May 31
Virtual Iron today announced that it has been named as a finalist for the 5 th Annual MITX Technology Awards. The MITX What ’ s Next Forum &… Read more at VMblog.com.
May 31
The range of virtualization technologies, multitude of platforms, and array of vendors raises significant issues around people, process, and technology. This white paper looks at how pairing IT process automation with virtualization addresses these issues
Published by: Opalis Software, Inc.
May 31
Among the topics covered in this track are data deduplication, virtual tape libraries, the newly integrated backup suites, matching data protection levels to business needs and how archiving fits into a data protection scenario.
Published by: Storage Decisions and Diligent Technologies Corporation
May 31
Server virtualization is being touted as a near panacea for DR by making it easier than ever to recover servers to a secondary site.
Published by: Storage Decisions and EVault Inc.
May 31
Storage virtualization promises to ease storage management and improve disk usage, but there are inherent issues that need to be fully understood before embarking on a virtualization project.
Published by: Storage Decisions
May 30
Hyper-V, Microsofts virtualization option for Windows Server 2008, has taken another step toward final release. Released for download by Microsoft on May 20, Release Candidate 1 adds support for Windows 2000 Server Service Pack 4 and Novells SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1 for both x86 and x64. Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 will be available in a future update, according to the release notes for the LIC (Linux Integration Components) add-on software. During tests of RC1, I bolted on LIC and installed SUSE, along with Windows Server 2000 SP4, to get a look at the new capabilities….
May 30
Dr. Jim writes “The good folks over at the Gartner Group have revealed the top 10 technologies that they believe will change the world over the next four years. The usual suspects including multi-core chips, virtualization, and cloud computing are on the list. Multicore servers and virtualization will mean that firms will need fewer boxes, and apps can be easily moved from box to box (and right out the door to an outsourced data center). Workplace social networks and cloud computing means that the need for a centralized IT department will go away. Firms will no longer need to own/maintain the boxes that they use to run their firm’s apps. With no need to touch a box, there will be no need to have the IT staff co-located with the boxes.”
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May 30
Founded in 1982, Green Hills Software is a highly successful software company specializing in virtualization and security. Green Hills Software’s INTEGRITY is the first operating system or virtualization technology to be accepted for EAL 6+ Common Criteria IT Security evaluation; the level required to protect assets from hostile and well-funded attacks. Green Hills’ INTEGRITY PC technology, using the unique Padded Cell virtualization architecture, enables IT organizations and equipment manufacturers the ability to deploy completely secure systems while supporting environments such as Windows and Linux.
May 30
Citrix has bought sepago GmbH’s sepagoProfile software so user profiles in XenDesktop, XenApp and Provisioning Server are integrated. Terms were not disclosed but as part of the deal the Cologne-based sepago will continue developing the product for virtualizing application provisioning for the next year and a half. Sepago specializes in application provisioning on large computer networks.
May 30
The European Commission’s spokesman Jonathan Todd called a story by the Financial Times Deutschland - claiming that the EC had reached a provisional antitrust decision against Intel - ‘irresponsible journalism.’ Todd said ‘no provisional or internal decision’ had been made and that the EC?s investigation was still ongoing.