Trac is a great application to track software development projects, but anyone who’s tried to install it knows it can be a real pain at times. This is especially true if you want to get it working on Windows or Mac OS X. Because there’s such obvious pain here, we decided to give it the […]
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Published June 11th, 2007 in Virtual Appliances, Virtualization, VMWare, Parallels and Open Source. 1 Comment
Nick Halstead has posted some thoughts about using virtual appliances for doing development.
For me the ‘pre-built’ & ‘pre-configured’ aspects are the most important given that time equals money and the cost of installing the OS and configuring any applications can take large amounts of time unless you have dedicate personal for such tasks.
Read the full […]
rPath has added a couple features to rBuilder in order to simplify the process of building virtual appliances for the VMWare Virtual Appliance Marketplace.
Raleigh, N.C. (June 6, 2007) – rPath™, provider of a platform for creating and maintaining virtual appliances, today announced that virtual appliances intended for the VMware Virtual Appliance Marketplace (http://vam.vmware.com) can be […]
Parallels has launched their new virtual appliances directory and the Parallels Developer Network.
Parallels, Inc., maker of award-winning desktop virtualization solutions for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X, announced today the Parallels Technology Network (PTN) – an online community for users, as well as developers using Parallels virtualization technology to deliver their software in self-contained virtual […]
Over at JumpBox we just posted the first release candidate for the JumpBox virtual appliance platform and along with it new releases of all of our virtual appliances.
JumpBox virtual appliances aim to bring ease of use to the deployment and management of Open Source server based applications. They’re completely focused on delivering a simple […]
Thanks to some generous help for the folks at rPath, the Gallery virtual appliance has been updated to version 1.1. Changes in the release include.
1. Updated Gallery 1 and Gallery 2 versions
The new version includes Gallery 1.5.6 and Gallery 2.2.1
2. More Gallery 2 modules enabled, and Downloadable Plugins are also available.
3. SCSI emulation instead of […]
From Network World, “Virtual appliances cure appliance bloat”. The article outlines some solid benefits to virtual appliances from the perspective of the enterprise.
* Streamlined product evaluations: Instead of waiting to get hardware in-house for evaluation, you can download a trial virtual appliance and begin using it in a matter of hours without having to […]
Bruce Richardson from AMR research has posted some of this thoughts from last weeks Virtual Appliance thought leaders summit. His conclusions:
The idea of being the “Southwest Airlines of software” is very appealing—despite the lack of first class seating. Software appliances may rival SaaS as the preferred deployment for small and mid-sized customers. Both appeal to […]
The latest Virtualization Daily poll is now online. This time I’m wondering, “What do you see as the biggest barrier to adoption for virtual appliances”.
You can contribute your answer and see all previous poll results on the Polls Archive page.
Also, if you think there are barriers in areas that I didn’t list, I’d love to […]
ProofPoint has announced a new policy-driven email encryption module that can be added to their Messaging Security Gateway-Virtual Edition virtual appliance. The ProofPoint virtual appliance runs on VMWare.
The new version of Proofpoint Secure Messaging is fully integrated with Proofpoint’s messaging security platform and requires no additional hardware to filter, route and encrypt messages. Powered by […]
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