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- New virtualization buddies - XenSource & Symantec
- XenSource, Inc. and Symantec have signed an OEM agreement. Symantec is going to work with XenSource to embed Veritas Storage Foundation into XenEnterpriseâ„¢. The two companies are then going to collaborate on delivering enterprise-class HA/DR and backup technology to XenSource customers. Let's consider why these companies are joining together for...
- Tags: virtual storage software, virtual processing software, virtual machine software, Managing virtualized environments
- Blog posts 2007-07-23
- Configuresoft's George Gerchow points out that "You can't manage what you can't see"
- Configuresoft's Technology Strategist, George Gerchow, and I had a lovely discussion about virtualization, virtual machine software such as VMware and the stresses this technology push on overworked IT professionals. During this discussion, I mentioned that I thought that Configuresof's focus is too narrow, that virtualization is a far broader...
- Tags: Managing virtualized environments
- Blog posts 2007-07-13
- Brightstar Corporation Increases Security and Saves Money with Provision Networks
- I had an opportunity to ask Anthony "Tony" Escarpenter, Infrastructure and Security, Brightstar Corporation, a few questions about how his organization is using tools from Provision Networks. Thanks Tony for finding time to communicate with me during a difficult time. I really appreciate it.Please tell me who you are and...
- Tags: virtual machine software, virtual access software, Managing virtualized environments, Consumer use of Virtualization
- Blog posts 2007-07-02
- What? Another virtualization Webinar?
- I know that we're all inundated with Webinars and that some of them are really ugly affairs that were obviously designed to torture the attendees. So, I hesitate to recommend one to you now. However, that's just what I'm going to do.Simon Crosby, CTO and Founder of XenSource Ltd.,...
- Tags: virtual machine software, Managing virtualized environments
- Blog posts 2007-06-04
- InovaWave: Doubling VM performance?
- InovaWave is offering an interesting, very focused product family, called DXtreme, aimed at optimizing the performance of that optimization of virtual machine performance on Microsoft's 32-bit and 64-bit Windows and VMware's ESX Server. The key benefits of this product family are that they can optimize and accelerate I/O. The...
- Tags: virtual machine software, Managing virtualized environments
- Blog posts 2007-05-30
- Virtual Iron Update
- Virtual Iron VI has released version 3.6 of their product, which is cleverly named "Virtual Iron" by the way. Ive been in communication with these folks for years and have always thought that the technology theyre offering is both powerful and innovative. Whats mew? Version 3.6...
- Tags: Managing virtualized environments, virtual machine software, virtualization
- Blog posts 2007-05-14
- Conversation with John, Engetes, Rackspace's CTO
- Rackspaces PR firm contacted me and asked if I would be interested in speaking with Rackspaces CTO, John Engetes, to get a technology consumers view of the state of virtualization technology today. I, of course, jumped at the chance since I usually speak with vendors representatives. ...
- Tags: virtual machine software, Managing virtualized environments, Consumer use of Virtualization
- Blog posts 2007-05-07
- VMware IPO - Why now?
- EMC Corporation has announced that it intends to sell 10% of VMware in an initial public offering. The announcement itself can be seen here. My question is why execute this move now? Here are reasons that may have contributed to the decision. Market Pressures VMware is facing...
- Tags: Managing virtualized environments, virtual machine software
- Blog posts 2007-04-27
- Red Hat and Building the Open Source Virtualization Stack
- Since my conversation with the good folks at Red Hat (see Discussion with Red Hat’s Joel Berman and Nick Carr - 1st take) Ive been thinking about the companys strategy and how that plays out in the real world. Red Hat presents the notion that a stack of open source...
- Tags: virtualization, virtual storage software, virtual processing software, virtual machine software, virtual access software, Managing virtualized environments, high performance computing, clustering software
- Blog posts 2007-04-26
- SWsoft Once and Done Partitioning Software
- An announcement from SWsoft just came to my attention. The company is offering a very simple way for small or medium sized organizations to deploy operating system partitioning or virtualization. It appears that the good folks over at SWsoft have thought long and hard about this and have come up...
