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- Hardcore virtualization - VMware ESX 3.5/Infrastructure - Part 1
- Hardcore virtualization - VMware ESX 3.5/Infrastructure - Part 1AnacondaSince ESX Server is based on RHEL 3, Red Hat and Fedora users should easily recognize the Anaconda Installer. Issue a “cat /etc/redhat-release” at the command line to see for yourself.I use ESX Server to provide six RHEL 5.1 “backends” and...
- Tags: Servers, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, ESX, VMWare ESX Server, Hardcore virtualization, VMware ESX 3.5/Infrastructure, server, VMWare ESX, VMware Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-30
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- Novell-Microsoft interop pact may look sweeter to IT shops these days
- Novell took a lot of heat from open source backers for executing an interoperability pact with Microsoft in late 2006 but the partnership -- strengthened with a new $100 million investment from Microsoft today -- is probably looking sweeter to mixed IT shops these days. Why? Because of recent...
- Tags: Novell Inc., Interoperability, Information Technology, Microsoft Office, ISO, Microsoft Corp., Office Open XML, Virtualization, OpenOffice, Cloud Computing, Open Source, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Office Suites, Software, Storage, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- Sun release claims Sun Ray shipments nearly double
- Sun just issued a press release claiming that its shipments of Sun Ray "thin client" systems nearly doubled. The most exciting part of the announcement was that the document was sent not as a text message, not as an HTML formatted document, but as a Sun Staroffice document. I'm sure...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Ray, Sun Ray Unit Shipment, Desktop Virtualization, Desktops, Thin Clients, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- Windows 7 wishes
- Windows 7 wishesOn layers.Per Ed's post, IE 8 continues to be integrated and integral to the OS. It is likely that many other user space apps that MS creates, will at least be partially embedded, if not completely.End user applications have no business being part of the OS itself,...
- Tags: Operating systems, 64-bit, Luna, Microsoft Windows, Windows 7 Wishes, operating system, Aero, Microsoft Windows 7
- Discussion threads 2008-08-19
- Conversation with HP's Roberto Moctezuma
- I recently had the chance to speak with Roberto Moctezuma, VP, Desktop Solutions Organization for HP about the company's approach to providing its customers with desktop and client virtualization solutions. I've spoken with one of Roberto's team, Tad Bodman, and posted HP and Desktop Virtualization a while back. ...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- News to know: IDF; Office 14; Google; Flash flaw; MobileMe; Zoho
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason O'Grady: MobileMe subscribers get a 60 day extension Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Is the "killer app" argument dead? More info on USB 3.0 emerges ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Photograph, Attack, Flaw, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Cloud Computing, Productivity, Microsoft Office, Security, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Office Suites, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Microsoft unveils Application Server License Mobility change to ease some virtualization headaches
- Microsoft unveils Application Server License Mobility change to ease some virtualization headachesInteresting timing: MSFT waited till they had a virtualization product....Interesting timing: MSFT waited till they had a virtualization product to announce this.We've been hindered by this for two years already. We heaviliy use virtualization and server farms to...
- Tags: cloud computing, Storage management, Utility computing, virtualization, virtualization headach, Application Server License Mobility, Microsoft Corp., application server
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- Microsoft unveils Application Server License Mobility change to ease some virtualization headaches
- Microsoft has quietly unveiled its much anticipated licensing change to ease virtualization: Application Server License Mobility. The licensing plan, quietly launched in a licensing brief on the company web site tonight, now allows customers to freely move VMs, virtual workloads -- and their respective licenses -- across multiple servers...
- Tags: Virtualization, License, Server Farm, Application Server, Mobility, Microsoft Corp., Application Server License Mobility Plan, Servers, Hardware, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Data architects: You're "hot"
- Yes you are.Information and data architects and information security experts, here's some good news: You're the hottest. Fear not, data and content-oriented business analysts, business and enterprise architects and vendor management experts: You're extremely hot as well. Enterprise application strategists, IT planners, network architects and enterprise project...
