In this week’s IT Leadership blog, Scott Lowe talks about some of the reasons you might consider VDI. Here, he’ll go over some of the ways by which a VDI implementation takes form.
Your comments on AX4 & iSCSI high availability were very informative and provided a number of idea for improving on the described availability scenario. In this post, Scott Lowe continues the availability discussion.
EMC’s AX4 failover features work as advertised, much to the delight of Scott Lowe. Sometimes, it’s nice to celebrate the small successes!
iSCSI is here to stay and will eventually supplant a significant portion of the installed base of Fibre Channel SANs out there. Further, as organizations make their initial forays into block-level shared storage, iSCSI will beat Fibre Channel more often than not.
ESX has been the flagship virtualization platform of choice over the years but Microsoft is battling them intensely to capture this market as they captured the Internet Explorer market back in the Netscape days. VMware has been feeling the pressure and decides to create a 32 mb hypervisor called ESX3i and give it away for […]
Read what Rene Alamo, a Microsoft Partner Technology Specialist, has to say about Hyper-V in terms of its popularity, how people are using it, application support, cost, and more.
Microsoft has released a standalone hypervisor, Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008. Will you evaluate it for your organization? Scott Lowe explains the ins and outs of this new product.
The seemingly inevitable trend towards virtualization brings one important point to Windows administrators: time settings. Make a decision on how to approach VM time early on before it bites you.
VMware has made their ESXi hypervisor product a free download from their web site. Will this hurt Microsoft’s foray into the virtualization market? Scott Lowe thinks it will, at least for the short-term.
Virtualization also fits in very nicely with the idea of “Green Computing”; by consolidating servers and maximizing CPU processing power on other servers, you are cutting costs (saving money) and taking less of a toll on our environment. As a decision maker in your company, coming up with ways to save money through energy efficiency, and reducing your impact on the environment should be among the top concerns in 2008 and beyond.