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What If Microsoft Virtualization Editions Existed?

May 20th, 2009 | By Rich Brambley | Category: All, Cloud Computing, Desktop, Featured, Server Virtualization

The fact that Microsoft has embraced virtualization is an understatement. The fact that Microsoft has been slow to embrace other virtualization vendor’s capabilities to run Windows operating systems as guests is equally an understatement, but what if this wasn’t the case? That is, what if Microsoft abandoned the licensing strategy of anchoring Windows to physical hardware?



How to Resize ZFS

Feb 28th, 2009 | By Stephen Foskett | Category: Desktop, Storage

If you’ve been experimenting with ZFS, as we have, you’ve been struck by some of its limitations in terms of flexibility, but there is one way to expand a zpool, as demonstrated by Harry D in a two-part blog post.



New Possibilities With Open Source VMware VDI Client for Linux

Feb 10th, 2009 | By Rich Brambley | Category: Desktop, Server Virtualization

You’ve probably already heard about VMware’s open source VDI client. VMware’s official announcement for the VMware View Open Client was released on February 4. Touted as the next step for creating a universal client to be used on any device from anywhere, VMware releasing the client as open source enables technology partners to start to fufill the vision.



VMware View 3.0 perspective from the implementation angle

Dec 7th, 2008 | By Rich Brambley | Category: Desktop

On 12.02.08 VMware announced the general availability of their latest version of VDI products and moved a step closer to fulfilling it’s vClient initiative discussed at VMworld 2008 in Las Vegas earlier this year. The new VMware View 3 is comprised of a suite of products that will work together to deliver virtual desktop infrastructure [...]



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