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- XenServer
- A family of Linux and Windows server virtualization products from Citrix that uses the 64-bit Xen virtual machine monitor, originally developed by XenSource. Express is a free starter package....
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- PlateSpin Launches PowerConvert 7.0
- PlateSpin, a recent acquisition of Novell recently announced PowerConvert 7.0, The company was quick to point out that this is the first product launch since the acquistion. Why would they go to such great lengths to mention that? They want to convince the market that PlatSpin will continue to be...
- Tags: PlateSpin Inc., Novell Inc., Data Center, Migration, PowerConvert, Aragorn, Data Centers, Microsoft Windows, Storage, Document Management, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- Microsoft Hyper-V and Spin Marketing - Symantec's take
- Microsoft's announcement of Hyper-V, as with other Microsoft announcement, brings out the spin-miesters in the marketing departments at Microsoft's partners and competitors alike. Over the past few days I've been posting a summary of some of the conversions I've been having about Hyper-V. This time, I spoke with Sean Derrington...
- Tags: Symantec Corp., Marketing, VERITAS Software Corp., Environment, Citrix Systems Inc., Microsoft Corp., Virtual Machine, Storage, Security, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- VMware: The Hyper-V assault is underway, but the war is a long one
- Microsoft's Hyper-V--that long awaited virtualization effort from Redmond--is off and running and the analysis on it falls into three generic buckets: Hyper-V is spin; it's a real virtualization player; and Microsoft is going to crush VMware or be crushed by the incumbent. While those of us in...
- Tags: VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Hyper-V, Dan Kusnetzky, Paula Rooney, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- Hyper-V: The no-brainer virtualization stack for Windows
- Last Thursday, Microsoft released the final version of Hyper-V, the much anticipated built-in hypervisor for Windows Server 2008. Back in February, we had a look at a late beta release, and we were quite impressed with the performance of the system and how easy it was to manage virtual machines....
- Tags: Performance, Microsoft Windows Server, Server, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Hyper-V, Paravirtualization Method, Microsoft VMM 2008, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Virtualization, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Operating Systems, Cloud Computing, Open Source, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Software, Hardware, Storage, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- Hyper-V: It's here
- Hyper-V: It's hereI Love it ....Quote:"Hyper-V does have one drawback, in that it will only run on the 64-bit version of Windows Server 2008, because it makes heavy use of Intel VT-X and AMD-V on chip virtualization acceleration features, which are only present in newer 64-bit CPUs."I have deployed 20...
- Tags: Network technology, Microsoft Windows, Hyper-V, 64-bit, VMware Inc.
- Discussion threads 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
- ProxMox: The high-performance virtualization server for the rest of us
- What sounds like a cross between a Ferengi mating practice and an OREO cookie clone, but is actually the latest and greatest in Open Source turnkey virtualization servers? It's the ProxMox Virtual Environment, a new open source project that has been flying under the hypervisor radar, but may pose a...
- Tags: High-performance, OpenVZ, Server, VMware Inc., Virtual Machine, VM, ProxMox VE, Virtual Machine Setup, Virtualization, Linux, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Open Source, Operating Systems, Hardware, Software, Storage, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-06-24
- News to know: Dell vs. Apple; Virtualization smackdown; Cisco patch; iCal; SAP
- Notable headlines: Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Could an OEM like Dell ever be as cool and as stylish as Apple? Next-generation Radeon GPUs to feature GDDR5 memory John Morris: Report: Nvidia GTX 200 series will be one big GPU EIC podcast: Microhoo; OLPC and...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Virtualization, Information Technology, SAP AG, Cell Phone, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., One Laptop Per Child Project, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-22
- Splunk goes virtual, unveils broad IT search capabilities for Citrix XenServer
- Splunk, which provides indexing and search technology for IT infrastructures, this week made its move into the virtual realm with the announcement of Splunk for Citrix XenServer Management. The San Francisco company says this is just its first foray into search support services for virtualization and that...
- Tags: Network, Information Technology, Citrix Systems Inc., Search Technology, Virtual Machine, Splunk, Server Virtualization, Virtualization, Servers, Hardware, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-05-21
- Virtualization smackdown: Sun xVM VirtualBox 1.6 vs. VMWare Server 2.0 Beta 2
- Once strictly the domain of software developers and QA engineers, personal and small-business virtualization products are now becoming an attractive solution for entry-level systems consolidation and foreign OS compatibility applications. These solutions run on host operating systems which do not require the overhead or usual high entry cost of professional...
- Tags: Innotek VirtualBox, Version, Operating System, Sun Microsystems Inc., VMware Inc., Beta, Sun xVM VirtualBox 1.6 xVM VirtualBox, Linux Setup, VMWare Server 2.0 Beta 2 VMWare Server 2.0, VMWare 2.0, Linux, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Operating Systems, Open Source, Servers, Software, Hardware, Storage, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-05-21
- More Citrix Synergy Announcements
- Many of Citrix's friends have been making announcements at Citrix's big party, Citrix Synergy. I've heard from appSense, Scalent Systems, and VMlogix about what they're doing with Citrix XenServer or Xen Desktop. I guess everyone is doing their best to gain the market's attention before Microsoft finally releases Hyper-V. ...
- Tags: Citrix Systems Inc., Microsoft Corp., Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-05-21
- Microsoft HyperV RC1 available for testing
- Microsoft announced availability of release candidate 1 of its Hyper-V virtualization hypervisor Tuesday. The add-on for Windows Server 2008 is now available for download at http://www.microsoft.com/Hyper-V and it will be available via Windows Update beginning on May 27, Microsoft said. The first release candidate, referred to as...
- Tags: Hypervisor, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Virtualization, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-05-20
- KVM and Xen cofounders engage in war of words
- Xen cofounder and project lead Ian Pratt said predictions about his virtualization hypervisor's demise to the newer kernel-based virtual machine KVM technology are unfounded, a by-product of his competitors' imaginations. "There's no evidence for it. The Xen community is alive and well. Xen is a true...
- Tags: Linux, Hypervisor, Linux Kernel, Xen, KVM, Xen Community, Virtualization, Hardware, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- Green IT: Reducing your Carbon Footprint with Citrix
- Going green has become an imperative, not an option, for companies facing the new reality of balancing business objectives with dwindling environmental resources. Limited energy supply and skyrocketing costs are compelling organizations to take radical measures to reduce their carbon footprint. Read on to learn how Citrix products can help...
- Tags: Green IT, Citrix Systems Inc., Carbon Footprint
- White papers 2008-04-23
- 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
- Marathon Technologies launches everRun VM
- I recently spoke with a couple of folks from Marathon Technologies, Steve Keilen, VP of Marketing, and Michael Bilancieri Director of Products, about a new product they were launching everRun VM. I've posted about Marathon a couple of times in the past. For those interested in a trip down memory...
- Tags: Marathon Technologies, Virtual Machine, everRun VM, Virtualization, Server Virtualization, Hardware, Servers, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-03-27
- We Don't Need No Stinking Black Boxes
- We Don't Need No Stinking Black BoxesVMware will fail.This is exactly why Sun's doing the right thing by building xVM in open source, without any lock in. And exactly why Microsoft will fail to convince me they're truly committed to ineroperability, as well. They're both, VMware and Microsoft, headed for...
- Tags: Virtualization, embedded hypervisor, hypervisor, VMware Inc., Stinking Black-Boxes
- Discussion threads 2008-03-24
- The battle over the embedded hypervisor
- It's no surprise that the virtual machine software companies are doing their best to "get there first" and block the entrance of other competitors. This isn't a new battle see Speculation about embedded hypervisors or Embedded virtual machine software. Each of the major competitors are announcing that they've persuaded systems...
- Tags: Hypervisor, Hewlett-Packard Co., Citrix Systems Inc., Virtualization, Server Virtualization, Servers, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-03-20
- Processing virtualization and desktop virtualization
- A term that I've been hearing more frequently in the past few months is "desktop virtualization." What does that mean anyway? It seems to me that this could be the use of any one of several different virtualization technologies in several categories of virtualization software (see Sorting out the different...
- Tags: Desktop, Sun Microsystems Inc., Desktop Virtualization, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-03-11
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