With a topic as hot as virtualization, administrators really need to do their homework when looking at the myriad of solutions for virtual environments. And while the number of virtual defrag solutions is very small, you still need to do your homework. It’s only after digging down into the products that you can really see what [...]

It can be interesting at times to deal with the bureaucracy out in Redmond. Or annoying. In any event, we have finally found our way into Microsoft’s Virtualization Solution catalog.
Microsoft’s virtualization story starts at their virtualization web site. The PerfectDisk virtualization defrag listing is here. Physical or virtual, Hyper-V or any other Windows-based host, you’re [...]

                            
Writing in the Information Week Analytics Blog, Art Whittmann writes this week about a panel discussion on the future of the data center at this week’s Interop show in Las Vegas. The panel consisted of leaders from Cisco, Brocade, Juniper and Riverbed, and Art points out that they all agreed on an overlying message [...]

                                                
If there’s one thing worse than the ol’ “bait and switch,” it’s a “bait and cover-up.” Or put another way, the devil is in the details.                                               
So from “the other guys” we get the following:
                         

“at the root of virtual machine performance problems is file fragmentation.” Well, maybe yes, maybe no. Do we think that [...]

                            
It’s the third and final installment of our 3-part Webinar series — Defragmentation in a Virtual Environment. You’ll get to see our Virtual Aware defrag in action and see why it matters.You’ll see why we say that without it, the potential for performance hits in a virtual environment are significant. If you’re running VMware [...]

 
We’re holding a free Webinar on Tuesday, April 21st at 12:00 p.m. noon EDT (9:00 a.m. PDT). The Webinar, Managing PerfectDisk 10 in the Enterprise, will cover:

what’s new in the PerfectDisk 10 Enterprise Console
setup, deployment and management of PerfectDisk 10 clients
patent-pending Virtual Awareness for boosting performance of virtualization environments, including VMware ESX. Microsoft’s Hyper-V and other [...]

                            
The future of virtualization defragmentation arrives today, with the general availability of the world’s first and only virtually-aware disk defragmentation utility. The PerfectDisk 10 Virtual Enterprise Edition is now generally available. This newest member of the PerfectDisk family contains patent-pending Virtual Awareness that eliminates resource contention to maintain optimal performance on physical hosts. [...]

                          
Redmond Magazine has a sister publication called the Virtualization Review. Last November, it published its first annual Virtualization Buyer's Guide, covering all kinds of products and topics in the virtualization space. It's a good source whether you're looking at applications, desktop or server virtualization products,power and cooling issues, and a lot more. The management and optimization [...]

Microsoft will launch Hyper-V and expand on its virtualization strategy in Bellevue, Washington on September 8th. And while this may be another instance of Microsoft not being the first to a big party (think Internet, think search, think lots of things), this is another one where they want to attend in a big way. They want to be a part [...]