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December 2006 - Posts
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VMware Workstation 6.0 is finally at the open beta stage. VMware Workstation has been around probably longer than any other x86 virtualization product on the market. Now in its 6th generation, the mass market of Workstation users will be happy to see all of the incredible new features added into t... Read More...
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Programmers have released a new version of Xen with a graphics feature that makes the virtualization software more useful on desktop computers.
Xen lets a single computer run multiple operating systems simultaneously, which is useful today as a way to replace servers with one, more efficiently u... Read More...
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Red Hat plans to ship the next version of its premium Linux product on February 28, debuting major virtualization technology but missing an earlier deadline by about two months.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 had been scheduled to ship by the end of 2006. However, the company began giving itself sch... Read More...
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Microsoft has released a new build of Windows Server, codenamed Longhorn.
The company posted the release - the December Community Technology Preview (CTP) - of the server OS on its Microsoft Connect site.
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VMware has made available a public beta of its desktop product that lets Windows operating systems run in a virtualized environment on Mac OS X.
The release of the product, code-named Fusion, was noted in a VMware blog by the company's director of product management and market development, Sriniv... Read More...
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Operating system virtualization software Virtuozzo from SWsoft was recently cited in an industry analyst report discussing new technology for data centers.
The report from Gartner stated: "By 2010, mainstream virtualization technology will embrace I/O virtualization, breaking the traditional bonds ... Read More...
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VMBlog.com hopes to "get the vote out".
The SWsoft Virtuozzo Blog site turned me on to the following piece of information - The Enterprise Open Source magazine is asking for readers to participate in their EOS 2007 Readers Choice Awards. If you would like to express your opinion and have it co... Read More...
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In case you missed it, check out the Podcast interview where Virtual Strategy Magazine spoke with Rich Lechner, VP of Virtualization at IBM about their company-wide approach to virtualization. The Podcast lasts about 22 minutes and covers numerous topics such as storage virtualization, client virtu... Read More...
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Amazon.com Inc. is making a big bet, but it's not on selling books, CDs or holiday gifts. Instead, it wants to sell you all the processing power you can eat. Rather than competing with your local bookstore, it's taking on the likes of IBM, Hewlett-Packard Co. and Sun Microsystems Inc.
Amazon's... Read More...
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Storage virtualization is commonly used in file systems, storage area networks (SANs), switches and virtual tape systems.
As computing power spreads throughout an organization, storage can become an unmanageable problem. Fragmented pools of storage are inefficient and wasteful -- they are diffic... Read More...
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Invirtus, the leading provider of solutions that today's businesses need to help with the efficiency and automation of virtual machine technology, announced today that customers are giving positive advance reviews of Invirtus Enterprise VM Converter 2007, an enterprise-class, conversion application ... Read More...
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Check out this 27 page whitepaper from Novell and Intel titled "The Promise of Virtualization: Data Center Technologies for Today and Tomorrow. It shows you how to combine Linux and virtualization for server success in the data center. Want to learn how to improve your organization's resource util... Read More...
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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone!
Sorry for the slow news (or no news) during the holidays. I've taken a vacation around the holidays, and have tried to unplug as much as possible.
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Damian Murdoch comes through again, this time, helping us change the IP address of the service console in VMware's ESX Server 3.x.
If you want to change the IP address of the service console in ESX 3.x you can using a command in the service console.
To change the IP address of the ESX 3.x host... Read More...
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Patrick Rouse has written an article on MSTerminalServices.org that is an architectural overview of VDI, discusses the problems that it addresses and shows the caveats to look out for.
Introduction
In the past few years there has been and continues to be a lot industry buzz around virtualizat... Read More...
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According to ENT News, VMware announced that it was going to ship VMware Lab Manager on Friday.
The product, which is targeted at enterprise software development organizations, aims to more efficiently take advantage of software development and test lab assets, accelerate software development cyc... Read More...
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A vulnerability has been identified in VMware ESX Server, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary scripting code. For additional information, see : FrSIRT/ADV-2006-2963
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Citrix has agreed to buy Ardence, a software streaming technology developer whose products will help Citrix advance its position in the emerging application virtualization software market. Financial terms were not disclosed, although Citrix said it expects the deal to add at least $15 million in rev... Read More...
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Train Signal, Inc. has released their new FastTrack Video Training Course, Microsoft Virtualization, specifically for IT students and professionals who want to learn to utilize Virtual PC and Virtual Server. Featuring over 12 hours of video training, the Microsoft Virtualization training course cove... Read More...
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I missed today's Microsoft and Novell joint webinar, but I cruised over to Novell's website to download the slide deck from the presentation. Perhaps not surprisingly, the slide deck was pretty short on content, but a couple of items caught my eye.
For one thing, there's a slide early on that l... Read More...
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