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- 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
- Parallels releases its Hypervisor -- on the Mac
- Today, virtualization vendor Parallels released the first version of its Server hypervisor for x86 hardware. The surprising thing about it is that it chose to go to release with its Mac version first. Parallels first came to market with its desktop-based virtualization products...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Hypervisor, Parallels Inc., Parallels Server, VM, Virtuozzo Container, Windows Version, Virtualization, Linux, Desktops, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Operating Systems, Servers, Hardware, Software, Storage, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-06-17
- Virtualization smackdown: Sun xVM VirtualBox 1.6 vs. VMWare Server 2.0 Beta 2
- Once strictly the domain of software developers and QA engineers, personal and small-business virtualization products are now becoming an attractive solution for entry-level systems consolidation and foreign OS compatibility applications. These solutions run on host operating systems which do not require the overhead or usual high entry cost of professional...
- Tags: Innotek VirtualBox, Version, Operating System, Sun Microsystems Inc., VMware Inc., Beta, Sun xVM VirtualBox 1.6 xVM VirtualBox, Linux Setup, VMWare Server 2.0 Beta 2 VMWare Server 2.0, VMWare 2.0, Linux, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Operating Systems, Open Source, Servers, Software, Hardware, Storage, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-05-21
- VMware debuts premium Recovery, Stage Manager services
- VMware has released two new virtualization management services and bundles to advance its technical lead in the market. To that end, the Palo Alto, Calif. announced Tuesday plans to deliver the VMware Site Recovery Manager, VMware Stage Manager and a number of bundles combining those with existing products...
- Tags: Recovery, VMware Inc., Disaster Recovery, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Data Management, Hardware, Storage, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Why is the concept of virtual machine software so sticky?
- Why is the concept of virtual machine software so sticky?More stuff to go down...when the host server crashes.My ThoughtsWe run about 150 VM's here hosted over a redundant cluster setup. If one machine fails, the others pick up the slack without interuption. But we still have quite a few issues...
- Tags: Operating systems, Storage management, Utility computing, virtual machine concept, operating system, virtualization, HP OpenVMS, virtual machine, cluster, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-02-14
- Citrix strays far from XenSource's original open source mission
- In 2005, hot new startup XenSource was positioning itself as the open source alternative to VMware and Microsoft Virtual Server. Then came a controversial pact in 2006 between the powers that be at the Palo Alto virtualization software company and Microsoft. The mail goal, XenSource executives...
- Tags: Citrix Systems Inc., Xen, XenSource Inc., Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Open Source, Hardware, Storage, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-02-07
- Sentillion vThere
- I recently had a chat with David Fusari, Sentillion VP and CTO of Sentillion;; about Sentillion's product vThere. You'll note that I controlled myself and didn't title this post "vThere or Be Square" or something else on the silly side such as "I guess you had to vThere." It's...
- Tags: Health Care Company, Health Care, Sentillion vThere, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Virtualization, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-01-18
- Will Macs star at this year's Macworld Expo?
- Move over iPod and iPhone and television set-top boxes. In a surprising twist, it looks as if the big stories at this year's Macworld Expo may actually be about the Macintosh. Last year, the buzz of the Expo was all about the iPhone. However, the story was...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Outlook, Apple Inc., Bento, Desktops, Hardware, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-01-14
- Will virtualization be king at Macworld Expo?
- SWsoft on Wed. introduced a beta version of Parallels Server that supports the running of multiple copies of Leopard Server on Mac Pros and Xserves as well as support for Intel's VT-d virtualization hooks in hardware. According to the company, the software will run Leopard Server in...
- Tags: Apple Xserve, Apple Macintosh, Hypervisor, Operating System, Apple Inc., Parallels Server, Apple Mac OS X, Virtualization, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Hardware, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-01-09
- News to know: QuickTime Band-Aids; Opera; Hyper-V; AMD; iPhone@Work
- Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Apple slaps more bandaids on QuickTime David Berlind: Google/OpenSocial's director of engineering David Glazer unplugged: 'Shindig is live' Christopher Dawson: Another cheap mini-portable...competition rocks Larry Dignan: Opera files complaint against Microsoft in the EU...
- Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Apple QuickTime, Beta, BlackBerry Patent App, Google Inc., Hardware, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Opera Software ASA, Operating Systems, Software, Virtualization
- Blog posts 2007-12-14
- SWsoft Renames Itself "Parallels"
- SWsoft* has just issued an announcement that it has changed its name to Parallels. It is not at all uncommon for a company having a successful product, such as Parallels, a virtual machine software product, to take on the name of that product in the hopes of building stronger awareness...
