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- Hypervisor
- A system program that provides a virtual machine environment. The term came from the IBM mainframe world, which first introduced the virtual machine virtualization concept in the form of...
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- Microsoft: How we'll take on VMware
- The software maker believes it has the tools and the right price point to beat VMware in the battle for the virtualisation market. Microsoft has a three-pronged strategy to beat VMware in the virtualization market, according to the company's senior director for virtualization product management, Zane Adam. ...
- Tags: Hypervisor, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Colin Barker ZDNet.co.uk, virtualization, Microsoft, VMWare
- News items 2008-10-10
- VMware vs Microsoft: Place your bets
- At this year's VMworld conference, the talk was all about the free release of Microsoft's hypervisor product, and how much of a threat the software giant may pose to virtualization leader VMware The talk of this year's VMworld conference in Las Vegas was how much of a competitive threat...
- Tags: VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Hyper-V, Data Centers, Cloud Computing, Utility Computing, Storage Management, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Brett Winterford ZDNet Australia, VMware, Microsoft, virtualization, hypervisor
- News items 2008-09-22
- Will VMWare go open source without legal pressure?
- Will VMWare do the right thing open source what the GPL has already touched without legal pressure being brought to bear on it? by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Hypervisor, VMware Inc., Virtualization, Open Source, Hardware, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-09-19
- Virtualization: The race is on to corner the market
- As the technology goes mainstream, competitors such as Microsoft are eager to dislodge VMware from the top of the virtualization tree. Most of the servers installed next year will be virtualized from the outset, experts have said. But, as the technology goes mainstream, will moves by Microsoft...
- Tags: Hypervisor, Server, Xen, VMware Inc., Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Peter Judge ZDNet.co.uk, virtualization, VMware, Microsoft, Hyper-V
- News items 2008-09-19
- Microsoft Hyper-V to VMware: We have you surrounded
- Microsoft Hyper-V to VMware: We have you surroundedWhat's the difference minus the hype?"Red Hat intros VMware hypervisor alternative based on KVM""Raleigh, N.C.-based Red Hat Inc. has set itself up as the alternative to VMware Inc., ..."A Linux-based hypervisor"The new hypervisor is a lightweight embeddable hypervisor for hosting Red Hat Enterprise...
- Tags: Virtualization, Linux, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, VMware Inc., Hyper-V, hypervisor, Microsoft Hyper-V, Microsoft Corp., Red Hat Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-11
- Red Hat: Virtualization will be free
- Setting out the roles of the two hypervisors it is working on, Red Hat has predicted virtualization will be included in all operating systems for free Red Hat has predicted that virtualization will be included in all operating systems for free, while setting out the roles of...
- Tags: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Hypervisor, Red Hat Inc., Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, Xen, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Open Source, Hardware, Storage, Peter Judge ZDNet.co.uk, virtualization, managment, enterprise, Red Hat, Xen hypervisor
- News items 2008-09-11
- 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
- Intel ships BIOS fix for Rutkowska's Black Hat flaw
- Intel has shipped a BIOS update with a fix for a privilege escalation vulnerability that was used by rootkit researcher Joanna Rutkowska to bluepill the Xen hypervisor. The vulnerability was discussed by Rutkowska at the Black Hat briefings earlier this month but details on the exploit were...
- Tags: Black Hat, Hypervisor, Motherboard, BIOS Update, Intel Corp., Flaw, System Management Mode, Level Privilege, BIOS, Virtualization, Hardware, Components, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- Neocleus and Endpoint virtualization
- Recently I've had the opportunity to speak with Ariel Gorfung, CEO, and Etay Bogner, CTO, both of Neocleus about their concept of "Endpoint Virtualization." At first I didn't understand how this differed from the various forms of desktop virtualization that others are speaking about. Now I understand that they're bringing...
- Tags: Desktop, Hypervisor, Operating System, Physical Machine, Virtual Machine, Neocleus, Virtualization, Desktop Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-07-31
- Citrix's "Kensho" Open Virtual Format tools will drive hypervisor interoperability, Microsoft Hyper-V
- Citrix's "Kensho" Open Virtual Format tools will drive hypervisor interoperability, Microsoft Hyper-Vgreat good stuff.. except for the fact that citrix COST A FORTUNE!People think MS is expensive.. yea.. buy some citrix or vmware stuff.
