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Sun xVM Ops Center

I've long known that Sun is one of the few suppliers that has an entry in nearly every virtualization software category listed in the Kusnetzky Group Model. This not only allows the company to address organization's requirements at almost every level. This also means that I don't have a chance...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun xVM Ops Center, Sun Solaris, Data Centers, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-04-18

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Yes, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 will run on Linux

This solidifies my decisionI currently have a cluster of a dozen RHEL 5.3 Cluster Suite servers. They have been a nightmare to use, maintain, and keep working right. Red Hat's clustering software is horrendously buggy. I never have gotten virtualization to work properly with the whole mess.After...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Servers, Linux, UEC, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, kvm, cluster, Red Hat Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-11

Oracle enhances VM management with Virtual Iron acquisition

The rumors are true. Oracle has finally announced that its intent to acquire Virtual Iron for its virtual server management capabilities. It's a nice fit for Oracle, which has its own Xen-based virtualization platform called Oracle VM. Up until now, Virtual Iron has been selling its management...

Tags: Acquisition, Oracle Corp., Xen, Virtual Iron, Virtualization, Server Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Servers, Storage, James Staten

Blog posts 2009-05-13

News to know: E-voting security; Salesforce.com; NetSuite; SAP; Microsoft

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason Perlow: Linux: The Joe Sixpack Strategy Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft Big Brains: Brad Lovering Microsoft confirms MinWin is in Windows 7, after all...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Security, Facebook, Larry Dignan, NetSuite Inc., SAP AG, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., E-voting, Sales Force Management, Data Centers, Government, Sales, Storage, Hardware, Data Management

Blog posts 2008-11-04

Sun xVM Ops delivering on promises

As I pointed out in the post Sun xVM Ops Center, Sun is one of the few companies that has offerings in every category of the Kusnetzky Group Model (see Sorting out the different layers of virtualization if you don't remember the different layers of virtualization technology in the KG...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Ops Center, Enterprise Datacenter, Virtualization, Storage Management, Cloud Computing, Utility Computing, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-11-04

An open response to a Jonathan Schwartz blog

An open response to a Jonathan Schwartz blogSounds like xVM server to me.Perhaps I misunderstood your thoughts, but what you describe sounds an awful lot like the xVM Ops center server product from Sun.More virtual crapVirtualization allows projects that didn't buy the hardware, to run on the hardware. IOW the...

Tags: Data centers, Servers, Jonathan Schwartz, NOW IT, blog, server, data center, new server, virtualization

Discussion threads 2008-09-18

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

Sun acquires innotek

I just read the notice that Sun had acquired innotek, the creators of Virtualbox, a virtual machine software product. Before I had a chance to really look into this move, I wondered why Sun would acquire another virtual machine software product when it had a program to integrate the Xen...

Tags: Innotek VirtualBox, Operating System, Sun Microsystems Inc., Virtual Machine, Innotek GmbH, Sun xVM Server, Virtualization, Data Centers, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Operating Systems, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Software, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-02-13

Sun xVM - Foundation for a dynamic datacenter?

Sun xVM - Foundation for a dynamic datacenter?Thanks Dan!I enjoyed our conversation as well. I'm looking forward to the next one. I also posted a few notes on my blog:http://blogs.sun.com/stevewilson/entry/my_conversation_with_zdnet_s-SteveSteve WilsonVice President, xVMSun Microsystemshttp://blogs.sun.com/stevewilson/RE: Sun xVM - Foundation for a dynamic datacenter?Dan,SUN has mentioned that xVM OpCenter will...

Tags: Data centers, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Sun Solaris, Storage, Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun xVM, dynamic Datacenter, data center

Discussion threads 2008-01-29

Sun xVM - Foundation for a dynamic datacenter?

I've been meaning to post something about my conversation with Sun's Steve Wilson about xVM  for a while but, other things kept getting in the way. Steve and I have spoken often in the past and I've always enjoyed his insight into virtualization technology as a whole, how organizations could...

Tags: Data Center, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun xVM, Linux, Sun Solaris, Virtualization, UNIX, Data Centers, Operating Systems, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Open Source, Servers, Software, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-01-29

Sun launches xVM virtualization platform

At Oracle OpenWorld Rich Green, executive vice president of software at Sun, unveiled his company's latest twist on virtualization--the Sun xVM platform. Sun xVM is based on the Xen hypervisor and supports Windows, Linux and Solaris guest operating systems, Green said. Sun's is bringing many of its assets...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun xVM, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-11-14