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Readers of Virtualization Journal know that virtualization provides enormous benefits to makers and users of computing platforms ranging from desktops, to servers, and even supercomputers. The reasons for this are now obvious; cost savings through server consolidation, reduced administrative costs, and greater flexibility. Less obvious may be the degree to which virtualization can benefit deeply embedded applications such as cell phones, networking equipment, and point of sales terminals.

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IBM announced it is bringing its POWER6 microprocessor-based technology to small and medium-sized customers and delivering new virtualization offerings designed to help those customers consolidate server capacity, save energy and more effectively manage their IT costs.

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VKernel announced the VKernel Solution Acceleration Kit, a collaborative effort with VMware to enable VMware Authorized Consultants (VACs) to build services for accelerating their customers’ virtual infrastructure adoption and operational readiness.

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Sun Microsystems announced an OEM agreement to widen their virtualization offerings. Sun is offering the VMware Infrastructure product suite on Sun hardware systems with full support from Sun. It is expected that the agreement will enable customers to capitalize on Sun’s x64 servers while leveraging VMware’s virtualization solutions to improve asset utilization, operational efficiency and business agility.

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Microsoft Canada’s president Phil Sorgen showcased the next generation infrastructure and application platform products, including Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

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Sun, which is supposed to have serious ambitions for its own upcoming xVM virtualization technology, said Wednesday that it would sell and provide front-line support for VMware’s Infrastructure product suite on Sun hardware under a deal with VMware.

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‘Today, we launch our virtualization strategy in earnest,’ said Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer yesterday at a live event in Los Angeles, CA, to launch Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008. Windows Server 2008, Ballmer noted, included a beta version of the Hyper-V virtualization technology. ‘We’re very early in the virtualization technology cycle,’ he said.

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So, you have implemented virtualization in your server farm, your data storage, and your network and are reaping the benefits of simplification, consolidation, and flexibility that are the hallmarks of virtualization technologies. You also probably think that you have taken the virtualization road about as far as you can in your data center. Yet, there is another critical aspect of virtualization technology which you may not yet have tapped into.

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CANNES, France, Feb. 27, 2008 – Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) and VMware Inc. (NYSE: VMW) today announced an OEM agreement to expand their virtualization offerings. Starting today, Sun is offering the VMware Infrastructure product suite on Sun hardware systems with full support from Sun. This helps enable customers to capitalize on the high performance, scalability and energy efficiency of Sun’s x64 servers while leveraging VMware’s groundbreaking virtualization solutions to improve asset utilization, operational efficiency, and business agility. The agreement also benefits systems integrators and channel partners by providing a fully supported, seamlessly integrated solution from these…

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Microsoft Research demonstrates a new virtual telescope that lets people pan and zoom across the night sky.

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