May 2007 - Posts
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In case you haven’t heard yet, VMBlog.com content might slow down a bit, as I am going to be out of town next week attending Microsoft’s TechEd 2007 event in Orlando. Hopefully, I’ll be able to post about the show while I am there. If you are attending... Read More...
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IBM says it's got the fastest chip ever built and a box to put it in.
The 65nm widget, which IBM hails as being three times as good as the latest enemy Itanium, is a contrarian tour de force 4.7GHz dual-core Power6 processor that doubles the speed of the current Power5 while keeping inside the s... Read More...
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Blue Lane Technologies, Inc. today announced that it has been named “ Best of Interop ” in the Security category. VirtualShield for VMware Infrastructure 3 protects virtual servers from attacks against known, unpatched vulnerabilities. Blue Lane is a... Read More...
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A new version of the open source Xen virtualization stack was released last week, offering up improved support for 64-bit systems, improved virtual server maintenance tools, and a new API for Xen software partners to play with.
While Xen 3.1 has no earth-shattering new features, some incremental... Read More...
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Microsoft's next server operating system doesn't appear revolutionary, but the final release will deliver a grab bag of goodies to users looking to ease management, network and security issues.
But it isn't all good news since Microsoft released in April the Beta 3 of Longhorn, now officially kn... Read More...
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‘Thin provisioning' is growing in popularity with enterprise storage managers who find it eases their management burden and with internal and external users who are charged for the amount of storage they use. It also sits comfortably with capacity-on-demand initiatives because, unlike conventional s... Read More...
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Looking to cement its place in the red-hot market for virtualization management software, ToutVirtual introduced products that helps customers monitor and manage the performance of virtual machines.
Managing server virtualization software is a big plus at a time when long-time users of virtualiz... Read More...
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ZDNet's Dan Kusnetzky, the Virtual Man, recently spoke with InovaWave about their DXtreme product which can double your virtualization consolidation ratio and increase your virtual machine performance. He writes: InovaWave is offering an interesting,... Read More...
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Incipient, a provider of enterprise-class storage virtualisation and data migration software, has rolled out its Incipient Network Storage Platform (iNSP), has successfully completed interoperability testing with select IBM System Storage based solutions and has become a certified member of the IBM ... Read More...
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Google has bought online security startup GreenBorder Technologies, which develops technology for creating secure connections to email and Web services.
Terms of the deal, which closed in mid-May, were not disclosed, according to Google spokesman Aaron Zamost.... Read More...
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What if you took the promise of Sun’s Java programming language, “write once, run anywhere,” and actually made it work? A new open source virtual machine by the name of Lina is hoping to do just that, and, judging by the video demo, Lina is off to a strong start.
The Lina virtual Linux machine wi... Read More...
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Neoware, Inc. (Nasdaq:NWRE), a leading provider of thin client computing solutions, today announced the upgrade of its most popular thin client devices to a new technology platform that improves the thin client computing experience. Now with more memory... Read More...
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ClearCube Technology, the market leader in PC blade centralized computing solutions, today announced an OEM agreement with virtualization software leader VMware to deliver a new PC blade virtualization solution for VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure... Read More...
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BearingPoint, Inc., one of the world’s largest management and technology consulting firms, and Cassatt Corporation, a provider of software to run IT as a utility, today announced a global collaboration to help companies and government move their data... Read More...
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Netsys has sued Parallels' German distributor for copyright violation claiming Parallels' virtualization products are directly based on a line of products that Parallels developed on paid commission for Netsys, of which it says, Netsys has been assigned all copyrights.
What reads like a novel of... Read More...
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Deploying any new application requires quality assurance (QA) testing to ensure it runs well in its installed environment and other applications continue to work properly. When the application touches every aspect of an organization’s operation, the problem is greatly compounded.
That was the ... Read More...
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A new information technology discipline is emerging around application delivery to control desktop management costs and security over a widening array of devices.
Under the broad banner of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), images of operating systems or application code are being dynamically ... Read More...
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Symantec Corp has launched Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery 7.0 -- the latest version of its complete and fast Windows system recovery solution. The company claims that the advancement has been made keeping the concerns of the mission-critical environments into consideration i.e. to make all sys... Read More...
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An increased interest in virtualisation at the application layer has led GLiNTECH, a professional IT services consultancy to appoint South African, Gerhard Diedericks as their newest principal consultant.
Having built up an expertise in South Africa through advising the banking, insurance and ... Read More...
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The move to grid or grid-like architectures within the datacenter brings many benefits, such as growth of capacities, lower costs, and support for an increasing number and variety of applications. This trend has also brought additional infrastructure requirements and associated challenges. Connectin... Read More...
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