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Hostway Research: Virtualization Boosts Adoption of SaaS
Three-quarters of organizations believe that server virtualization will drive adoption of software-as-a-service (SaaS), according to new research released today by web hosting firm Hostway.
6Oct2008 | Robin Wauters | 1 comment | ContinuedUniversity of Toronto Announces Snowflock
Andres Lagar-Cavilla wrote in to announce the news that he and his team have just released Snowflock, which lets you clone Xen VMs into dozens of identical replicas running in different hosts. Snowflock can do this in less than a second and with very low runtime overhead.
13Sep2008 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | ContinuedSymantec Sets Up Virtualization Lab in Japan
Symantec today announced that Symantec Japan has opened its new “Virtualisation Solutions Lab” for customers and partners, as the company continues to deliver on its virtualization strategy.
28Jul2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedVirtualization Pretty Big Down Under
Twice as many Australian businesses are using virtualization than the rest of the world, according to analysts, reports Techworld. Gartner says between 8 and 9 % of medium to enterprise businesses are virtualizing their x86 servers, while global uptake remains at about 4 to 5 %.
24Jul2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedAzure Uses Intel Virtualization Extensions To Counter Malware
Paul Royal, principal researcher at Damballa, has developed a new tool called Azure, which takes advantage of the virtualization extensions in Intel’s chips to evade the virtual machine and sandbox checks malware authors often include in their ‘work’.
22Jul2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedIDC Research Shows Strong Server Virtualization Adoption in Europe
According to ONStor, Europe’s lagging in storage virtualization adoption. Recent research from IDC, however, shows the pace of adoption of virtualized servers is incredibly rapid among organizations that are using virtualization.
7Jul2008 | Robin Wauters | 1 comment | ContinuedDavid Coyle, Gartner Researcher: The 7 Side Effects Of Lousy Virtualization
David Coyle, research VP at Gartner, detailed the seven side effects at the research firm’s Infrastructure, Operations and Management Summit, which drew nearly 900 attendees. While virtualization promises to solve issues such as underutilization, high hardware costs and poor system availability, the benefits come only when the technology is applied with proper care and consistently monitored for change, Coyle explained.
24Jun2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedEMC Joins Daoli Trusted Infrastructure Research Project
EMC has joined the Daoli Trusted Infrastructure Project which conducts research into “trust and assurance” in cloud computing environments. EMC joins a growing global research team that today includes four of China’s leading technical universities including Fudan University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Tsinghua University, and Wuhan University. The team’s research will focus on cloud computing, trusted computing and virtualization.
16Jun2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedVirtualization Picking Up More Steam in Asia Pacific
Research from Springboard had already estimated the virtualization software and services market in Asia Pacific to reach $ 1.35 billion with CAGR of 42 % by 2010, here’s another indication that Asia is poised to become the biggest growth market for virtualization in the future, particularly with financial institutions.
6Jun2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedIBM Unveils Research Initiative PHANTOM, Aims To Protect Virtual Servers Better
IBM recently announced a breakthrough in safeguarding virtual server environments and introduced new software to help businesses better manage risk. The company said the advances can provide businesses with substantial improvements in securing information, applications, and IT infrastructures around the globe.
10Apr2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedIs Virtualization The Biggest Security Vulnerability In IT Today?
Joanna Rutkowska, the founder of security research firm Invisible Things Lab, reportedly described a new type of virtualization-based malware that could be used to take control of a machine running virtualization software. Because virtualization allows companies to store many virtualized software “images” of computers on a single physical machine, an attack like the one Rutkowska envisions would allow a hacker “not only to control a single machine but to siphon data from any virtual machine it contains”.
9Apr2008 | Robin Wauters | 2 comments | ContinuedAnother Study Predicts Huge and Rapid Virtualization Market Growth
Application Delivery Networking provider F5 Networks today released the results of another survey that shows the storage virtualization market is set to grow rapidly. The online study reveals the percentage of U.S. enterprises that use storage virtualization solutions will more than double from 21 % to 47 % in the next few years.
7Apr2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued
