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Psystar's Thermopylae: The Nightmare Hypervisor Arrives

Miami, Florida-based Psystar, which is currently under litigation from Apple for producing Mac-compatible clones and is counter litigating the company for monopolistic practices, has announced that they are OEM licensing their virtualization technology and ICAP so that any PC vendor may easily produce Mac clones. ...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Hypervisor, Apple Inc., Psystar, Apple Mac OS X, Cloud Computing, Apple Mac OS, Storage Management, Virtualization, Utility Computing, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Storage, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-10-05

Red Hat becomes bona fide virtualization vendor

It's no surprise that Red Hat is taking pot shots at VMware and Microsoft these days. The Raleigh, NC company has always slammed Microsoft but is not just a Linux vendor anymore. By virtue of its acquisition of Qumranet and its release of Enterprise Linux 5.4 this...

Tags: Desktop, Hypervisor, Red Hat Inc., Open Source, Virtualization, Hardware, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2009-09-04

Xen.org: Stop the forking. Forrester: About time

Xen.org, the open source community behind the leading IaaS cloud computing hypervisor finally made a bold move today by stepping up to the plate of delivering a complete open source virtual infrastructure for cloud platforms. Prior to this release, Xen.org had been content to manage and maintain the core Xen...

Tags: Hypervisor, Xen, About Time Inc., Forrester Research Inc., Xen.org, Linux, Virtualization, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, James Staten

Blog posts 2009-08-31

Geek Sheet: Virtualizing Free Linux Distributions in Windows Server 2008 R2

cool.......:)ntAnd why Jason would anyone in their right mind want to do this?ntFor the same reasons...You'd do it in VMWare. The difference is that this solution is free. You want live migration or anything else VMWare does you'll have to pay for it. Hyper-V is an excellent hypervisor.Would you run...

Tags: Virtualization, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Server, Xen, hypervisor, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V, Linux, open source, Microsoft Windows Server 2008

Discussion threads 2009-08-09

Using the Latest in Hypervisor Technology to More Effectively Manage Desktops

bare-metal PC hypervisor in order to provide management capabilities that would not otherwise be available in a desktop management platform. The paper considers the value proposition of Virtual Computer's product, the company's business model, and the dynamics of the market in which Virtual Computer competes.

Tags: Hypervisor, Desktop Management, Desktops, Virtualization, Hardware

White papers 2009-08-01

Altor Networks Altor VF 3.0: VMsafe Virtual Firewall

Security in virtual environments can be a challenging area because there are so many different entities needing protection. In a virtual server environment, layers of security are needed for the underlying hypervisor and for each of the virtual servers. If not implemented correctly, security could become an awful load for...

Tags: Firewall, Hypervisor, Network, Environment, Altor Networks, Altor VF, Security Policy, VM, Virtualization, Security, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-07-15

Best Practices for Deploying Citrix XenApp on XenServer on HP ProLiant Servers

Since the first hypervisor came on the market, businesses have been challenged to consolidate underutilized servers on to a single physical machine. While early results were disappointing, resulting in large performance penalties due to virtualization overhead, there have been significant advances in technology. Today's AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon processors...

Tags: Hypervisor, HP Compaq ProLiant Server, Hewlett-Packard Co., Citrix Systems Inc., Best Practice, HP Compaq ProLiant, Virtualization, Servers, Processors, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components

White papers 2009-07-01

How bare-metal client hypervisors will mean the end of agent-based Windows management

With all the recent focus on VDI and desktop virtualization, people are starting to talk about "bare metal" or "Type 1" client hypervisors. Promising the ability to run virtual desktop workloads "locally" on client devices, these hypervisors have the potential ability to radically impact our industry. But...

Tags: Hypervisor, Agent, Microsoft Windows, Virtual Desktop, Client Hypervisor, Desktop Virtualization, Virtualization, Desktops, Hardware

Webcasts 2009-07-01

Sun VirtualBox 3.0

Sun Microsystems released VirtualBox 3.0 today. One goal of this release is supporting workloads, such as database management systems, some collaborative applications and many web-based applications that rely on multiple processes running simultaneously. Another is offering support for high performance graphics for desktop applications. Here's...

