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VMWare's filesystem clustering cracked open

VMWare's filesystem clustering cracked openwhat customers wantCustomers should want open standards and non-proprietary flexibility. They should always have the option of switching vendors with as little stress as possible. Why would any company want to lock itself in? It takes away any incentive for the vendors to...

Tags: clustering, VMware Inc., filesystem clustering, VMFS, file system

Discussion threads 2009-03-03

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News to know: Palm; Google; Apple; Yahoo's Bartz; Hacking Safari

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Palm: Demand tanks ahead of Pre launch; Pre needs to save the day Andrew Nusca: Google CEO Schmidt: China 'obvious prize,' Twitter 'poor...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Apple Macintosh, Hacking, Apple Intel Mac Mini, Yahoo! Inc., Palm Inc., Apple Inc., Desktops, Hardware

Blog posts 2009-03-04

VMWare's filesystem clustering cracked open

Late last week, an important plate in VMWare's proprietary battle armor was cracked open when Fluid Operations, the company behind the eCloudmanager storage virtualization product open-sourced on the community Google Code site their clean room implementation of VMFS, the clustered locking file system used by VMWare's ESX Server hypervisor...

Tags: Hypervisor, Clustering, File System, VMware Inc., VMFS, Virtualization, Ip storage, Open Source, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-03-03

A question about web server volume failures

A question about web server volume failuresWrite heavy loadI don't think you can compare a write-heavy do-not-call registry to a mostly static wordpress site.It wouldn't hard to mock-up a simple registry site and test it.The question you seem to be askig is.. how do i make my site scalable.Lets start...

Tags: Web servers, Firewalls, Storage, Web server, server, database, router, firewall, Web

Discussion threads 2008-10-07

VMware acquires Thinstall

VMware just announced that it is acquiring Thinstall and it appeared wise to look a bit at what VMware is doing. The financial details of the acquisition have not been disclosed. It is clear to me that that VMware is working very hard to be VIRTUALIZATION for...

Tags: Software, Application, Environment, VMware Inc., Technology, Virtual Machine, Thinstall Thinstall, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-01-16

With hardware-based hypervisors, Hitachi says 'ditch software like Xen, VMware'

With hardware-based hypervisors, Hitachi says 'ditch software like Xen, VMware'I guess this could have merit, but ONLY if it allows the read-only sharingof the OS, library, and application memory images. There are plenty of reasons to run multiple instance of the same OS, but almost NO reasons to run instances...

Tags: Utility computing, Storage, Operating systems, hypervisor, virtualization, Hitachi Ltd., Xen, VMware Inc., operating system, hardware, software

Discussion threads 2007-09-18

10-Gigabit Ethernet comes alive

10-Gigabit Ethernet comes alivewhat is the point?can someone please explain to me why there is any such insane need for 10 gigabit to the DESKTOP, and for that matter, what normal every day use there is for even 1 gig to the desktop?with the fastest 15000 rpm scsi drives only...

Tags: Desktops, Thin clients, Ethernet, SAN, 10-Gigabit Ethernet, desktop, multicasting, thin client, disk, clustering, server

Discussion threads 2004-03-15

Linux group releases enterprise guidelines

Linux group releases enterprise guidelinesGuidelines and rules are excellentIt makes it so much easier to work with!Soon the Microsofties will be smashed out of existence!!!This is what it's gonna take. Now that the big players are setting out to create linux standards, it will only be a matter of time...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2004-02-05