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March 2007 - Posts
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Using VMmark, the VMware VROOM team recently posted their findings where they compared VMware ESX Server and VMware Server products. Comparing the two on similar machines, they now offer the following information: VMware Server is a best-in-class hosted... Read More...
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VMware just released an updated I/O Compatibility Guide for VMware ESX Server 3.x. VMware ESX Server software delivers high performance I/O for PCI - based SCSI, RAID, Fibre Channel, and Ethernet controllers. To achieve high performance, these devices... Read More...
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Netuitive has raised $8 million in venture capital to expand the software company's sales and marketing operations. The software monitors a business's information technology operations and uses algorithms to alert managers when a network or hardware is... Read More...
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Double-Take Software and VMware provide proven protection and recoverability for multiple production application servers by leveraging real-time data replication and virtualization technologies to create cost-effective, simplified disaster recovery architectures.... Read More...
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Secunia has listed a new advisory today, SA24636, for VMware ESX Server 2.x amd 3.x with the following description: VMware has issued an update for VMware ESX Server. This fixes some vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to... Read More...
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Jeff Victor recently wrote an interesting post on his Blog site taking a quick look at the different hardware compatibility lists (HCLs) for three virtualization platforms. And I completely understand Jeff's point that he is trying to make. Indeed, the... Read More...
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From the desk and blog of Ben Armstrong, the industry's resident Virtual PC Guy over at Microsoft. Once again, Ben helps out the community with another great script. This time, he is talking about configuring and enabling the virtual DHCP server under Microsoft's Virtual Server with BLOCKED SCRIPT... Read More...
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Citrix Systems plans to expand its Desktop Server product into three different offerings, including one where OS components are streamed on demand to a PC or thin client over the network, using technology from its acquisition last year of Ardence.
Lou Shipley, VP and general manager of the Fort La... Read More...
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Adesso Systems, a leading provider of content replication and collaboration solutions, and virtualization leader Parallels, today announced that its Adesso’s instant social networking application, Tubes™, is now accessible to Apple Mac users running Parallels... Read More...
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According to Dugie's Pensieve: The Virtual Machine Additions for Linux were updated to version 1.2 yesterday. They were last updated on the 16/10/2006. You can download the additions from Microsoft Connect and a snippet is below: This package contains... Read More...
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Ardence, a Citrix company and a leader in developing software platforms for the on-demand world, announced that Intel(R) has awarded Ardence with Affiliate membership status within the Intel(R) Communications Alliance. The Intel(R) Communications Alliance... Read More...
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Server virtualisation is becoming more popular in enterprise data centres, but a recent survey says that doesn't necessarily mean the technology has proven itself successful when deployed.
CA this week released the findings of a study showing that more than 40 percent of 800 IT organisations poll... Read More...
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Fosters Emea, the wine importing and supply arm of the Fosters Group, is using server virtualisation technology to reduce its servers from 30 to just four.
The company has already halved its servers to 15 and will complete the consolidation over the next few months.
Server virtualisation invol... Read More...
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Last week, IDC announced that it has revised its server sales forecasts to take into account the future effect that server virtualization (carving up a physical machine into multiple virtual ones) and multicore processors (putting two, four, or eight cores in a single CPU socket) will have on shipme... Read More...
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The virtualization maze is not getting any easier for systems managers, as there are options aplenty and plenty of marketing to go along with them. Last month, in part 1 of this column, I provided the first half of my map through the virtualization maze. It included discussion of the benefits of vir... Read More...
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At a press conference today, Intel's Pat Gelsinger revealed fresh details of the company's forthcoming 45nm processor family, codenamed Penryn. Penryn is the 45nm successor to the Merom/Conroe/Woodcrest microarchitecture that underlies the popular 65nm Core 2 Duo processor line.
Gelsinger opened... Read More...
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Microsoft on Wednesday denied reports out of the United Kingdom that the highly anticipated virtualization technology for its forthcoming Windows Longhorn server operating system is significantly behind schedule. A Microsoft spokesman said the technology,... Read More...
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nworks, a leading provider of enterprise management connectors, announced today the availability of Version 3 of its highly successful Management Pack for VMware(R) and the release of a new Management Pack for BlackBerry Enterprise Server. The nworks... Read More...
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VMware Inc. gets the lion's share of the attention around virtualization, but at least one user of SWsoft Virtuozzo, an operating system virtualization platform, says that going down the Virtuozzo path afforded his firm significant savings over VMware.
John Yanekian, director of network services... Read More...
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Technalign, Inc. has announced its partner Altus Computers is offering new Dell computers pre-installed with Pioneer Linux, while running Windows in a Virtual Machine. The offerings include both workstations running Pioneer Basic Release 2 and servers... Read More...
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