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- Microsoft's Hyper-V and Spin Marketing - the Parallels view
- Here's another take on Microsoft's announcement of Hyper-V. This time, the comments are coming from Serguei Beloussov, CEO of Parallels. Surguei appears to be taking a rather pragmatic view of the announcement and all of the surrounding hype. Here's what he had to say: ...
- Tags: Marketing, Microsoft Corp., Hyper-V, Parallels, Surguei, Serguei, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- Maybe I was wrong about Mac Servers
- After reading ZDNet storage majordomo Robin Harris' post this morning I couldn't help but ponder the implications of Macs having a native implementation of Sun's ZFS network scalable file system in the latest versions of Mac OS X Snow Leopard client and Snow Leopard Server. Finally, a compelling reason to...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Storage, Server, ZFS, Parallels, Desktops, Hardware, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-06-20
- Parallels, VMware Fusion, Boot Camp battle in real-world tests
- A fresh review of Windows virtualization products for Mac OS X machines reports that Parallels was faster in accomplishing a wide number of common business and user tasks with Windows XP, as VMware Fusion moved ahead with Windows Vista. The review was performed by MacTech Labs for...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Performance, Microsoft Windows Vista, VMware Inc., Parallels, Entourage, Microsoft Windows, Virtualization, Apple Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Apple Mac OS, Microsoft Windows XP, Desktops, Operating Systems, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Software, Hardware, Storage, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2007-12-19
- Developer tasks made simpler with virtualization
- David Morgenstern explores Apple's BootCamp and Parallels along with their deeper meaning in an article at eWeek. He asks "[A]re there really so few native solutions that Mac users must resort to Windows? Or is something else going on?" He concludes that Apple's making a...
- Tags: Parallels, Bootcamp
- Blog posts 2006-09-22
- Using Parallels on OS X
- I've been running on my MacBook Pro for about a week now. While I've had some issues in getting it set up exactly how I want, I have to admit that switching processors has been remarkably uneventful. You'd think that it...
- Tags: Parallels
- Blog posts 2006-06-15
- Virtualize, don't dual boot
- There's been plenty of hype about Apple's dual boot option for Windows Macs, Boot Camp but there's another option that is worthy of consideration.In my post about Boot Camp yesterday I mentioned that although it's a great option for people that need a full Windows workstation, I prefer something like...
- Tags: Parallels, Apple Mac OS, Apple Macintosh
- Blog posts 2006-04-07
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- MozyPro for Mac goes public beta
- Online backup storage provider Mozy on Tuesday will roll out a public beta for MozyPro for the Mac, a new service for businesses using Apple's Mac platform. MozyPro for the Mac resembles Mozy's business lineup for Windows. It allows online backup for the Mac like its MozyHome...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Public Beta, Backup, MozyPro, Mozy, Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Ballmer needn't fear the Mac...just yet
- Ballmer needn't fear the Mac...just yetThe most important statement...."I’ve not seen any recent comparative studies about Mac v PC TCO"So basically you're just spouting a load of subjective opinion.RE: Ballmer needn't fear the Mac...just yetEat moar Apples.TCO analysis would have been usefulYou state that productivity counts, yet discount a business...
- Tags: ROI/TCO, Desktops, Apple Macintosh, TCO, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2008-09-29
- Ballmer needn't fear the Mac...just yet
- Boutique analyst firm Freeform Dynamics took a run at standardizing on Macs but the switch was not worthwhile. They're now back in the Windows fold. Their report starts by posing a series of questions about business benefit. They found that when pressed, business users were hard put to come up...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-09-29
- Rumor Mill: Some juice on the new MBP (updated)
- According to what I hear the picture that surfaced briefly on French blog Nowhere Else (above, Tip: ValleyWag) isn't the new MacBook Pro. What's with the weird OS X dock that's Photoshopped onto the trackpad and the pixelized tapered edge? Is it supposed to be...
- Tags: Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., MBP, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-09-26
- 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
- Sun xVM VirtualBox 2.0
- Last week Sun launched the newest version of xVM VirtualBox, its open source virtual machine software offering. Here's a quick review of the announcement. Snippet of Sun's press release: Here are a few lightly edited segments of the Sun release: Sun Microsystems,...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., xVM VirtualBox Software, Tools & Techniques, Open Source, Operating Systems, Management, Software, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-09-10
- Do you have what it takes to be a 'Windows guru'?
- Do you have what it takes to be a 'Windows guru'?@voyager529Since Mike Cox already works for MS, it would a simple transfer!This sounds like the perfect job for Mike Cox!...and Loverock Davidson. If Microsoft hires those two, then their $300 Million just might make a dent in public mindshare!! =)JoeySo.....What...
- Tags: Public relations, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Windows guru, Apple Macintosh, Best Buy Co. Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-08
- Google confirms new browser initiative, probably not a good idea
- Google confirms new browser initiative, probably not a good ideaI would switchI am a firefox user on Linux. On both my boxes - CentOS at office and Ubuntu at home - firefox stops responding every once in a while when I visit certain pages, and the only way out is...
- Tags: Web browsers, Web browser, new browser initiative, browser initiative, Google Inc., Mozilla Firefox
- Discussion threads 2008-09-01
- What's holding Desktop Virtualization back?
- What's holding Desktop Virtualization back?Another hold-up to desktop virtualizationWe often see companies still in the "have to POC" virtual desktops stage because they have heard rumors of slow performance or application incompatibility. At vmSight we offer a tool to measure performance, connectivity, and access control of virtual desktops that...
- Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, Virtualization, desktop virtualization, desktop, operating system
- Discussion threads 2008-08-12
- An apology to the Vietnam vets out there
- An apology to the Vietnam vets out thereWhat?*roflhao trying not to wet himself* oh jesus!... i mean... oh my goodness (no offense intended to all those right side of the fence, sandle wearing, western, monotheists out there!).i mean for the love of mary!! political correctness is far far far far...
- Tags: Vietnam VET, Vietnam War
- Discussion threads 2008-08-06
- Goodbye, comp-sci -- now it's 'service' as a science
- Goodbye, comp-sci -- now it's 'service' as a scienceI once thought that wayThats until I stop taking what I learned for granted. That happened when I started working with more CIS and MIS people that could whip up a quick VB app for show but brought down servers under load....
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Development tools, service system, goodbye, IDE
- Discussion threads 2008-08-04
- Kevin Kelly looks to the next 5,000 days of the Web
- Like most of us at Talis, I'm a big fan of the TED videos. There's always a wow moment lurking in each of these recordings, and many of them do a great job of challenging assumptions. More often than not, they're also powerful examples of how best to convey new...
- Tags: Web, Kevin Kelly, Kevin, Channel Management, Semantic Web, Marketing, Internet, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-08-01
- Desktop virtualization - where should the anti-virus run?
- Let's for a moment visualize a virtualized desktop environment. An operating system offering a type 2 hypervisor is acting as the primary operating system in a desktop virtualization implementation. This could be Linux sporting Xen or KVM. It could be Windows running something like Parallels or Virtual PC. It could...
- Tags: Desktop, Virus Protection, Antivirus, Operating System, Guest Operating System, Desktop Virtualization, Operating Systems, Viruses And Worms, Security, Software, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-08-01
- The magic commoditizing virtual machine manager
- I recently noticed VMware's second free hypervisor, a commentary by Gordon Haff of CNET (one of ZDnet's sister companies). He offered an interesting analysis of VMware's recent move to make it's embedded ESX Server available at no charge starting on July 28. I'd like to add a few thoughts of...
- Tags: Revenue, Xen, VMware Inc., Virtual Machine, Desktop Virtualization, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-07-28
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