I missed today's Microsoft and Novell joint webinar, but I cruised over to Novell's website to download the slide deck from the presentation. Perhaps not surprisingly, the slide deck was pretty short on content, but a couple of items caught my eye. For one thing, there's a slide early on that l... Read More...

The preferred mechanism for programmatically interacting with VI3 is the SDK, not the commands available in the ESX COS (such as the suite of commands prefixed with "esxcfg" found in /usr/sbin). The SDK is very powerful, and its power can be harnessed with another equally powerful tool, .NET. In thi... Read More...

Microsoft Corp has announced plans to deliver some enhanced capability in its systems management product set, outlined as part of the developments it notes are being made around Longhorn, its next-generation server software. Microsoft already has a number of systems management offerings like SMS ... Read More...

Virtual Iron Software, which has been looking to increase its market share in the virtualization space, will start bundling the latest version of its virtualization software with hardware from server vendor Fabric7 Systems. The two companies will announce this new joint agreement on Dec. 19. Fab... Read More...