Articles & Analysis

Cloud & Virtualization Management, Hyper-convergence, EUC

vSphere 5 Announcement – The Aftermath – Or – Will Microsoft, Citrix and Red Hat be quietly smiling?

by Community Author | Jul 14, 2011 | Virtualization

#### Update 29/07/11 - VMware is making changes the initial vRAM licensing allocations for vSphere 5 ####Summary of changes are:VMware vSphere 5 Essentials will give a 24GB vRAM entitlementVMware vSphere 5 Essentials...

Citrix announces XenServer 6 Beta – The ‘beginning of the end’ for XenCenter?

by Community Author | Jul 7, 2011 | End User Computing, Everything else ..., GPU, Virtualization

Citrix announced the public beta for their next version of XenServer 6.0.For an update article also see https://www.whatmatrix.com/portal/xenserver-7-3-whats-new-stays-free/There are various changes and new features...

VMware or Red Hat to conquer the public cloud? – or – The balancing act of being “open”

by Andreas Groth | Jun 14, 2011 | Virtualization

Having just returned from the European Red Hat Partner summit and the VMware vForum where I presented, it took me a while to digest the "openness" of it all ... The key messages conveyed in both events were...

SCVMM 2012 – closing the gap to vCenter (or squaring up to vCloud Director)?

by Community Author | May 16, 2011 | Virtualization

I'm currently "beta testing" both vSphere 5 and SCVMM 2012, so I was actually looking forward to today's "best of" Microsoft Management Summit 2011 down in London, basically a short version of the recent Vegas...