- Tags: Virtualization, PRODUCTIVITY, hypervisor interoperability, Kensho, Open Virtual Format, Microsoft Hyper-V, hypervisor, Citrix Systems Inc., Microsoft Corp., tool
- Discussion threads 2008-07-15
- Citrix's "Kensho" Open Virtual Format tools will drive hypervisor interoperability, Microsoft Hyper-V
- Citrix will ship in the third quarter a technical preview of Open Virtual Machine format tools that will allow developers and IT pros to create virtual, portable application workloads that run on XenServer and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. Oh, and yes, add VMWare ESX to that list ...
- Tags: Interoperability, Hypervisor, Citrix Systems Inc., VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Tool, OVF, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Productivity, Hardware, Storage, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-07-15
- Look who's running VMware now
- Former Softie Paul Maritz has a new challenge on his hands: Competing head-to-head with his former employer in the virtualization space. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Hypervisor, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- Microsoft Hyper-V and Spin Marketing - Virtual Iron Chimes In
- As I mentioned in the post, Microsoft Hyper-V and Spin Marketing, a number of companies contacted me in the hopes of presenting their view of Microsoft's Hyper-V announcement. This is the first of several posts on what they had to say. My friends at Virtual Iron; Tony...
- Tags: Marketing, Hypervisor, Microsoft Corp., Virtual Machine, Virtual Iron, Microsoft Hyper-V, Virtualization, Desktop Virtualization, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- Debut of Hyper-V, departure of Gates usher in new era for Microsoft
- Given the importance of virtualization to the future of the operating system, it seems fitting that Hyper-V shipped on the the same day Bill Gates exited the Windows company. It is truly a new era for Microsoft. Who could have envisioned five years ago that a Microsoft platform would openly...
- Tags: Hypervisor, Microsoft Corp., XenSource Inc., Hyper-V, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-06-26
- Parallels releases its Hypervisor -- on the Mac
- Today, virtualization vendor Parallels released the first version of its Server hypervisor for x86 hardware. The surprising thing about it is that it chose to go to release with its Mac version first. Parallels first came to market with its desktop-based virtualization products...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Hypervisor, Parallels Inc., Parallels Server, VM, Virtuozzo Container, Windows Version, Virtualization, Linux, Desktops, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Operating Systems, Servers, Hardware, Software, Storage, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-06-17
- Hardcore virtualization - VMware ESX 3.5/Infrastructure - Part 1
- This will be my first in a series (an "X = X +1" sort of series) where I'll be looking at virtualization. However, rather than look at the kind of virtualization where you inxstall and OS like Windows, Mac OS or Linux and then install an application that allows you...
- Tags: VMware Inc., VMWare ESX, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, vmware, esx, virtual, hypervisor
- Image galleries 2008-05-30
- Microsoft HyperV RC1 available for testing
- Microsoft announced availability of release candidate 1 of its Hyper-V virtualization hypervisor Tuesday. The add-on for Windows Server 2008 is now available for download at http://www.microsoft.com/Hyper-V and it will be available via Windows Update beginning on May 27, Microsoft said. The first release candidate, referred to as...
- Tags: Hypervisor, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Virtualization, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-05-20
- Virtualisation: Architectual Considerations and other Evaluation Criteria
- Of the many approaches to x86 systems virtualisation available in the market today, the hypervisor architecture—in which virtual machines are managed by a software layer that is installed on bare metal—has gained the greatest market acceptance. This fact has translated into rapid growth and a large and expanding customer base...
- Tags: Hypervisor, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage
- White papers 2008-05-15
- Sun xVM Virtualbox puts Mac on x86
- Sun xVM Virtualbox puts Mac on x86Typo: version '1.6' (not 2.6)ntRE: Sun xVM Virtualbox puts Mac on x86PLEASE Note: http://pollycoke.net/iniziative/i'm-myself-thanks/ & give credit ;)I'm currently using 1.5.51 beta 3 and...have had no problems. I'm wondering if I will if I upgrade to 1.6 ? I'd sure hate to have to...
- Tags: Desktops, Sun xVM Virtualbox, Sun xVM, Intel x86, Apple Macintosh, Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-08
- KVM and Xen cofounders engage in war of words
- Xen cofounder and project lead Ian Pratt said predictions about his virtualization hypervisor's demise to the newer kernel-based virtual machine KVM technology are unfounded, a by-product of his competitors' imaginations. "There's no evidence for it. The Xen community is alive and well. Xen is a true...
- Tags: Linux, Hypervisor, Linux Kernel, Xen, KVM, Xen Community, Virtualization, Hardware, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
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