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2007 Chrysler Pacifica Limited

Photo gallery:Chrysler PacificaA few years before automakers started jumping into the "hot" crossover market, Chrysler launched the Pacifica, which lay somewhere between a minivan and an SUV. Although not the first SUV to be built on a car platform, the Chrysler Pacifica is the forerunner to highly touted new cars...

Tags: Chrysler Pacifica, V-6, AMD Pacifica, movie, middle-row seat, Daimler AG

Product reviews 2007-01-22

AMD details Pacifica virtualization plan

AMD details Pacifica virtualization planThe good and the badVirtualization is the greatest thing since sliced bread and individually packaged ketchup packets.My problem is that Intel and AMD didn't cook up something that was interoperable.EXACTLY!And what about Xul?

Tags: Utility computing, Storage management, virtualization, virtualization plan, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., AMD Pacifica

Discussion threads 2005-05-25

AMD tries to round up Pacifica support

AMD tries to round up Pacifica supportOh great ANOTHER languageAMD succumbs to the "me too" and comes out with a proprietary project for virtualization. The could have supported Xen, but NOOooo they HAD to come out with their OWN stuff. Shame on you AMD for putting another fork at the...

Tags: Processors, Mainframes, Utility computing, AMD Pacifica, CPU, processor box, processor, virtualization, mainframe, PR/SM, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

Discussion threads 2005-03-30

AMD set to detail multi-OS plan

AMD set to detail multi-OS planI see Hypervisor taking the market.OSS will probably fork the technologies if needed. Too bad Microsoft will only support Intel's engineWith VMWare making15 grand per server license, I can see why competitors are getting into the market. I can understand using virtual servers on big...

Tags: Processors, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Pentium, TopView, Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp., AMD Pacifica

Discussion threads 2005-03-07

Additional Resources

Review: Microsoft's Hyper-V puts VMWare and Linux on notice

Review: Microsoft's Hyper-V puts VMWare and Linux on noticeProven Linux solution VMware Vs MS Windows Garbage HVYou have the rock solid and proven Linux base that is VMWare vs the bug ridden and unreliable Windows base that is Hyper-V. Sorry, but if I'm putting my butt on the line...

Tags: Operating systems, Xen, VMware Inc., Hyper-V, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Linux

Discussion threads 2008-02-14

Review: Microsoft's Hyper-V puts VMWare and Linux on notice

After his last foray into the “Linux guy reviews a Microsoft product” space, Jason Perlow is back -- this time to take a look at Microsoft’s Hyper-V, the hypervisor-based virtualization solution built into the newly released Windows Server 2008. Although Hyper-V is still in beta and isn't slated to ship...

Tags: Hypervisor, Disadvantage, Operating System, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, Xen, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Virtual Machine, News, VMWare ESX, Hyper-V, Jason Perlow, Virtualization, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Operating Systems, Open Source, Servers, Hardware, Software, Storage, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-02-14

Red Hat, Novell race to offer better Windows guest support, Windows Server 2008 virtualization support

Even as rival Novell celebrates an expanded technical collaboration with Microsoft, Red Hat has released a 5.1 update designed to make its Linux a better platform for virtualizing Linux and Windows workloads. The software, released Wednesday, for instance, offers live migration and save/restore support for fully...

Tags: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Novell Inc., Microsoft Windows Server, Red Hat Inc., Xen, Microsoft Windows, Virtualization, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Operating Systems, Linux, Storage Management, Servers, Open Source, Software, Hardware, Storage, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2007-11-08

Security Implications of the Virtualized Datacenter

With enterprise-class virtualization software hitting the market from VMware and Microsoft (ESX Virtual Infrastructure and Virtual PC, respectively), large names and support dollars are backing the virtual data center migration. Microsoft's Longhorn platform will ship with a native hypervisor, allowing direct virtualization via the operating system without the installation of...

