Interviews
Microsoft Eats Own Hyper-V Dog Food, Deploys Homegrown Hypervisor In Its Global Datacenters (Video Interview)
A brief video interview with Arne Josefsberg, General Manager Online Infrastructure at Microsoft, about Hyper-V adoption in their own global datacenters.
30Jun2008 | Toon Vanagt | 2 comments | ContinuedRed Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst On The Linux Vendor’s Virtualization Initiatives
A half-year after becoming president and CEO of Linux vendor Red Hat, Jim Whitehurst was in Boston this week for the annual Red Hat Summit, where a lot of announcements were made about Red Hat’s forray into virtualization. Whitehurst sat down with Network World’s Jon Brodkin to discuss open source, a new patent settlement, and Red Hat’s moves in virtualization, reports PC World.
23Jun2008 | Robin Wauters | 1 comment | Continued“Benchmarking” The Citrix / XenServer Combo with Ian Pratt (Video Interview - Part 4)
Some time ago, we had a chance to sit down (on a bench) for a video interview with Xen Guru Ian Pratt, well known for co-founding and ultimately selling XenSource - the company behind the open-source Xen project - to Citrix in October 2007.
15Jun2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedA Conversation About Virtualization Security, The Quotes
Last week, an interesting conference call took place with several industry leaders in the virtualization security (virtsec) area, initiated by Virtualization.com. Here are some of the most interesting quotes from that conversation.
11Jun2008 | Kris Buytaert | 2 comments | ContinuedJeff Woolsey and Scott Lowe Discuss Hyper-V
IT pro and virtualization expert Scott Lowe had an interesting discussion with Jeff Woolsey, Senior Program Manager for Hyper-V at Microsoft. Scott posted a summary of their conversation on his blog.
11Jun2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedVideo: Vinod Khosla On His Green Tech Investment Strategy
This video features the legendary entrepreneur turned venture capitalist Vinod Khosla, interviewed briefly by Om Malik at the recent D6 Conference. Khosla shares some insight in his investing strategy, as well as some info on his recent data center plays.
5Jun2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued“Benchmarking” The Citrix / XenServer Combo with Ian Pratt (Video Interview - Part 3)
Some time ago, we had a chance to sit down (on a bench) for a video interview with Xen Guru Ian Pratt, well known for co-founding and ultimately selling XenSource - the company behind the open-source Xen project - to Citrix in October 2007.
1Jun2008 | Toon Vanagt | 0 comments | Continued“Benchmarking” The Citrix / XenServer Combo with Ian Pratt (Video Interview - Part 2)
Some time ago, we had a chance to sit down (on a bench) for a video interview with Xen Guru Ian Pratt, well known for co-founding and ultimately selling XenSource - the company behind the open-source Xen project - to Citrix in October 2007.
28May2008 | Toon Vanagt | 3 comments | Continued“Benchmarking” The Citrix / XenServer Combo with Ian Pratt (Video Interview - Part 1)
Some time ago, we had a chance to sit down (on a bench) for a video interview with Xen Guru Ian Pratt, well known for co-founding and ultimately selling XenSource - the company behind the open-source Xen project - to Citrix in October 2007.
26May2008 | Robin Wauters | 2 comments | ContinuedForrester Analyst: Storage Virtualization Is Overhyped
An interesting article at ITPro cites Forrester Research analyst Andrew Reichman claiming storage virtualization to be still a marginalized business despite being a hot topic for a few years now. Reichman told attendees of Compellent’s C-Drive customer conference in Minneapolis that just 17 percent of companies have virtualized their storage systems in some way, with another nine percent in the process of rolling out the technology, while 28 percent are interested in the idea.
8May2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedMicrosoft Puts Forth System Management As Key Differentiator In Virtualization Technology
Anticipating that the market for virtualization software eventually will be commoditized, Microsoft sees management as the key revenue opportunity for competitors offering server virtualization.
22Apr2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedWhat Should We Ask Steve Ballmer?
Upcoming thursday, we’re sitting down with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer for a short Q&A session. We have some questions in mind for the man, but we thought it might be a good opportunity to ask you for feedback on what we should ask as well. Anything goes, but please avoid questions that could make him go crazy.
21Apr2008 | Robin Wauters | 1 comment | Continued
