Last week we announced that Six Apart and JumpBox have been working together to vastly simplify the deployment of Movable Type Pro. This new product called “Virtual Movable Type by JumpBox” is a JumpBox virtual appliance that bundles all the components required to run Movable Type together in a single module that deploys in […]
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Published September 21st, 2008 in Virtual Appliances, Virtualization, Open Source, Commercial and Utility Computing. 0 CommentsThe Monash Report is reporting on the success of the VMWare virtual appliance program and the Proofpoint antispam appliance.
I talked with Proofpoint today, and got a more positive view about VMware’s virtual appliance strategy than I’ve gotten from other appliance vendors. They cite over 500 downloads in the past couple of months, of which a […]
Wiki vendor MindTouch has just released their Deki wiki software as a VMWare virtual appliance. MindTouch had been distributing Deki as a hardware appliance for sometime so it’s not surprising to see this come about.
MindTouch, the most comprehensive vendor of business wiki solutions, today unveiled MindTouch Deki, the world’s first business wiki implemented as a […]
Cohesive FT has released two new virtual appliances for Parallels and VMWare. These appliances implement tools for managing Financial Information Exchange messages based on the FIX protocol. They’ve released Alpha 2 of the FIX - Drop Trade Consolidator and Alpha 1 of the FIX - Execution Gateway Router.
As a solution for something that’s way harder than it should be, Microsoft has released a virtual machine with Windows XP and Internet Explorer 6 & 7 preinstalled. The target for this is web developers who are looking to test their sites against both of the IE versions. The virtual machine has XP installed and […]
From Network World Virtual appliance make OS … irrelevant?
Virtual appliances give vendors the ability to pre-tune and configure the operating system with the minimal set of components needed to run the application. The end result: a more secure, smaller and better tuned operating system and an application installation experience that is as smooth as possible.
If […]
Microsoft is continuing to tiptoe towards the concept of virtual appliances. They still have licensing challenges and it’s unclear if anyone other than Microsoft can build these, but it’s a first step. In typical Microsoft fashion they had to come up with a different name so they’re calling these things Virtual Hard Drives (VHD). Right […]
CRMBuyer has published an interesting article about the changing environment for software licensing. One of the things that’s changing in that environment is the growing use of virtualization technology.
And virtualization will become an issue soon, as it moves out of the test and development phase and into production environments. Lechner says 54 percent of IBM’s […]
According to Computerworld, “Despite the technology’s promise, most businesses have yet to deploy virtual servers.”. A bit of a reality check maybe, but at the same time the fact that the question is even being asked for a technology that’s so new is pretty impressive.
In Computerworld’s latest quarterly Vital Signs survey, 51% of the 314 […]
Microsoft has announced the availabily of its virtual machine hard drive specification under the terms of their Open Specification Promise which says.
Microsoft irrevocably promises not to assert any Microsoft Necessary Claims against you for making, using, selling, offering for sale, importing or distributing any implementation to the extent it conforms to a Covered Specification (“Covered […]
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