VMware’s message to Virtual Iron customers: Come to us!

By Tarry Singh at 7 July, 2009, 6:59 am

Get a Safe Passage from Virtual Iron to VMware vSphere The Virtual Iron Safe Passage promotion enables existing Virtual Iron customers an easy way to migrate their Virtual Iron deployments to VMware vSphere™ 4, one of the industry’s most trusted virtualization platforms. In light of news reports to that Oracle will discontinue development of existing [...]

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Oracle gets aggressive in virtualization with Virtual Iron purchase!

By Tarry Singh at 13 May, 2009, 10:39 am

Update 1: 10th March 2009 we told you that Oracle had snapped Virtual Iron. So truly believe what I am saying, seeing and hearing We did cover this sometime back stating that Oracle had bought Virtual Iron. This El Reg article  confirms that news, no matter how belated it may come out. Oracle put out [...]

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Oracle acquires Virtual Iron!

By Tarry Singh at 10 March, 2009, 4:09 am

We are assuming that the (in bold) statements from the Oracle exec are being channeled out from Oracle’s corporate HQ. Oracle’s recent move to acquire server virtualization company Virtual Iron clearly indicates its intention to complete its data management portfolio by introducing indigenous virtualization. Speaking to IT Examiner, Anand Mohan, former general manager for technology [...]

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Oracle tight-lipped about Virtual Iron acquisition bid

By Tarry Singh at 4 March, 2009, 8:27 am

Well before we talk about this bid somethings I will just state here: – Oracle should do more than just buy a virtualization outfit, they should be in VMworld and other events – They should start doing something in Cloud Computing (With Amazon they are onto it already) – They should do more around virtualization [...]

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Boston Lawyers choose Virtual Iron above VMware, Citrix and Microsoft

By Tarry Singh at 6 February, 2009, 11:25 am

Roden looked at all of the major vendors in the virtualization market, including VMware, XenSource, and Microsoft, and chose Virtual Iron. “There’s no denying that from a price standpoint, there’s more bang for the buck,” he says. Even better, “you don’t need to do any sort of installation on the nodes.” Each node on the [...]

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Virtual Iron CEO: " VMware is killing the Storage Industry"

By Tarry Singh at 1 June, 2008, 12:31 pm

Ed Walsh wonders why VMware introduced yet another layer called VMFS into the storage.

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A happy Virtual Iron customer’s story

By Tarry Singh at 17 May, 2008, 11:14 am

“We deployed VI in January and migrated 12 of our servers onto the platform. In the past four months, each node has locked up once, taking the virtualized servers on it down, as well, with no automatic move to a different node – VI is still trying to figure out what happened.. Aside from that, [...]

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A happy Virtual Iron customer’s story

By Tarry Singh at 17 May, 2008, 11:14 am

“We deployed VI in January and migrated 12 of our servers onto the platform. In the past four months, each node has locked up once, taking the virtualized servers on it down, as well, with no automatic move to a different node – VI is still trying to figure out what happened.. Aside from that, [...]

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A happy Virtual Iron customer’s story

By Tarry Singh at 17 May, 2008, 11:14 am

“We deployed VI in January and migrated 12 of our servers onto the platform. In the past four months, each node has locked up once, taking the virtualized servers on it down, as well, with no automatic move to a different node – VI is still trying to figure out what happened.. Aside from that, [...]

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A happy Virtual Iron customer’s story

By Tarry Singh at 17 May, 2008, 11:14 am

“We deployed VI in January and migrated 12 of our servers onto the platform. In the past four months, each node has locked up once, taking the virtualized servers on it down, as well, with no automatic move to a different node – VI is still trying to figure out what happened.. Aside from that, [...]

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