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New virtualization buddies - XenSource & Symantec

XenSource, Inc. and Symantec have signed an OEM agreement. Symantec is going to work with XenSource to embed Veritas Storage Foundation into XenEnterpriseâ„¢. The two companies are then going to collaborate on delivering enterprise-class HA/DR and backup technology to XenSource customers. Let's consider why these companies are joining together for...

Tags: virtual storage software, virtual processing software, virtual machine software, Managing virtualized environments

Blog posts 2007-07-23

Why are there so many open source processing virtualization projects?

The virtualization community has been hearing quite a bit about KVM or Kernel-based Virtual Machine since it was included in Version 2.6.20 of the Linux kernel. It was interesting that this technology was included in the kernel relatively shorty after it first emerged while Xen still has not been...

Tags: virtual processing software, virtual machine software

Blog posts 2007-07-19

DataSynapse GridServer 5.0 scales up scale out computing

Jamie Bernardin, CTO of DataSynapse, and I enjoyed well at least I enjoyed it a fast moving discussion of the challenges of scaling up scaled out computing. DataSynapse's GridServer® has been one of the virtual processing solutions that I've been watching for years. Here are a few of my notes...

Tags: virtualization, virtual processing software

Blog posts 2007-07-16

Why is it so hard to understand Microsoft's virtualiztion vision?

I've been trying to sort out how Microsoft plays in the rapidly moving world of virtualization technology for industry standard systems. I've spoken with over 50 different companies who are actively trying to carve out their niche in this world. I'm sure that there at least 50 more out in...

Tags: virtualization, virtual processing software, virtual machine software, application virtualization, Access virtualization

Blog posts 2007-07-10

Sorting out the different layers of virtualization

Have you found yourself wondering what's wrong with all of the marketing mavens out there in virtualization land? It seems that everything is virtualization and nothing is virtualization.Over the years, I've developed a tool or a model that has helped my clients better understand all of the layers of...

Tags: virtualization, virtual storage software, virtual processing software, virtual access software, Network Virtualization, Managing virtualized environments, application virtualization

Blog posts 2007-06-28

SWsoft - partitioned operating systems are better for hosters than virtual machines. Are they better for you?

I had a chance to speak with Douglas Johnson, Director of Marketing for the Hosting market for SWsoft about the company's approach to partitioned operating systems, what the company calls "Operating System Virtualization." Thanks for taking so much time discussing SWsoft with me, Doug! During the discussion, Doug spent some...

Tags: virtual machine software, virtual processing software, virtualization, Parallels Inc., operating system, software, virtual machine, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2007-06-18

Xenâ„¢ 3.1 is launched bringing a 64-bit hypervisor, live relocation and XenAPI

The good folks at XenSource announced Xenâ„¢ 3.1 today. This release is a wonderful demontration of a community effort. The list of contributors to Xen 3.1 include XenSource itself, Intel, IBM, Novell, VA Linux Japan, HP, Fujitsu, SGI, Red Hat, AMD, Sun, Unisys and the U.S. National Security Agency. Impressive...

Tags: virtualization, virtual processing software, virtual machine software, Uncategorized, Green Computing

Blog posts 2007-05-22

Processing virtualization and green computing

As mentioned in my post titled, Virtualization and Green Computing, green computing the industry catch phrase for finding ways to make the most efficient use of computing resources. In this post, I'd like to look at processing virtualization and the role it plays in green computing. Processing virtualization, by the...

Tags: virtualization, virtual processing software, Green Computing

Blog posts 2007-05-20

Conversation with Kevin Epstein, VP Marketing, Scailent

Kevin Epstein, VP of Marketing for Scalent Systems, and I enjoyed a wonderful, rambling discussion of virtualization and what Scalent is doing. The company has developed a new catch phrase, "server re-purposing", to describe their ability to, in their words, Scalents Virtual Operating Environment (V/OE)...

Tags: virtualization, virtual processing software, Managing virtualized environments

Blog posts 2007-05-10

Single System Image Clusters - An Idea Who's Time Has Come and Gone

At one time, applications were constructed as a monolithic mass of code that implemented all of the functions required to implement a complete solution including user interface if it faced users, application processing, data management and storage management. Some of the more sophisticated applications also included tools for application...

