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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

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

Storage 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 storage virtualization and the role it plays in green computing.Storage virtualization, by the way,...

Tags: Green Computing, virtual storage software, virtualization

Blog posts 2007-05-17

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

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

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

Enterprise IT's trust level of Google will increase

That pie will increasingly favor Google. Though Google DOES need to support something more like what Amazon does, so you can just rent a Linux box in the cloud that grows and shrinks.Great potential here for Google; p.s. - dont make Yahoo's mistakesThere is great potential for Google from...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Servers, OPEN SOURCE, Enterprise IT, Google AppEngine, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

Clients: fat vs. thin, net vs. note

Can I suggestNetbooks with Win 7. Just installed it on a useless Linux netbook and it works fine and only cost me A$399 (which now is almost the same as US ;-))For once try and rein in your hobby horse and let the students join the new millenium.On and...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Thin clients, PRODUCTIVITY, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, NeatX, oh-so, netbook, thin client, Linux, desktop, operating system, tool

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

UFS Explorer Professional Recovery 3.15.4 (Windows)

UFS Explorer Professional Recovery is fast and comprehensive data recovery and undelete program for FAT/NTFS, HFS/HFS+, UFS/UFS2, and XFS/ReiserFS/Ext2/Ext3 file systems with broken RAID arrays recovery support. With UFS Explorer Professional Recovery you may recover files from most used file systems of different OS: UFS/UFS2 BSD, XFS/ReiserFS/Ext2/Ext3 Linux, HFS/HFS+/HFSx MacOS,...

Tags: Disk, Recovery, Microsoft Windows, SysDevSoftware, UFS Explorer Professional Recovery, RAID, Storage, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-10-15

Pioneer AVIC-Z110BT

At the top of Pioneer's AVIC line of navigation receivers, and indeed its entire line of car audio receivers, sits the AVIC-Z110BT. This grandest of car stereos features just about every bell, whistle, and whizbang that Pioneer has to throw at mobile audio and video. From GPS navigation that can...

Tags: GPS, Digital music, Digital media, receiver, SD card

Product reviews 2009-10-13

Netgear Digital Entertainer Live

The first few rounds of network media streamers we tested weren't necessarily recommendable. Sure, this was partially because most of these devices depend on Windows Media Center for connectivity and content, but we also had issues with their interfaces and performance. Unlike the company's previous solutions to home...

Tags: Corporate communications, PRODUCTIVITY, Storage, Digital media, Digital music, Netgear Inc., Digital Entertainer, Digital Entertainer Live

Product reviews 2009-10-08

Moore's Law of Software is the key to the cloud

I don't think so[i]Software falls further behind hardware every year.[/i]From where I seat software is not so much behind.In just a few years the hardware becomes inadequate to handle all the software we install.There is also plenty of software that can not be deployed because of the hardware lack of...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Programming languages, Development tools, Urquhart, SOFTWARE IS, software, hardware

Discussion threads 2009-10-08

SciMark Drives 2009.10.05 (Windows)

Drive, as an electronic device, or as a combination of mechanics and electronics, is performed by its absolute physical speed and data input and output rates. On the other hand, any a drive is connected to a system as storage and/or host of virtual memory. So as a host of...

Tags: Performance, Microsoft Windows, TheCNLab, SciMark, SciMark Drives, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Software downloads 2009-10-06

MobilityPass Compass 1.2 (Windows)

The MobilityPass Compass international SoftPhone is your encrypted Communication "Swiss-Knife" while abroad: Calls In & Out, SMS Text messaging, Unified Instant Messaging, Fax, Push E-Mail, Storage, Follow me numbers, Wifi Hotspot finder, VPN. SoftPhone: Free PC to PC calls, 100% FREE calls at great quality using your contact list. Send...

Tags: Phone, Microsoft Windows, E-mail, Fax, Telecom & Utilities, Online Communications

Software downloads 2009-10-06

Flexcrypt Free 3.0.0.2896 (Windows)

Flexcrypt is a free encryption software that provides encrypted communication And encrypted storage. Flexcrypt can encrypt your Emails, Texts, Files, MSN/ICQ messages and Hard drive. E-mail encryption requires the usage of a local email client not webmail. Enter the receivers address in Flexcrypt, and the emails will be encrypted. Send...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Encryption, Flexcrypt, E-mail Encryption, Hard Drive Encryption, E-mail, Security, Online Communications

Software downloads 2009-09-29

Mastering Virtualized Environments

Data centers are growing rapidly in size and complexity. At the same time, competitive and economic pressures are making cost control even more critical to the overall success of data center implementations. Virtualization offers organizations of all sizes the opportunity to reduce the physical footprint of their data...

Tags: Service Management, Data Center, Environment, Virtual Environment, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management

White papers 2009-09-18

HP Software CTO: Virtualization and cloud sourcing sprawl likely

HP Software sees a lot of sprawl on the horizon with virtualization and cloud computing. Those are the two primary key takeaways from my conversation with Jamie Erbes, Chief Technology Officer for HP Software & Solutions. Erbes right has an interesting track record. She arrived at HP...

Tags: Software, Sourcing, Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Electronic Data Systems Corp., HP Software, IT Department, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Purchasing & Procurement, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Hardware, Storage, Business Operations, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-09-17

Time to ditch the optical drive, once and for all

Once heralded as the second coming of data storage, the sun has finally set on the optical drive as an effective vehicle for data storage and delivery. Optical drives are simply too small and too slow to be practical. Single layer discs hold 4.7GB while double layer discs can hold...

Tags: Hard Drive, Apple Macintosh, Disk, Storage, Optical Drive, MCE, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-09-16

News to know: Snow Leopard; YouTube; VMWorld; Google Books

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. Ryan Naraine: Snow Leopard ships with vulnerable Flash Player Sam Diaz: Report: EC considering delay of Sun-Oracle over...

Tags: Google Inc., Andrew Nusca, YouTube Inc., Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Desktop Virtualization, Desktops, Data Centers, Virtualization, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Hardware, Storage, Data Management

Blog posts 2009-09-03