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- Why are there so many open source processing virtualization projects?
- Why are there so many open source processing virtualization projects?some nuancesGenerally you are right -- different projects exists because they are from the different classes, implementing different approaches to virtualization.Still, there are some nuances:1. UML is para-virtualization in fact, have nothing in common with OpenVZ (aka partitioning, aka containers). Quick...
- Tags: Utility computing, Storage management, UML, open source, KVM, Xen, virtualization, para-virtualization, hardware
- Discussion threads 2007-07-19
- Pre-Virtualization: Soft Layering for Virtual Machines
- Para-virtualization ties a guest operating system and a hypervisor together, which restricts the system architecture; e.g., when Linux uses the Xen API, Linux is unable to run on alternative hypervisors such as VMware, Linux itself, or a security kernel such as EROS. Furthermore, the lock-in obstructs evolution of its own...
- Tags: Hypervisor, Operating System, Virtual Machine, University Of Karlsruhe, Para-virtualization, Virtualization, Linux, Operating Systems, Hardware, Software
- White papers 2006-07-15
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- New Web calculators from APC help you get a grip on the green impact of certain design and technology choices
- What tradeoffs do you have to make to achieve certain energy efficiency goals in your data center? How will adding that extra rack, for example, skew your electricity usage? Power management company APC aka the big UPS vendor figures that anyone who can help tell you that...
- Tags: Web, Energy Efficiency, American Power Conversion Corp., Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- Microsoft Hyper-V and Spin Marketing - Symantec's take
- Microsoft's announcement of Hyper-V, as with other Microsoft announcement, brings out the spin-miesters in the marketing departments at Microsoft's partners and competitors alike. Over the past few days I've been posting a summary of some of the converstions I've been having about Hyper-V. This time, I spoke with Sean Derrington...
- Tags: Symantec Corp., Marketing, VERITAS Software Corp., Environment, Citrix Systems Inc., Microsoft Corp., Virtual Machine, Storage, Security, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- Costing Sun Ray vs Wintel
- Costing Sun Ray vs WintelSo, you like Sun Ray, Yes? KiddingSeriously, interesting article--Sun Ray is looking better and better!There are so many good reasons to consider using Thin Client. Sun Ray just reinforces that.A few questionsWhy did you so much oversize the client. why use E7200 core duo ? why...
- Tags: Servers, server, VMware Inc., Sun Ray, Costing Sun Ray, Sun Microsystems Inc., Wintel
- Discussion threads 2008-07-02
- News to know: Microsoft; Yahoo; Google; IT contractors
- Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Microsoft's search plan: It's about semantics and possibly for naught. Dennis Howlett: Powerset's smarts are Microsoft's gain Paul Miller: Powerset really does go to Microsoft... but for how much? Mary Jo Foley: Confirmed: Microsoft buys Powerset natural-language search...
- Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Information Technology, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Team Management, 3G, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- VMware: The Hyper-V assault is underway, but the war is a long one
- VMware: The Hyper-V assault is underway, but the war is a long oneA few points..."...as well as a price point that is absolutely unbeatable — free with the Windows Server 2008 OS..."I expect Neely Kroes will have something to say about this."VMware is great, but you need Microsoft to make...
- Tags: cloud computing, Storage management, Utility computing, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, virtualization, operating system, Hyper-V, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-01
- Hyper-V: The no-brainer virtualization stack for Windows
- Hyper-V: The no-brainer virtualization stack for WindowsWindows.So do you have to run a full version of Windows and then on top of that run Hyper V and then on top of that run your guests? Or can Hyper V be installed bare metal?RE: Hyper-V: The no-brainer virtualization stack for WindowsIt...
- Tags: Operating systems, Storage management, cloud computing, Hyper-V, Microsoft Windows, virtualization
- Discussion threads 2008-07-01
- VMware: The Hyper-V assault is underway, but the war is a long one
- Microsoft's Hyper-V--that long awaited virtualization effort from Redmond--is off and running and the analysis on it falls into three generic buckets: Hyper-V is spin; it's a real virtualization player; and Microsoft is going to crush VMware or be crushed by the incumbent. While those of us in...
- Tags: VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Hyper-V, Dan Kusnetzky, Paula Rooney, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- Hyper-V: The no-brainer virtualization stack for Windows
- Last Thursday, Microsoft released the final version of Hyper-V, the much anticipated built-in hypervisor for Windows Server 2008. Back in February, we had a look at a late beta release, and we were quite impressed with the performance of the system and how easy it was to manage virtual machines....
