All Posts Tagged With: "IBM"

vMAN 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 | Continued

Fusion-io Partners With IBM To Boost Storage System Performance

Fusion-io, a provider of enterprise solid-state technology and high-performance I/O solutions, today announced that the company is working with IBM to dramatically accelerate data access performance in IBM’s clustered storage systems.

3Sep2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

DTMF Accepts Draft Specification for Open Virtual Machine Format (OVF)

The Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) today announced the acceptance of a draft specification submitted by leading virtualization companies targeting an industry standard format for portable virtual machines.

26Aug2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

Surgient To Use IBM Jazz Platform To Enable More Efficient Application Development

Surgient today announced it will offer integrated solutions with products built using IBM Jazz collaborative technologies. As a result, IBM quality assurance users can use Surgient’s Virtual Automation Platform to allocate IT resources and set up and tear down virtual labs on-demand for software testing and quality assurance, introducing new efficiencies to the application development lifecycle.

26Aug2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

Terremark Completes Infinistructure Deployment

Terremark Worldwide today announced the completed deployment of the Infinistructure utility-computing platform at its facilities in Madrid and Amsterdam. The platform will benefit Terremark’s European and American customers and has been met with high demand from current customers and prospects.

26Aug2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

IBM launches the open-ovf project

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Scott Moser from IBM’s Systems Technology Group has released the first version of the open-ovf project. OVF is a standard packaging format for virtual machines and software appliances. The open-ovf project is seeking contributors and users to help establish OVF as a transparent and platform-neutral method for packaging virtual machine images.
The goal [...]

14Aug2008 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | Continued

VMware Site Recovery Manager 1.0 Released

VMware has announced its new tool for disaster recovery management and automation of a virtual infrastructure, VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) 1.0 (build 97878).

23Jun2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

IBM Releases New Storage Virtualization Software

As part of the company’s “Project Big Green” offerings, IBM today announced new storage virtualization software that helps clients manage and consolidate volumes of business data, providing clients with a storage solution designed to help improve utilization rates, energy efficiency, availability, and scalability of critical applications.

11Jun2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

KVM Forum 2008 Schedule Has Been Announced

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The
schedule for the upcoming KVM 2008 forum in Nappa, CA is up.

Qumranet, as the main KVM sponsor, is inviting all KVM developers to their
second KVM summit on June 10 to 13th at the Marriot Napa Valley, California.
Many of the world’s top kernel developers will gather to discuss the state of [...]

28Apr2008 | Kris Buytaert | 1 comment | Continued

Nortel Spinoff Blade Network Technologies Aims To Virtualize Datacenter Racks

BLADE Network Technologies, the data-center server-switch company spun off from Nortel two years ago, announces the availability of its new RackSwitch network virtualization switches—the only switches designed specifically for IBM’s iDataPlex, a custom-configured rack system featuring design innovations in cooling and efficiency to address Web 2.0-style computing.

23Apr2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

IBM Snaps Up Storage Provider Diligent Technologies

IBM today announced it has acquired Diligent Technologies, a privately held storage “de-duplication” technology company headquartered in Framingham, Massachusetts with research and development located in Tel Aviv, Israel. Diligent’s technologies and employees will become part of the IBM System Storage business unit of the IBM Systems and Technology Group. Financial terms were not disclosed, but rumors put it in the $200 million price range.

18Apr2008 | Robin Wauters | 2 comments | Continued

VirtualLogix’ VLX for Network Infrastructure Now Available for Power Architectures

VirtualLogix today announced that its VLX for Network Infrastructure is now available for Power Architecture based processors. Using VLX virtualization software, multiple operating systems may run simultaneously on shared hardware, “enabling networking and telecommunication equipment manufacturers to inject new functionalities into existing product lines and extend product lifecycles – while slicing costs by consolidating existing products into a multifunction system”.

16Apr2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued
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