Watching virtualization and virtual appliances with a focus on applications in small business and the Mac
Proofpoint, the developer of messaging security solutions, has reported their best quarter ever. In the quarter, they released their first virtual appliance and are considering it to be a key competitive advantage.
“Not only did we record our first sales of the Proofpoint Messaging
Security Gateway Virtual Edition within days of its introduction, but
Proofpoint’s overall virtualization strategy […]
Baynote has announced that their content search engine is now available as a downloadable virtual appliance.
Virtual Iron has released version 3.0 of their virtualization platform.
A 15 user version of Sourceforge Enterprise is available for free download as a VMWare virtual appliance. Sourceforge is perfect example of a system where installation is dramatically simplified by using […]
Enterprise Networking Planet has an interesting article advocating the conversion of hardware appliances into virtual appliances.
To create a virtual appliance – perhaps a firewall, a security gateway or even a router - a virtual server is created and the appliance’s hardened operating system is loaded to create the virtual appliance. This is then loaded with […]
The article the hidden costs of vitualization that I referenced here and here is actually a three part article and the last part was published today. Here’s links to all three parts.
Part 1 - Focused on power, heat and some other management issues.
Part 2 - Focused on networking and virtual machine sprawl.
Part 3 - Focused […]
Over on VMBlog, David is reporting that Microsoft has released its first download of what can loosely be considered a virtual appliance. This is a technology preview of Visual Studio, but it’s significant because to this point Windows has never been distributed this way. Of course the machine only works on Windows Virtual PC 2004 […]
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