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Tom Howarth is an IT Veteran of over 15 years experience and is the owner of TCA Consultancy Ltd and PlanetVM.Net Ltd, Tom is a moderator of the VMware Communities forum. He is a contributing author on VMware vSphere(TM) and Virtual Infrastructure Security: Securing ESX and the Virtual Environment, and the forthcoming vSphere a Quick Guide. He regularly does huge virtualization projects for enterprises in the U.K. and elsewhere in EMEA. Tom was Elected vExpert for 2009 in February 2009.

Is VMware moving to Guest based Licensing?

February 3, 2010

By Tom Howarth

Is VMware moving to Guest based Licensing?

There has been a rumour that VMware circulating that are going to move to a per VM Guest licensing model rather than the traditional Host based licenses. Well it looks like the first move to this has been taken

Hyper-V: Free or Licensed the Choice is Yours

January 8, 2010

By Tom Howarth

Hyper-V: Free or Licensed the Choice is Yours

Which is better Hyper-V version deploy for production environments? For a traditional server based virtualization project, it makes financial sense to deploy Datacenter, and this is most likely the case for a hybrid deployment of Server and Desktop devices. However, for raw VDI and Open source deployments, it is obviously more fiscally prudent to utilise…

EMC/Cisco/VMware vBlock – The Data Center Virtualization Perspective

November 30, 2009

By Tom Howarth

EMC/Cisco/VMware vBlock – The Data Center Virtualization Perspective

Well the cat is well and truly out of the bag now, after several months of serious courting and getting caught behind the bike shed a few time, the worse kept secret in IT has arrived. Cisco, EMC, and VMware have entered into a joint venture arrangement called V-block, so what is it and how…

News: Cisco and EMC, Together With VMware, Form Coalition to Accelerate Pervasive Virtualization and Private Cloud Infrastructures

November 3, 2009

By Tom Howarth

Unprecedented Collaboration Heralds Business-Ready IT Infrastructure Packages and Single Point of Contact for Design, Service and Support; Cisco-EMC Solutions Joint Venture Also Established to Help Enable Customer Adoption Cisco and EMC, together with VMware, today introduced the Virtual Computing Environment coalition, an unprecedented collaboration of three information technology (IT) industry leaders. The coalition has been…

VMware releases SRM 4.0 – Full Support for vSphere and vCenter Linked clones

October 7, 2009

By Tom Howarth

VMware have finally released a vSphere compatible version of SRM, and all I can say is about time. I could not believe it when vSphere was released int May without SRM support, that should have been there from day one. Well rant over what VMware goodness does the version 4.0 bring.

News: vSphere Enterprise to continue beyond 2009

October 5, 2009

By Tom Howarth

vSphere Enterprise has a stay of execution beyond 2009.

News: Cisco Enter the Rack mount market with UCS

September 30, 2009

By Tom Howarth

We all remember the fanfare that sounded on the release of the UCS Blade technology, well Cisco have just quietly snuck an announcement out of the door about some rack mounted brothers for the Blades, now these are as usual "more than just a rack mount server" they are the next addition in the "unified…

News: Cisco to introduce a Chassis Nexus

September 30, 2009

By Tom Howarth

Things have been very busy at Cisco today in addition to the new that they are to release a Rack mounted version of there UCS servere. the Networking giant and server newboy on the block Cisco Systems announced that will be working with third-party blade server makers to create a version of its Nexus family…

Hyper-V: Is R2 ready for primetime?

September 11, 2009

By Tom Howarth

We all know that Windows 2008 R2 Hyper-V is around the corner and we are well aware of the majority of new features, but do they make it ready for the premier division. Ready to run head to head with the big boy?