Tag Archives: VMworld

PC-as-a-Service (PCaaS) using VDI

Last year at VMworld, VMware was saying that 2010 was year for VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure), last week NetApp said that most large NY banks they talked with were looking at implementing VDI and prior to that, HP StorageWorks announced … Continue reading

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IO Virtualization comes out

Prior to last week’s VMworld, I had never heard of IO virtualization products before – storage virtualization yes but never IO virtualization. Then at last week’s VMworld I met with two vendors of IO virtualization products Aprius and Virtensys. IO … Continue reading

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VMworld and long distance Vmotion

In all the blog posts/tweets about VMworld this week I didn’t see much about long distance Vmotion. At Cisco’s booth there was a presentation on how they partnered with VMware and to perform Vmotion over 200 (simulated) miles away. I … Continue reading

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