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A comparison of SearchServerVirtualization.com's VMworld 2007 coverage to what is expected at this year's event.
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September 09, 2008
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Microsoft's virtualization event launches before VMworld- Microsoft's answer to VMware is showcasing its own virtualization event called GetVirtualNow, and it takes place one week earlier than VMworld.
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VMware, Inc. today announced that it expects a record 14,000 attendees at VMworld 2008, VMware’s fifth annual virtualization conference being held in Las Vegas.
September 06, 2008
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In this week's podcast, Ben Matheson, VMware's senior director of partner marketing, says what else VMware partners can expect at VMworld 2008.
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With VMworld soon approaching
August 29, 2008
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Egenera, Inc. today announced an upcoming technology preview of its capacity-on-demand solution developed jointly with VMware, Inc. The company will showcase the solution at next month's VMworld 2008, September 15-18 in Las Vegas at its Corporate Booth #3
August 28, 2008
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In this post, blogger Kieth Ward anticipates all the details surrounding VMworld.
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Blogger Chris Wolf's VMworld sessions.
July 30, 2008
Disaster Tolerance
Disaster tolerance (DT) is a proactive way to prevent system failure from impacting application and data availability. A disaster tolerant solution isn’t going to recover the data if there’s a disaster. Instead it will tolerate the fault if a disaster occurs – keeping an organization’s critical applications up and running at all times. It is not recovery, but rather prevention.
June 26, 2008
Boston Becomes the Center for Citrix’ Virtualization Business
Yesterday our partner, Fort Lauderdale based Citrix, announced that they would be expanding its team to the Boston area where they would set up shop for their virtualization business with new offices in Bedford, MA. The virtualization business continues to grow steadily as companies seek ways to minimize power costs and mitigate risk; so being centralized in a tech-savvy labor market is beneficial to Citrix’ success. This expansion is expected to bring 250 workers into the space in the next 12 – 18 months.
We are looking forward to Citrix’ expansion and are eager to continue to work with our partner, who’s now right around the corner. Congrats!
June 25, 2008
Someone had good luck on Friday the 13th!
David Maldonado was the lucky winner of the 8GB iPod Touch for his input into: What hurdles does/did your organization need to overcome in order to deploy a virtual environment.
We appreciate the input from all those who participated and remember the conversation doesn’t have to end….any additional feedback is always
welcome!
June 23, 2008
Jerry Melnick Discusses Marathon’s Fault-Tolerant Approach to Virtualization with Linux Insider
We’re constantly getting questions regarding the what, when, where, why, and how Marathon can help CIOs expand the use of virtualization and availability in their IT infrastructures. Jack Germain of LinuxInsider chatted with Marathon’s CTO Jerry Melnick recently and asked him some of these same questions, which we have excerpted:
LinuxInsider: Numerous industry reports show that the rush to adopt server virtualization is run mostly by very large corporations with a large bank of servers. What part of the market is your company targeting? Are you following the big money trail?
Jerry Melnick: Our product is designed to work like a standard application taken off the shelf and installed right out of the box. Existing availability systems can cause more problems than they solve. Our system is different. That is precisely what midsized companies need.
LI: What barriers does everRun VM take down that you expect to drive a company’s need for what you offer?
Melnick: For one, there is a cost advantage over high-end proprietary products. On the other end, data replication solutions don’t provide all the functions needed. Replication is managing data only. The comprehensiveness of our solution is what makes it unique. The application is unchanged in our environment. In addition, our solution does not need lots of setup.
LI: What are you thinking about beyond the accomplishments of everRun VM as the next virtualization enhancement?
Melnick: Now we have taken the process to the next leap. What I mean is we can now take two servers with hardware virtualized and build a Xen server pool and manage it as a single entity. We can build a virtual machine in Windows by installing out software and give it an interface of all running servers. Our next vision is to have one mechanism to do availability with multiple uses. It will take six months to one year. This will add new levels of choices to select plug-ins for desired results. All of this will be possible through one product.
LI: How do you see this vision changing the industry?
Melnick: We’re breaking through limitations. We are in a position to expand use. Availability is something that everybody is talking about. We are providing ways of doing it.
For Germain’s complete article visit here.
June 23, 2008
Virtualization and availability in Germany
Last week Marathon was recognized in IT Administrator, one of the leading IT publications in Germany. If you haven’t brushed up on your German lately, here are a few highlights from the article which discuss the need for virtualization and high availability in Germany:
• More and more companies are realizing that it’s high availability and virtualization they need
• Application and data availability is also becoming more important for mid-market companies
• From a plethora of solutions that are on the market companies must choose the one that is right for them
• The right level of high availability might not necessarily be part of a solution, so it is essential that companies research their options
• The ability of virtualization solutions to bring down costs and cut down maintenance is immense
The full article (in German) can be found here.
