One of the things I like about being in the IT industry is the sense of community. And as both VMware and virtualization in general continue to expand in popularity, the virtualization community ...

The defining feature that elevated VMware from being just about server consolidation to encompassing the realm of business continuity was vMotion. With vMotion, no longer did a datacenter need to ...

The newest release of VMware, announced this week, includes a data migration capability that users have wanted for years, one that analysts say should prompt storage vendors to change the way they ...

One of the best technologies for vSphere is the virtual machine migration technology, vMotion. vMotion received plenty of fanfare and has been a boon to virtualized environments for nearly five years.

One user's assertion in this blog about the safety of live VM migration sparked a lot of reader dissension, some of which was based on solid technical arguments and some on the kind of FUD that may ...

Cisco and VMware announced a method for using VMware’s VMotion across data centers that are located as far apart as 125 miles. Cisco and VMware created some buzz at the VMworld show in San Francisco ...

VMware and Cisco have announced support for a solution that allows for virtualised applications to be shared over a network up to 200 kilometres apart. Described as 'Long Distance VMotion', the ...

VMware announced a new version of its long standing enterprise server virtualization platform suite that the company says will provide greater levels of automation, increase overall infrastructure ...

If you ever listen to system administrators or just about anyone involved in IT these days, you'll probably hear the term, VMotion, during the conversation. If you need to know more about this ...

The VMotion debate continues: If you're not using enhancement tools such as VMware's vMotion, SVMotion, HA and DRS, you're increasing your costs and level of risk. Judging by blogs and associated ...

Ask Eric Kuzmack about partnering with VMware during the virtualization specialist’s early days, and he sounds more pragmatic than pioneering. “Yeah, most of our peers thought we were nuts,” says ...