Tags: Security, Hypervisor, Data Center, F5 Networks Inc., Operating System, Data Centers, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Storage, Operating Systems, Hardware, Data Management, Software

White papers 2007-08-17

Microsoft insults our intelligence on Virtualization security

With the announcement that Microsoft will not ease up on its EULA End User License Agreement terms for virtualizing lower-tiered versions of Windows Vista, Microsoft has once again pulled out the security argument for its decision again and I must say that I find it rather insulting.  It's not that...

Tags: Microsoft, Intel, Hardware, Desktop, AMD, Vista, Virtualization, Security, News

Blog posts 2007-06-20

Blue Pill: The first effective Hypervisor Rootkit

Blue Pill: The first effective Hypervisor RootkitWow...w00t!I think this has been debunkedhttp://tocm.blogspot.com/2006/07/spend-more-time-reading-less-time.html#commentsArthasVery Nice IndeedRight now, I would assume the only way to detect whether or not a blue pill was installed was to run a network traffic monitor at the gateway and look for any abnormal traffic going to unknown...

Tags: Blogging, Virtualization, rootkit, Blue Pill, blog, Xen, hypervisor, Xen developer

Discussion threads 2006-08-15

Blue Pill: The first effective Hypervisor Rootkit

Blue Pill can do an on-the-fly install and simply shift your Operating System from direct control of the physical computer to a virtualized state I had a chance to sit down with Polish security researcher Joanna Rutkowska of Singapore-based COSEINC after Black Hat 2006 last week and we discussed her...

Tags: Blue Pill, Blue

Blog posts 2006-08-15

Impact of Vista x64 signed driver requirement bypass

Impact of Vista x64 signed driver requirement bypassThanksThanks Defconfegas. Now is that just a name or did you actually go to DEFCON in Vegas?interesting articleI read a couple of magazines on the article about the Vista security breach. The article you wrote was straight forward and easy to understand...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Corp., disk, Microsoft Windows Vista, kernel

Discussion threads 2006-08-11

Hackers at Black Hat rise to Microsoft's challenge to break Vista's security (and succeed)

Looks like Microsoft has more work to do on Vista's security. According to InfoWorld:After security researcher Joanna Rutkowska demonstrated Thursday how it's possible to circumvent security in Microsoft's Vista beta software and install a rootkit called Blue Pill, Microsoft said it intends to find ways to stop both potential threats...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, security

Blog posts 2006-08-04

What does Microsoft's Xen relationship mean?

What does Microsoft's Xen relationship mean?This smacks of......product announcements that are designed to prevent adoption of applications already available in the market.This is SOP for microsoft - announce a product that they don't have ready and hope it will keep users from trying out what's already available.Fool me once, shame...

Tags: Operating systems, Virtualization, Xen, Linux, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2006-07-18

Will Intel's new vPro business PC help to reverse the company's misfortunes?

This week, Intel headed into slightly uncharted waters when it announced a new brand for its business desktops call called vPro. The company also took such a terrible tumble on Wall Street that it has announced a major restructuring. Will vPro help with the revival?Whereas Intel's business destkop messaging...

Tags: Intel vPro, AMT

Blog posts 2006-04-27

VMware-friendly change likely for Linux

VMware-friendly change likely for LinuxWhat? I don't get it.""For a long time, it was thought that we'd just merge the Xen patches as-is and be happy. But then, Linux would only run on Xen,""VMware runs everything already. Xen just needs some "special" help to get any OS running...

Tags: Performance management, Linux, VMware Inc., Xen, performance, operating system

Discussion threads 2006-04-13

Virtualization sparring among chip makers

Stephen Shankland continues his reporting on the virtualization, this time about disharmony among the chip makers:Intel is expected to declare Tuesday that its Virtualization Technology VT is mature enough for testing and about three months away from prime time. But AMD, whose rival "Pacifica" technology won't debut in processors until...

Tags: virtualization

Blog posts 2006-02-07

Intel on AMD's early dual-core wins: "Not so fast"

Updated: Literally and figuratively.Still smarting from having to swallow its pride over the success of AMD's 32/64 hybrid technology (AMD64), Intel appears once again to be on the short end of AMD's technological stick -- this time, over dual-core chip technology (the technology that basically packs two CPUs into one...

Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp.

Blog posts 2005-05-09