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- Virtual Iron 4.4
- Tim Walsh, Director of Marketing for Virtual Iron, brought me up to speed on his company's newest release of its cleverly named product, Virtual Iron. Since we hadn't spoken in quite some time, we spent the first part of our conversation, telling travel stories, bad jokes and generally having a...
- Tags: data center, virtual iron, virtual iron 4.4, data centers, desktop virtualization, storage, hardware, data management, dan kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-08-11
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- Karmic Koala: That's One Seriously Fast Marsupial
- I'm having issues with VirtualBox . . .I'm having issues with VirtualBox: Even though it worked before, lately it's claiming that "VT-X/AMD-V hardware acceleration has been enabled, but is not operational" and not allowing me to run 64 bit Ubuntu :(.RE: Karmic Koala: That's One Seriously Fast MarsupialI had some...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Ubuntu, Win 7, Ext4, Karmic Koala
- Discussion threads 2009-10-01
- Starwind Enterprise Server 4.2 (Windows)
- StarWind Enterprise Server is an advanced, reliable and powerful iSCSI SAN software that converts any standard 64-bit or 32-bit Windows Server into a scalable SAN that works over the existing Ethernet network. StarWind Enterprise Server includes all enterprise-class features not offered in StarWind Server: Mirroring & Replication: synchronous & asynchronous...
- Tags: Mirroring, Server Cluster, Starwind Software, StarWind Enterprise Server, Microsoft Windows, Storage, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware
- Software downloads 2009-07-22
- Your Thoughts: How mature are cloud computing services?
- Enterprise IT infrastructure & operations professionals have many cloud computing technologies to choose from today, and new solutions seem to appear all the time. What are all these technologies? How do you categorize them? Which are mature and which need a lot of work? Forrester is kicking...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Forrester Research Inc., Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware, James Staten
- Blog posts 2009-06-18
- News to know: Office 2010 leak; Windows Mobile; Wolfram/Alpha; SOA; Zappos; ;
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft Mobile Dev team: 'Windows Mobile 6.5 is done' New Microsoft Office 2010 test build leaks Zack Whittaker: Screenshots:...
- Tags: Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Dana Blankenhorn, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Handhelds, Mobile Applications, Microsoft Office, Wireless And Mobility, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Office Suites
- Blog posts 2009-05-18
- Yet another "Mac vs. PC" article that misses the point
- Yet another "Mac vs. PC" article that misses the pointAmazingNever ceases to amaze me when PC geeks fire the 'Apple is overpriced' round. You inherently reveal the truth about it when you say you don't wish to have all the features of a Mac. You pay for those features, often...
- Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, UNIX, Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh, PC
- Discussion threads 2009-04-16
- Amazon Web Services: No Open Cloud Manifesto for us
- Amazon Web Services: No Open Cloud Manifesto for usIsn't the main advantage of "The Cloud" being Cross Platform Comp.The main reasons I can think of to use the cloud rather than a desktop app is being able to access from basically any web connected computer. If you have to have...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Amazon.com Inc., computer, Open Cloud Manifesto, Amazon Web Services, Web service
- Discussion threads 2009-03-27
- You're Gonna Need a Bigger Mouse for that Mainframe
- You're Gonna Need a Bigger Mouse for that MainframeWrong way.....Rather than virtualizing the x86 on the zos, wouldnt it be better to virtualize the zos on the x86?One of the milstones around the neck of the computing industry as a whole is the licence price IBM recieves from its mainframe...
- Tags: Mainframes, Servers, Processors, mouse, mainframe, Intel x86, Gonna Need
- Discussion threads 2009-03-05
- Verifying the High Capacity of the Six-Core Intel Xeon Processor 7400 Series Used With the Latest Virtualization Technology
- IT Core Corporation wanted to investigate low-cost services using virtualization technology to reduce the cost and increase datacenter efficiency and evaluate the latest hardware and software virtualization technologies, its features and capabilities. As a solution they deployed virtualization environment running Virtual Iron 4 on HP ProLiant DL580 G5 servers fitted...
- Tags: Software Virtualization, Intel Xeon, Intel Corp., Virtualization, Data Centers, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Servers, Processors, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Semiconductors, Components
- Case studies 2009-01-01
- New MacBook Pro performance degrades with the battery removed
- New MacBook Pro performance degrades with the battery removedActually......the batteries degrade faster if they are not used. I have an HP Laptop about 2 years old, when I stored it last December it had a battery life of about 2-2.5 hours. When I took it out in August the...
