If vendors including Cisco and HP succeed, in a few years you may buy more bundled chunks of infrastructure, and fewer individual server, storage and network pieces. Here's a look at how virtualization is significantly changing server purchases.

VMware subsidiary SpringSource has launched a new version of its Hyperic software

Has the dearth of management tools held you back from deploying virtualization on a Linux platform? Now there is an enterprise version of the open source management software ConVirt that actually exceeds the base feature set of VMWare's vCenter. ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise might be just the tool you need to help Linux flourish in your virtualized data center.

If you’ve been tracking the licensing and reselling of Oracle’s Solaris operating system you can be forgiven for being a tad confused. HP, Dell are in, but IBM looks out.

Microsoft targets VMware customers as it prepares for VMworld.

Configuring Active Directory-integrated security for ESXi hosts is easy; managing the license, a bit more complicated.

VMware on Tuesday reported a 48 percent jump in revenue for the second quarter, a greater increase than expected, and raised its outlook for the full year on strong demand for its virtualization software.

VMware last week introduced vSphere 4.1, it latest virtualization platform. vSphere 4.1 has a variety of storage offerings but primarily the vStorage API for Array integration (VAAI), which allows VMware ESX servers to offload several storage operations to the storage hardware.

By Virtual Geek

Well – in a nutshell – more, for less.

The vStorage APIs for Array integration (or VAAI) have been something that we previewed back at VMworld 2009.

Now that vSphere 4.1 is officially out, we can now talk about it without tapdancing around a lot of stuff.

I did a webcast on this topic the week before last.  I needed to step carefully around not saying “vSphere 4.1” or committed dates/functions, but now you know…  

Server virtualization is a growing reality in data centers. The economics are firmly behind the trend. Server virtualization reduces the total cost of ownership by reducing the number of physical servers, requiring less cooling and less power while increasing flexibility. This is all good for the business and the server group, but what effect does it have on the management of the network? The truth is that it complicates network management.