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Lode's been a VCP since 2005. Working at one of Belgium's largest IBM partners he works on hosting solutions based on vSphere, and on customer projects with IBM System x, storage and VMware. Follow him on Twitter, or contact him on LinkedIn.

VMworld 2009 – Day 2, keynote by Steve Herrod

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Welcome to the liveblogging of the VMworld 2009 keynote, day 2.

2Sep2009 | Lode Vermeiren | 1 comment | Continued

VMware announces VMware vCloud Express, goes head to head with Amazon EC2

VMware today announced vCloud Express, a new class of service that will deliver on-demand, pay-as-you-go computing power as a service, much like Amazon Web Services’ Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).

1Sep2009 | Lode Vermeiren | 2 comments | Continued

VMware ready for “war” with Citrix

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Yesterday at “VMworld day 0″ (the partner and developer day) at the partner briefing, VMware VP of Field Operations Carl Eschenbach was sounding pretty confident about the future of desktop virtualization.
VMware has been banging the VDI drum for a few years now. So far VMware has signed up a little over 7000 customers, good for [...]

1Sep2009 | Lode Vermeiren | 1 comment | Continued

VMworld 2009 keynote – day one

VMworld 2009 has officially kicked off. The first keynote didn’t bring much real news. As usually, the keynote consisted of mostly marketing speak, customer testimonials and demos by sponsors and partners. New developments usually are announced during the CTO keynote, which is coming tomorrow.

1Sep2009 | Lode Vermeiren | 1 comment | Continued

Parallels, HP, NVIDIA virtualize GPUs with Workstation Extreme

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Parallels is launching “Parallels Workstation Extreme”, a desktop workstation virtualization offering developed jointly with HP and NVIDIA.
Workstation Extreme is aimed at graphic workstations such as those used on stock trading floors (think: massive multimonitor support) and in 3D animation studios (where several power hungry applications usually don’t like to share resources).
Parallels Workstation Extreme offers desktop [...]

30Mar2009 | Lode Vermeiren | 0 comments | Continued

AMD demonstrates live migration across three generations of CPUs

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AMD today released video and images of Live Migration (VMotion) across three generations of processors. Thanks to AMD-V Extended Migration instructions in the latest generations of CPUs, combined with VMware’s Enhanced VMotion Compatibility feature (released with ESX 3.5 Update 2 last summer) AMD is able to migrate machines running on 65-nm hardware from yesteryear to [...]

24Mar2009 | Lode Vermeiren | 1 comment | Continued

Exclusive – Cisco’s Unified Computing Platform: The Details

Today Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) will unveil its long-awaited server line, one of the building blocks that was still missing from their Unified Computing vision.

16Mar2009 | Lode Vermeiren | 3 comments | Continued

VMworld Europe Day 2 – Dr. Stephen Herrod Keynote liveblog

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Stay tuned for the liveblog of the keynote by Dr. Stephen Herrod, VMware CTO, live from VMworld Europe 2009 in Cannes, France.
Stephen Herrod was one of the original developers of ESX predecessor
SimOS while at Stanford University (
His homepage from the time is still online.). He worked at
Transmeta, where he worked on their “code [...]

25Feb2009 | Lode Vermeiren | 0 comments | Continued

VMworld Europe Day 1 – Paul Maritz keynote unveils new vPrefix product naming convention and talks about upcoming VMware vSphere, Intel vPro partnership

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After “day 0″, partner day, VMworld Europe opened its doors for the general audience today.
vSphere is the official name of the new VMware platform, but the VMware marketing department has not applied their new naming convention vPrefix to all products & initiatives yet. Some VMware partners are already doing the same, such as Intel with [...]

24Feb2009 | Lode Vermeiren | 1 comment | Continued

Rackspace Acquires Cloud Providers Slicehost And Jungle Disk

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Rackspace Hosting today
announced it has acquired privately owned VPS provider
Slicehost, and storage provider
Jungle Disk. (hat tip to
TechCrunch)
The purchase price of the combined acquisitions is approximately $11.5 million payable in cash and stock, with the potential for up to $16.5 million in additional payouts of cash and stock based on certain performance criteria.
Rackspace [...]

22Oct2008 | Lode Vermeiren | 0 comments | Continued

VMworld 2008 – VMware CTO Dr. Stephen Herrod Keynote liveblog

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After the
liveblog of CEO Paul Maritz’s keynote yesterday, we’re here again, ready for the keynote by VMware CTO Dr. Stephen Herrod.
[7.45] The room is filling up already, nice music pumping through the soundsystem. Watch this space for live updates.
[8.03] The keynote starts with a video with customer quotes. First up: Qualcomm.
Hill Air Force Base [...]

17Sep2008 | Lode Vermeiren | 4 comments | Continued

The Virtual Infrastructure Evolves Into The Virtual Datacenter OS

More and more details on what VMware calls the “Virtual Datacenter OS” are starting to come out of VMworld.

16Sep2008 | Lode Vermeiren | 3 comments | Continued
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