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Monday, November 13, 2006 - Posts
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The Butler Group, a UK-based IT Analysis and Research organization, recently released a report focusing on Altiris' Software Virtualization Solution.
If you're looking for an independent report to print out and innocently leave on your IT manager's desk, this might do the trick.
Here's a snipp... Read More...
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As virtualsation technology gets increasing attention from large enterprises, the founder of the Xen open source project said recently that Xen will develop more quickly compared with competitors, including Microsoft and VMware.
“Microsoft [is] very much in catch-up,” says Ian Pratt, chief scienc... Read More...
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Politics was one of the hot topics at VMworld 2006, but the political talk had nothing to do with last week’s elections. Instead, it revolved around the internal issues faced by users of virtualization software, which can unsettle the balance of power within companies and their IT departments. Virtu... Read More...
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On Friday at the Supercomputing conference in Tampa, the first IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Virtualization Technologies in Distributed Computing will be held. The convergence of virtualization technologies and distributed computing is an area of ongoing development and the subject of much curr... Read More...
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Data storage and security provider Symantec has introduced a new server designed to work in clusters and supply native support to data centers running VMware's trendy virtual-server software. Veritas Cluster Server 5.0 for VMware ESX automates remote failover for disaster recovery and provides manag... Read More...
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IBM is enhancing its line of x86 servers with the introduction of 4 quad-core IBM systems and a new blade bundled with the quad-core Intel Xeon 5300 processor. System x servers provide a whole new level of value for clients, delivering three to four times performance of systems that IBM offered less... Read More...
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Virtualisation has long promised higher utilisation rates for storage, more effective distribution of network services and more efficient use of computing resources, and consequently reduced costs for those responsible for an IT infrastructure. While people have grown weary of the hype, two things h... Read More...
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An industry group has begun working on a way to find out whether VMware, Xen or Microsoft Virtual Server is the fastest virtualisation software.
The Standard Performance Evaluation Corp (SPEC) has launched a subgroup to come up with a benchmark to see how well computers handle a variety of tasks ... Read More...
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A favorite vignette during the December holiday season is a frenetic wife shopping for gifts as her hapless husband stands idly by. One by one, the wrapped packages pile up in his arms until only his hat is visible behind them. An icy sidewalk often comes into play, bringing all
the packages crashi... Read More...
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Less than 30 per cent of IT directors said they were using server virtualisation as they were concerned about the risks in using the technology in a live business environment.
The survey of 100 IT directors by research company Vanson Bourne found these figures were even higher within financial se... Read More...
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For most people, an appliance marketplace might suggest somewhere to buy a new refrigerator. But not in the virtual world.
VMware, the leader in the market for virtualization software, said last week at its user group meeting in Los Angeles that it's launching Virtual Appliance Marketplace, a We... Read More...
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Pacific Gas and Electric Company has opened a financial incentive program to support virtualisation projects in data centers, with industry support from VMware, Intel Corporation and others. Virtualisation allows multiple applications to run concurrently on computing equipment, thereby enabling cust... Read More...
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EMC Corporation, the world leader in information management and storage, today announced version 7.0 of the Rainfinity(R) Global File Virtualization(TM) solution, extending
EMC's market-leading capabilities in file virtualization and management to support enterprise archiving from heterogeneous fil... Read More...
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XenSource, Inc., the leader in infrastructure virtualization solutions based on the open source Xen™ hypervisor, today introduced a partner program that will leverage relationships with independent software vendors (ISVs) and independent hardware vendors (IHVs) to develop high performance products f... Read More...
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Two rivals are mixing it up in the virtualization management space today.
Opsware Inc. (Quote) and Egenera have created software that allows corporate customers to manage physical and virtual servers from the same platform, representing a new growth opportunity at a time when server sprawl threa... Read More...
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Software developers are getting more tools that take advantage of virtualization to streamline the application testing and quality assurance processes.
In advance of its VMworld show Nov. 7-9 in Los Angeles, VMware on Nov. 6 unveiled Lab Manager, designed to enable enterprises to more automatical... Read More...
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