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Economy And Failure To Sell Likely To Murder Cassatt, Says CEO Bill Coleman (See Our Earlier Video Interview With The Man)
Data center management software firm Cassatt is “close to the end,” stated founder and CEO Bill Coleman in a Forbes article.
29Apr2009 | Robin Wauters | 3 comments | ContinuedVideo: Sun Open Cloud Announcement
Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, or if you’ve been completely distracted by the speculation about an impending acquisition of Sun Microsystems by IBM, you know Sun yesterday announced its Open Cloud Platform. In the 8-minute video below, found on DataCenterKnowledge, Lew Tucker (CTO Cloud Computing & Developer Platforms at Sun) outlines some of the details.
20Mar2009 | 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 [...]
Call for Papers 3rd International Workshop on Virtualization Technologies in Distributed Computing (VTDC-09)
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Late last year our inbox received the Call for Papers to the
3rd International Workshop on Virtualization Technologies in Distributed Computing (VTDC-09)
It will be organised in conjunction with ICAC 2009 in Barcelona, Spain on June 15 2009
According to the the workshop’s Call for Papers “Virtualization has proven to be [...]
rPath: Cloud Computing In Plain English (Video)
rPath recently announced “Cloud Computing in Plain English,” an animated short video (YouTube) which takes a lighthearted look at cloud computing while bringing clarity to what has become a somewhat confusing concept.
23Dec2008 | Robin Wauters | 2 comments | ContinuedKemari v1.0 Released
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Last month,TAMURA Yoshiaki from the Kernel Group , OSS Computing Project at the NTT Cyber Space Labs announced the
availability of Kemari on the Xen Devel mailing list.
Kemari is an open-source virtual machine synchronization mechanism for fault tolerance. It’s similar to Remus which we covered earlier.
Kemari tries to achieve a fault [...]
Video: Interview Simon Crosby, CTO of XenSource - Citrix (VMworld 2008) part 2/2
In this second part of our video interview recorded at VMworld2008, the Citrix XenSource CTO denies that there is more than a ‘faboulous partnership’ between Microsoft and Citrix. In his typical outspoken style, Simon Crosby does not see his competitor VMware take of into the clouds with vaporware. He remains an advocate for open standards and finished by shining his light on Virtualization Security issues (aka VirtSec by the insiders).
13Nov2008 | Toon Vanagt | 1 comment | ContinuedVideo: Interview Simon Crosby, CTO of XenSource - Citrix (VMworld 2008) part 1/2
This interview was recorded at VMWorld 2008 in Las Vegas and features Simon Crosby, CTO of XenSource (Citrix) onf the future of Virtualization in general and related security, networking and I/O in particular.
11Nov2008 | Toon Vanagt | 1 comment | ContinuedVideo: Cloudfellas
We may think the cloud is being hyped a bit too much, but we sure had fun watching this video from EMC.
10Nov2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedvMAN Over At DMTF Is Immune To Kryptonite And Now Powered by OVF Version 1.0
In this exclusive interview at VMworld in Las Vegas, DMTF president Winston Bumpus reveals the release of OVF 1.0 and their larger Virtualization Management Initiative(vMAN). VMAN provides IT managers the freedom to deploy pre-installed, pre-configured solutions across heterogeneous computing networks and to manage those applications through their entire lifecycle.
16Sep2008 | Toon Vanagt | 2 comments | ContinuedSneak Preview on VMworld 2008 and its artwork (video).
VMware hired the prestigious design agency Cahan & Associates for VMWorld 200! They came up with edgy creations that underline customer ‘references/quotes’ and are supposed to make us all connect at a very human level. If you are into ‘minimalist cool’ and like the artwork too, you will be happy to learn that you can order your own illustration styled photo at YouAreArt or can style your free avatar at FaceYourManga. Have fun.
15Sep2008 | Toon Vanagt | 1 comment | ContinuedVideo interview with George Kurian, Vice President and General Manager of the Application Delivery Business Unit at Cisco (Part 2/2)
In this second part of our interview with George Kurian, he explains about the capabilities of VFrame; being Cisco’s system’s management and provisioning that is aimed at the virtualized network and helps to put the virtual puzzle together. Cisco recognizes the data center as a heterogeneous multivendor environment and plans to supports 3rd party technologies in the future. Cisco sees the notion of what a computer is today, getting truly blended closely with the network as interconnect speeds go up dramatically over the next two to three years.
14Sep2008 | Toon Vanagt | 1 comment | Continued