- Tags: Performance, Microsoft Windows Server, Server, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Hyper-V, Paravirtualization Method, Microsoft VMM 2008, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Virtualization, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Operating Systems, Cloud Computing, Open Source, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Software, Hardware, Storage, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- Debut of Hyper-V, departure of Gates usher in new era for Microsoft
- Debut of Hyper-V, departure of Gates usher in new era for MicrosoftNot even Bill gates is happy with MicrosoftStrange that you should incessantly spin them as compelling..... or are you being adequately compensated (free money, not software)?Bill Gates Sends Angry Email to Microsoft http://www.lockergnome.com/digged/2008/06/25/bill-gates-sends-angry-email-to-microsoft/Wednesday, June 25th,...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, E-mail, Virtualization, cloud computing, Microsoft Corp., Hyper-V
- Discussion threads 2008-06-27
- 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
- Microsoft finally launches Hyper-V
- Analysts have welcomed the release of the hypervisor, but rival VMware claims Hyper-V has been a long time coming and lacks functionality. Microsoft has announced that its Hyper-V hypervisor is finally available, but analysts have questioned whether large enterprises will adopt the product as their sole virtualization...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Hyper-V, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Colin Barker ZDNet.co.uk, hypervisor, Microsoft, VMware, virtualization
- News items 2008-06-26
- Microsoft Releases Hyper-V
- I just received a message from Microsoft about the release of Hyper-V. It has some interesting details about platform support and availability. Here's what Microsoft had to say Tomorrow, June 26, Microsoft will reach a significant milestone for customers and partners with the release of...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Server, Intel X86, Service Pack, Microsoft Corp., Virtual Machine, Hyper-V, VM, SMP, Microsoft Windows, Desktop Virtualization, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-06-26
- Hyper-V: It's here
- Hyper-V: It's hereI Love it ....Quote:"Hyper-V does have one drawback, in that it will only run on the 64-bit version of Windows Server 2008, because it makes heavy use of Intel VT-X and AMD-V on chip virtualization acceleration features, which are only present in newer 64-bit CPUs."I have deployed 20...
- Tags: Network technology, Microsoft Windows, Hyper-V, 64-bit, VMware Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-26
- Hyper-V: It's here
- As reported by ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley yesterday, Microsoft released its Hyper-V bare metal hypervisor platform (Updated: 4:20PM EST)for Windows Server 2008 today, in a virtual shot across competitor and market leader VMWare's bow, which currently holds over an 80 percent market share in x86 virtualization. We...
- Tags: Performance, Microsoft Windows Server, Intel X86, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, Service Pack, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Hyper-V, SMP, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Virtualization, Servers, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-06-26
- News to know: Oracle's Q4; Bill Gates' last day; Sticking with XP
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Yahoo silent on latest rumors of renewed Microsoft talks Dennis Howlett: Oracle's Q4 results analysis RightScale cloud management extends to MySQL Bill Gates: Hits and misses [Video] More...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Microsoft Windows XP, Mary Jo Foley, Bill Gates, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Corporate Communications, 3G, Open Source, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, David Grober
- Blog posts 2008-06-26
- Parallels and Quest - a different approach to desktop virtualization
- Parallels and Quest Software have teamed up to offer a different approach to desktop virtualization, one based upon operating system virtualization and partitioning rather than virtual machine software. What was announced Here's what Parallels and Quest said about their joint announcement: Quest Software and Parallels...
- Tags: Operating System, Virtual Desktop, Quest Software Inc., Desktop Virtualization, Desktops, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-06-26
- Live Webcast: Using High Availability, Replication and Virtualization for Business Continuity
- Organizations face a number of challenges to business continuity and application availability, such as volumes of data and application complexity, demands for round-the-clock operations, and server proliferation. Data replication and high availability can meet many of these challenges, but must be properly used and meet certain standards, if they are...
- Tags: Webcast, High Availability, XOSoft, Computer Associates International Inc., Replication, Business Continuity, It Services, Virtualization, Hardware
- Webcasts 2008-06-26
- I'm sticking with Windows XP
- You've heard it all before -- the bell tolls for Windows XP. The governor isn't calling to give it a reprieve -- Microsoft is officially declaring it end of life for system OEMs on June 30. On April 14, 2009, mainstream support dies. Enterprises with extended support contracts can keep...
- Tags: Desktop, OEM, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP, Virtualization, Microsoft Windows, Cloud Computing, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Storage Management, Utility Computing, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Storage, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-06-25
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