As VMware ACE Reaches End of Life, Customers Trade Up to MokaFive

MokaFive, known for its innovative desktop-management solutions, announced today that it is providing an alternative to VMware ACE—a product that is being discontinued at the end of the year–at a 75 percent discount off of MokaFive Suite’s list price. While VMware plans to continue support for ACE through 2013, the company has announced it will [...]

Liquidware Labs Strategic Partnerships Help Accelerate Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Adoption Rates

For Liquidware Labs, the leader in desktop transformation solutions, the past 18 months have seen phenomenal revenue growth as the VDI and desktop virtualization market continued its rapid expansion. The leading industry analysts see a bright future for these markets. According to a 2011 report from Gartner, the worldwide hosted virtual desktop market will grow [...]

Virtual Security Appliance Market up 57% in 2011, Driven by Cloud and Data Center Buildouts

In its December 2011 Virtual Security Appliances report, market research firm Infonetics Research forecasts global revenue from virtual security appliances to finish the 2011 year 57% higher than in 2010. ANALYST NOTE “The adoption of server virtualization within wiring closets and data centers at organizations of all sizes and the rollout of infrastructure to deliver [...]

WatchGuard Enhances Security for Virtualized and Cloud Infrastructures

WatchGuard Technologies, a global leader in business security solutions, today announced the beta version of its leading next-generation security UTM product as a virtual appliance named XTMv. The new WatchGuard XTMv series of virtual firewalls provides unparalleled network security and advanced protection of applications and data. “The powerful firewall, integrated threat management and application control, [...]

DataCore Software Announces Expansion into the Nordic Region

DataCore Software, the industry’s premier provider of storage virtualization software, today announced significant investments into the Nordic region with the appointment of a new Regional Manager, Ilpo Wilkman, based out of Stockholm, Sweden. Ilpo has more than seven years experience in growing the virtualisation market and partner community, holding former positions at VMware and TechData. [...]

Site Recovery Manager 5 and VMware vSphere Replication (BCO3324)

Site Recovery Manager 5 and VMware vSphere Replication (BCO3324)

VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5 and VMware vSphere Replication ensure the sim…

VMware Expands its View, Brings Windows Virtual Desktops to Kindle Fire, Mac and Linux

VMware, Inc., the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced new VMware View Clients for Kindle Fire, Mac and Linux, along with updates to its popular VMware View Clients for Android and iPad. Offered as technology previews, the new VMware View Clients for Mac and Linux enable IT organizations to empower more agile, [...]

Invalid configuration for device 4 Error When Cloning or vMotion a Virtual Machine

When performing vMotion on a Virtual Machine (VM) or a template on vDS (virtual distributed switch) configuration, you may come across this error: Invalid configuration for Device ’4′ I experienced this error in my lab over the weekend and removing the VM from the vDS portgroup fixed the issue. According to VMware, the cause of [...]