Tags: clustering software, virtual processing software, virtualization

Blog posts 2007-05-01

Red Hat and Building the Open Source Virtualization Stack

Since my conversation with the good folks at Red Hat (see Discussion with Red Hat’s Joel Berman and Nick Carr - 1st take) Ive been thinking about the companys strategy and how that plays out in the real world. Red Hat presents the notion that a stack of open source...

Tags: virtualization, virtual storage software, virtual processing software, virtual machine software, virtual access software, Managing virtualized environments, high performance computing, clustering software

Blog posts 2007-04-26

Counter point to "Analysis: Can a Customer Be Too Small For Virtualization?"

Virtualization technology is just that, a technology. An organizations requirements and budget must be considered before a specific technology is selected. A technological choice that is perfect for the needs of one organization might just be the wrong choice for another. That being said, Small to Medium Businesses SMB...

Tags: virtual processing software, virtual machine software, virtualization, virtual storage software, virtual access software, clustering software

Blog posts 2007-04-25

DataSynapse and application virtualization

I was offered the opportunity to speak with Kelly Vizzini, CMO of DataSynapse, the other day. She introduced me to a new member of her staff, Shayne Higdon, VP of Marketing. Kelly and I have been part of panel discussions at several conferences on virtualization, grid computing and the like...

Tags: virtualization, virtual processing software, Managing virtualized environments, high performance computing, clustering software

Blog posts 2007-04-20

Cassatt - moving virtualization up a notch

Ive been following Cassatt for a number of years and have always thought that the company has taken a fresh, different view of the concept of virtualization in the implementation of its product "Collage". In an attempt to catch up with what the company is doing now, I spoke with...

Tags: virtualization, virtual processing software, virtual machine software, Managing virtualized environments, clustering software

Blog posts 2007-04-18

Conversation with Marathon Technology

A few days ago I had the opportunity to speak with Marathon Technologys, Michael Bilancieri, Director of Products, and Steve Keilen, Vice President of Marketing about creating both highly available HA and fully fault tolerant FT environments using industry standard systems. It was a very interesting conversation. While at...

Tags: virtualization, virtual processing software

Blog posts 2007-04-17

Fault Tolerant and Fail Over is There a Difference?

Fault tolerant FT solutions go beyond HA fail over solutions to present an environment that is never seen to fail not merely an environment that survives a failure. Some suppliers of FT technology call this "fail through" rather than fail over. I thought that was a well known concept...

Tags: virtualization, virtual storage software, virtual processing software, virtual machine software, virtual access software, remote access software, clustering software

Blog posts 2007-04-16

Overview of Novell's views on virtualization

I enjoyed a lovely conversation with an old acquaintance, Kim Kelly of Novell. We had spoken many times when he was with Red Hat and it was nice to chat for a while. The topic of our conversation was Novells overall strategy for virtualization technology. As with Red Hat, Novell...

Tags: virtual processing software, virtual machine software, Managing virtualized environments

Blog posts 2007-04-12

Discussion with Red Hat's Joel Berman and Nick Carr - 1st take

I recently had the opportunity to speak with Red Hats Joel Berman, Product Management Director for Virtualization products, and Nick Carr, Director of Public and Analyst Relations. First of all, thanks guys for generously giving of your time to bring me back up to date on Red Hats views of...

Tags: virtual processing software, virtualization, virtual machine software, clustering software

Blog posts 2007-04-09

Additional Resources

SAP: first to hit the buffers

SAP pre-announced its Q3 results at what could not have come at a worse time for the beleaguered stock market. Although executives were bragging about 4% growth in software sales as though BusinessObjects doesn't exist the reality is that year over year growth was off 9%. Management...

Tags: Software, Revenue, SAP AG, U.S. GAAP Software Revenue, Tools & Techniques, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-10-06

You get what you pay for: Paid contributors drive open source

What's the difference between a paid contributor to a FOSS project and a volunteer contributor? According to a paper by Evangelia Berdou, quite a bit. Berdou finds that paid developers take up key positions in projects, while volunteers often work on the periphery. In other words -- much of the...

Tags: Developer, F/OSS, Contributor, Core Contributor, Open Source, Joe Brockmeier

Blog posts 2008-10-06