All Posts Tagged With: "intel"
Intel Hearts Virtualization
In a piece on Channel Insider, Steve Dallman, Channel Chief at Intel, says he and the company’s channel partners are seeing incredible growth in the server market, despite the increasing use of virtualization technology which should help reduce the number of servers.
10Apr2008 | 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 | ContinuedLenovo Becomes First PC Maker to Announce Proprietary Client Virtualization Platform (CVP)
Last week, Lenovo announced the first low-level client virtualization software platform offered by any PC hardware manufacturer. Lenovo’s Client Virtualization Platform (CVP) will be the base technology for customer solutions shipping with Lenovo PC products later this year. Lenovo’s Client Virtualization Platform uses the latest hardware features to isolate applications. These applications provide improved internet security and manageability, while minimizing the impact on performance.
6Apr2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedVirtualLogix Adds Support For Intel VT-d, Now Fit For Windows Environments
VirtualLogix has updated the Intel Architecture (IA) version of its embedded virtualization stack, which targets performance-critical telecom and datacom applications. VLX for Network Infrastructure (VLX-NI) 3.0 adds support for Intel VT-d (virtualization technology for directed I/O), Microsoft Windows guests, and Core Microarchitecture 3.0, while adding new Eclipse-based set-up tools.
1Apr2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued3Leaf Systems Obtains Intel License For CPU Virtualization
3Leaf Systems today announced it has obtained a license for Intel’s QuickPath Interconnect, which will allow it to build virtualization support for Intel servers. Previously, the company only had a HyperTransport license and only supported AMD servers.
31Mar2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedVirtualization all the way to Kyoto?
Blade servers
Although blade servers are not directly related to virtualization, they are often considered since the Blade-concept also involves around several kinds of consolidation (physical, logical, partitioning, etc…). Any one who ever stood behind an open rack filled with running blades can certainly testify about the generated heating. If you happen to pay the electricity [...]
Next Microsoft Virtual Server slips to 2007
Microsoft has delayed an update for Microsoft Virtual Server until early 2007.
Reported by Stephen Shankland at Cnet News.Com in an interview with James Ni, group product manager for server virtualization at Microsoft.
“ The Service Pack 1 update to Virtual Server 2005 R2 will include support for two chip features, Intel’s Virtualization and Advanced Micro Devices’ Virtualization, that ease [...]
Red Hat Isn’t Exhibiting ‘Xen’-Ophobia
Quoting Jason Brooks from eWeek:
Red Hat’s announcement March 14 of its integrated virtualization push, starring Xen, didn’t take anyone by surprise: Red Hat, along with just about everybody else, has been tooting the Xen horn ever since the fledgling open-source virtualization technology began grabbing headlines almost a year ago.
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The trouble is that Xen is somewhat [...]
Red Hat announces Integrated Virtualization
Quoting from the Red Hat official announcement:
Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source solutions to the enterprise, today formally announced its ‘Integrated Virtualization’ strategy. During a launch today in San Francisco, company executives detailed plans for creating a Red Hat virtualization environment and working with partners such as AMD, Intel, Network Appliance and [...]
15Mar2006 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued
