a short while ago i had a colleague in the blogging industry ask me if the reason i was writing short takes was because i was too busy to write indepth articles. at the time i told this colleague no but now im wondering if i should change that answer
in any event heres my list of links and tidbits that i found interesting amusing or useful over the last ...... [Show More]
despite the fact that im out of town this week at netapp insight i wanted to go ahead and get out the latest installation of virtualization short takesmy sometimesweekly collection of interesting or useful links and tidbits.
much ado has been made about vmwares acquisition of trango and the announcement of vmware mvp mobile virtualization platform. rich bram...... [Show More]
while searching for information about vmware fault tolerance in esx4 i came across the x4live.com blog entry new features on vmware esx4 . they point to a couple videos at vmware illustrating some of these really cool new features
fault tolerance a vm hosting a mission critical application gets a clone and constantly sends over its execution instructions using vmotion. if the esx serv...... [Show More]
most journalists were quite surprised when microsoft announced its new cloud initiative azure some days ago at the pdc 2008. i have read quite a few articles about this topic and it seems to me that most writers have problems in understanding what azure really is. this explains why some of the articles contradict each other. i must admit that i still dont understand it completely myself. the co...... [Show More]
with much surprise yesterday cisco announced a new investment in vmware buying 500000 shares from intel for a value of 133 million. the networking giant already invested 150 million in july 2007 just before the vmware ipo. with this new equity stake acquisition cisco owns 17 of the virtualization vendor . the relationship between the two has progressively tightened becaus...... [Show More]
microscope is reporting that vmware will cut the product prices by 10 starting next monday. as the articles correctly states this move counter the previous 10 price increase that became effective sep. 1 generating a lot of negative comments. microscope couldnt receive an answer on how vmware can afford this while even its competitors like citrix are raising up the prices ...... [Show More]
this monday opening the pdc 2008 conference in las vegas the microsoft chief architect ray ozzie introduced windows azure a new flavor of windows made for cloud computing. during his keynote ozzie briefly mentioned that azure is built on top of a hypervisor without adding further details. it was easy to support that such hypervisor is the upcoming hyperv 2.0 . wrong. in an inte...... [Show More]
... virtual drives search and display of vmware log files automate or control vmware consolidated backup various statistics etc. download a trial here ....... [Show More]
starting november 2007 we had signs that multiple entities virtualization vendors phone vendors embedded cpu vendors are working to bring hardware virtualization to mobile devices like cell phones and pdas. the fact that samsung is porting xen on the arm processor should be more than enough. if not here another confirmation. the cto of xen and vice president of advanced prod...... [Show More]
after the launch of its first parallels server for mac os a hosted virtualization solution parallels has been pretty silent working hard to release its first baremetal aka hypervisor virtualization platform. the company stays mum on the launch date but its founder and ceo serguei beloussov gives a precious hint about the product potential in an interview with ondem...... [Show More]
almost one year ago platespin acquired by novell in february had the brilliant idea of using its popular p2v migration technology powerconvert for disaster recovery tasks. so they licensed vmware infrastructure 3 put it into a physical appliance and built the missing components to automate a continuous p2v migration of the protected physical servers into the virtual infrastruc...... [Show More]
propalms a usbased firm focused on the thin client market is interested in virtualization specifically vdi since a long time in april 2007 it joined the vmware technology alliance partner program and in january 2008 it announced that the newest version of its flagship product tse 6.0 would include a connection broker . the product entered in beta phase in june and without many det...... [Show More]
last week a gartner chart comparing virtualization vendors market shares and their hypervisors features generated a lot of buzz as for example oracle vm was reported as more used than microsoft hyperv . the chart was included in a recent article from datamation but gartner said that it was part of november 2007 report. the analysis firm has requested the news magazine to update its...... [Show More]
while sun puts the final touches to its first hypervisor xvm server 1.0 and to xvm ops center 2.0 which could be released in november some more details about the products emerge from a corporate blogs. in a list of faqs published there an interesting yet confusing indication about the free vs paid strategy about the xvm family q within the sun xvm portfolio w...... [Show More]
the vdi vendor leostream continues to execute its new strategy after the 3 million cash injection received in may. after appointing a new executive vice president of sales and marketing and closing an reselling agreement with ibm the company now signs a partnership with eg innovations a company focused on performance monitoring. eg innovations will enhanced its product vm monitor...... [Show More]
toutvirtual is a us virtualization startup emerged from the stealth mode in early 2006. since that time few progresses were made to become a relevant player. the last news from the company is more than one year old when the company renamedrevamped its product portfolio . finally toutvirtual is back announcing that its flagship product virtualiq pro now supports microsoft hyperv. v...... [Show More]
vdiworks after just five months since the spinoff from clearcube decides to replace its president and ceo. rick hoffman formerly clearcube ceo is now replaced by amir husain previously covering the role of cto inside the company and inside clearcube before the spinoff. its not clear if hoffman will go back to clearcube or just leave both companies....... [Show More]
the us startup pano logic offering a complete vdi platform made of a software connection broker and a hardware thin client has just appointed its new president and ceo john kish. kish can really boost the company popularity as he comes from one of the most popular thin client vendor wyse technologies. kish also has a notable experience with oracle when he was a senior manager there he...... [Show More]
steven bink at hypervoria.com is reporting live from microsoft pdc 2008 conference in los angeles. before the keynote is actually performed it will be live streamed here he already published the list of features planned for hyperv 2.0 part of the upcoming windows server 2008 r2 live migration virtual memory hot plug virtual storage vhd hot plugremov...... [Show More]
this year microsoft chief software architect ray ozzie starts the pdc 2008 conference by talking about the data center in the cloud. he introduces a new flavor of windows called azure a version of the microsoft operating system built for cloud computing but still based on existing technologies like windows server 2008 sql server 2008 visual studio 2008 asp.net 3.5 etc.. win...... [Show More]
today is a special day for amazon the company just declared its cloud computing infrastructure based on xen elastic compute cloud ec2 as ready for production and introduced a service level agreement sla. each account will be allowed to configure up to 20 virtual machines with option to have more. to manage the whole virtual infrastructure amazon is also introduc...... [Show More]
as a result of economic turbulence companies of all sizes continue to explore virtualization as an option for shedding costs. with the growing number of virtualization options available its important not to let your organization fall victim to virtualization buzzwords . not all vendors offer the benefits of virtualization yet many claim they do.
with that being said when deciding whic...... [Show More]
last month at vmword 2008 vmware announced its new vision all about cloud computing . it seems clear that vmware wants a piece of the cloud computing business that amazon built all alone with its elastic compute cloud ec2. well see if vmware aims at building something like ec2 very unlikely indeed or if the major goal is just to replace the xen virtual machines in ec2 with ...... [Show More]
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