Posts Tagged ‘vmware’

How healthy is your VMware environment?

As business needs rapidly evolve or expand in conjunction with company growth, more and more IT professionals turn to virtualization in an effort to control costs, better leverage existing assets, and consolidate infrastructure. Both small and enterprise businesses have turned to VMware ESX environments to provide such facilities. As more and more traditional single purpose [...]

VMware Workstation and Ubuntu 10.10

Maverik Meerkat

On Sunday I installed the freshly released Ubuntu 10.10 – Maverick Meerkat. I only recently switched from Windows 7 to Ubuntu as my primary OS on my Laptop – a Lenovo G555. I have a set process for clean installs of Ubuntu; one of the items on my list is install VMware Workstation to help [...]

Data Center Evolution

          Modernizing the SAAS data center – part 1…. If the 80’s was the birth place of the desktop computer, the early 90’s the start of the operating system wars, the late 90’s was without a doubt the staging ground for hosted services. With that being said, the data center took form giving a home [...]