LABS GALLERY: VMware View 4 Provides Rich Virtual Desktop Experience
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VMware View 4 pushes virtual desktop delivery with its PCoIP, a new protocol that enables support for multiple high-resolution monitors and responsive end-user interaction.
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How to Secure Privileged Information within Virtualized Infrastructures
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Ensuring the security of proprietary data within a virtualized environment is more important than ever, yet the standards established to protect companies against damaging threats continue to confound many. Here, Knowledge Center contributor Robert Grapes explains how companies can build privileged access management into the virtualization implementation process to ensure that the benefits of the virtualized environment outweigh the risks.
Driven by the potential cost reductions gained through server consolidation, the virtualization movement has delivered multiple benefits and proven deployments over the past few years. Yet, without proper security planning, virtualization could come at a cost.
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VMware’s Zimbra Buy All About Simplicity
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Continuing on its mission to bring greater simplicity to users of its cloud platform, VMware announces its agreement to acquire Zimbra, a provider of e-mail and collaboration software, from Yahoo.
Continuing on its mission to bring greater simplicity to users of its cloud platform, VMware has announced its agreement to acquire Zimbra, a provider of e-mail and collaboration software, from Yahoo.
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NetEx Bringing WAN Optimization Support to Microsoft Hyper-V
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NetEx, whose HyperIP WAN optimization software already accelerates the migration of VMware images over long distances to remote sites, is now looking to offer the same capabilities to Microsofts Hyper-V virtualization offering. The Microsoft Hyper-V support will come in the next version of HyperIP, which will be released in the first quarter of 2010. NetEx, with its HyperIP acceleration software, already enables users to
quickly migrate VMware data to remote sites. Now the WAN optimization software vendor is looking to do the same for Microsofts Hyper-V virtualization products. NetEx announced Jan. 5 that the next version HyperIP, due out la…
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VMware Workstation 7 Maintains Leader Position for Developer Desktop Virtualization
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VMware Workstation 7 adds support for Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system along with Windows XP Mode and complete support for VMware’s data center infrastructure products including vSphere 4.
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LABS GALLERY: Labs Tests Three Means to a Windows-on-Mac OS X End
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Running Windows on the Apple Mac platform using virtualization products is bringing us closer to the day when Microsoft workloads will run as just another application on Mac systems. eWEEK Labs has recently tested three of the virtualization platforms that enable Windows applications to run on Macs #151VMware Fusion, Parallels Desktop for Mac and Sun VirtualBox. The VMware and Parallels products #151both of which cost about #151run neck-in-neck in terms of support for Boot Camp partitions and Windows 7 virtual machines. Sun’s VirtualBox offering wins on price #151it’s free. Check out the highlights of each of these Wappple bridges in the following slideshow. (Links to full reviews of the products are on the last slide.)
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Virtualization Ready for Prime Time
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Virtualization is easiest to roll out and exploit in test/dev scenarios, but companies have been leery of trusting their mission-critical and compute-intensive applications to virtual machines. The technology is ready, though, and the benefits can be significant.
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Is Virtualization Becoming the Turducken of the IT World?
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VMs-within-VMs-within-VMs raise new virtualization promises and concerns.
- It’s just about Thanksgiving, but I feel like I already have a refrigerator
full of turducken leftovers in the form of client VMs scattered across my lab
bench.
For those not familiar with the term, a turducken is a partial deboned
turkey that is stuffed with a deboned duck that is stuffed with …
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REVIEW: Windows 7 Support Boosts VMware Workstation 7
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Version 7 of VMware Workstation adeptly virtualizes Windows 7, Windows XP Mode and enterprise VMware platforms.
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Workstation 7, the latest version of VMware’s desktop virtualization tool,
carries on the tradition of providing premium technology for developers and
power users.
Released in
October with a list price of 9, VMware Workstation 7 fully supports Windows
7 and Windows XP Mode virtual ma…
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How to Use Virtualization to Accelerate Remote Backup and WAN Replication
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IT managers need to build efficient, cost-effective disaster recovery infrastructures within the enterprise. Virtualization initiatives are dictating that the amount of hardware supported in remote replication sites be reduced. Here, Knowledge Center contributor Shawn Cooney explains how to use software-based WAN optimization technology to accelerate remote backup and WAN replication and how, by embracing virtualization, efficient remote disaster recovery can be achieved.
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remote backup and recovery end game is simple. You should be able to
perform frequent backups with shorter backup windows to protect as much
company information as possible. You should be able to do this
regardless of the miles between your source and target replication
locations. But befor…
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