Virtualizing the Sphere's Edge…

Disclosure: virtualization.info runs its own independent conference about virtualization technologies called Virtualization Congress.
The first edition was arranged in US in May 2009 and was co-hosted with the Citrix Synergy 2009 conference. Even if the Citrix event sponsorship didn’t influence by any mean the agenda of the Virtualization Congress, the sessions’ contents or the speakers line-up, [...]

There’s no doubt that the virtualization industry needs a standard benchmarking platform. The only two alternatives we have today are simply ignored (Intel vConsolidate) or are not recognized by all the vendors (VMware VMmark).
Now even the specialized press is questioning about the value of these platforms, we are talking specifically about Anandtech, suggesting that they [...]

The list of executives that leave VMware gets longer and longer.
Maybe this is part of a plan defined by the new CEO Paul Maritz, who is hiring several experienced, old-school leaders from Microsoft, IBM, CA and Borland.
Or maybe this is the direct effect of the new culture that Maritz is spreading inside the company.
The result [...]

VMware is working on a major evolution of its virtual appliance marketplace.
The ambition of the virtualization vendor now goes well beyond providing a catalog of ready-to-install applications for its vSphere platform: together with IT Structures, VMware is working to allow the streaming of the virtual appliances directly inside a customers’ web browser.
To do so IT [...]