http://www.vi411.org Alex Weeks' blog discussing hoow virtualization can change your IT environment. Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:17:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Do we over complicate things?  Do we take a small problem and make it bigger because we don't always see the answer? http://www.vi411.org/2007/07/26/overcomplicated.html I've slipped this last month.  Honestly, I've been extremely busy. Next week, back work here! http://www.vi411.org/2007/06/08/slipping.html I've been screaming about it for years. Microsoft is going to try to destroy Linux. When the SCO lawsuit failed they needed to go somewhere else and their recent "partnership" with Novell was just foreshadowing. Microsoft's latest claims are that Linux violates 235 of Microsoft's patents. Excuse me while ... http://www.vi411.org/2007/05/17/i-told-you-so.html I just read this great article on Microsoft changing it's plans for Virdian: http://www.virtualization.info/2007/05/microsoft-removes-viridian-key-features.html [tags]Viridian, Microsoft[/tags] http://www.vi411.org/2007/05/14/microsoft-changes-viridian-strategy.html I am at the airport heading home early from TSX. Today's sessions did not impress me, and I have a lot of work piling up at the office, so I left. My apologies to everyone who was hoping to hear more about the sessions. http://www.vi411.org/2007/05/01/tsx-2007-alex-has-left-the-building.html This session was painful. Between the echo in the room and the presenters thick accent, I had a very hard time understanding the presenter.  In fact, within 15 minutes almost half of the attendees had left the presentation. He started out talking about vSMP technology and resource pools and how ... http://www.vi411.org/2007/05/01/tsx-2007-esx-cpu-scheduling.html This session discusses Capacity Planner 2.5 and some usage considerations. Right off the bat I'm a little nervous with the presenter. He just said "There should be no concern collecting data and sending it off-site". I think I know what he meant to say, but what he said isn't ... http://www.vi411.org/2007/05/01/tsx-2007-leveraging-capacity-planner-25.html This session is targeted directly at discussing competition in the virtualization market place. They started out with an overview of the VMware advantage: The first item discussed was that fact that VMware has been in the market since 2001 and are in their 3rd generation of releases. Microsoft's Virtual ... http://www.vi411.org/2007/05/01/tsx-2007-the-vmware-advantage.html At every technical conference I've ever attended that has been at least 1 guy who I like to call "The Basher". The Basher is the guy who's attending a conference and all he does is bash everything. Even more than that, The Basher thinks he is an ... http://www.vi411.org/2007/05/01/tsx-2007-conference-gripe-1.html Steve Herrod spoke about where VMware technologie is today, and where it's going in the future. There was some interesting information offered. Some of the key points he spoke about: 1. CPU core technology. One of the items on VMware's roadmap is the ability to power down unused ... http://www.vi411.org/2007/05/01/tsx-day-1-keynote.html