All Posts Tagged With: "sun microsystems"
Sun Releases VirtualBox 1.6.0
The folks at Sun Microsystems didn’t hesitate all too long to start fiddling around with VirtualBox after their acquisition of its maker innotek about 3 months ago. The company has just released version 1.6.0, and its changelog neatly tracks what’s new.
5May2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Present And Future of Xen
Over the past few months, a number of people have been vouching the idea that Xen’s development and adoption is slowing down because of the Citrix’ acquisition. Is it? A look at the present state and future of Xen.
7Apr2008 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | ContinuedFollow-up On Our April Fool’s Joke On Sun Acquiring Parallels
By now, you may have heard about the prank post we published on April Fool’s Day about Sun acquiring Parallels for $ 205 million. While the story was obivously fake, many people started speculating about its authenticity and - which was far more interesting - about the possibility of Parallels ever selling, and if so, at what price?
7Apr2008 | Robin Wauters | 2 comments | ContinuedSun Microsystems To Acquire Parallels For $ 205 Million (Updated)
Sun Microsystems has today announced it has reached an agreement to acquire Parallels (formerly SWsoft) and all of its assets for $ 85 million. The major acquisition had been rumoured to be imminent throughout the course of 2007, but never actually went through, which led mosts analysts to believe the Herndon, VA-based company was heading towards an IPO following in VMware’s footsteps.
1Apr2008 | Robin Wauters | 22 comments | ContinuedThe Current State of Open Source Virtualization
We’ve started by looking back at a decade of Open Source virtualization, and in this second part of the series we’ll tackle today’s landscape (last updated in March 2008).
26Mar2008 | Kris Buytaert | 1 comment | ContinuedBaseline: 10 Free Virtualization Tools You Should Know
Baseline published an interesting list of 10 free virtualization tools you should know on its website.
28Feb2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 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 | 0 comments | ContinuedSun Aims To Virtualize Web 2.0 Startups. From LAMP to SAMP?
Sun MicroSystems aims to equip the next generation of Internet companies (read: Web 2.0 startups) with its hardware and software and will offer virtualization products to help them keep their costs to a minimum, make their data centers more flexible, and give developers multiple target environments.
18Feb2008 | Robin Wauters | 1 comment | ContinuedSun Acquires innotek, VirtualBox Desktop Virtualization To Extend The Sun xVM platform
Sun Microsystems has just announced , in a surprising move, the acquisition of German desktop virtualization technology provider innotek , makers of the well-known VirtualBox family.
12Feb2008 | Robin Wauters | 3 comments | ContinuedJonathan Schwartz Boasts About Sun xVM
Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun Microsystems, wrote a blog post based on the recent Sun quarter financial announcements.
30Jan2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedSun SPARC hardware to get virtualization for multiboot while looking at Xen
Sun Microsystems later this year will introduce virtualization technology to let its newest Sparc-based servers run multiple operating systems simultaneously, thus catching up to a feature already built into Unix machines from rivals IBM and Hewlett-Packard.
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This calendar year, on the T2000 and T1000, we will introduce our first generation of virtualization to bring people beyond […]
