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The newly released Lenovo ThinkPad tablet flips the “consumerization of IT” paradigm by adding business-class features such as management software, full-size peripheral connectors-including a full-size USB 2.0 port-and an optional digitizer pen to a tablet that has a 10.1-inch display and runs the Android “Honeycomb” operating system. IT managers who are in a position to […]

The Microsoft Windows Server 8 developer preview has enough promising enhancements to virtual networking, storage and infrastructure management to warrant serious IT interest as a data center platform. While much is yet unknown about Windows Server 8, including when it will be released and license costs, the pre-beta, developer preview reveals a broad landscape of […]

Start Windows Server 8 (WS8) physical systems are meant to be managed as part of a group. Here, however, Im using the GUI on a single system. The interface changes are jarring, the resemblance to the tiles on Windows Phone 7 are clear. PowerShell Real work is meant to be done through PowerShell. As was […]

First-generation data center x86 server virtualization took existing hardware and made it more efficient. Organizations that take the next step-from consolidation to virtual operations-will combine much bigger virtual machines on increasingly beefy physical host systems. How big? At the VMworld 2011 conference in the late summer, VMware ushered in the era of the giant virtual […]

[WP_IMAGE]The water is boiling in datacenter land. In the space of two weeks I’ve covered the release of VMware vSphere 5.0 last month followed by Salesforece.com’s unleashing of the “social enterprise” at Dreamforce and then up to Redmond for a secret squirrel meeting about something I can’t talk about until tomorrow after Microsoft’s Build conference […]

[WP_IMAGE]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, so there isn’t much more […]

[WP_IMAGE] 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 the corporate standard web browser?”The […]

LAS VEGAS-VMware CTO Steve Herrod used his keynote address at VMworld to focus on the newly released flagship vSphere 5 while also showing technologies that leverage VMware’s leadership position in data center and desktop virtualization. “The most exciting thing I have to announce is the largest VM to date,” Herrod told the crowd of 19,000. […]

[WP_IMAGE]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 tools have been approved for use in […]

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. In vSphere 4.1 (the most current, previous version of vSphere), the vCenter Server was supported on Windows OSes, usually Windows Server 2003 64?bit. The vCenter Server could […]

VMware vSphere 5.0 continues to set the pace for data center x86 server virtualization and remains the clear leader for IT managers who need a virtual infrastructure that can handle production workloads while containing operational costs. The vSphere 5.0 ship date is imminent but as yet undisclosed; however, eWEEK Labs obtained an advance copy. In […]