Practical Technology

I know for a fact that either Novell or Red Hat, or perhaps both, will be announcing next week that they’ll be shifting their server virtualization offerings from Xen to XenServer. What I don’t know is what, if anything, either one of them may be doing beyond that to further their virtualization partnerships with Microsoft. [...]

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Citrix is about to put a world of hurt on its virtualization rival, VMware. Next week, Citrix will be announcing that it will no longer charge for its flagship virtualization program XenServer 5, and its new management program, Citrix Essentials, will support both Microsoft’s Hyper-V and XenServer. This looks like a smart move to me. [...]

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Would you believe a major software vendor released a patch for their flagship program that made it impossible to run their software? Believe it. That’s exactly what happened with VMware. On August 12th, users throughout the U.S. Tired to turn on their ESX 3.5 Update 2 and ESXi Server 3.5 Update 2 hypervisors and… were [...]

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Seriously. In an ITWire tale, Paul Harapin, VMware’s managing director for Australia and New Zealand said Windows is already being replaced by virtual appliances running on Linux. In ten-years, there will be no more Windows. OK. I know people at Red Hat who would say that that’s exactly what will happen. That’s right out of [...]

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Citrix buying XenSource is the best thing that could happen to the company behind the popular open-source virtualization program Xen, and it’s the worst thing that could happen to VMware. It seems like only yesterday that I was saying VMwares IPO made no sense to me. Oh, wait, it was just yesterday. One of the [...]

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