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Significant improvements forecasted for virtualization

March 1, 2006 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

iReach Research published a report, Virtualization as an Enabler of Knowledge Management, claiming a quarter of European firms are currently using server virtualization and 67% of them plan to increase their usage over the next year.

This report seems to totally disagree with the 1 week ago news Techworld reported: Users fail to grasp virtualization benefits.

Based on my personal experience and after collecting several feedbacks from virtualization professionals around Europe, I find rather difficult to believe iReach report.
I would believe a whole quarter of them is evaluating virtualization technologies and testing them in limited environments. I absolutely don’t believe they are using virtualization in production.

Since the report doesn’t explain how firms are working with virtualization, and which kind of industries are involved (it would be easier to believe a quarter of all european IT companies statement) I don’t find it very useful.

Thanks to VMblog for the news.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: ireach, ireach research, knowledge management, techworld, virtualisation, virtualization

Impacts of Application Virtualization and Streaming

February 24, 2006 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Softricity hosted an interesting webcast with Brian Gammage, Gartner Research Vice President, about desktop virtualization:

Virtualization is widely regarded as the most important technology to hit the enterprise in decades. The potential benefits for the desktop are tremendous, with improvements in the manageability, security and flexibility of personal computing. By reducing complexity, virtualization promises to streamline support, accelerate deployments and reduce the cost of personal computing. But virtualization is occurring at more than one level; decoupling hardware, operating systems and applications. So, what are these different levels of virtualization technology and how are they being used by companies today? How mature is the technology? How does application virtualization differ from machine virtualization and what role does streaming technology play?

Join featured Gartner Research Vice President, Brian Gammage, a recognized expert in desktop virtualization, to learn what application virtualization and streaming really are, and how they can impact your approach to managing user access to enterprise applications.

See it here.

Thanks to Thincomputing.net for the news.

Filed Under: News, Videos Tagged With: brian gammage, desktop virtualization, gartner, gartner research, softricity, thincomputing, virtualisation, virtualization

Free VMware Server

February 6, 2006 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

VMware, Inc., the global leader in virtual infrastructure software for industry-standard systems, today introduced VMware Server, a free new entry-level hosted virtualization product for Linux and Windows servers. The product is available as a beta download at www.vmware.com/products/server/.

“Virtualization and VMware have become mainstream in the past year, and many customers have deployed thousands of VMware server environments across their enterprises. With VMware Server, we are ensuring that every company interested in, considering or evaluating server virtualization for the first time has access to the industry-leading virtualization technology,” said Diane Greene, VMware President. “VMware Server makes it easy and compelling for companies new to virtualization to take the first step toward enterprise-wide virtual infrastructure.”

VMware Server, the successor to VMware GSX Server, enables users to quickly provision new server capacity by partitioning a physical server into multiple virtual machines, bringing the powerful benefits of virtualization to every server.

VMware Server is feature-packed with the following market-leading capabilities:

  • Support for any standard x86 hardware

  • Support for a wide variety of Linux and Windows host operating systems, including 64-bit operating systems

  • Support for a wide variety of Linux, NetWare, Solaris x86 and Windows guest operating systems, including 64-bit operating systems

  • Support for Virtual SMP, enabling a single virtual machine to span multiple physical processors

  • Quick and easy, wizard-driven installation similar to any desktop software

  • Quick and easy virtual machine creation with a virtual machine wizard

  • Virtual machine monitoring and management with an intuitive, user friendly remote console

Availability

VMware Server beta is available for immediate download at www.vmware.com/products/server/. The product is expected to be generally available later in the first half of 2006. Support and subscription services for VMware Server will be available for purchase upon general availability.

Source at VMware website

Filed Under: News Tagged With: gsx server, linux, virtualisation, virtualization, vmware, vmware inc, vmware server, vmware server beta, windows

Sun SPARC hardware to get virtualization for multiboot while looking at Xen

January 27, 2006 by Robin Wauters 1 Comment

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.
…
This calendar year, on the T2000 and T1000, we will introduce our first generation of virtualization to bring people beyond the container technology Solaris 10 already offers,”
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Xen is the future, Yen said. Although the company developed its own logical domain software, Sun eventually expects it will become one with Xen.
“Eventually we expect Xen will get industrywide acceptance, and we’d like to be part of it. Some time, probably in the second half of 2007, we will merge,” Yen said…

Read the whole article at News.com.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: server, solaris 10, sparc, sun, sun microsystems, t1000, t2000, virtualization, Xen

Microsoft Longhorn Datacenter Server will have no virtualization licensing costs

January 12, 2006 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Today virtualization is expensive for licensing. Microsoft asks people to license every OS installed on virtual machines, even if powered off. But something is changing.

Since the release of Windows Server 2003 R2 Microsoft started approaching a per-use licensing model instead of a per-installation model. So that now Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition owners can run up to 4 virtual machines with same OS at no additional costs.

This trend is going be stronger in the near future: the next Microsoft operating system for servers, codename Longhorn, actually in beta, will permit to use infinite virtual machines with same OS onboard at no additional costs, buying the Datacenter edition.
So if you have a performing hardware able to run 100 VMs, you’ll still have to pay just 1 Longhorn Datacenter Server license.

This is what Scott Bekker reported on a Redmondmag December 2005 article.

This move could slighty reduce customers feeling open source competing products (Xen) are a better investment.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Longhorn, Longhorn Datacenter Server, microsoft, OS, Scott Bekker, virtualization, windows server 2003, windows server 2003 R2, Xen

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January 1, 2006 by Robin Wauters 1 Comment

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