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- Red Hat draws its line in the virtual sand with Qumranet
- Red Hat draws its line in the virtual sand with QumranetKVM is solid and cleanA lot of it is marketing, but the technology is excellent and can dominate the virtual desktop. The issue comes down to VDI already being a cost effective product compared to stand alone desktops and...
- Tags: Desktops, desktop, Red Hat Inc., Qumranet, KVM
- Discussion threads 2008-09-05
- Red Hat draws its line in the virtual sand with Qumranet
- The caves of Qumran, located in in the highly disputed region of the West Bank that sits between Israel and Jordan and is populated by both Palestinians and Jews, is where the famous Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered. The scrolls are said by many Judaic scholars...
- Tags: Hypervisor, Red Hat Inc., Virtual Desktop, Qumranet, Open Source KVM, Virtualization, Hardware, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Qumranet's SolidICE ships as Citrix XenDesktop debut nears
- Qumranet's SolidICE ships as Citrix XenDesktop debut nearsIt's what's for dinnerBeef!Just when you thought VM couldn't get any more sizzle, here comes another player and a meaty one at that.Waiting for my SolidICE eval copy
- Tags: SolidICE, Citrix XenDesktop, Qumranet, Citrix Systems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-04-30
- Qumranet's SolidICE ships as Citrix XenDesktop debut nears
- KVM sponsor Qumranet launched its long awaited desktop virtualization solution today, just weeks before rival Citrix launches its own XenDesktop solution. The Sunnyvale, calif. company announced on April 30 the release of Solid ICE Independent Computing Environment, a hosted desktop virtualization product that promises desktop-like performance with...
- Tags: Desktop Virtualization, Virtualization, Citrix Systems Inc., Qumranet, Citrix XenDesktop, Solid ICE, Desktops, Hardware, prooney
- Blog posts 2008-04-30
- Qumranet Solid ICE
- Qumranet Solid ICEFirst fully integrated Solution?I guess Sun was the first one providing the whole stack.
- Tags: Qumranet
- Discussion threads 2007-09-26
- Qumranet builds proprietary desktop on open source kernel
- At Demo07 Qumranet announced Solid ICE, a proprietary desktop virtualization system built on the kernel-based virtual machine KVM built into Linux 2.6.20. Qumranet also announced a Simple Protocol for Integrated Computing Environments SPICE, a connection protocol for linking devices within a virtualized environment. External interfaces to the system...
- Tags: Desktop, Kernel, Virtual Machine, Qumranet, KVM, Benny Schneider, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Open Source, Hardware, Storage, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-09-24
- Xen vs. KVM: round 1 bell to ring soon
- Industry executives are downplaying concerns about a growing schism between rival open source virtualization factions but a market battle between Xen and KVM appears increasingly likely, and imminent. At the San Francisco, Calif. conference this week, Qumranet, a Santa Clara, Calif-based commercial startup that funds KVM, told ZDNet that the company's first...
- Tags: Linux, Virtualization, Open Source, Xen, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2007-08-10
- Motorola, Qumranet Closer To Shipping Mobile, Virtual Linux Products
- Motorola, Qumranet Closer To Shipping Mobile, Virtual Linux ProductsMotorola featuresI personally would keep purchasing the motorola phones if the features were good. I took back a new moto phone because one of the features (confirmation of text messages sent, with delivery time and date) is no longer available. If you...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Motorola Inc., Qumranet, Linux Products, Shipping, mobile
- Discussion threads 2007-08-09
- Motorola, Qumranet Closer To Shipping Mobile, Virtual Linux Products
- Motorola is close to releasing its much anticipated, first Linux-based Razr2 V8 handset in the U.S, " said Christy M Wyatt, vice president of ecosystem and market development for Motorola during a LinuxWorld press conference. Showing off her own Linux Razr2, Wyatt was prevented by the company's communications...
- Tags: Mobile, Motorola Inc., Qumranet, KVM, Virtualization, Storage Management, Linux, Utility Computing, Open Source, Hardware, Storage, Operating Systems, Software, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2007-08-08
Additional Resources
- What's next after server virtualization? Desktop virtualization
- There are a number of steps an organization could take after successfully executing a server consolidation strategy. One of them is to embark on the journey to client consolidation or desktop virtualization. The goal here is to reduce the costs of hardware, software and to reduce administrative and operational expenses....
