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Video interview with George Kurian, Vice President and General Manager of the Application Delivery Business Unit at Cisco (Part 2/2)
In this second part of our interview with George Kurian, he explains about the capabilities of VFrame; being Cisco’s system’s management and provisioning that is aimed at the virtualized network and helps to put the virtual puzzle together. Cisco recognizes the data center as a heterogeneous multivendor environment and plans to supports 3rd party technologies in the future. Cisco sees the notion of what a computer is today, getting truly blended closely with the network as interconnect speeds go up dramatically over the next two to three years.
14Sep2008 | Toon Vanagt | 1 comment | ContinuedVideo interview with George Kurian, Vice President and General Manager of the Application Delivery Business Unit at Cisco (Part 1/2)
In this first part of our interview with George Kurian at Cisco’s headquarters we get to know how Cisco looks at Virtualization in the datacenter from three different sets of product capabilities: pervasive networking platforms, services and VFrame (provisioning and orchestration tools). From his position as the vice president and general manager of the Application Delivery Business Unit at Cisco, he sees the need for server virtualization to be complemented with virtualization capabilities in the network and explains how his teams are engineering the network to be a facilitator for all the virtues Virtualization brings. The goal for George’s data center technology group is to make the network aware of the new atomic unit in the data center: the Virtual Machine and no longer the physical server or port. He goes on pointing to the Nexus series and new introductions for the Catalyst series with capabilities to support some of these (r)evolutionary trends in the data center…
14Sep2008 | Toon Vanagt | 0 comments | ContinuedDiscCloud Launches Virtual Appliance for Mac OS X
DiscCloud today announced the release of the DiscCloud Virtual Appliance, the world’s first desktop virtualization platform designed for Mac OS X clients.
8Sep2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedRelease: CentOS 5.2, Free Red Hat Enterprise Linux Clone
The CentOS development team has released CentOS 5.2, which is based on and promises full compatibility for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.2. Available for i386 and x86-64 architectures, the release offers new drivers and bug fixes, as well as improvements to the Xen virtualization kernel, according to the team.
26Jun2008 | Robin Wauters | 3 comments | ContinuedScaleMP vSMP Foundation Standalone Now Supports Supermicro SuperBlade Server Platform
ScaleMP today announced the expansion of its vSMP Foundation Standalone software product line to support the Supermicro SuperBlade server platform. Using its virtualization technology, ScaleMP enables the aggregation of up to ten Intel dual-processor blades to build a shared memory symmetric multiprocessor (SMP). The company says customers will benefit from 80 Intel Xeon processing cores and up to 640 GB of memory, providing one of the densest high-end x86 system on the market today.
17Jun2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedKVM-65 Released, Supports S390 Architecture
KVM-65 was released today. The most interesting feature in this release is support for the S/390 architecture, more specifically, the System z9 line of mainframes. On x86, the most interesting change is the separation of timer and I/O completion handling into a separate thread (these used to be serviced bythe same thread that executed vcpu 0). The change should result in improved responsiveness and better smp performance.
7Apr2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedGartner: Virtualization Wave To Cause Huge Market Disruption And Consolidation Through 2012
Gartner: “Virtualization will transform how IT is managed, what is bought, how it is deployed, how companies plan and how they are charged. As a result, virtualization is creating a new wave of competition among infrastructure vendors that will result in considerable market disruption and consolidation over the next few years.”
6Apr2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 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 | Continued
