Archive for the ‘Virtualization’ Category

SMB Nation 2008 Fall Conference News

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

This just in on the wire (OK, it's not a wire but it sounds cool!) PRESS RELEASE SMB Nation 2008 Fall Conference to Hold Launch Party: Small Business Server 2008 and Essential Business Server 2008. MarketPlace Expo SOLD OUT! Seattle, WA – August 22, 2008 - Boasting a completely sold out tradeshow hall ...

Online Windows Small Business Server 2008 Training Webcasts

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

Online Windows Small Business Server 2008 Training Webcasts Some great, free SBS2008 webcasts coming soon, a series of 8! WES02PAL:  Windows SBS 2008 Core Technical Training, Part 1 of 8: Introduction Presented by David Fabritius, Nicholas King and Michael Toot Thursday, August 21, 2008 10:00-11:00am Pacific Time (US & Canada) (GMT-07:00) PLC Registration Link Live Meeting ...

Virtualization For the Masses

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

That seems to be VMware's message today in an announcement that their ESXi will be FREE starting next week.  ESXi is a hypervisor similar to ESX and Hyper-V except that it has a very small footprint and runs as an embedded hypervisor.  This seems to be a direct response to ...

Get Your Mesh On!

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

US residents with a Live ID can now see what all the buzz is about by creating their own Live Mesh account.  It will only take a few minutes and explain more to you about Mesh than a hundred blogs. 

My Migration to Hyper-V - Who stole my mouse?

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

So I spent the better part of 11 hours last night migrating my production SBS virtual machine from VMware Server on Server 2003 to Hyper-V.  Why?  Because I can of course!  Actually I've heard much about the Hyper-V performance gains (as I would with ESX) but needed to experience ...

Virtualization in SMB

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

While participating in Dave Sobel's SMB Community Comment request endeavor is optional, understanding virtualization is NOT.  If you plan to survive you need to stay current in technology and virtualization is not just another fad, it's the both now and the future.  Check out Dave's blog posting for just a ...

Dell’s Hyper-V HCL and Support Doc

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

One my techs sent me this handy link to Dell's Support Doc on Server 2008 Hyper-V.  Looks good for those like us that continue to hold our nose and do business with infamous double-talking system builder (yes, they called on more of my clients last week). Dell will provide limited support ...

New from VMware ESX

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

Check out the enhancements to VMware ESX in Version 3.5 just released from NDA today by VMware .  Did I mention Microsoft is just slightly behind in the race to deliver virtualization tools and platforms?  ;-) VMware 3.5 will now allow you run 256 GB and guest memory up to 64 GB ...

Late to the dance again?

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

Any wonder what Microsoft is up to?  Check out the New Domains they have been registering.  They even registered hyper-vsucks.com.  Welcome the the virtual world Microsoft, there are few dances left but looks like many of the good partner are already spoken for.  (Thanks to Gary and Shirl for the info.)