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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 XenEnterprise™. 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
- iPhone 3G boot failure complaints pile up
- The iPhone 3G appears to be having a few software issues that are leaving a few disgruntled customers in its wake. We were tipped off by a reader who outlined the following: This happened while running iPhone version 2.0. Visited App Store using iPhone - nothing...
- Tags: apple iphone, apple iphone 3g, 3g, cellular phones, wireless, consumer electronics, personal technology, larry dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- TSA 'checkpoint-friendly' bags fly on 16 August
- After the news earlier this week the the Department of Homeland Security DHS is authorized to perform notebook computer searches at U.S. borders and the subsequent suits announced by the EFF and ALC comes a softer, friendlier federal government. The Transportation Security Administration TSA – who the...
- Tags: transportation security administration, notebooks, hardware, notebooks & tablets, jason d. o\'grady
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- Will the Olympics melt the Internet?
- Okay, sky-is-falling fans and network neutrality proponents: We're about to find out whether the Internet can – or will – break down under the strain of mass consumption of streaming video. At least that's the opinion of Brick Eksten, the president and CEO...
- Tags: nbc, network, video, stream, internet, corporate communications, web site development, marketing, tom steinert-threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- UPDATE: MIT team working on $12 NES, not Apple II
- Looks like the Boston Herald got it wrong. The MIT group that was researching how to make a $12 computer for developing nations was actually working on a machine that's more Super Mario than Steve Jobs. Computerworld's Eric Lai discovers the truth: ...
- Tags: team, apple ii, massachusetts institute of technology, apple inc., productivity, wiki, team management, online communications, management, andrew nusca
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- Teaching language to robots
- For a project scheduled to end in 2011, Plymouth University researchers will build two robots using software allowing them to interact with each other to exchange learned information like humans. The team will use language-learning techniques designed for children. According to The Engineer, the goal of the project is to...
- Tags: project, concept, neck, belpaeme, robots, emerging technologies, roland piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- I went to Moscone Center and all I got was this stupid T-Shirt
- Where's the hot chicks? Yeah you heard it, Summer LinuxWorld Expo sucked. Again. No, I didn't go this year. In fact, I haven't gone in two years. So how can I say it sucked? Because everyone who I know...
- Tags: booth, trade show, webcast, linux, internet, rss, web site development, web technology, operating systems, software, jason perlow
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- VMware has 82% share of market of virtualized servers, Microsoft has 13%
- VMware is the clear market leader in providing virtualization technology with 82% of the sample using VMware. Despite high levels of Linux use, only 3% of the sample were using Xen as their virtualization platform. Microsoft was used by 13% of the sample base with various Unix technologies and mainframe...
- Tags: server, vmware inc., microsoft corp., virtualization, cloud computing, storage management, utility computing, hardware, storage, nb
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
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