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New VirtualBox Bible: Thou Shalt Be Named ‘Teleportation’ and Forget About vMotion
Sun Microsystems today announced a new version of Sun VirtualBox, its cross-platform virtualization software.
VirtualBox 3.1 introduces the virtualization industry’s first “Teleportation” capability, allowing running virtual machines to be moved, uninterrupted between disparate hosts – including those on different operating systems, different classes of computer (e.g. server to client) and even different CPUs (e.g. Intel to AMD).
30Nov2009 | Toon Vanagt | 0 comments | ContinuedVirtualization Security Startup HyTrust Launches With $5.5 Million In Series A Funding
HyTrust is entering the virtualization arena today with HyTrust Appliance, which serves as a central point of control, management and visibility for virtualized environments.
8Apr2009 | Toon Vanagt | 0 comments | ContinuedVideo: vFace, H2A conversions or how to virtualize yourself with EyeBcom
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This post is slightly off our usual virtualization track, as it dwells into the emerging H2A conversion industry (Human-To-Avatar). Last week I attended the excellent
Plugg event on innovation and entrepreneurship in Brussels (which happens to be organized by our editor-in-chief Robin Wauters). Now that his annual event is over, you can enjoy more frequent posts over here again. Robin pointed me to a mysterious booth [...]
Video: Interview Mike Neil, General Manager for Virtualization – Microsoft (VMworld 2008)
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During this interview at the Microsoft booth at VMworld2008 in Las Vegas, Virtualization veteran Mike Neil recalls his past at
Connectix, and his involvement with Virtual PC & Virtual Server and more recently his role in the Hyper-V launch. He discussed planned features such as Hyper-V live migration, VM standards and their planned support of the
OVF-format.
Mike also [...]
24Feb2009 | Toon Vanagt | 0 comments | ContinuedSun Microsystems Acquires Q-layer To Expand Cloud Offerings
Sun Microsystems just announced it has acquired Q-layer, a cloud computing company that automates the deployment and management of both public and private clouds. The 35 people from the Q-layer organization, based in Belgium, will become part of Sun’s Cloud Computing business unit.
7Jan2009 | Toon Vanagt | 3 comments | ContinuedVideo: Interview Simon Crosby, CTO of XenSource – Citrix (VMworld 2008) part 2/2
In this second part of our video interview recorded at VMworld2008, the Citrix XenSource CTO denies that there is more than a ‘faboulous partnership’ between Microsoft and Citrix. In his typical outspoken style, Simon Crosby does not see his competitor VMware take of into the clouds with vaporware. He remains an advocate for open standards and finished by shining his light on Virtualization Security issues (aka VirtSec by the insiders).
13Nov2008 | Toon Vanagt | 1 comment | ContinuedVideo: Interview Simon Crosby, CTO of XenSource – Citrix (VMworld 2008) part 1/2
This interview was recorded at VMWorld 2008 in Las Vegas and features Simon Crosby, CTO of XenSource (Citrix) onf the future of Virtualization in general and related security, networking and I/O in particular.
11Nov2008 | Toon Vanagt | 2 comments | ContinuedWe Support Obama Because He Supports Virtualization
Who knew Barack Obama actually endorses virtualization technology?
4Nov2008 | Toon Vanagt | 1 comment | ContinuedMicrosoft Bashes VMware With A New Website; “Get The Facts” Revisited?
Microsoft had people outside the VMworld conference in Las Vegas, distributing dollar chips and flyers, advertising the VmwareCostsWayTooMuch.com website.
23Sep2008 | Toon Vanagt | 3 comments | ContinuedLadies and Gentlemen, Place Your Bets on Citrix/Microsoft News Friday Or Listen To This (Direct) VMware Customer
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At the
VMworld Press & Analyst Event in the panoramic
Ghost Bar, we took a good look at the skyline of Las Vegas. After a few cocktails we ran into Aaron Andrews, Director Distributed Systems Windows at
First American who was very open in sharing his extensive virtualization experience and expressed his personal views. Even [...]
vMAN Over At DMTF Is Immune To Kryptonite And Now Powered by OVF Version 1.0
In this exclusive interview at VMworld in Las Vegas, DMTF president Winston Bumpus reveals the release of OVF 1.0 and their larger Virtualization Management Initiative(vMAN). VMAN provides IT managers the freedom to deploy pre-installed, pre-configured solutions across heterogeneous computing networks and to manage those applications through their entire lifecycle.
16Sep2008 | Toon Vanagt | 2 comments | ContinuedvCloud: VMware To Be Cloud Computing Provider Too, But Inside Your Private DC (And Not Tomorrow)
VMware said Monday that it will launch a cloud computing initiative called vCloud to bring enterprise class service to customers with more than 100 partners.
15Sep2008 | Toon Vanagt | 3 comments | Continued
You can use DRBD to this with kvm/xen 
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this is very interesting,The software enables the consolidation by keeping the infrastructure update completely transparent to the ESX hypervisor, . 
yeah,Sourcefire is now shipping its first VMware-based virtual appliances. 
im 3 year exp in DWDM monitoring