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Dell Gets Down & Busy With Virtualization
As expected, Dell today announced its broadest lineup of dedicated virtualization solutions ever. More than a dozen new servers, tools, and services aim to simplify the deployment and management of virtualization in enterprises of any size.
7May2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedVMware Releases Fusion 2.0 Beta 1
VMware has announced VMware Fusion 2.0 Beta 1, the first beta of the second iteration of their virtualization product for the Mac.
6May2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedMicrosoft Management Summit 2008: Birth Of System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2008 Beta
At the Microsoft Management Summit 2008 in Las Vegas, the Redmond-based software giant released its virtualization management platform, now named System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008, into public beta testing. The release comes well within the 60 to 90 day window Microsoft promised after the public beta delivery of its ‘Viridian hypervisor’, now formally known as Hyper-V.
30Apr2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedVMware’s Financial Results For Q1 Are In, 69 Percent Revenue Increase Beats Wall Street Expectations
VMware’s first-quarter revenue outstripped Wall Street’s expectations Tuesday, but the company’s second-quarter forecast came up short.
23Apr2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedMicrosoft Puts Forth System Management As Key Differentiator In Virtualization Technology
Anticipating that the market for virtualization software eventually will be commoditized, Microsoft sees management as the key revenue opportunity for competitors offering server virtualization.
22Apr2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedEMA Research on Virtualization: VMware Still Leading The Pack, Microsoft And Citrix Following Closely
Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), a US-based IT management research and consulting firm, today announced the release of its latest research report titled, “Virtualization and Management: Trends, Forecasts and Recommendations.”
17Apr2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedQlusters Releases openQRM 3.5
Qlusters has released openQRM 3.5 to SourceForge.net. The 3.5 open source release succeeds release 3.1.4 and includes a set of new features based on input from various data centers and test/dev labs. Release 3.5 is available for download now.
9Apr2008 | Kris Buytaert | 3 comments | ContinuedIs Virtualization The Biggest Security Vulnerability In IT Today?
Joanna Rutkowska, the founder of security research firm Invisible Things Lab, reportedly described a new type of virtualization-based malware that could be used to take control of a machine running virtualization software. Because virtualization allows companies to store many virtualized software “images” of computers on a single physical machine, an attack like the one Rutkowska envisions would allow a hacker “not only to control a single machine but to siphon data from any virtual machine it contains”.
9Apr2008 | Robin Wauters | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Present And Future of Xen
Over the past few months, a number of people have been vouching the idea that Xen’s development and adoption is slowing down because of the Citrix’ acquisition. Is it? A look at the present state and future of Xen.
7Apr2008 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | ContinuedFollow-up On Our April Fool’s Joke On Sun Acquiring Parallels
By now, you may have heard about the prank post we published on April Fool’s Day about Sun acquiring Parallels for $ 205 million. While the story was obivously fake, many people started speculating about its authenticity and - which was far more interesting - about the possibility of Parallels ever selling, and if so, at what price?
7Apr2008 | Robin Wauters | 2 comments | ContinuedGartner: Virtualization Wave To Cause Huge Market Disruption And Consolidation Through 2012
Gartner: “Virtualization will transform how IT is managed, what is bought, how it is deployed, how companies plan and how they are charged. As a result, virtualization is creating a new wave of competition among infrastructure vendors that will result in considerable market disruption and consolidation over the next few years.”
6Apr2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedSun Microsystems To Acquire Parallels For $ 205 Million (Updated)
Sun Microsystems has today announced it has reached an agreement to acquire Parallels (formerly SWsoft) and all of its assets for $ 85 million. The major acquisition had been rumoured to be imminent throughout the course of 2007, but never actually went through, which led mosts analysts to believe the Herndon, VA-based company was heading towards an IPO following in VMware’s footsteps.
1Apr2008 | Robin Wauters | 22 comments | Continued
