Wednesday, March 21, 2007 - Posts : @VMblog

Zeus Technology wins Cambridge Computer Lab Ring Award

Zeus Technology today announced that it has won Product of the Year 2007 from the Cambridge Computer Lab Ring Hall of Fame Awards for its groundbreaking virtual traffic management solution ZXTM Virtual Appliance (ZXTM VA). The Hall of Fame Awards were... Read More...

Posted Wednesday, March 21, 2007 6:47 AM by David Marshall | 0 Comments
Filed under: Virtual Appliances

Acopia Networks and Databasement to Feature File Virtualization Solutions

Acopia Networks, the leader in high-performance, intelligent file virtualization, today announced that it will join with Databasement, one of Europe ’ s leading storage management solutions providers, to showcase its industry leading solutions for globally... Read More...

Posted Wednesday, March 21, 2007 6:42 AM by David Marshall | 0 Comments
Filed under: Events

Should VMware Open Source ESX Server?

So the question posed was should VMware open source ESX Server? Edward Aractingi, of Edward's Blog, sure thinks so. While I doubt this will happen, at least any time soon (CYA), Edward lists a few arguments for his case: ESX is already using many open... Read More...

Posted Wednesday, March 21, 2007 6:26 AM by David Marshall | 2 Comments
Filed under: General News

Apple Opens Doors by Running Windows

Nick Wingfield wrote an article in the Wall Street Journal talking about Apple's return to enterprise computing. And reasons for this was the addition of Intel chips in the Mac and the introduction of Parallels software which gave the ability to run Windows... Read More...

Posted Wednesday, March 21, 2007 6:19 AM by David Marshall | 0 Comments
Filed under: General News, Desktop Virtualization

VMware Posts EMEA TSX Sessions

VMware has posted the agenda and breakout sessions for their 5th EMEA Technical Solutions Exchange (TSX) taking place at the Acropolis Convention Center in Nice from April 3 - 5, 2007. Our friend at Run-Virtual, Richard Garsthagen, has been working hard... Read More...

Posted Wednesday, March 21, 2007 6:09 AM by David Marshall | 0 Comments
Filed under: Events

Virtualization leads IDC to cut server forecast

IDC on Tuesday lopped 4.5 million units off its forecast for the number of x86 servers to ship in the second half of the decade after concluding that virtualization and multicore processors are cutting into purchases. That 4.5 million number is a major change--about 10 percent of the servers the... Read More...

Posted Wednesday, March 21, 2007 6:06 AM by David Marshall | 0 Comments
Filed under: General News

Customers and Partners Embrace Cross-Platform Data Center Management Solutions from Novell

Novell's data center management solutions are gaining increasing traction with customers and partners. With support for Linux*, Windows* and Unix* platforms, and Microsoft*, Xen* and VMware* virtual environments, Novell's data center management offerings... Read More...

Posted Wednesday, March 21, 2007 5:54 AM by David Marshall | 0 Comments
Filed under: General News

FullArmor aims to keep policy fresh

Policy-management vendor FullArmor Monday released software designed to extend policy enforcement to devices and machines that sporadically attach to a corporation's network. As more and more users begin to use policy to manage user access and privileges, those users are finding gaps in their pol... Read More...

Posted Wednesday, March 21, 2007 5:51 AM by David Marshall | 0 Comments
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Good-bye NetWare, Hello OES 2

Novell announced the next generation of its OES (Open Enterprise Server) operating system, at its annual BrainShare tradeshow today. OES 2 adds 64-bit Xen-based virtualization, dynamic storage support, and Windows domain support, and marks the final transition from Novell NetWare to SLES (SUSE Linux... Read More...

Posted Wednesday, March 21, 2007 5:47 AM by David Marshall | 0 Comments
Filed under: General News