What’s New in PHD Virtual Backup & Replication 5.3
An overview of new features in PHD Virtual Backup & Replication 5.3 including faster performance, VM replication, Open Export, and Optimized Tape Friendly Backup.
Virtualization
Virsto Named Winner of “Best Storage Savings” in the Citrix Ready Storage Challenge
Virsto Software, an innovative provider of VM-centric storage hypervisor software, today announced its recognition by Citrix Ready as the “Best Storage Savings” solution in the 2011 Storage Challenge. Citrix invited all Citrix Ready storage partners to reveal what makes their storage solutions best for Citrix XenDesktop environments. This contest enabled storage partners to demonstrate how […]
Microsoft Windows 7 Optimization for VDI list of resources
Here is a good overview from Microsoft of VDI Optimization for Windows 7. It’s a common practice to optimize a Windows 7 virtual machine (VM) template (or image) specifically for VDI use. Usually such customizations include the following. Minimize the footprint, e.g. disable some features and services that are not required when the OS is used […]
Liquidware Labs Continues Expansion in EMEA
Explosive growth leads to international expansion and new hires in UK as well as enhanced support across EMEA as demand for solutions increase from partners and end users Liquidware Labs, the leader in desktop transformation solutions, announced today that it has established operations in the United Kingdom with the hiring of two virtualization industry veterans. […]
Intel Sponsored Survey Ranks RES Software as Top Ten Technology Provider for Desktop Virtualization Projects
RES Software, the proven leader in dynamic desktop solutions, was featured in “Desktop Virtualization Insights for IT Strategic Planning,” a recent desktop virtualization report published by Intel analyzing survey results from 200 IT professionals. RES Software was ranked together with Citrix, Microsoft, VMware and Virtual Computer when IT professionals were asked to identify vendors selected […]
StarWind iSCSi SAN v5.8. Now Enhanced with the Powerful Backup Plug-in released
StarWind Software presents the new version of its main storage solution enhanced with the powerful Backup plug-in – StarWind iSCSi SAN v5.8 (beta version). Today we are happy to provide our customers with the storage and backup software developed by the same vendor. Backup plug-in is built specifically for Hyper-V-based environments to provide fast backup […]
VMware Fusion 4.1 released
VMware released Fusion 4.1 this week and here is a summary of the key features and improvements in VMware Fusion 4.1 Smart Full Screen Here is how full screen works with VMware Fusion 4.1 The standard Lion full screen button is now used in virtual machine windows. Like other full screen Lion applications, a VMware […]
HP says their are helping Clients Speed Up the Path to Virtualization
Last week HP announced a new service that helps organizations speed the design and implementation of client virtualization solutions and achieve a greater return on their technology investments. Integrating Lakeside SysTrack software, the new HP Client Virtualization, Analysis and Modeling service also helps mitigate the risk of downtime and tighten security by providing customers an […]
PHD Virtual Backup and Replication 5.3 released
PHD Virtual Technologies, which makes software within virtual machine backup and recovery, and provider of virtualization monitoring solutions, has announced the immediate availability of the new PHD Virtual Backup and Replication version 5.3. In the new release, PHD Virtual Technologies further extends PHD’s award winning Virtual Backup Appliance (VBA) Architecture with integrated virtual machine replication […]
Citrix Project Rainmaker – FAQ
Here are some interesting details about Project Rainmaker, which I first heard about some time ago. Now it appears that Citrix has a Project Rainmaker FAQ out on their support site! The following are some frequently asked questions. General Questions What does the term “Overallocated” mean? When do farms and workload machines get “Allocated”? What results […]