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June 2006 - Posts
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Thanks to RTFM Education for the news:
If you were interested in learning how the workflow of Dunes Virtual Service Orchestrator (VS-O) product worked, now is your chance. Stephane Broquere of Dunes, has just put together a tutorial that shows how to create a workflow using Dunes VS-O. The tuto... Read More...
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The U.S. Patent & Trademark Office on Thursday published the details of an application Intel has filed for "a method, apparatus and system for transparently unifying virtual machines." As Macsimum News pointed out in its exhaustive, two-part analysis of the application, this technology could enable ... Read More...
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Deployment of virtualisation technology could cut the operational costs of running servers in a business by between 50pc and 80pc, IT services player Qualcom systems claimed yesterday. Qualcom has been expanding its focus on the storage market and last month signed a partnership agreement to sell IB... Read More...
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ALONGSIDE SOCKET 1207 or Socket F, however you prefer - AMD will roll out Opterons for the Socket AM2 as well.
The Socket AM2 line-up will consist of 1200 series of processors, but the 2200 series will be added to the AM2 mix.
Until now, you could buy a workstation Opteron for single socket ... Read More...
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This is a really interesting article, as the gloves come off and the bell rings - SWsoft's CEO comes out swinging... describing what he believes are the advantages of using Virtuozzo over VMware. One of the issues that Virtuozzo has the advantage - ease of management and cost. Because of the way V... Read More...
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Altiris has added application virtualisation to its Wise software packager, in a move that the company claimed could save corporate users both time and money when repackaging applications for internal distribution.
The Altiris SVS virtualisation technology installs and runs each application on i... Read More...
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Backing up virtual machines within a VMware environment could be getting easier. VMware Infrastructure 3.0 will hopefully improve the backup capabilities with a product called "consolidated backup". That's the good news. But in spite of all the marketing and press coverage that the new product ha... Read More...
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Thanks to Mike Laverick at RTFM, the virtualization community has been given an upgrade guide to VMware ESX 3.x and VirtualCenter 2.x.
If you've read Mike's previous guides or beyond the manual document, you'll understand just how big a deal this is. These guides are very well written and fill... Read More...
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Baeke.info writes a really good comparison on his Website, comparing Virtual Server's Host Clustering ability to VMware ESX 3.0 HA and VMotion features.
He writes:
If you, as a potential customer, are not aware of some of the details, you might end up thinking that Microsoft’s offering is eq... Read More...
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TechTarget recently interviewed VMware's president Diane Greene.
IT was a lot different eight years ago when Diane Greene co-founded VMware Inc., the virtualization market leader based in Palo Alto, Calif. Now, as president, Greene is poised to guide the company past challenges from Microsoft and... Read More...
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In the two days since I began to write this blog, we’ve had tens of thousands of downloads for VMware Server and VMware Player – adding to the millions of downloads of these products since their market debut (February 2006 for VMware Server beta and October 2005 for VMware Player). These are unheard... Read More...
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VMware Infrastructure 3 ushers in a new era for data centers, the responsive data center that dynamically manages shared utilities to provide zero-downtime for maintenance or disaster recovery.
Attend a live seminar in a city near you to learn how VMware Infrastructure 3 can help you and your organ... Read More...
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Commtech, a leading distributor of Internet, Networking and Security solutions, yesterday launched VMware Infrastructure 3 to Ireland. At a seminar organised for Irish VMware Enterprise Partners, Commtech in conjunction with VMware, demonstrated the third generation of the industry-leading infrastru... Read More...
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Ecora Software, the leader in software solutions supporting IT control, compliance, and security, announced the release of a suite of configuration management solutions for VMWare ESX Servers that provide substantial time and resource savings by simplifying virtual infrastructure management and miti... Read More...
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Apple's move to Intel processors in its Macintosh computers continues to bear fruit - this time market-leading OS virtualisation company VMWare has hinted at future Mac plans.
The news follows Apple's revelation of its Boot Camp software, which allows users to set Intel Macs to boot up in both... Read More...
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It looks like people are starting to catch on to the trend of replacing big, expensive and bulky servers with new, powerful, low-cost alternative x86 servers for the data center. Instead of purchasing an expensive 8-way SPARC based Unix box, IT shops are looking at blade servers, 1U boxes, multi-co... Read More...
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IBM today announced a virtualization education and sales initiative designed to ease the adoption of virtualization technologies by small and medium businesses (SMB). The program includes adding new capabilities and enablement programs to more than 40 IBM Business Partner Innovation Centers that are... Read More...
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Have you heard of FalconStor Software?
FalconStor Software, Inc., the leading developer of proven data protection solutions, today announced Single Instance Repository (SIR), a sophisticated de-duplication storage software service that facilitates efficient and scalable backup and archiving ent... Read More...
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VMware doesn't seem to rest these days. Recently launching a new product, announcing acquisitions and now launching a new program with Intel Corp.
Quoting the press release:
Intel Corporation and VMware, Inc. announced the launch of the Intel-VMware Virtualize ASAP, a global program to furthe... Read More...
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Join PlateSpin and Akimbi as they explore emerging trends in server virtualization, specifically the growing interest in test lab virtualization in enterprise IT, application development and test organizations.
Webcast Details:
Date and Time: Tuesday, June 27th, 2006 - 1:00pm EST (10am PST)
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