Later today Microsoft will announce the price of Office 2010 at the CES show in Las Vegas. But while the software giant is ready to announce the price for customers in the USA, it will take a little longer before people in the rest of the world will be told the price for the new [...]

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Last week VMware released update 4 of its ESX hypervisor. The upgrade includes several new or updated components that many users will want. But VMware has also removed some vital functionality that could leave users of its free ESXi hypervisor stranded.
For example, the PowerShell interface has been switched to what VMware calls “read only” mode.
PowerShell [...]

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Tests in The Hypervisor lab show that although VMware ESXi is extremely quick and easy to deploy, it currently lacks support by several leading third-party tools.
ESXi is the embedded version of VMware’s industry leading ESX Server hypervisor. ESXi is often stored on a Flash memory module fitted in the server chassis. This enables vendors such [...]

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Continuous availability specialist Neverfail today announced its intention to support Microsoft Virtual Machine Manager 2008.
VMM is Microsoft’s equivalent of VMware’s Virtual Center management console. Many people will rely on VMM to manage their virtual infrastructure. A Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) deployment consists of multiple components, notably SQL Server, the library service, which requires file system [...]

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Today real time replication specialist Neverfail began beta testing of ClusterProtector, which provides real-time data replication over a WAN for Microsoft Exchange and SQL Server systems running under Microsoft Cluster Server.
Andrew Barnes, Neverfail senior vice president of corporate development, told The Hypervisor that the disaster recovery suite should be ready for production environments by July. [...]

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We’ve heard reports of one user that is seeing a 50x reduction in the amount of storage space needed for backups of their virtual machines thanks to data de-deplication, or dedupe, technology from DataDomain.
In this case the DataDomain dedupe tool was integrated with Vizioncore vRanger Pro backup software, so the user simply needs to tick [...]

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Judging by some of the virtual machine (VM) management tools we evaluated recently, server backup software could soon be replaced by server replication tools.
The trouble with backups is they spend most of their life archived on some tape or disk storage system. Even if you test the tape as soon as you’ve made it, you [...]

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Neverfail today announced the launch of Neverfail for VMware VirtualCenter. The new software enables firms to make a real time replica of their VirtualCenter management server.
When used in conjunction with VirtualCenter 2.5, the two servers can be linked using normal Internet links, without the need for a VPN connection.
John Posavatz, vice-president of product management, told [...]

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I’ve recently upgraded several systems to use the latest server virtualisation software from VMware. The business needed the upgrade because the new software enabled them to assign more then 3.6GB of RAM and more than two processors to the accountancy system, which runs in a virtual machine (VM) under VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3. But while [...]

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Disaster recovery specialist FalconStor today launched its first Continuous Data Protection (CDP) Virtual Appliance for VMware.
The new suite works with VMware ESX Server 3.x., and deployment should be extremely easy as the suite is supplied as a pre-configured and ready to run virtual machine, complete with it’s own operating system.
The suite works by monitoring both [...]

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