I had a dream….

I had a dream and in that dream I saw that in 2011: Nobody is fighting over hypervisor performance anymore. Whether Hyper-V, Xen or VMware, all three are perfectly capable of running the heaviest workloads in your datacenter. Companies will use a mix of hypervisors for specific duties. There are still differences between the three […]

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Smarter Microsoft licensing can reduce VMware environment costs

If you consolidated physical servers with virtualization, you probably did so to reduce the costs of maintaining many physical servers — namely power and cooling, rack space, support contracts, physical hardware and so on.As a consultant, I often work with clients who have embarked on large server consolidation projects, migrated many physical hosts to virtual […]

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