All Posts Tagged With: "hardware"
Wind River Releases Proprietary Hypervisor For Hardware Virtualization
Wind River Systems, the Canadian provider of Device Software Optimization (DSO), today introduced a multicore software solution for device development, which aims to help companies solve complex business challenges by taking advantage of multicore processing and virtualization.
16Jun2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Gap Between Hardware and Software
The semiconductor industry is starting to address what’s being called a software gap between a rising tide of multicore processors and a lack of parallel programming tools and techniques to make use of them. The gap came into stark focus in the embedded world at the Multicore Expo, where chipmakers Freescale, Intel, MIPS and a handful of silicon startups sketched out directions for their multicore products.
7Apr2008 | Robin Wauters | 1 comment | ContinuedDell Reportedly Plans To Give Away VMware ESX Server 3i For Free, World Keeps Turning
According to The Inquirer, it appears Dell is considering to stop charging VMware ESX Server 3i licensing fees on its PowerEdge servers to its customers. This was reportedly said by VMWare’s Senior Product Marketing Manager Martin Niemer and comes two weeks after the virtualization vendor announced it would start embedding the 32 MB hypervisor across Dell, Fujitsu-Siemens, HP and IBM servers.
15Mar2008 | Robin Wauters | 4 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 | 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 | ContinuedVMWare To Embed VMware ESX 3i Hypervisor Across Dell, Fujitsu-Siemens, HP and IBM Servers
Today at VMWorld Europe 2008, VMware announced agreements to embed the VMware ESX 3i hypervisor in servers from Dell, Fujitsu Siemens Computers, HP and IBM.
27Feb2008 | Robin Wauters | 2 comments | ContinuedGartner: Server Market Doing Fine Until Further Notice
A new report from Gartner shows the server market did great during all of 2007, including the fourth quarter. Server shipments rose 11 % during the fourth quarter, while revenue rose almost 3 %. The world’s server vendors combined to ship 2.4 million boxes during the fourth quarter and brought in $ 15.5 billion for their efforts. In all of 2007, shipments rose 7 %, while revenue jumped 4 %.
22Feb2008 | Robin Wauters | 1 comment | Continued
