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  • Open Virtual Machine Disk Formats and Licensing
    In April of this year, VMware announced that we were making our virtual machine disk format, VMDK, openly available and freely usable to anyone who wanted to do so. Since then, over 2000 vendors and developers have requested to review and use our VMDK specification. The virtual machine disk format i... Read More...
    Posted Friday, October 27, 2006 7:01 AM by David Marshall | 0 Comments
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  • Reducing the costs of a test network with virtualization
    In last week's column, you make a point about the cost of a test network not being cheap. You didn't mention the availability of virtual server software from VMWare and Microsoft that allow multiple virtual machines to be set up on a single workstation or server. This can significantly reduce the ha... Read More...
    Posted Friday, October 27, 2006 6:59 AM by David Marshall | 0 Comments
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  • Shine rubs off VMware
    VMware's flagship product ESX Server and the infrastructure around it aren't quite good enough for the data centre, according to David Turner, vendor marketing and business development manager at IT consultancy IQ-SYS, formerly Interquad. This is one of the first and rare cases of a vendor not en... Read More...
    Posted Friday, October 27, 2006 6:51 AM by David Marshall | 0 Comments
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  • Virtually Speaking: Virtualization Race Tightens
    VMware may have owned 55 percent of the virtualization market in 2005, according to IDC, but it's hardly the only game in town, and it may be time to make some room at the table for other players. Take SWsoft's Virtuozzo, for example. According to IDC, the ISV's virtualization software grew 98 pe... Read More...
    Posted Friday, October 27, 2006 6:49 AM by David Marshall | 0 Comments
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  • Intel opens up server technologies to channel
    Intel has announced that it will open up key server technologies to system builders and networking vendors. The chip maker said that QuickData, its server data input/output (I/O) technology, will be available to partners to boost data processing in products. QuickData is a data-acceleration engin... Read More...
    Posted Friday, October 27, 2006 6:44 AM by David Marshall | 0 Comments
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