Virtualization
Bromium launches security-through-virtualisation tech in the UK
Xen dads' spookware uses VM swarms to isolate foulness
VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus: An El Reg deep dive
Review Trevor Pott feels the big business end of virtual machine giant
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Speaking in Tech: Ya-boo! Marissa! Mayer! how! COULD! you!?
Podcast Mobile workers? Cubicle workers more likely to be dead weight
Open Virtualisation Format 2.0 lands, world+dog yawns
It's as if you all want to be locked in
VMware execs shake fists at Amazon Web Services cloud
'How can we be losing to a jumped-up bookseller?'
VMware sharpens axe for PCs: Horizon boxset brings Windows to iPads
Control systems, access files from 'droids, iThings, slabs, desktops
Cisco takes stake in virtualiser Parallels
If VMware's Nicira is no threat, why does Cisco need another virtual friend?
VMware CTO Steve Herrod jumps to venture capitalist
Will remain as advisor after taking up post at General Catalyst
Opinion
VMware adds EMC daddy's deduping backup to vSphere
VMware is embedding EMC's Avamar deduplicating backup software into ESXi with the vSphere Data Protection product, making VMware seem more like EMC's baby than an open child.
Speaking in Tech: VMware vNerds drop it like it's hot – LIVE
Podcast Podcast
Today we bring you a special live episode of our enterprise and consumer tech-cast, hosted by The Dude of enterprise tech, Greg Knieriemen, and cloud and storage master Ed Saipetch. Live from VMworld, they crash HP's customer appreciation reception.
Today's special guests include: Brady Wilson, CTO of Opus …
How to wrestle storage in virtual server bear pits
Deep Dive Server virtualisation is no longer just a topic for server admins; it also affects the management of storage and networking equipment. And the introduction of server virtualisation means that all of a sudden server operations people have to learn how to deal with storage.
News
How many VMs can you stuff in that box? How to get into the VDI biz
All-flash-array start-ups on getting their virtual desktop gigs
VCDX: The elite certification just 105 people hold
Recruiters don't know about it, but one bloke who got it now drives a Porsche
Convirture finally control freaks ESXi hypervisor
NOW VMware can finally BUY IT
TPC kicks out quick-and-dirty virty server test
Good for calculating hypervisor overhead – maybe
Juniper snaps up SDN startup before it even uncloaks
Contrail Systems fetches $176m
SoftLayer fires up MongoDB database service
Eyes Cassandra, Hadoop, your money
Big Switch uncloaks, fires virty network wares at VMware/Nicira
'Our OpenFlow is more open than your OpenFlow'
VMware wants to play 'Server Tetris' in your data centre
Line up the workloads just right and the costs disappear
Boffins foul VM sandboxes with CPU-sniffing hack
Elaborate attack watches CPU activity on co-located VM, retrieves crypto key
Stratus load balances virty machines across Avance clusters
Primary machine tired of doing all the work
Big Switch Networks stuffs $25m more down its trousers
Like VMware's Nicira SDN biz, but still for sale
VMware helps Hadoop roam the Serengeti a little easier
Hadoop World VMware wants every workload to be virtualized, even high performance computing, data warehousing, and Hadoop data munching workloads. The server virtualization juggernaut will get around to HPC and data warehousing at some point, but it already has a start on Hadoop with Project Serengeti. That project got some tweaks this week.
Riverbed Cascade appliances peek into VDI, SDN, CIFS
Riverbed Technology's Cascade network monitoring appliances, which come in physical and virtual form, have been flying a bit blind on virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and software-defined networks (SDN), but with the Cascade 10.0 software stack, the network busybody is being tweaked so it can peer inside of the protocols that underlying VDI and SDN to help network admins prove that whatever the performance issue might be affecting virty desktops or networks, it's the server admin's fault.
Citrix lowers sword, will take more time on 'Project Avalon' virty PC broker
Citrix Systems is hosting its Synergy partner and user conference in Barcelona this week, and has done a core dump on them with a barrage of announcements intended to demonstrate that Citrix, too, is down with the modern, post-PC, cloudy world.
