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VMware vCenter Server Appliance Not Ready for Prime Time
By Cameron Sturdevant | Posted: 2011-09-02
First, to be clear, vSphere 5.0 has two choices for implementing vCenter Server. One works, and one still needs some work.
The vCenter Server that works is the traditional vCenter as it has been shipped for several versions of vSphere. This version is installed on a Windows Server system. It works,
What do VMware and Salesforce.com have in common?
By Cameron Sturdevant | Posted: 2011-08-31
HTML 5. This week at VMworld in Las Vegas and Dreamforce in San Francisco, both companies pushed HTML 5 as a "write once, deliver everywhere" mechanism. IT managers who are hearing about the "consumerization of IT" might use this time to ask, "how much longer can IE 6 be
It Seems That "Security Last" Is Lion's Motto
By P. J. Connolly | Posted: 2011-08-26
I know folks at Apple's headquarters are kind of preoccupied this week, but in between the obligatory valedictions for the Dear Leader, maybe some of their brighter engineers could sit down and fix a
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VMware vSphere 5.0 Goes All-In with ESXi
By Cameron Sturdevant | Posted: 2011-08-26
VMware vSphere 5.0 does away with the ESX hypervisor. Starting now, the name of the game is ESXi. VMware has neatly outlined the differences here.
Bottom line: if your organization was using third-party tools that plugged in via the ESX Service Console, you should check to see if those
Surveying the Post-Googorola Tablet Landscape
By Jason Brooks | Posted: 2011-08-26
Earlier this week, I spoke with Eric Lundquist about the tablet and smartphone landscape in the wake of HP's WebOS device kill-off and Google's Motorola pickup on the CIO Insight show:
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VMware vSphere 5.0: the new vCenter Server virtual appliance
By Cameron Sturdevant | Posted: 2011-08-25
VMware vSphere 5.0 has a number of "firsts." Tomorrow I'll talk about the ESXi-only approach to hypervisor implementation. Today I'd like to talk about the vCenter Server Appliance.
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What's Doc, Pal?
By P. J. Connolly | Posted: 2011-08-25
I've always been a bit obsessive about documentation, and that mindset comes in handy. For example, I spent a couple of hours this morning reviewing the steps for configuring a Mac to use our corporate VPN and putting them into
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VMware vSphere 5.0: Networking Gets Only "also starring" Role
By Cameron Sturdevant | Posted: 2011-08-24
VMware vSphere 5.0 marks a step forward for the vNetwork Distributed Switch (vDS) with the addition of a SPAN monitoring port and user-definable network resource pools, and
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VMware: vSphere 5.0's Imminent Release
By Cameron Sturdevant | Posted: 2011-08-23
VMware vSphere 5.0will release "soon" but I've been working with the code for several weeks. You can see my slideshow here. My eWEEK review will be published shortly. Here I want to take a bit more space to further elaborate on my experiences with the premier x86 virtualization platform. To begin,
Will Apple See the Light on OS X Updates?
By P. J. Connolly | Posted: 2011-08-23
Apple began supplying an up-to-date version of the installer for its OS X Lion client and server operating systems today, a week after first making the 10.7.1 update available online. That's a week's
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In Search Of: Google Plus Federation
By Jason Brooks | Posted: 2011-08-23
Over the past several weeks since Google launched its Google Plus social networking tool, I've been beating the federation drum. As Google Plus designer Joseph Smarr has explained it, email has its @ symbol,
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Leo has to build a new H-P house while tearing down the old
By Eric Lundquist | Posted: 2011-08-18
Image via CrunchBaseTen years ago almost to the day, Hewlett-Packard bought Compaq Computer for $25 Billion and in so doing re-arranged the personal computer industry. All
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Can HP Do Anything Right?
By P. J. Connolly | Posted: 2011-08-18
The announcement that HP is strangling its smartphone and tablet businesses before they can embarrass the company any further, and considering the sale of its PC operations, are a new low for the company. (At least
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Apple MacBook Air: The Perfect Notebook?
By Jason Brooks | Posted: 2011-08-18
Yesterday I spoke with Eric Lundquist about Apple's MacBook Air on the CIO Insight show:
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Labs' own Cameron Sturdevant was impressed enough with the system to buy one for himself. If you've tested out one of these new MacBooks, we'd love to hear your take on it.
First Lion Patch Released; But There's a Catch
By P. J. Connolly | Posted: 2011-08-17
One of the things I hate about installing software is the almost inevitable post-installation patching. This is unavoidable when one's using physical media, since providing customers with updated versions
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