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Tuesday, September 04, 2007 - Posts
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Onaro, Inc. (http://www.onaro.com), the leader in storage service management, announced today the immediate availability of SANscreen Capacity Manager 1.0, SANscreen Provisioning Manager 1.0, and updates to SANscreen Service Assurance. The combination of these products enables organizations to exten... Read More...
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Onaro, Inc. (http://www.onaro.com), the leader in storage service management, announced today VM Insight 1.0, a new product of the SANscreen product family designed to maximize the benefits while minimizing the risks for virtual machine implementations. VM Insight 1.0 will be demonstrated at VMworld... Read More...
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Virtual Iron Software (www.virtualiron.com), a provider of enterprise-class server virtualization and virtual infrastructure management software, today announced a global OEM agreement with Novell that integrates the SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 kernel and drivers from Novell in the latest release of V... Read More...
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Cassatt(R) Corporation, a leader in innovative solutions to improve resource, operational, and energy efficiencies in the data center, today announced a breakthrough technology that safely and intelligently powers servers off when they are not needed or idle. This technology is the cornerstone of C... Read More...
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As rival VMware Inc. was riding high on Wall Street last month with a blockbuster IPO, Microsoft's virtualization team was quietly at work on a platform-level virtualization technology earmarked for integration into Windows.
The first public beta of Windows Server Virtualization (WSV), formerly co... Read More...
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It is premature for hosting providers to offer virtual servers and it is unlikely that virtualisation will save its users money, according to survey research conducted by Rackspace Managed Hosting, a recognised leader in the global managed hosting market.
These were two major points arising from ... Read More...
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Service provider THUS has launched a hosted virtual server in the face of criticism from arch-rival Rackspace that “virtualisation is not yet ready for the big time, and is unlikely to save its users money.”
The company said the service is aimed at those running websites "with lots of content in... Read More...
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Virtual Iron Software (www.virtualiron.com), the leading provider of server virtualization and virtual infrastructure management solutions derived from the Xen open source project, today announced the latest version of its enterprise-class software platform. Version 4 establishes new ease-of-use sta... Read More...
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Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has launched the Hitachi Universal Storage Platform (USP) V, an intelligent services platform with the ability to perform 3.5 million IOPS (input output operations per second) at maximum levels. According to the firm, the system increases virtualised storage port performan... Read More...
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Auckland’s Manukau Institute of Technology has transformed its IT infrastructure from an inefficient and sprawling server system to a highly virtualised environment.
MIT’s old infrastructure consisted of a range of Intel, Sun, Compaq and TMC servers, crammed into 19 racks. Most racks had screens, ... Read More...
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VMware the leader in virtualization, recently had its IPO. It was a red-hot offering and the company now sports a market cap of $22.8 billion.
No doubt, there are other companies that want a piece of the market. One contender is Virtual Iron.
I had a chance to interview the company's CEO, John... Read More...
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The Parallels team likes to keep users interested by releasing quite a number of betas with new features, such as the recent feature update beta 1 and beta 2. With all the things added in each beta, it's easy to forget that there are production versions containing the fruits of multiple beta release... Read More...
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Start-up Gear6 claims to have the cure for I/O bottlenecks between servers and storage often found in high-performance computing (HPC) environments. The company has developed a new line of massive caching appliances to help IT groups avoid over-engineering their environments to meet application perf... Read More...
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Data integration is a difficult proposition, but help is coming in the form of a relatively new approach to information management called data virtualization, according to one expert.
The typical enterprise today runs multiple types of database management systems (DBMSs), such as Oracle and SQL ... Read More...
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A FINE lunch at London’s Gaucho Grill today yielded at least two discoveries. One, the rump steak and chips is very good with a glass of Malbec at this Argentine establishment. Two, Swsoft is going on a buying spree that will turn it into a datacentre automation firm.
In the hotter than hot sector... Read More...
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AberdeenGroup has published a new short report with the above title. It describes a research programme which found that 31 percent of organizations have virtualization deployed within their IT infrastructure and found that virtualization has a strong adoption rate, largely due to companies’ need to ... Read More...
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In recent years, there has been a surge of interest in server virtualization technologies. What’s fueling this interest is the fact that virtualization can dramatically lower IT costs.
Virtualization provides a fresh and unique perspective of the data center. With hardware enhancements such as I... Read More...
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SQL Farms, Inc. announced earlier today a new technology and redistributable offerings to collect performance metrics and query data from remote SQL Server environments and data centers, without any remote installations or footprint. The new offerings aim to assist virtualization providers to troubl... Read More...
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A new tool, Ganeti has been announced as a Beta release. It is an open source virtual server management software built on top of Xen and other open source software.
Ganeti started as a small project in Google's Zurich office. They've been using it internally for a while, and are now sharing it u... Read More...
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Parallels, Inc., maker of award-winning virtualization solutions for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X, announced today that NuSphere, a leading provider of PHP development, debugging, protection and deployment solutions, has joined the Parallels Partner Program’s ISV Initiative to expand its reach into t... Read More...
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