Virtualization
Citrix lowers sword, will take more time on 'Project Avalon' virty PC broker
Scaling to 1 million desktops... not so easy
Rackspace touts OpenStack private cloud prowess
When will OpenStack split into enterprise and development releases?
Cisco rolls up its own OpenStack distro
Cloud control freaking on UCS rackers, Nexus switches
Tintri's VDI flash disk mix: The kit that booted 1,000 virtual desktops
VMWorld Barcelona Legion of clones spawned in just 9 seconds each
13
VMware crams more cloudy calories in vCloud Suite's cakehole
VMworld Europe Chubby control freak now with more to grab hold of
VMware brings out new madly complicated enterprise buyer plan
EPPic rulebook on Monopoly-money token scheme pops out
Microsoft releases VMware-eater
All your VMDKs are belong to Windows Server thanks to free converter
Opinion
VMware adds EMC daddy's deduping backup to vSphere
VMware is embedding EMC's Avamar deduplicating backup software into ESXi with the vSphere Data Protection product, making VMware seem more like EMC's baby than an open child.
Cisco, Fusion-io's blade lovechild in EMC flash face-off
Blocks and Files Will VCE ship Vblocks - its virtual machine battery farms - with Fusion-io flash cards inside instead of EMC's VFCache memory rival?
News
OpenStack Foundation launches with $10m in funding
NASA, Rackspace experts jump ship to Nebula
Size matters: Bromium 'microvisor' to guard PCs for big biz
Clap these mutinous dogs in th' app brig, mister mate
VMTurbo sucks up apps and blows them into clouds
Operations Manager control freak pushed to 3.2
Oracle tunes up VirtualBox hypervisor for Windows 8
Punts new Enterprise Manager 12c control freak
NEC, Egenera tag team on cloudy infrastructure freakage
PAN Manager paired up with SigmaBlades, Nblocks
Love vSphere? You're going to have to love Flash too
Trevor Pott gets hands-on with vSphere's new web client
EMC shows off XtremIO's Project X box
VMworld 2012 Enters the million-IOPS club with all-flash array
VMware kills vRAM memory tax with vSphere 5.1 server virt
VMworld 2012 Stretching VMs, and taking on Microsoft
VMware desktop virt refresh lets you run Windows 8 everywhere
Run Windows 8 inside Windows 8, hey, why not
SkyTap embeds Cloud Foundry in app dev cloud
The floating application development laboratory called SkyTap is burrowing deeper into the VMware fold and making itself more useful to coders by supporting the Cloud Foundry framework on its eponymous dev and test cloud. The company, funded in part by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, is also firing up new templates for SkyTap that allow for n-tier applications running in VMs created for VMware's ESXi hypervisor to be moved more easily between the SkyTap app dev cloud and private infrastructure or other production-grade VMware clouds.
HotLink extends SuperVisor virty control freak to EC2, CloudStack
HotLink, the startup server virtualization management tool maker that came out of stealth mode a year ago, is reaching out from private clouds into public clouds with a new product called HotLink Hybrid Express.
Spotlight
Prepares for backlash of the backup vendors...
Podcast The usual suspects at our enterprise tech-cast broadcast from the centre of the action
Just don't call it a distro
Try and buy in the sky
Blocks and Files Will VBlock partner be forced to line a rival's pockets?
Deep Dive Training server admins into server-and-storage admins
Miracle-cream-slathered tool spurts on 12 April
Deep Dive Big changes: Hole-punching and application data blocks
'Virtualising performance'... with IOPS to spare
Analysis 'Everyone short-strokes', admits industry rival