- Tags: Dan Kusnetzky, Managing virtualized environments, virtual machine software, virtual processing software, Virtuozzo, Parallels Inc., operating system, software
- Blog posts 2007-04-24
- XenSource
- Even though Xen, virtual machine software for industry standard systems, is well known, The company behind this software, XenSource, is not as well known. XenSource, with the help of the open source community, has developed software that securely juggle multiple virtual machines, each running its own operating environment, on...
- Tags: virtual machine software, Managing virtualized environments
- Blog posts 2007-04-23
- Cassatt - moving virtualization up a notch
- Ive been following Cassatt for a number of years and have always thought that the company has taken a fresh, different view of the concept of virtualization in the implementation of its product "Collage". In an attempt to catch up with what the company is doing now, I spoke with...
- Tags: virtualization, virtual processing software, virtual machine software, Managing virtualized environments, clustering software
- Blog posts 2007-04-18
- Overview of Novell's views on virtualization
- I enjoyed a lovely conversation with an old acquaintance, Kim Kelly of Novell. We had spoken many times when he was with Red Hat and it was nice to chat for a while. The topic of our conversation was Novells overall strategy for virtualization technology. As with Red Hat, Novell...
- Tags: virtual processing software, virtual machine software, Managing virtualized environments
- Blog posts 2007-04-12
Additional Resources
- Video: Adobe unveils 'Project Genesis'
- At the Office 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, Matthias Zeller, product manager at Adobe, demonstrates a prototype of the enterprise desktop client called "Project Genesis." The new software allows business users to create custom workspaces by combining and sharing applications, video, Web sites, and office documents. by Larry Dignan
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-06
- Judge finds Oracle's Ellison withheld evidence
- According to Bloomberg, in a ruling that has important implications for Larry Ellison, Oracle's CEO and the company itself, district judge Susan Illston found that Ellison: ...deliberately destroyed or withheld e-mails and failed to preserve tape recordings that should have been turned over to lawyers for shareholders suing him......
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Susan Illston, Larry Ellison, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- The Linux laptop goes to school
- The Linux laptop goes to schoolOn the Mouse Buttons ...[i]Robin’s biggest complaint was the slow response of the mouse buttons. But it’s something you can get used to, she said.[/i]Don't use the mouse buttons they're too slow, instead use the tap, double tap and side scroll features on the touchpad....
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, Mice, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, mouse, Linux laptop, laptop computer
- Discussion threads 2008-09-05
- The Linux laptop goes to school
- This is not a PC you load with additional hardware, or much additional software. This is more like a cell phone, something you toss in your backpack and use on-the-run. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Linux Laptop, Laptop Computer, Linux, UNIX, Keyboards, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Hardware, Peripherals, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Preview: Plusmo Pro Football Live app (updated)
- As you already know I really want a good NFL application for the iPhone. Now that it's NFL season and it would be great to track teams, players and games in progress – especially when you can't be in front of a television. As I've I mentioned...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, NFL, App, Plusmo Pro Football Live, Plusmo NFL App, Games, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Yes, we know it's a problem. No, we have no budget.
- A survey by data center infrastructure company Voltaire indicates that while a vast majority of data center professionals believe that running a green data center will become a mission-critical agenda item, they haven't set aside the money to support it. Close to 90 percent of the executives...
- Tags: CIO, Data Center, Voltaire Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- What went wrong with Joost's desktop client?
- What went wrong with Joost's desktop client?That explains it....The client was invisible to the user as a cost-saver, rather the cost savings were apparent to the video distributor. So, how does the client app make itself valuable? Joost had several interesting features besides this P2P media capability, but it also...
- Tags: Joost, desktop client, desktop
- Discussion threads 2008-09-05
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