Tags: Innotek VirtualBox, Hypervisor, Sun Microsystems Inc., VirtualBox 3.0, Desktop Virtualization, Hardware, Virtualization, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-06-30

Red Hat's KVM-based virtualization platform moves into beta testing

It was a big day for Xen and a big day for the other open source virtualizatio hypervisor as well. Red Hat's KVM-based virtualization platform -- including a standalone hypervisor,  virtualization manager for servers and virtualization manager for the desktop -- moved into beta testing on Tuesday....

Tags: Hypervisor, Red Hat Inc., Xen, KVM, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Open Source, Hardware, Storage, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2009-06-16

Practical VM Security Techniques for Internal and External Virtualized Infrastructures

Jumping onto the virtualization bandwagon makes great economic sense but can be risky if done without proper security measures. The presenter of this webcast discusses current trends in virtual infrastructure security while offering practical techniques for securely managing today's virtual infrastructures. The attendee will learn new approaches for virtualization security,...

Tags: Hypervisor, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Security, Hardware, Storage

Webcasts 2009-05-28

Oracle under fire with x86 hypervisor licensing

Oracle under fire with x86 hypervisor licensingJust an observationMost multi-socket, multi-core servers that I work with use just one VM for Oracle. Either you have a huge database - and no amount of "power" is too much - or you have a large Oracle server handling many instances of smaller...

Tags: Virtualization, Oracle Corp., hypervisor, Intel x86

Discussion threads 2009-05-19

Oracle under fire with x86 hypervisor licensing

Burton Group's Chris Wolf has fired a salvo in Oracle's direction concerning its x86 hypervisor licensing policy. This is a long extract from a much more in depth piece but it is necessary to see what Chris is saying in order to understand the context (my emphasis added and apologies...

Tags: Hypervisor, Oracle Corp., Intel X86, Customer, CPU, VM, Virtualization, Processors, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-05-19

Virtualization: Architectural Considerations And Other Evaluation Criteria

Of the many approaches to x86 systems virtualization 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 white paper examines the main issues about the hypervisor market: architecture, solution support...

Tags: Hypervisor, VMware Inc., Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage

White papers 2009-05-01

Beyond the Hypervisor: A Holistic Approach to Developing Next-Generation Data Center Architecture

As organizations work to evolve their IT infrastructure from a static collection of individual assets into a system capable of rapidly adapting to meet business demands, they have become very interested in the concept of infrastructure virtualization. And for good reason: properly architected and deployed, today's virtualization technologies hold significant...

Tags: IT Infrastructure, Hypervisor, Information Technology, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Data Center Virtualization, Strategy, Hardware, Storage, Data Centers, Data Management, Management

White papers 2009-04-01

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

Red Dog: Five questions with Microsoft mystery man Dave Cutler

Dave Cutler, the father of the NT and VMS operating systems, is a key member of Microsoft's Red Dog cloud OS team. I had a chance to ask Cutler about what he's working on now. Here's our exchange. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Team, Hypervisor, Operating System, Microsoft Windows NT, Microsoft Corp., Red Dog, Fabric Controller, MJF, Opposite, Virtualization, Team Management, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Operating Systems, Hardware, Management, Storage, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2009-02-25

Red Hat virtualization friend of the little guy

It makes all sorts of sense for an enterprise Linux vendor to seek to define what a virtualization system supports as anything Linux does. Trouble is logical and makes sense aren't the same as done in the world of code. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Hypervisor, Red Hat Inc., Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Open Source, Hardware, Storage, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-02-24

Red Hat and Citrix ratchet up open source virtualization relevancy

The open source hypervisor landscape got a lot more interesting today after the latest announcements from Red Hat and Citrix. Both were shots across the bow of VMware’s juggernaut, but Red Hat’s volley may have overshot and struck Xen.org in the stern. Citrix, the flag bearer for...

Tags: Hypervisor, Red Hat Inc., Open Source, Citrix Systems Inc., Xen, KVM, Virtualization, Hardware, James Staten

Blog posts 2009-02-23

I've Seen the Future of Computing: It's a Screen.

In the not so far off future, computing for most of us will be reduced to remotely delivered subscriber services, running on cheap, commodity high-definition display units. The last few weeks have been a rush of virtualization and cloud-based announcements. In December, IBM...

Tags: Hypervisor, Thin Client, Virtual Desktop, Computing, Josef Konsumer, Screen, Linux, Virtualization, Desktops, Thin Clients, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-02-17