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HP’s Ann Livermore On Virtualization
In an interesting interview with ZDNet UK, HP’s Ann Livermore, who heads the company’s Technology Solutions Group, talks about the difference between HP and IBM and touches upon virtualization.
1Apr2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedVirtualization and Brain Fitness Don’t Mix
Entrepreneur, investor and Open Source pioneer Brian Berliner discovered that not all applications run on virtual machines. After winning a Posit Science Brain Fitness Program Classic, Brian found out that besides having an unnecessary long name, the program doesn’t run on VMware Fusion, which he installed on his Mac computer.
26Mar2008 | Robin Wauters | 1 comment | ContinuedMicrosoft To CIOs: “Virtualization Is Too Expensive”
At the European CIO summit, Barbara Gordon, Microsoft’s EMEA VP for Enterprise Sales stated that Microsoft sees price as a differentiator in the virtualization market. Martin Niemer from VMware disagrees.
17Mar2008 | Robin Wauters | 1 comment | ContinuedVMworld Europe 2008 in Video
At this year’s VMworld Europe in Cannes (France), Virtualization.com went wild and recorded dozens of videos featuring marketing, technical & product managers, executives, company founders and analysts from the virtualization industry. To recap of what our insomniac bloggers Tarry Singh and Nicolas ‘ Charbax‘ Charbonnier have been up to in Cannes, we’ve made a dedicated page with an overview of all the video interviews and booth tours.
13Mar2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedIndustry Analyst Tony Asaro Joins Virtual Iron As Chief Strategy Officer
Virtual Iron today announced the hiring of former Enterprise Strategy Group senior analyst and consultant Tony Asaro as Chief Strategy Officer. In his role, Asaro will focus on business strategy, ecosystem development, evangelism and education of Virtual Iron to the market and complement the company’s worldwide go-to-market efforts.
12Mar2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedWill Increasing Memory Costs Slow Down Virtualization Growth?
Memory vendor Kingston Technology says memory in industry standard servers is causing virtualization projects to become unnecessarily expensive and that fears over warranties are holding back users from upgrading.
11Mar2008 | Robin Wauters | 1 comment | ContinuedOn 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 | ContinuedMicrosoft’s Ray Ozzie On Cloud & Utility Computing
Interesting interview up on GigaOM today, featuring Microsoft’s Chief Software Architect and industry luminary Ray Ozzie talking about MS’s strategy, the economics of cloud computing and the relevance of desktop and infrastructure challenges.
10Mar2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedPodcast Tip: Andrea Arcangeli on KVM and hypervisor virtualization
A great podcast on LinuxCast (LinuxWorld), featuring Don Marti interviewing Andrea Arcangeli on the topic of KVM and the benefits of the kernel taking on the hypervisor role (rather than separating the hypervisor and rewriting all the supporting structures as Xen does).
7Mar2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedPreinstalled Hypervisors And The Future of Operating Systems
Jay Lyman from the 451 Group wonders about the future of the Linux Distributions in the Virtualization arena.
5Mar2008 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | ContinuedAnalyst Says Virtualization May Have Impact on Desktops … In 2010
Tim Luke, an analyst from investment bank Lehman Brothers, claims the impact of virtualization technology on desktops won’t be significantly felt until at least 2010 although he acknowledges its impact may already be limiting growth in the server market.
5Mar2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedVideo: Interview Simon Crosby, CTO of XenSource - Citrix (VMworld Europe 2008)
This interview was recorded at VMWorld Europe 2008 in Cannes, France, and features Simon Crosby, CTO of XenSource (Citrix).
5Mar2008 | Robin Wauters | 2 comments | Continued
