Guides
On Virtualization and Server Consolidation
Insightful post by Arthur Cole over at ITBusinessEdge about server consolidation and virtualization. Cole argues that server consolidation done the right way remains the primary driver for most data centers.
10Mar2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedBaseline: 10 Free Virtualization Tools You Should Know
Baseline published an interesting list of 10 free virtualization tools you should know on its website.
28Feb2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedBT Global Services To Virtualize Its Data Centre Network
Interesting case-study from BT, delivered by Stefan Overtveldt, BT Global Services Vice President and Head of IT Transformation Practice at VMworld Europe (check our video coverage) today: they’re using virtualization technologies to run its network of data centres around the globe more effectively, improve service customer service delivery and save no less than 50 % on its overall running costs.
27Feb2008 | Robin Wauters | 2 comments | ContinuedVideo: Demo from Ben Rudolph, Director of Corporate Communications with Parallels (VMworld Europe 2008)
This interview was recorded at VMWorld Europe 2008 in Cannes, France, and features Ben Rudolph, Director of Corporate Communications at Parallels.
27Feb2008 | Robin Wauters | 2 comments | ContinuedVideo: Demo from Jean-Marc Seguin, Chief Architect with Embotics (VMworld Europe 2008)
This interview was recorded at VMWorld Europe 2008 in Cannes, France, and features Jean-Marc Seguin, Chief Architect with Embotics.
27Feb2008 | Robin Wauters | 1 comment | ContinuedTechtrob: Virtualization in Linux - Four Software Programs Reviewed
Techtrob.com analyzed four software choices for linux driven virtualization platforms, now that Canonical completely supports the use of Parallels software in Ubuntu Linux. The article compares four virtualization products available for Ubuntu Linux: the free, open source x86 emulator Qemu; the closed-but-free versions of VirtualBox and VMware-Server, and the commercial Parallels Workstation.
25Feb2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedVirtualization Comes In Many Flavors
Interesting article from ‘The Virtual Man’ Daniel Kusnetzky, President and Principal Analyst of Kusnetzky Group LLC and blogger at ZDNet. At a conference, he was asked by a group of attendees what he did for a living, and after a short explanation about his company he went on to explain virtualization technology.
18Feb2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedSaugatuck Technologies on ‘The Many Faces of Virtualization’
Consulting and research firm
Saugatuck Technologies published a report last December dubbed ‘
The Many Faces of Virtualization - Understanding a New IT Reality ‘, proclaiming that virtualization will have the single largest effect on IT budgets for hardware and support over the next three years and that by 2010, the 3 main vendors (VMWare, […]
Server Virtualization Goes Mainstream
Latest Forrester study on virtualization.
According to a recent Forrester study, server virtualization has quickly surpassed other forms of infrastructure virtualization, including techniques for virtualizing storage and networks.
Globally, 75% of 1,221 enterprises surveyed by Forrester say they are aware of server virtualization technologies, 26% have implemented it, and 8% more will pilot it by the summer […]
Virtual Server RDP Administration Annoyance
Quoting from a Q&A column from Chris Wolf at
MCPmag.com
Question to Chris:
I’m having a strange problem with the Virtual Server 2005 Administration Web Site. I’m accessing the server remotely using remote desktop and can connect fine. However, when I try and open the virtual server administration web site from within the RDP session, I get a […]
How to build a Virtual Private Server (VPS) With Debian 3.1 (Sarge) And OpenVZ
Till Brehm has released an essential how-to at
HowToForge.Com for installing OpenVZ, the open source version of SWsoft Virtuozzo, on a Linux Debian 3.1 32bit operating system.
It starts from the very beginning step, patching kernel, up to the final goal, building a so-called Virtual Private Server (VPS). With OpenVZ you can create multiple Virtual Private […]
Significant improvements forecasted for virtualization
iReach Research published a report,
Virtualization as an Enabler of Knowledge Management, claiming a quarter of European firms are currently using server virtualization and 67% of them plan to increase their usage over the next year.
This report seems to totally disagree with the 1 week ago news Techworld reported:
Users fail to grasp virtualization benefits.
Based […]
