Events
Citrix Synergy 2009: The Highlights
Citrix Synergy 2009 is over, and while we couldn’t attend ourselves, we’ve been closely watching the announcements that came out of the event. Here are some of the highlights, from across the web.
8May2009 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedOracle Gets Sun xVM, Solaris Zones and Virtualbox
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When Oracle announced that it will be acquiring Sun it didn’t just impact the database market. It’s not just the question of what will happen with MySQL, OpenOffice and Java. The impact on the virtualization market is big as well.
At the moment Sun has a very confusing virtualization offering: they have different flavours, different tools [...]
Clouds In The Zoo: CloudCamp Antwerp Is Coming Up (9 April)
CloudCamp Antwerp, of which Virtualization.com is a media partner, is hosted at the conference center of the Antwerp Zoo on April 9, 2009, situated between the Zoo entrance and the Queen Elisabeth concert hall and just next to Antwerp Central Station.
23Mar2009 | Robin Wauters | 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 [...]
Floss Virtualization Doesn’t Care About Marketing …
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It cares about Quality and Frequent code releases. The Open Source community doesn’t
wait till the week before VMWorld to announe big news, they just code along happily and when the coding is done.. they release their software.
And there was plenty of it last couple of weeks. Here’s an overview ..
The New
Virt Manager 0.70 [...]
VMworld Europe Day 2 - Dr. Stephen Herrod Keynote liveblog
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Stay tuned for the liveblog of the keynote by Dr. Stephen Herrod, VMware CTO, live from VMworld Europe 2009 in Cannes, France.
Stephen Herrod was one of the original developers of ESX predecessor
SimOS while at Stanford University (
His homepage from the time is still online.). He worked at
Transmeta, where he worked on their “code [...]
VMworld Europe Day 1 - Paul Maritz keynote unveils new vPrefix product naming convention and talks about upcoming VMware vSphere, Intel vPro partnership
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After “day 0″, partner day, VMworld Europe opened its doors for the general audience today.
vSphere is the official name of the new VMware platform, but the VMware marketing department has not applied their new naming convention vPrefix to all products & initiatives yet. Some VMware partners are already doing the same, such as Intel with [...]
RedHat Moves Closer To Microsoft
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Earlier this week Red Hat and Microsoft announced they were going to work closer together , mainly to ensure Virtualization Interoperability. Both RedHat and Microsoft will join the other’s virtualization validation/certification program and will provide coordinated technical support for their mutual server virtualization customers.
In short this means that Red Hat and Microsoft customers will have [...]
VirtualLogix Promises First Virtualization Phone At Mobile World Congress
VirtualLogix has just sent out an e-mail proclaiming that they’re about to launch the world’s first virtualized phone at the upcoming Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
26Jan2009 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedRelease: RedHat Enterprise Linux 5.3
RedHat just announced the release of RedHat Enterprise Linux 5.3 which is available for immediate download from Red Hat Network.
20Jan2009 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | ContinuedXen Summit North America 2009
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The Xen.org community and Oracle are proud to announce the first major Xen event for 2009, Xen Summit North America at Oracle, February 24 - 25, 2009 at Oracle’s HQ in Redwood City, CA.
Global leaders developing for and using the open source Xen hypervisor will meet for 2 days of highly interactive discussion on product [...]
VMware Europe 2009: Call For Papers
VMworld Europe is coming up soon (February 24-26, 2009) and is once again being held in Cannes, France. The team has just issued a call for papers, deadline January 16th, so if you’re interested in participating don’t hesitate too long.
6Jan2009 | Robin Wauters | 1 comment | Continued
