Eric Siebert has tweaked his vLaunchpad. Instead of a top 10 Blogs he changed it to a top 20 Blogs because of the enormous amount of high quality blogs these days. I’m proud that I’m still number one on Eric’s list, heck I’m proud to even be part of the list with people like Mike Laverick, Scott Lowe, Jason Boche, [...]
Luciano Pavarotti once said, “You don’t need any brains to listen to music”, and he’s right… that’s why I love music. Whenever I need to clear my head I pick up my mp3 player and go outside for run. As you probably already know I’ve got a pretty diverse taste in music and some were really surprised by my previous [...]
VMware just announced that there’s a new technology preview coming up, vCenter Mobile Access. For a demo/preview go to the VMTN Blog section: vCenter Mobile Access. Introducing VMware vCenter Mobile Access (vCMA). vCMA allows you to monitor and manage VMware Infrastructure from your mobile phone with an interface that is optimized for such devices. Specifically, it allows you to: Search [...]
I recently discussed the effect of RVI/Virtualized MMU on Transparent page Sharing, and just 5 days later VMware published this extensive PDF:”Performance Evaluation of AMD RVI Hardware Assist“. AMD recently introduced its second generation of hardware support for virtualization, incorporating MMU virtualization called Rapid Virtualization Indexing (RVI). Hardware support for MMU virtualization can improve performance, particularly for MMU-intensive workloads. VMware [...]
“Cisco and VMware today announced a comprehensive, strategic original equipment manufacturer (OEM) agreement which will incorporate product engineering and integrated sales and support strategies for datacenter virtualization and unified computing. The resulting combination of the Cisco Unified Computing System with VMware’s upcoming virtual datacenter operating system, the VMware vSphere™, will provide customers with access to a unique and powerful virtualized [...]
As you might have already noticed, there are two new sponsors! I’m proud to announce that Veeam has signed up for 3 months and Hyper9 has signed up for 1 year. I want to thank both for their support and of course VMPeople for renewing for 3 months!
I was just looking at my stats, and every once in a while I check my top 10 referrers just to get an idea who drives the most traffic to my website. I guess most are obvious but at least two surprised me: vmware.com/vmtn/planet/v12n vmware-land.com vmwaretips.com twitter.com vmetc.com it.slashdot.org vmworld.com blogs.netapp.com rtfm-ed.co.uk virtualgeek.typepad.com Most surprising definitely Slashdot and Twitter. (I [...]
