it easier for enterprises to adopt VMware’s recommendations for securely configuring VMware Infrastructure v3 (aka VI3). With [...]

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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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Free ESXi was a foregone conclusion.

by ~Previous Contributers

It has long been thought that they hypervisor would be a commodity. This week that thought became a reality when VMware took the price of ESXi to zero. With ESXi for free and Hyper-V for only $28, I have heard the argument that it will be impossible make any money on a box that just [...]

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