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With the introduction of Intel’s new Quad-Core Xeon Processor 7300 series chips came a new technology from the company called Intel VT FlexPriority. It was designed to accelerate virtualization interrupt handling and thereby improve virtualization performance. According to Virtual Iron Software, they are one of the first companies to take advantage of this new Intel technology. And because of that, Virtual Iron was able to recently announce extremely impressive results from a series of benchmarking tests performed using Intel’s vConsolidate against a Virtual Iron v4.0 environment. Intel ran the tests and found that when using Intel VT FlexPriority on Virtual… READ MORE

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Sun Tuesday spit out its first quad-core Xeon servers, one of which it reckons is the world’s smallest four-socket x64 server, the Sun Fire X4450. The other is called the Sun Fire X4150. Both can be had with Windows, Linux or Solaris. The 4450, which takes Xeon 7300s, is supposed to be the first and only 2U four-socket quad coming from a tier one vendor. Sun claims it offers twice the compute power and memory capacity

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Yup, another video done in a similar fashion to the Apple Mac versus PC style. This one compares a VMware “virtual environment” to a typical… Read more at VMblog.com.

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PHD Technologies, Inc. (PHD), the leading innovator in virtual infrastructure backup solutions, reports that its VMworld 2007 million dollar giveaway Read more at VMblog.com.

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At the Storage Decisions conference today, The Data Management Institute and Archive Management.org (AMO) launched a joint initiative to develop a… Read more at VMblog.com.

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At CNET Network UK’s annual Business Technology awards ceremony on the 24 th of September, a panel of 22 judges awarded “Networking Product of the… Read more at VMblog.com.

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HP Labs has published a paper titled “Performance Evaluation of Virtualization Technologies for Server Consolidation”. This 14 page paper compares… Read more at VMblog.com.

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If you haven’t ever read or used a “tech” cookbook before, you really should check them out. They are step-by-step guides to help you easily navigate Read more at VMblog.com.

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New to Virtual Iron? Check out this quick start guide to give you an introduction to Virtual Iron’s v4 software. It also explains how to use Virtual… Read more at VMblog.com.

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Qumranet, the creator, maintainer and global sponsor of the KVM Open Source Hypervisor Project, has dropped out of stealth mode to offer its answer into the seamingly very crowded VDI or virtual desktop infrastructure market where desktops are served up to end users from a centrally controlled server infrastructure in the datacenter. Established at the end of 2005, Qumranet has around 45 employees and was co-founded by CTO Moshe Bar, one of the co-founders of both XenSource and Qlusters. After a two year quiet period, Qumranet dropped into the scene at DEMOfall ‘07, where it premiered its technology strategy and… READ MORE

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