- Tags: Role, Forrester Research Inc., Recruitment & Selection, Professional Development, Operational Planning, Training And Certification, Strategy, Security, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Career, Business Operations, Management, Deb Perelman
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- IBM: The mainframe is back
- IBM: The mainframe is backMainframe decision makers...As long as IT departments are headed by baby boomers who are in bed with IBM, the z series will continue to exist and propogate. There are a number of old systems (re: COBOL) that still meet the business needs, and will continue...
- Tags: Mainframes, Servers, mainframe, IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- From Metasploit to Microsoft: Skape goes to Redmond
- Metasploit developer Matt Miller, who for years frustrated Microsoft officials with the public release of Windows exploits, is heading to Redmond to join Microsoft's Security Science team. Miller, who uses the hacker moniker Skape,will work on improved ways to find security vulnerabilities and better software defenses through...
- Tags: Developer, Microsoft Corp., Matt Miller, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- IBM: The mainframe is back
- The company claims the mainframe is finding its way into emerging markets and holding strong globally, despite a shortage of related skills among IT workers The mainframe is finding its way into emerging markets and is still holding strong globally, according to an IBM executive. ...
- Tags: IBM Corp., Servers, Hardware, Vivian Yeo ZDNet Asia, mainframes, IBM, datacenters, emerging markets
- News items 2008-08-18
- Before Intel's big show, AMD launches an attack
- With Intel's annual conference set to start this week, AMD launched a pre-emptive strike in a press conference on Friday. AMD executives said the processor innovations you'll hear about next week are imitations of technology they introduced as much as five years ago, and Intel's Larrabee graphics...
- Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Graphics, Intel Corp., Attack, Imitation, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Building the ecosystem: Citrix and Platform Computing
- David Roussain of Citrix and Peter Dyer of Platform Computing brought me up to speed on how the two companies are working together to provide a highly managable, agile computing environment based upon virtual machines supported by Citrix XenServer and Platform Computing's VM Orchestrator 4.0. ...
- Tags: Environment, Citrix Systems Inc., Platform Computing Inc., Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- The biggest open source threat to Microsoft
- The biggest open source threat to MicrosoftDid he.......no...False alarm. He didn't buy a Laptop. Never mind. ;)What makes it different from Wine then?or Mono for that matter? I had worked on Win-OS2, which is a Windows 3 inside OS/2, during OS/2's heydays. It failed miserably even with IBM's...
- Tags: Operating systems, cloud computing, Storage management, Linux, Dana, open source, Face it Linux, Microsoft Windows, operating system, virtualization, HPCC, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-15
- The biggest open source threat to Microsoft
- Virtualization makes your underlying operating environment irrelevant. It has to make its case based solely on performance. Windows can't win that fight. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Open Source, Microsoft Corp., Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-08-15
- Rumors about changes in Microsoft Licensing
- Rumors about changes in Microsoft LicensingWhy does the hardware matter?VMWare and Citrix have developed a lot of wonderful GUI tools around moving virtual machines. While these tools seem to exist solely to fix problems that exist with Windows servers, they do work for their intended application.However, since it is inherently...
- Tags: Operating systems, Virtualization, Microsoft Corp., PoV, Microsoft Windows, Citrix Systems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-15
- The end run around the OS is underway
- The operating system may be losing its luster. In fact, you could argue that the operating system--Linux, OS X and Windows--will become an application that just happens to boot first. And hardware vendors are on to the OS's diminishing importance. Let's connect a few dots: ...
- Tags: Operating System, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-15
- Sinofsky dishes on Windows 7
- Sinofsky dishes on Windows 7E7 blog is up and runningIt's up:http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2008/08/14/welcome.aspxFreudian slip ;-)"The fact that he’s wiling to speak ..." ;-)Yes, wily types those M$oftie$!Much as I've criticised VISTA and M$ I do hope they get it right this time.Glad to see some progress here,.I'm hoping for MS to release...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Sinofsky, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, blog
- Discussion threads 2008-08-14
- VMware re-issues ESX 3.5 Update 2 to remove embarassing timebomb
- VMware released today a refresh of its recently released ESX 3.5 and ESX 3.5i Update 2 software that eliminates the embrassing timebomb that killed the software's use on Aug 12. The code was in the beta, and was designed to pull the plug on the software's use...
- Tags: VMware Inc., Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Tools & Techniques, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Management, Storage, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-08-14
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