Virtualization Daily

ITWeek: Virtual Machines to drive grid adoption

“Adoption of grid is going from HPC and verticals to broad commercial deployments and virtualisation is going to be a big boost for grid computing because it allows you to allocate resources and move applications around without disrupting the application in the VM container,” Zhou said.

ServerWatch: Hardware Today: Server Virtualization Becoming Norm

“Customer usage models or cases in virtualization are moving from a consolidation only situation to more of an ease-of-management and ease-of-provisioning scenario,” says Stori Waugh, senior manager of PowerEdge Servers, Dell Product Group. “Another area we’re seeing growth in virtualization is in the management ecosystem. Whereas before there were numerous tools in the management space for hardware, software, etc., customers are now incorporating virtualization to consolidate the number of tools they need to manage their infrastructures.”

Application Development Trends: Virtualization: It’s a Race Up the Stack

Zimbra, a San Mateo, CA-based provider of open-source server and client technology for enterprise messaging and collaboration, has used the VMware virtual appliance to offer both trial and production versions of its Zimbra Collaboration Suite. Zimbra’s VP of marketing and product management, John Robb, was at the chalk talk. ‘’We created this virtual appliance and we put it up on the website, but we weren’t too sure how many people would want it,'’ he said. ‘’But it’s been one of our top downloads–thousands a month of just that particular bundle.'’

NEWS.com: Red Hat releases Fedora Core 6

The biggest change coming with RHEL 5 is Xen, open-source virtualization software that lets multiple operating systems run simultaneously, each in its own separate compartment called a virtual machine. Virtualization, a high-end feature now arriving in x86 servers, lets a single server replace several less efficiently used ones.