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RedHat Picks Up Qumranet
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According to
Globes,
RedHat has acquired
Qumranet (confirmed via
press release)
“Redhat announced its acquisition of Israeli virtualization start-up Qumranet Inc. for about $100 million, ending a long period of rumors. This is Red Hat’s first acquisition in Israel, and it will turn the Linux software company into a market leader in virtualization. Qumranet [...]
Video interview with Nick Van Der Zweep, Virtualization Director at HP (Part 1/4)
In this first part of our lengthy video interview (4 parts) with Nick Van Der Zweep, Director for Virtualization at HP, we get introduced to how HP defines virtualization as flowing computing resources around and how this drops your costs and increases agility from desktop virtualization to data center virtualization and storage.
2Sep2008 | Toon Vanagt | 0 comments | ContinuedTop VMware Executive Richard Sarwal Returns To Oracle
Richard Sarwal has left his position as executive VP of research and development at VMware to return to database software giant Oracle. VMware hired Sarwal from Oracle less than a year ago, and declined to give details of why Sarwal decided to go back to Oracle.
2Sep2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedIndustry Moves: Randy Bartlewski Joins Composite Software as VP of Alliances
Composite Software today announced the appointment of Randy Bartlewski as VP of Alliances. In this newly created position, Bartlewski will be responsible for expanding Composite’s global partner programs to meet the growing demand for Composite’s virtual data federation/data discovery solutions.
2Sep2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedBrett Johnson Leaves PlateSpin To Head Sales at DynamicOps
DynamicOps, the young company recently spun out of Credit Suisse, has every intention of getting its Virtual Resource Manager to market as quickly as possible. The company has managed to attract Brett Johnson as its new Vice President of Sales, reports Alessandro. Johnson is the former Director of Sales for Eastern North America for PlateSpin.
27Aug2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedINX’ Virtualization Book Release Scheduled For VMware VMworld 2008 (Las Vegas)
INX today announced the release of “Deploying the VMware Infrastructure” at VMware VMworld 2008 in Las Vegas.
26Aug2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedPHD Technologies Appoints Sridhar Murthy As CEO
PHD Technologies, provider of the esXPRESS backup and restoration solution for virtualized infrastructures, today announced the appointment of Sridhar Murthy as the company’s chief executive officer.
21Aug2008 | Robin Wauters | 1 comment | ContinuedUpdate On ESX 3.5 Issue: A Letter from Paul Maritz
New VMware CEO Paul Maritz has issued an official statement about the major bug plaguing customers who had updated to ESX / ESXi 3.5 Update 2 and experienced a serious problem yesterday due to a mistake in the licensing code.
13Aug2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued0wning Xen?
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InvisibleThings.org posted some more details on their Xen Owning Trilogy session at last weeks Black Hat conference in Las Vegas.
Joanna Rutkowska and her crew gave a series of 3 talks discussing different potential security issues with Xen. With the
VirtSec awareness growing this obviously is an important topic .
When quickly skimming trough the presentations [...]
Virtualization.com Contest: Guess What’s on Werner Vogels’ Mind and Win A Book
Guess what Werner Vogels has written in O’Reilly’s “Programming Amazon Web Services S3, EC2, SQS, FPS and SimpleDB” book, and maybe you’ll get it for free!
31Jul2008 | Toon Vanagt | 2 comments | ContinuedVideo Interview: Werner Vogels, CTO Amazon on Virtualization and the VC Threat
At the GigaOM Structure08 conference in San Francisco, we had the opportunity to question Amazon’s CTO Werner Vogels on his virtualization experience, while building the Amazon cloud. He confirmed Amazon Web Services are still powered by Xen hypervisors.
31Jul2008 | Toon Vanagt | 1 comment | ContinuedA Round Table on Virtualization Security with Industry Experts
A conference call about virtualization security (virtsec) with Joe Pendry (Director of Marketing at StackSafe), Kris Buytaert (Principle at Consultant Inuits), Tarry Singh (Industry/Market Analyst Founder & CEO of Avastu), Andreas Antonopoulos (SVP & Founding Partner at Nemertes Research),Allwyn Sequeira (SVP & CTO at Blue Lane), Michael Berman (CTO at Catbird), Chris Hoff (Chief Security Architect - Systems & Technology Division and Blogger at Unisys) and Hezi Moore (President, Founder & CTO at Reflex Security).
30Jul2008 | Kris Buytaert | 3 comments | Continued
