February 2006 - Posts : VMblog.com - Virtualization News and Information for Everyone

Data Center Virtualization Software Reduces Cost and Complexity of Linux Applications on IBM BladeCenter Platform

Thanks to DMReview.com for the news: Virtual Iron Software, a provider of data center virtualization and management software solutions, today announced that it has joined Blade.org, an industry community around IBM's BladeCenter ecosystem to allow customers... Read More...

Posted Tuesday, February 28, 2006 4:44 PM by David Marshall | 0 Comments

SoftLayer Announces Partnerships with Microsoft, Red Hat And SWSoft

Quoting from Business Wire: DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 27, 2006-- Today SoftLayer Technologies, the newly launched dedicated hosting provider, announced the company has solidified key relationships with Microsoft, Red Hat, and SWSoft. "Delivering enterprise... Read More...

Posted Tuesday, February 28, 2006 12:55 PM by David Marshall | 0 Comments

Vista's Virtual PC Express to run Windows within Windows

Quoting from TGDaily.com: Redmond (WA) - Following up on this morning's news of six versions of Windows Vista , Microsoft's next-generation client operating system, a Microsoft spokesperson told TG Daily this afternoon that Virtual PC Express, a feature... Read More...

Posted Tuesday, February 28, 2006 12:51 PM by David Marshall | 0 Comments

Want to Create a Clustered Server Using Virtual Server R2?

So, you need to cluster your virtual machines but don't know how. John Savill attempts to ease the process by giving you the steps needed to cluster your virtual machines using Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2. Quoting from WindowsITPro: This article... Read More...

Posted Tuesday, February 28, 2006 12:45 PM by David Marshall | 0 Comments

VMware MAC Changer 1.0

Thanks to Addict3d.org: If you use VMware 4.5.x virtual machines, and need to run an image on multiple machines with software on it that requires them each to have a unique network card MAC address this tool will modify your settings files to create one... Read More...

Posted Tuesday, February 28, 2006 4:41 PM by David Marshall | 0 Comments
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Free Virtualization TCO Calculator

Technical Architecture Solutions professionals have created a free virtualization TCO calculator. The calculator is an excel spreadsheet to help total up the total cost of virtual machines against physical machines. It may not give you a total TCO, however,... Read More...

Posted Tuesday, February 28, 2006 1:19 AM by David Marshall | 0 Comments

The Risks of Over-Virtualization

Sys-Con brings up an interesting topic about the risks of over-virtualization. The article explains the differences between Standard Virtualization Environments and Para-Virtualization Environments, and it then goes into detail about how these two classes... Read More...

Posted Tuesday, February 28, 2006 1:09 AM by David Marshall | 0 Comments

Hardware Today: Virtualization and the Mainstream

For those of us who have been using virtualization for a long time, we know it isn't anything new. However, we also know that it is only recently that virtualization has made its way into the mainstream. Drew Robb wrote an article for ServerWatch that... Read More...

Posted Tuesday, February 28, 2006 12:54 AM by David Marshall | 0 Comments

New Virtual Appliances for Download

If you haven't checked it out lately (or at all), you might want to check VMware's web site and search through all of the pre-built virtual appliances that are available. It is amazing what a community of users can create and share. The users of VMware's... Read More...

Posted Tuesday, February 28, 2006 12:40 AM by David Marshall | 0 Comments

Cassatt Delivers Unique Automation and Virtualization Solution for Enterprise Applications

Cassat Corporation announces that it is delivering its unique combination of automation and virtualization for enterprise applications running on the Sun Solaris 10 Operating System. Typical enterprise IT environments have as much as 90% of their hardware... Read More...

Posted Monday, February 27, 2006 7:46 PM by David Marshall | 0 Comments

Microsoft Virtual Server Nominated for Best Products

It looks like Microsoft Virtual Server got the nod as a finalist in NetworkWorld's best product issue. Microsoft gets a finalist nod for its Virtual Server 2005 offering, which lets you run multiple instances of Windows on the same machine, based on a... Read More...

Posted Monday, February 27, 2006 4:26 PM by David Marshall | 0 Comments

Significant Improvements Forecasted for Virtualization

iReach, Ireland's leading Research and Marketing Intelligence company which specializes in technology and telecommunications, forecasts significant improvements in virtualization technology over the next two years because of developments in resource management... Read More...

Posted Monday, February 27, 2006 3:47 PM by David Marshall | 0 Comments

RoudyBob Checks Out Akimbi Slingshot

RoudyBob does a write-up on Akimbi's Slingshot product, a virtual lab automation system. The product claims to help provision VMware GSX Server and Microsoft Virtual Server virtual machines within a virtual testing lab. It sounds like RoudyBob had a fairly... Read More...

Posted Monday, February 27, 2006 3:41 PM by David Marshall | 0 Comments

VMware Throws Out a $200,000 Challenge

VMware is challenging the world with a $200,000 contest to foster continued innovation in developing virtual appliances. They define a virtual appliance as a pre-built, pre-configured, and ready to run software application, all packaged within a virtual... Read More...

Posted Monday, February 27, 2006 12:39 PM by David Marshall | 0 Comments

Virtualized-OS company makes 64-bit change

Quoting from C|NET News: SWsoft has updated Virtuozzo to support 64-bit x86 processors, a useful feature for software that lets an administrator carve a server up into multiple partitions. Virtuozzo makes a single operating system, either Linux or Windows,... Read More...

Posted Sunday, February 26, 2006 2:37 PM by David Marshall | 0 Comments

Is Virtualization the Answer? HP says no.

Quoting from InfoWorld.nl: But is virtualization the Holy Grail? No, says Hewlett-Packard (HP), which positions its newly launched Consolidated Client Infrastructure (CCI) solution as a viable alternative, one that has benefits beyond what virtualization... Read More...

Posted Friday, February 24, 2006 2:07 PM by David Marshall | 0 Comments

Informative SWsoft Write Ups from Alessando Perilli

Want to know something about SWsoft Virtuozzo for Windows 3.5.1? You'll find it here . Alessandro, creater of Virtualization.info, does an incredible write up on the SWsoft's product. Table of Contents Introducing Virtuozzo Installation VPSs creation... Read More...

Posted Friday, February 24, 2006 2:01 PM by David Marshall | 0 Comments

CallMiner Launches Breakthrough Technology to Drastically Reduce Hardware Requirements for Speech Analytics Deployments

CRM Today discusses CallMiner's Virtual Server Room which is an interesting use of technology: VSR, a patent-pending software technology, changes the speech analytics landscape, because companies no longer have to engage in partial mining and sacrifice... Read More...

Posted Friday, February 24, 2006 12:50 PM by David Marshall | 0 Comments

R2W3: Virtually Licensed

In week 3 of Don Jones' look at Windows Server 2003 R2, he talks about the following in his MCPMag.com article: Additionally, when running Virtual Server 2005 R2 (which is now available), you now only need to purchase licenses for virtual machines which... Read More...

Posted Friday, February 24, 2006 12:45 PM by David Marshall | 0 Comments

Storage Virtualization Technology Patents Issued to Incipient, Inc.

Quoting from DMReview.com Incipient, Inc., a provider of intelligent switch storage software, announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has approved and issued three technology patents for its storage virtualization technology. The three patented... Read More...

Posted Friday, February 24, 2006 12:42 PM by David Marshall | 0 Comments