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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 XenEnterpriseÃ¢â€žÂ¢. 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
Transitive QuickTransit - Hardware Virtualization that Takes the Pain Out of Migrations: Bob Weiderhold, CEO of Transitive, and I fought off intermittent telephone problems to discuss a technology that is often overlooked when analysts put together their taxonomy of virtual processing software. Transitive calls this "Hardware Virtualization" and offers a product family, "QuickTransit" that implements this concept in a number of ways....; Tags: virtual processing software; Blog posts 2007-07-18
Digipede Wins Microsoft ISV of the Year: John Powers, CEO of Digipede, and I had a lovely conversation the other day. Before we could really examine the company's virtualization technology and approach to the market, John mentioned that his company was named Microsoft ISV/Software Solutions Partner of the Year in 2007. When one considers how many ISV...; Tags: virtual processing software, high performance computing; Blog posts 2007-07-17
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 GridServerÃ‚Â® 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 did Intel invest $218.5 million for 2.5% of VMware?: It's been all over the media that VMware filed its IPO so that it could sell 10% of its stock to the public and that very quickly after that offer was made Intel Corporation paid $218.5 million to purchase 2.5% of VMware. This is not really a startling move. Intel...; Tags: virtual machine software, virtual processing software; Blog posts 2007-07-11
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: Access virtualization, application virtualization, Dan Kusnetzky, Microsoft Corp., virtual machine software, virtual processing software, virtualization, vision; 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
Evergrid -- High Performance Computing in the Enterprise: Recently I had the opportunity to speak with representatives of Evergrid, a company that focuses on how to apply high performance/grid computing techniques in enterprise computing environments. Since I've spoken to many companies attempting to deploy open source tools, such as Beowulf or Grid Engine, in commercial data centers, I...; Tags: virtual processing software, Managing virtualized environments, high performance computing, clustering software; Blog posts 2007-06-06
XenÃ¢â€žÂ¢ 3.1 is launched bringing a 64-bit hypervisor, live relocation and XenAPI: The good folks at XenSource announced XenÃ¢â€žÂ¢ 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 -- Where do they fit today?: In my post, Single system image clusters: an idea whose time has come and gone?, I asked the rhetorical question "Are single system image clusters an idea whose time has come and gone?" I must admit that I had a somewhat proprietary interest in the technology. At an early...; Tags: virtual processing software, clustering software; Blog posts 2007-05-03
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
SWsoft Once and Done Partitioning Software: An announcement from SWsoft just came to my attention. The company is offering a very simple way for small or medium sized organizations to deploy operating system partitioning or virtualization. It appears that the good folks over at SWsoft have thought long and hard about this and have come up...; Tags: Dan Kusnetzky, Managing virtualized environments, virtual machine software, virtual processing software, Virtuozzo, Parallels Inc., operating system, software; Blog posts 2007-04-24
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