- Tags: Engineering, New MacBook Pro performance, battery, laptop computer
- Discussion threads 2008-11-23
- Back up your online data. Now.
- Back up your online data. Now.BackUp strategyI would trust a paid provider before I would trust my critical data to my own external device even if it was "backed up daily to a USB drive." I had an external USB drive stolen last month. (I don't keep my backup drive...
- Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), cloud computing, Notebooks, online data, Back-up
- Discussion threads 2008-11-13
- Building the ecosystem: Citrix and Platform Computing
- David Roussain of Citrix and Peter Dyer of Platform Computing brought me up to speed on how the two companies are working together to provide a highly managable, agile computing environment based upon virtual machines supported by Citrix XenServer and Platform Computing's VM Orchestrator 4.0. ...
- Tags: Environment, Citrix Systems Inc., Platform Computing Inc., Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Virtual Machine Software Announcements - Why Now?
- There is a great deal of activity in the virtual machine software market part of the virtual processing layer of the Kusnetzky Group model of virtualization technology. My colleague, Paula Rooney, published Next XenServer â€" code named Orlando â€" now in beta* testing. A while back...
- Tags: Virtual Machine, Virtual Machine Technology, Desktop Virtualization, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-08-13
- Did open source make Green go at VMWare?
- Did open source make Green go at VMWare?No such thing as a free lunch....While I don't lay all the blame on open source, I do blame open source for many of the problems with VMWare's business model. It is very difficult to plan when you have "free" products in the...
- Tags: open source, VMware Inc., programmer
- Discussion threads 2008-07-08
- News to know: Apple patches; Adobe; XP-Vista; Yahoo
- Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Apple plugs 25 Mac OS X security vulnerabilities. David Morgenstern: Apple releases Leopard 10.5.4 update Apple update notice. Robin Harris: Why computers fail Adobe: Adobe Advances Rich Media Search on the Web ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Adobe Systems Inc., Google Inc., Web, Larry Dignan, Yahoo! Inc., Patch Management, Apple Inc., IBM Consulting Service, Web 2.0, 3G, Microsoft Windows, Channel Management, Open Source, Internet, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- 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
- ProxMox: The high-performance virtualization server for the rest of us
- ProxMox: The high-performance virtualization server for the rest of usGood stuffI've been extremely impressed with Proxmox VE and the developers are readily accessible and responsive via their forum and mailing list.I was going to install plain base Debian just for Plesk on this crazy new dual-socket quad-core (8-way SMP) box...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Leadership, cloud computing, Performance management, Storage management, high-performance, virtualization, KVM virtualization, ProxMox VE
- Discussion threads 2008-06-24
- Virtualization smackdown: Sun xVM VirtualBox 1.6 vs. VMWare Server 2.0 Beta 2
- Virtualization smackdown: Sun xVM VirtualBox 1.6 vs. VMWare Server 2.0 Beta 2VMware has even more managabilityYou have the additional capability of managing VMware Server (2.0 beta) with their enterprise-class tools in the Virtual Infrastructure suite. (That means no web front-end!) You can also automate actions without purchasing VI...
- Tags: Utility computing, Storage management, VMware Inc., VMware Server, VMWare Server 2.0, VMWare Server 2.0 Beta 2, Sun xVM VirtualBox 1.6, Sun xVM Virtualbox, VMware Server 2.0 Beta, Sun xVM, virtualization, Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-21
- RPG, PHP, and history
- RPG, PHP, and historyIf it works for you, use it - but it doesnt work for me.If it works for you, and especially if it has an elegant simplicity, then go for it.However,[i]So what's the model? simple: business applications are user interfaces to business data.[/i]I think that in many cases...
- Tags: Scripting languages, Programming languages, Databases, RPG, PHP
- Discussion threads 2008-04-28
- Citrix and NetApp Do the Virtualization Dance Together
- I see that Citrix and NetApp have gotten together to provide a virtual processing/virtual storage solution. As I mentioned in the post The dynamic duo of virtual storage and virtual processing, virtual processing and virtual storage are powerful separately but, using them ought to be part of most organization's virtualized...
- Tags: Virtualization, Citrix Systems Inc., NetApp, VMware Obviously, Storage, Data Management, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-03-31
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