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Wednesday, January 17, 2007 - Posts
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Can the newer server virtualization software vendors chip away at VMware's huge market share? Will VMware respond by slashing prices to keep customers?
Those are two of the questions I had after a briefing with Virtual Iron late last year. For those who aren't familiar with Virtual Iron, the com... Read More...
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As enterprises look to squeeze cost savings out of their IT infrastructure, CIOs and data centre managers alike are turning to server consolidation as a way to meet this objective. According to Gartner Research, 60 per cent of surveyed companies are in the process of consolidating their infrastructu... Read More...
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One of the great things about Linux.conf.au is the chance to mingle with some of the brightest lights in the open source community. For example, Jeff Dike, author and maintainer of User-Mode Linux is here this week to talk about UML and the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM). During one of the break... Read More...
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Bell Microproducts Inc., one of the world's largest value-added distributors of storage and computing technology, and Zeus Technology, a leading provider of application traffic management software, announced today that they have reached an agreement whereby... Read More...
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Taken from Jeff Jaffe's (CTO of Novell) Blog: In my last posting, I defined Novell’s technical strategy as: The world’s best and most interoperable Linux surrounded with management services that leverage our footprint to build a business solving customer... Read More...
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Rich Bocchinfuso from Got IT Solutions has been working on two new projects. One is a BackupPC virtual appliance which is an agentless backup and recovery system that also de-duplicates. He says there is a lot of discussion around technologies like Data... Read More...
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The exponential growth of data is creating storage management opportunities for VARs — especially in virtualization. Data storage continues to grow at a rapid pace. According to a recent InfoPro survey, the average installed storage capacity at Fortune... Read More...
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With the increasing popularity of virtualization, you may be faced with the task of moving your physical servers to virtual server guest images. There are several physical to virtual (P2V) products available that can help with the conversion process, including: ... Read More...
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The problem with all security software like anti-virus programs and the like is that they require constant updating to help protect you from the latest attacks that are constantly being created and modified by the evil sorts out there in an attempt to destroy your precious PC and steal your identity... Read More...
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Parallels has been doing an amazing job with their Parallel's Desktop, and industry heavy-weight VMWare is also making waves with their Fusion client. So you might ask whether another competitor is really needed in the virtualization space. But this one,... Read More...
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Virtual server monitor (vsmon) is a monitoring tool for Linux-VServer that gives a system administrator a global view of all vservers running on his park. For now, it does not offer control over the vservers' life cycle (e.g. provisioning, start, stop,... Read More...
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Find out more about the product as Virtual Strategy Magazine (VSM) speaks with Al Liebl, VP of Product Management about the introduction of Trigence AE. The Podcast lasts about 22 minutes and covers things such as: Trigence AE, Solaris and Linux Solutions,... Read More...
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IBM has made known that independent IT Research and Advisory organisation, The Butler Group, believes mainframe adoption will continue to grow in existing markets as well as emerging markets including China, India and South America due to continued advancements in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)... Read More...
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Axio Systems, one of the foremost providers of high-end technology solutions to its many customers in Belgium will present a seminar entitled, “ Intelligent File Virtualization: Have You Seen My File? ” on Thursday, January 25, 2007, from 2:00 p.m. –... Read More...
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With Intel processors supporting the company's Virtualization Technology (VT) becoming more pervasive, Linux kernel developers are writing the code to improve hardware virtualization and hence performance.
Speaking at this year's linux.conf.au Linux and open source conference in Sydney, Intel so... Read More...
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Systems software, which comprises the operating system (OS) and utility programs that manage computer resources at a low level, has traditionally served as the layer that sits between hardware and software applications.
One of the most significant developments in 2006 in systems software has... Read More...
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In our recent discussions with customers and analysts, the question of isolation has come up again. The reason is that whenever an article in the press needs a one-sentence explanation of OS virtualization it is something like ’OS virtualization provides better density and performance but cannot run... Read More...
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Organisations could make big savings on upgrades and administrator time by running Vista on central servers instead of desktop PCs, server-based computing outfit 2X has claimed.
The company said that the latest release of its software, 2X ThinClientServer version 4, allowed users to run Vista app... Read More...
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Every now and then, I like to share information on tools that I can't do without. Today, I would like to talk about the Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager Virtual Appliance. While my wife feels that the Geico cavemen offer clues to the missing link in my DNA, I think that the ZXTM appliance may be equa... Read More...
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VMware, Inc., the global leader in software for industry-standard virtualized desktops and servers, today announced that the Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA), an independent support agency within the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), has virtualized... Read More...
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