- Tags: Desktop, Environment, Citrix Systems Inc., Server, Supplier, Client System, Server Virtualization, Parallels, Channel Management, Desktop Virtualization, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Marketing, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-11-11
- Access Virtualization - Which protocol is the best?
- As organizations look for ways to reduce the cost of installing, updating, managing and making secure desktop and laptop systems, they come across the idea of viewing the laptop or desktop as just an endpoint or access point device. Once they've gotten to this point, they start thinking about all...
- Tags: Microsoft Access, Protocol, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Utility Computing, Storage Management, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-10-17
- Red Hat beats estimates
- Red Hat, the largest provider of Linux software, posted its 2009 second quarter earnings, beating Wall Street's estimates. Revenue was $164.4 million, up 29 percent from the same quarter a year ago. Subscription revenue was $135.7 million, up 24% from last year. It reported a profit of...
- Tags: Revenue, Red Hat Inc., Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Open Source, Hardware, Storage, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-09-24
- Quest desktop virtualization optimization
- Prior to VMworld, the good folks at Quest briefed me on something they were going to present at VMworld. So many companies spoke with me prior to the event, that I haven't had the opportunity to post something on every conversation. Quest told me that they were going to show...
- Tags: Optimization, Environment, Desktop Environment, Desktops, Desktop Virtualization, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-09-22
- Desktop virtualization on display at VMworld
- One of the three pillars of Paul Maritz's VMworld Keynote address (see Notes from VMworld and Maritz: VMware's Virtual DataCenter OS, VMware View is better next gen operating system than Windows and Hyper-V) focused on virtualizing the user desktop computing experience. He spoke of this like it was a new...
- Tags: Solution, Thin Client, High-performance, VMware Inc., Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Thin Clients, Desktop Virtualization, Desktops, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-09-17
- Microsoft: It's time to consummate the marriage with Citrix already
- The relationship between Microsoft and Citrix is much like that of a man who has been serially dating the same woman for 15 years, but never seems to be able to consummate the deal. He's afraid of commitment, or perhaps like that old expression goes, why...
- Tags: Citrix MetaFrame, Citrix Systems Inc., Microsoft Corp., Hyper-V, Virtualization, Microsoft Windows, Desktop Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Open Source, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Storage, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-09-13
- Sun xVM VirtualBox 2.0
- Last week Sun launched the newest version of xVM VirtualBox, its open source virtual machine software offering. Here's a quick review of the announcement. Snippet of Sun's press release: Here are a few lightly edited segments of the Sun release: Sun Microsystems,...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., xVM VirtualBox Software, Tools & Techniques, Open Source, Operating Systems, Management, Software, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-09-10
- Red Hat buys Qumranet, adds gasoline to the spreading VDI bonfire
- VDI, somewhat ironically, may also work well for market mover Microsoft as it seeks to slow the momentum to outright web-based and OSS/LAMP-supported applications and services for large businesses. Microsoft must realize that enterprises have had it with the high cost of maintaining and managing the traditional Windows OS in...
- Tags: Desktop Virtualization, Red Hat Inc., Server, SolidICE VDI, Virtualization, Microsoft Windows, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Desktops, Open Source, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Storage, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- News to know: Windows 7; Patch preview; Office 2.0; Dell
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Critical WMP, MS Office bugs on Patch Tuesday swat list Dancho Danchev:Malware and spam attacks exploiting Picasa and ImageShack Mary Jo Foley:...
- Tags: Google Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Comcast Corp., Microsoft Corp., Office 2.0, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Red Hat acquires Qumranet
- I just received a press release telling me that one of my clients, Qumranet, has been acquired by Red Hat.This was not entirely unexpected. Here's what the release said Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced...
- Tags: Red Hat Inc., Qumranet Inc., Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Open Source, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Xen engine 3.3 released
- On August 27th, the Xen engine version 3.3 was released on Xen.org, the site that houses the open source Xen project. In the words of the organization, "Xen 3.3 includes enhancements that further advance its position as a fast, scalable, secure virtualization engine for the industry's broadest range of server...
- Tags: Xen, Virtual Machine, Xen Client Initiative, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-09-03
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