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August 2008
Kung Fu Hypervisor
Don't let its looks fool you -- give it time and Hyper-V will be a contender for hypervisor dominance.
by Chris Wolf
Planning Primer: Architecture
You can't just slap your virtual infrastructure together -- you need to know where each piece lives in the production stack to get the most out of it.
by Danielle Ruest and Nelson Ruest
Reorganization: Greene out, Maritz in at VMware
Recent upheaval leaves industry bewildered.
by Keith Ward
Analysis: The Storage Management Gap
Storage virtualization can address some of the problems associated with getting incompatible physical storage to live together.
by Mark Ferelli
July 2008
Hypervisor Visionary
Qumranet's CEO Benny Schnaider discusses his company's open source technology and the future of the virtualization market.
by Ed Scannell
June 2008
Case Study: 'Thinking Outside of the Box'
How The George Washington University IT department saved money, consolidated servers and optimized workloads.
by Keith Ward
Server Virtualization Shootout
Whether consolidating servers or using computing resources more efficiently, server virtualization products come into their own.
by Peter Varhol
ESXi: Embedded HYPErvisor?
VMware's lightweight version of ESX is a good product. But is it all it's cracked up to be? Our mythbuster does some debunking.
by Andrew S. Kutz
Big Blue: Still Pushing the Envelope
IBM virtual tools range from desktops to servers -- with a mainframe twist on the side.
by Doug Barney
HP: Adapt or Die
The world's biggest hardware vendor offers comprehensive virtualization solutions.
by Doug Barney
Sun's Red-Hot Strategy
Through acquisitions and homegrown tools, the company has amassed a dizzying array of offerings.
by Doug Barney
Dell Simplifies Virtualization
The hardware giant's strategy may be straightforward, but that's just what some in IT need.
by Doug Barney
Hardware Heavyweights

by Doug Barney
Competition: Parallel Universe
Popular with Mac users, the Windows world is its next target.
by Doug Barney
Competition: Tiny Giant
This server virtualization startup is growing rapidly, and believes it can compete with VMware by offering similar functionality at a lower price.
by Keith Ward
By the Numbers: Server Virtualization's TCO
Yankee Group's survey offers hard evidence of cost and efficiency of virtualization efforts.
by Keith Ward
First Impressions: Scalent V/OE
With Scalent, management of a mixed virtual and physical data center can be a one-person operation.
by Peter Varhol
News: VMware's Results Ease Concerns
Threats from virt competitors keep outlook cautious for VMware moving forward
by Tom Valovic
News: VKernel Ships Bottleneck Analyzer
New tool analyzes performance of VMs running on VMware ESX Server
by Tom Valovic
News: Wyse Unveils Viance
Viance optimized to work with Citrix XenDesktop
by Tom Valovic
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