David Marshall post on his InfoWorld blog regarding VMware’s lifecycle management announcements from VMworld Europe. David questions the fragmented approach taken by VMware and quote’s VMlogix’s Ravi Gururaj and Surgient regarding how we compete at this level with VMware.
Archive for the ‘Xen’ Category
Management tools are needed
March 17, 2008
18 Million Reasons
February 26, 2008
On Microsoft’s Startup Zone, Yi-Jian Ngo has a good post on why its important for both vendors and customers to focus on heterogeneous virtualization support in technology areas such as virtual lab management.
Surgient’s Future After a Strong Third Quarter
December 3, 2007David Marshall interviews me in his InfoWorld Virtualization Report blog, regarding Surgient’s recent announcement of a strong third quarter for virtual lab management applicaitons.
Is it Virtual or is it Real?
August 18, 2007
Theresa Lanowitz, analyst and founder of voke, inc, discusses the acquisition of XenSource by Citrix and other sweeping changes occurring in and around virtualization. She specifically calls out virtual lab management as an area offering more specific value around the broad virtualization plays occurring.
Rough Type: VMware, Xen and the hardware business
August 15, 2007
Nick Carr (Why IT Doesn’t Matter) comments on the feeding frenzy around virtualization infrastructure vendors and notes (accurately) the long-term impact of consolidation. I think it was Paul Saffo, though, that said “never mistake a clear view for a short distance.” I agree with Carr’s analysis but think it will be some time before we reach that level of saturation. What do you think?
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: VMware, Xen and the hardware business
Citrix Acquires XenSource for $500 million
August 15, 2007
Dan Kusnetzky at ZDNet has some good points about the fit between XenSource and Citrix. Another analysis I saw earlier today, though, points out that XenSource has a special relationship with Microsoft where they have source level access to Veridian. Citrix, more than anyone else, knows a thing or two about what to do to capitalize on priveleged source-level access to Microsoft technologies (ie, terminal services) and so should be able to capitalize on this. Thoughts?
ยป Citrix Acquires XenSource for $500 million | Virtually Speaking | ZDNet.com
VMLogix announces upcoming support for XenEnterprise 4.0
August 13, 2007
Noted at virtualization.info is the quick announcement by VMlogix that they’ll support the just-announced XenEnterprise 4.0 in an upcoming release of VMlogix Lab Manager
virtualization.info: VMLogix announces upcoming support for XenEnterprise 4.0
