SAN optimisation specialist Virtual Instruments today launched a new monitoring and optimisation suite for VMware SAN environments. Virtual Instruments VirtualWisdom Portal Server collects and correlates traffic data from VMware VirtualCenter. The suite can also collect SNMP data from SAN switches and traffic data from Fibre Channel probes connected directly to SAN cabling. The VirtualWisdom suite […]

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Chip giant Intel announced another attempt to enter the high-end phone market at the Mobility World Congress in Barcelona today. Although Intel did not mention the iPhone, the move will see Intel team up with consumer electronics giant LG to produce sleek devices that target the same high-end sector of the smart phone market. The […]

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Internet telephony specialist Jajah announced last week a new offering that will help people turn their iPod Touch into a mobile phone capable of outgoing calls and SMS messages. Jajah hopes to sell its solution to other companies that will use it to produce an offering suitable for consumers. The Jajah suite combines the iPod […]

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The hot news from VMware’s VMworld conference in Las Vegas this week is that VMware is developing software to run on the Apple iPhone. Stephen Herrod, VMware chief technology officer, told attendees at the conference today VMware engineers were working on a version of the VMware Infrastructure Client that would run on the Apple iPhone. […]

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When you delete data from Windows, the data is not actually removed from the hard disk. While this doesn’t cause too many problems for physical hard disks, it means that the virtual disks used by most hypervisors end up being much larger than necessary. In turn this means VMs take longer to backup and may […]

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Virtualisation management specialist Vizioncore showed a beta version of its vRanger Pro 4 backup suite to attendees at the VMworld conference in Las Vegas today. The new software, which is due to be launched later this year, includes support for Microsoft’s PowerShell scripting language. Scott Herold, chief architect at Vizioncore, said, “We’re very excited about […]

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Virtualisation management specialist Vizioncore announced vFoglight, a monitoring and reporting suite for virtual servers based on a major upgrade to its previous vCharter Pro product. In an exclusive interview with The Hypervisor, Scott Herold, chief architect at Vizioncore, said the new suite would include chargeback tools, be easier to navigate and would make it much […]

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Continuous availability specialist Neverfail today announced its intention to support Microsoft Virtual Machine Manager 2008. VMM is Microsoft’s equivalent of VMware’s Virtual Center management console. Many people will rely on VMM to manage their virtual infrastructure. A Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) deployment consists of multiple components, notably SQL Server, the library service, which requires file […]

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The buzz this week is that the launch of Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (VMM2008) is imminent. VMM2008 is part of Microsoft’s System Center management platform, which until now has been focussed on managing Microsoft server systems. However, VMM2008 is set to change all that. Besides managing Microsoft Virtual Server and Hyper-V, it will also integrate […]

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In head to head benchmark tests of Microsoft Hyper-V compared to VMware Workstation, The Hypervisor test results indicate virtual machine (VM) performance using Hyper-V is below that of VMware Workstation. Our tests compared the time taken to install various operating systems into VMs hosted by the two hypervisors. Thus our test results focus on the […]

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