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- (1) The name given to various programming language interpreters. See Java Virtual Machine and Python.
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- Virtualization is not virtual machine software
- Virtualization is something that has been around for quite a long time. It has been a staple of the mainframe world for well over 30 years. It has been part of the midrange systems world for over 20 years. It has been emerging in the world of industry standard systems...
- Blog posts 2009-06-02
- Cloud Computing @ Aditya Yadav & Associates
- The technology behind Cloud Computing has existed in Data Centers for well over the last decade. Namely those technologies are Virtualization and Automation. Virtualization allows using high end physical machines with multiple virtual machines running on them. Automation usually means that these virtual machines can be snapshot'd and kept on...
- White papers 2009-05-15
- TotalCross Development Kit 1.1 (Windows)
- TotalCross (totally cross-platform) is a mobile development platform for PDA and smartphones. Using the Java language it makes possible to develop portable applications to deploy in a wide range of market smartphones without any adaptation in the source code ("write once run anywhere" concept) since TotalCross virtual machine has been...
- Software downloads 2009-05-10
- Will Virtual Machine Software Accelerate Windows 7 Adoption?
- Will Virtual Machine Software Accelerate Windows 7 Adoption?Oh Please"Another common issue in Microsoft?s world is application incompatibilities due to mismatched DLLs or other libraries."Not in this century, dude. In fact not since Windows 3.1 has this been a real issue.The VB6 runtime dll caused problems.But DLL-hell hasn't been an issue...
- Discussion threads 2009-04-27
- Will Virtual Machine Software Accelerate Windows 7 Adoption?
- Microsoft, however, is more than likely going to do something foolish like make some individuals pay for each and every operating system used or place some artificial limits on workloads based upon version of the operating system an individual has selected. As in the past, Microsoft would then be propelling...
- Blog posts 2009-04-27
- SolarWinds VM Monitor 1.0.1.31 (Windows)
- While virtualization has tremendous benefits, it adds new complexity when it comes to managing your network. Virtual machines VMs and their host ESX servers need performance and availability monitoring, just like their physical server counterparts. Your users don't care if their apps are running on physical servers or in virtual...
- Software downloads 2009-04-16
- Data Protection Reporting for Your Virtual Machines
- Veritas Backup Reporter VBR provides the better insight into the virtual machine backups. Which virtual machines are or most error prone? How much faster do the VCB VMware Consolidated Backups finish compared to the traditional backup clients running inside the virtual machines? How much data is backing up for each...
- Webcasts 2009-04-15
- Mark Angelo's post on Parallels and Symantec
- Mark Angelo, CEO of Lanamark, and I were exchanging messages and he pointed out one of his posts which can be found here. I thought he had some intriguing ideas and that you might find them interesting as well. In his post, Mark runs through some of...
- Blog posts 2009-04-10
- VMware Player 2.5.2 (Windows)
- VMware Player enables PC users to easily run any virtual machine on a Windows or Linux PC. VMware Player runs virtual machines created by VMware Workstation, GSX Server, or ESX Server, and also supports Microsoft virtual machines and Symantec LiveState Recovery disk formats. Version 2 may include unspecified updates, enhancements,...
- Software downloads 2009-04-04
- Parallels Workstation Extreme
- Until very recently, some graphics intensive applications were not good candidates for encapsulation in a virtual machine. Even though using virtual machine technology could offer the administrators and users a number of benefits, the performance would simply not past muster with the "power users" needing those applications. ...
- Blog posts 2009-04-02
- TechNet Webcast: How Microsoft Does IT: Best Practices for Deploying Virtual Machines Using Hyper-V Virtualization Technology (Level 300)
- The presenter of this webcast shows how Microsoft IT virtually deploys more than 80% of new servers using Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. To ensure optimal performance, Microsoft IT has developed configuration best practices, based on the application workloads or services being provided by the virtual machines.
- Webcasts 2009-03-24
- From the Catbird seat - VMshield 2.0
- The traditional leaders in security software along with many startups are trying to be the "go to people" when it comes to security in a virtual world. Each has its own agenda, of course. Catbird has taken one of the more innovative approaches, that is monitoring network traffic to dynamically...
- Blog posts 2009-03-20
- Virtual Machine and Storage Integration With VMware and Dell
- This webcast take a deeper dive into storage and networking in VMware Infrastructure. Storage topics included the details on how VMware ESX and ESXi use Fibre Channel, iSCSI, and NAS storage; the architecture of VMware vStorage Virtual Machine File System VMFS; multipathing in Fibre Channel and iSCSI SANs; raw disk...
- Webcasts 2009-03-16
- Virtual Computer NxTop Beta
- I've been tracking the development cycle of several virtual desktop environments. Virtual Computer's NxTop is one of the more interesting I've bee following. I've looked in on what the company's doing several times see Desktop virtualization according to Virtual Computer and Virtual Computer Round B and Citrix for more information....
- Blog posts 2009-03-05
- AppZero's Virtual Application Appliances cloud computing simplified
- AppZero, formally Trigence, demonstrated a different approach to allowing organizations to take advantage of the computing resources made available by hosting suppliers at Demo 09. Rather than taking the approach that is typically proposed by the suppliers of virtual machine technology, AppZero's approach is to encapsulate applications rather than complete...
- Blog posts 2009-03-03
- Technical Track: Fault Tolerance for VMware Virtual Machines
- The presenter of this webcast provides background on VMware Fault Tolerance VMware FT and how VMware vLockstep technology is used as the core for VMware FT. The presenter also covers how to set up and protect the virtual machines and provide scenarios on what happens during an actual failover. Finally,...
- Webcasts 2009-02-24
- TechNet Webcast: How Microsoft Designs the Virtualization Host and Network Infrastructure (Level 300)
- At Microsoft, server virtualization has become a primary way to address data center power and space issues, and to rationalize server utilization. The presenter of this webcast describes the best practices that Microsoft IT developed to configure host computers, storage, and network infrastructure in order to optimize virtual machine deployments.
- Webcasts 2009-02-17
- The Better Choice: HP StorageWorks EVA and HP BladeSystem
- While the reasons for and the benefits of data center virtualization are well-known, server virtualization comes with challenges of its own. Rapid proliferation and virtual machine sprawl can begin to increase cost of ownership by making configuration management difficult and complex. Further exacerbating the situation is the rapid proliferation of...
- White papers 2009-02-01
- Oracle VM Template Developer's Guide: Creating Pre-Built VMs for Rapid Software Deployment
- An Oracle VM Template is a Virtual Machine VM, or group of VMs, containing a full software stack that is pre-installed, pre-configured, and ready to use. Simply download and import a Template into Oracle VM, and then deploy the template as a VM in order to use the pre-configured software....
- White papers 2009-02-01
- Best Practices for Deploying Virtual Machines by Using Hyper-V Virtualization Technology
- In response to limited space and power in the Microsoft IT data centers, Microsoft IT is deploying most new server builds as virtual servers. As a result, Microsoft IT developed standards for building virtualization host computers to meet this demand, but also requires virtual machine build standards. To ensure that...
- Case studies 2009-02-01
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