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VMware remains only holdout on multi-vendor virtual server management
August 8, 2008 By Deni Connor (CIO IT Drilldown)
The market for heterogeneous virtualization management is heating up, experts say. How's VMware going to play it?
Managing both the hardware and software of rivals has been a standard feature for management software vendors for years. Only recently however, have virtualization vendors begun to follow suit—offering the ability to manage not only their own virtual server environments, but those of competitors as well.
"Several of our clients are looking at using Microsoft's Hyper-V or Citrix XenServer to compliment their existing VMware ESX environment," says Chris Wolf, senior analyst for The Burton Group in Salt Lake City.
VDIworks ties up with Microsoft
July 10, 2008 By Richard Adhhikari (Internetnews.com)
Connection broker provider VDIworks has just announced a new product that could help strengthen Microsoft's position in the virtualization sector.
The product is a plug-in for System Center, Microsoft's set of server products that help manage Windows Server and client desktop systems.
Called VDIvision for System Center, it aims to bring desktop virtualization management capabilities to Microsoft's Hyper-V hypervisor.
Microsoft inches closer to enterprise management play
July 1, 2008 By Paul Korzeniowski (bMighty)
The challenges of network and systems management give many IT technicians in smaller businesses ulcers. Trying to manage and troubleshoot a hodgepodge of increasing complex devices can be vexing, but help is taking shape on the far horizon.
That aid is coming in the form of the industry's most influential software supplier, Microsoft.
Microsoft's evolving role in systems management
May 16, 2008 By Margie Semilof (TechTarget)
To experts accustomed to sophisticated management products sold by today's big systems management vendors, the features offered by Microsoft System Center are primitive by comparison.
Microsoft will play a larger role in systems management over time, however, as a result of evolutionary changes in computing, such as advancements in service and process management, coupled with the ongoing commoditization of the networking infrastructure, hardware and the OS.
Microsoft faces challenges in expanding management strategy
May 2, 2008 By John Fontana (Network World)
Software giant looks to lineup against CA, HP, IBM, BMC.
Microsoft this week set its sites on becoming a dominant enterprise management vendor, but experts and users say first it will have to define the scope of its goals, improve the platform, and prove it can be the caretaker of non-Windows systems.
Microsoft, you're driving open source advocates nuts!
April 30, 2008 By Mitchell Ashley (NetworkWorld)
Who would have thunk it. Microsoft integrates OpenPegasus open source software into System Center Operations Manager to extend management to Linix and Unix systems. Plus, Microsoft's adding connectors to managed Novell SUSE, HP-UX, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Sun Solaris boxes. OpenPegasus is published under the MIT open source license, a much less restrictive license than the popularly used GPL.
Frankly, I'm still in shock. I would have never guessed we'd see such an announcement from Microsoft. Yes, it's significant that they will manage non-Windows operating systems. That, I think, was inevitable. But using open source software in such a public way to do it is a shocker.
Managing towards open
April 30, 2008 By Sam Ramji (Port 25)
I have the exciting—and humbling—privilege of interacting almost every day with technical and business experts who are creating the future of software—including both core engineering teams at Microsoft and thought leaders across the full spectrum of diverse open source communities.
This sense of wonder is exceeded only by times, when, in the moment, I am fully aware that the interrelationship between Microsoft and open source is being changed fundamentally (and for mutual benefit).
Today, Bob Muglia, senior vice president of the Server and Tools Business at Microsoft, and Microsoft’s System Center team announced System Center’s ability to deliver automated management across heterogeneous IT environments, such as UNIX and Linux.