All Posts Tagged With: "XVM"

Oracle Gets Sun xVM, Solaris Zones and Virtualbox

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When Oracle announced that it will be acquiring Sun it didn’t just impact the database market. It’s not just the question of what will happen with MySQL, OpenOffice and Java. The impact on the virtualization market is big as well.
At the moment Sun has a very confusing virtualization offering: they have different flavours, different tools [...]

30Apr2009 | Kris Buytaert | 3 comments | Continued

Sun Microsystems Acquires Q-layer To Expand Cloud Offerings

Sun Microsystems just announced it has acquired Q-layer, a cloud computing company that automates the deployment and management of both public and private clouds. The 35 people from the Q-layer organization, based in Belgium, will become part of Sun’s Cloud Computing business unit.

7Jan2009 | Toon Vanagt | 3 comments | Continued

Sun Releases xVM VirtualBox 2.1

Sun Microsystems has introduced an updated to xVM VirtualBox, now at version 2.1.

19Dec2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

Sun Announces xVM Server, xVM Ops Center 2.0 — Public Release Coming Soon

Sun Microsystems today announced the availability of Sun xVM Server software and Sun xVM Ops Center 2.0, key components in its strategy. Sun also announced the addition of comprehensive services and support for Sun xVM Server software and xVM Ops Center 2.0 to its virtualization suite of services.

11Sep2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

VirtualBox 2.0 Hits The Wire

Sun just announced the availability of Sun xVM Virtual Box 2.0. The biggest change in xVM VirtualBox 2.0 is the new support for 64-bit versions of operating systems like Windows Vista and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, in addition to all other major host operating systems.

4Sep2008 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | Continued

Should VMWare Watch Out For VirtualBox?

IT Wire has a good introductory article about VirtualBox. Sadly, their introduction is a bit wrong in the details.

14Aug2008 | Kris Buytaert | 1 comment | Continued

Sun Microsystems Inks Bunch Of New OEM Agreements To Expand xVM VirtualBox Reach

Sun Microsystems today announced new multi-year OEM agreements with Avanquest Software, Q-layer and Zenith InfoTech to expand the reach of Sun xVM VirtualBox.

12Aug2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

“Benchmarking” The Citrix / XenServer Combo with Ian Pratt (Video Interview – Part 4)

Some time ago, we had a chance to sit down (on a bench) for a video interview with Xen Guru Ian Pratt, well known for co-founding and ultimately selling XenSource – the company behind the open-source Xen project – to Citrix in October 2007.

15Jun2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

“Benchmarking” The Citrix / XenServer Combo with Ian Pratt (Video Interview – Part 3)

Some time ago, we had a chance to sit down (on a bench) for a video interview with Xen Guru Ian Pratt, well known for co-founding and ultimately selling XenSource – the company behind the open-source Xen project – to Citrix in October 2007.

1Jun2008 | Toon Vanagt | 0 comments | Continued

Sun xVM VirtualBox Downloads Pass The Five Million Mark

Sun Microsystems today announced that Sun xVM VirtualBox, the free and open source desktop virtualization software it acquired by taking over its maker innotek earlier this year, has surpassed five million downloads in just 18 months.

29May2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

“Benchmarking” The Citrix / XenServer Combo with Ian Pratt (Video Interview – Part 2)

Some time ago, we had a chance to sit down (on a bench) for a video interview with Xen Guru Ian Pratt, well known for co-founding and ultimately selling XenSource – the company behind the open-source Xen project – to Citrix in October 2007.

28May2008 | Toon Vanagt | 3 comments | Continued

“Benchmarking” The Citrix / XenServer Combo with Ian Pratt (Video Interview – Part 1)

Some time ago, we had a chance to sit down (on a bench) for a video interview with Xen Guru Ian Pratt, well known for co-founding and ultimately selling XenSource – the company behind the open-source Xen project – to Citrix in October 2007.

26May2008 | Robin Wauters | 3 comments | Continued
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