- Tags: Dan Kusnetzky, Software, Parallels Inc., Tools & Techniques, Virtual Machine, Virtualization, Management, SWsoft*, SWsoft/Parallels
- Blog posts 2007-12-13
- RightScale makes EC2 a better fit for SaaS
- Amazon.com CTO Dr Werner Vogels' presentation at SIIA's OnDemand Summit see my previous posting was punctuated by a demonstration performed by Thorsten von Eicken, CTO of RightScale, a start-up that provides a platform to manage cloud computing on EC2. Von Eicken has an impeccable SaaS pedigree, having been chief architect...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Server, Amazon.com Inc., Service, RightScale, EC2, RightScale Software, Crystal Reports Implementation, Software As A Service (SaaS), Servers, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2007-11-20
- Virtualization on Itanium: Intel Enables Choice and Flexibility for Customers
- Intel is partnering with a host of virtualization providers to deliver customers as much choice and flexibility as possible on which to run their mission-critical applications. Key virtualization providers include HP, Hitachi, Fujitsu, NEC, Red Hat, and SWsoft. By partnering so broadly, Intel believes it is delivering on the customer...
- Tags: Intel Itanium, Intel Corp., International Data Group, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Virtualization, Utility Computing, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2007-11-01
- Orchestration of resources P2V, V2V and V2P
- A real orchestration strategy would have to include the ability to move resources from one physical system to another (P2P), one virtual system to another (V2V) and convert physical to virtual and back (P2V, V2P) to make optimal use of those resources. What is optimal? That, of course, depends upon...
- Tags: Supplier, Capability, Channel Management, Disaster Recovery, Marketing, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2007-10-16
- IDC Report - SWsoft: Making Operating System Virtualization an Option
- Server virtualization has become increasingly popular in the datacenter. As the virtualization phenomenon expands, organizations are discovering new ways to apply the technology -- and are faced with new challenges. SWsoft is aiming to address these challenges through its Virtuozzo product and its set of management tools. ...
- Tags: Parallels Virtuozzo, Operating System, OS Virtualization, International Data Corp., Parallels Inc., Operating Systems, Software
- White papers 2007-10-01
- With hardware-based hypervisors, Hitachi says 'ditch software like Xen, VMware'
- With hardware-based hypervisors, Hitachi says 'ditch software like Xen, VMware'I guess this could have merit, but ONLY if it allows the read-only sharingof the OS, library, and application memory images. There are plenty of reasons to run multiple instance of the same OS, but almost NO reasons to run instances...
- Tags: Utility computing, Storage, Operating systems, hypervisor, virtualization, Hitachi Ltd., Xen, VMware Inc., operating system, hardware, software
- Discussion threads 2007-09-18
- With hardware-based hypervisors, Hitachi says 'ditch software like Xen, VMware'
- Compared to the likes of other server makers like IBM, HP, Dell, and Sun, Hitachi may not be a household name in the North American market. But this week at the Intel Developer Forum IDF, the North American division of the Japan-based company Hitachi America will be looking to drive...
- Tags: Software, Podcast, Blade Server, Hypervisor, Blade, Hitachi Ltd., Server, Xen, VMware Inc., Storage, Podcasts, Blade Servers, Servers, Utility Computing, Hardware, Internet, David Berlind
- Blog posts 2007-09-18
- SWsoft Virtuozzo's Version 4 beta
- SWsoft Virtuozzo's Version 4 betadriversI do not agree that SWsoft can actually be compared to VM Ware for example. The type of partitioning SW soft has one general architechtual problem many virtual machines are residing on general purpose OS that has not being designed to optimize the performance of many...
- Tags: Virtuozzo, Parallels Inc., virtual machine, virtualization
- Discussion threads 2007-09-12
- SWsoft Virtuozzo's Version 4 beta
- SWsoft is a company that I've been tracking for quite some time. They have a strong presense in the hosting market and a growing presence in large organizations. They offer operating system virtualization/partitioning, desktop virtualization, management for those environments and an increasing number of other things offering a high performance,...
- Tags: Dan Kusnetzky, Parallels Inc., Virtualization, Virtuozzo, Beta
- Blog posts 2007-09-12
- Scalent Systems wins best virtualization solution at Linuxworld
- I just heard the news that Scalent Systems was awarded "Best Virtualization Solution" at LinuxWorld in San Francisco. Since quite a number of virtualization technology providers or technology projects were at the event; such as FastScale, OpenVZ, SteelEye, SWsoft, VirtualLogix and 3Leaf Systems; that's quite a complement.For those of...
- Tags: Real estate, Servers, Dan Kusnetzky, virtualization, Scalent, environment, agent, server
- Blog posts 2007-08-09
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