All Posts Tagged With: "IBM"
Dell 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 | ContinuedLooking Back At A Decade of Open Source Virtualization
A deep dive into the history of open source virtualization, its key players and forgotten protagonists from the early days.
10Mar2008 | Kris Buytaert | 3 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 | 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 | ContinuedIBM Takes Virtual Servers Into Virtual Worlds
IBM has long been fascinated with the potential of 3-D virtual worlds and has now taken the next step and created actual 3-D virtual worlds that enterprise companies can use to manage their existing data centers or design new ones, as announced today by the company.
21Feb2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedIBM announces virtualization management tool
Virtualization Manager
Stephen Shankland at CNET reported on IBM announcing a new management software to govern many types of virtual machines. IBM’s Virtualization Manager is a dashboard that lets administrators take actions such as allocating computing resources to virtual machines. The software can control IBM’s own System p and System i servers as well as x86 servers running VMware, Xen [...]
