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VMware Arms for Microsoft Battle

Former Microsoft executives Paul Maritz and Tod Nielsen know a thing or two about how the software giant snuffs out budding threats. They helped Microsoft battle upstart Netscape in the late 1990s. Now they’re on the receiving end.
Maritz and Nielsen run VMware, a software company with $1.9 billion in revenue that has become the standard-setter [...]

5nine P2V planner for Hyper-V is released!

This is very interesting given that some of my customers want a true comparison between VMware and Hyper-V and now I can tell them to check this independent tool for sincere advice. This tool is really excellent. I am asking Ratmir to send me a copy of it so I can try it out!
Enterprise P2V [...]

Hyper-V platform optimizer V-locity launches!

Burbank, CA—June 23rd, 2009—Diskeeper Corporation today launched V-locity™ virtual platform disk optimizer—a brand new product designed to eliminate virtual disk I/O bottlenecks, maximize virtual server speeds and free up vital disk space on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V.
Taking Virtualization to the Next Level
All computers suffer from fragmentation. Virtual systems suffer twice as much, fragmenting at [...]

Early examples of innovations on top of Cloud platform emerge

As I’ve said previously that innovative solutions are coming. They will capture the imagination of masses. So if we are building the cloud, we are simply laying the foundations for the future by pre-announcing the tombstones of some of the industry we are today seeing aggressive contraction and mad M&A activity.
So you are in the [...]

Ford Models choose Elephant Outlook to manage its emails in the Cloud

“We expect the move to cloud computing across the enterprise to deliver a significant reduction in IT costs while allowing us to better support our global, highly mobile clientele, talent and workforce with secure, confidential solutions. Elephant’s experience in this space, and their ability to work closely with us to coordinate a rapid implementation, has [...]

Securing Microsoft’s Cloud Infrastructure: BPOS, Azure and more

Though I get to do less direct customer and partner gigs in my current role, I still try to keep a regular “reality check” with both of them by meeting with partners who have become good friends and taking on customer presentations where I can. I don’t want to get Borg syndrome
I’ve been [...]

Hyper-V: Diskeeper launches v-locity for performance optimization

Burbank, CA—May XXX, 2009—Diskeeper Corporation has officially shipped V-locity™, a new virtual platform performance optimizer designed to maximize server speeds on Microsoft’s Hyper-V.

Already a VMware and Microsoft partner for its Diskeeper® product line, the upward move to develop V-locity was made to create a virtual-specific product that not only performs defragmentation functions, but also [...]

Citrix Synergy 2009: Simon Crosby explains why Citrix is ready now!

Simon not only happens to be a close friend but also a true visionary who believes in things that I firmly believe as well. Be focused, be relentless and only then they will come. He is achieving that slowly but it is coming and yes they (read: you, me and the whole consumer lot) are [...]

Microsoft’s Cloud Advantage: Lack of speed could be a blessing in disguise

That gives the Redmond, Washington-based company an in-built edge over emerging cloud pioneers like Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O), Google Inc (GOOG.O) and Salesforce Inc (CRM.N). They have moved more aggressively into cloud computing — the trend toward running software in remote data centers and accessing it over the Internet — but do not have the power [...]

Microsoft’s Azure to combine the best of Amazon and Google

Enter Doug Hauger, general manager of cloud infrastructure services and former chief operating officer of Microsoft India. Hauger gave a talk last Thursday evening, organized by the Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA), in which he spelled out Microsoft’s world view of cloud computing. Hauger said his goal was to convey, “What are we thinking about [...]