Thursday, January 10, 2008 - Posts : @VMblog

Linux Magazine's Top 20 Companies to Watch in 2008

It looks like our virtualization friends are making other lists out there in the media. Check out this article from Linux Magazine as a few virtualization technologies sneak in the mix to get named. Who knows what the future will hold? Well, heaven knows we don't or we'd have already won the lo... Read More...

Posted Thursday, January 10, 2008 7:39 PM by David Marshall | 0 Comments
Filed under: Events

CNN Reports on Hot IPOs of '08

"And while there are tech companies in all these categories that hope to repeat the successful public market debuts of the class of 2007, they may face a higher bar in terms of financial health and heft that investors want to see. In general, after the bubble burst in 2001, companies needed about $1... Read More...

Posted Thursday, January 10, 2008 7:34 PM by David Marshall | 1 Comments
Filed under: General News

Entisys Solutions and Agile360 Join Forces to Become the West Coast's Premier Consulting Firm for Data Center Modernization

Entisys Solutions, Inc., Northern California's #1 provider of enterprise virtualization and access solutions and Agile360, Inc. Southern California's #1 data center virtualization consulting and engineering firm, today announced that the two companies have joined forces to become the western region'... Read More...

Posted Thursday, January 10, 2008 7:29 PM by David Marshall | 0 Comments
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VMware buys IT services business from Foedus

Reuters reported that VMware Inc. has acquired assets of privately held information technology services provider Foedus. "VMware spokesman Greg Eden said late on Wednesday that the deal had closed earlier this month, and 30 Foedus employees would move over to his company." Although Eden declined t... Read More...

Posted Thursday, January 10, 2008 6:47 PM by David Marshall | 0 Comments
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Video: Ubuntu & Windows seamless integration with VirtualBox

This video shows a seamless integration between Ubuntu & MS Windows OS via VirtualBox virtualization Software.... Read More...

Posted Thursday, January 10, 2008 6:13 AM by David Marshall | 0 Comments
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Video: Chris Pirillo of Lockergnome Speeds up Virtual Machines

Check out this video clip from one of Chris Pirillo's live Lockergnome shows talking about virtual machines. The last time you used a Virtual Machine for anything, how frustrated did you get over how slow everything is? Did it make you curse, or want to give up? Well, here are some tips from a re... Read More...

Posted Thursday, January 10, 2008 6:06 AM by David Marshall | 1 Comments
Filed under: General News

Video: Running Windows on a Mac with VMWare Fusion

This video shows running Windows XP Pro on a Macintosh using VMWare Fusion. It shows some of the settings you can change in your virtual machine as well as some file sharing and finally running Windows apps on the Mac using Unity.... Read More...

Posted Thursday, January 10, 2008 6:03 AM by David Marshall | 0 Comments

Learning About Networking on Microsoft's Hyper-V Virtualization Platform

As you start to enter into Microsoft's Hyper-V world, you will quickly notice that the networking implementation of Hyper-V is very different than it was with Microsoft Virtual Server. To help, Ben Armstrong has created a couple of posts that talk about the networking on Hyper-V. One of which is... Read More...

Posted Thursday, January 10, 2008 5:55 AM by David Marshall | 0 Comments
Filed under: Server Virtualization

QLogic Announces Preliminary Third Quarter Results for Fiscal Year 2008

QLogic Corp., a leader in networking for storage and high performance computing (HPC), today announced preliminary results for its third quarter ended December 30, 2007. QLogic expects to report net revenues in the range of $155 million to $157 million for the third quarter of fiscal year 2008, co... Read More...

Posted Thursday, January 10, 2008 5:49 AM by David Marshall | 0 Comments
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PacificSource Health Plans Achieves Fast and Uninterrupted Data Access with File Storage Virtualization Solution from F5

F5 Networks, Inc., the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced that PacificSource Health Plans, one of the largest independent, non-profit health plans serving the Pacific Northwest, has deployed an F5® Acopia ARX® file storage virtualization solution as the underpinning of... Read More...

Posted Thursday, January 10, 2008 5:48 AM by David Marshall | 0 Comments
Filed under: Storage Virtualization

Building a Storage Virtualization Foundation: Hoefer Wysocki Architects Uses DataCore’s SANmelody as a Blueprint for Success

DataCore Software, the leading provider of hardware independent, storage virtualization SAN solutions, today announced that Hoefer Wysocki Architects has selected and deployed DataCore’s SANmelody™ as their storage area network (SAN). Hoefer Wysocki Architects is a mid-size architectural firm, which... Read More...

Posted Thursday, January 10, 2008 5:46 AM by David Marshall | 0 Comments
Filed under: Storage Virtualization

OpenVZ Project Makes Available Its Virtual Appliance Software for Ubuntu Gives Users Ability to Quickly Create Multiple Ubuntu "Images"

The OpenVZ project released today virtual appliance software for Ubuntu giving users the ability to run the popular Ubuntu 7.10 distribution in a Linux container. The software template can be downloaded at the OpenVZ website, http://openvz.org/download/template/cache "Ubuntu is by far the fastest ... Read More...

Posted Thursday, January 10, 2008 5:44 AM by David Marshall | 0 Comments
Filed under: Virtual Appliances