Watching virtualization and virtual appliances with a focus on applications in small business and the Mac
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 […]
VirtualAppliances.net has released the latest build of their LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) virtual appliance. Details of the release are below.
VirtualAppliances.net has released build 110 of its popular LAMP
Virtual Appliance. This LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Python/Perl)
server appliance can be downloaded and running within a matter of
minutes.
Quick & Easy […]
CIO Update is running a short article “The Pros and Cons of Virtual Appliances”. The perspective here is for the Enterprise and the conclusion isn’t particularly positive.
While virtual appliances seem like a very good concept, in most instances they actually suffer from the worst problems of both software and appliances, and are really not yet […]
Over on his ZDNet blog, Phil Windley is exploring the concept of virtual appliances.
I believe virtualization will have a big impact on regular computer users as well as how companies will do their computing. Lately, I’ve been thinking quite a bit about virtual appliances.
He’s giving a few virtual appliances a bit of tire kicking to […]
The Virtualization Daily Book Store is now online. This is intended to be a resource for books on Virtualization, Virtual Appliances (there aren’t any yet, but I’m betting some will appear soon), Utility Computing and anything else I think may be of interest to readers of this site.
It’s time to close out the “How are you using Virtual Appliances” readers poll.
The results (54 responses)
41% For production deployment of applications
37% For evaluating software
17% Planning to use them in the future
6% What is a virtual appliance
What can we conclude from this? Not much really, but polls are fun.
At JumpBox we’ve also been running a […]
Zimbra CTO Scott Dietzen has posted a short blog post announcing a Beta release of Zimbra 4.5 in a virtual appliance.
Software appliances promise to augment Software as a Service (SaaS) as an easier, cheaper way to use third-party software, especially by lowering the cost of managing independently changing subcomponents of a software “stack”—application logic, database, […]
Ingres Corporation has released a software/virtual appliance that bundles their relational database server with rPath Linux to make deployment much simpler.
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Feb. 27 /PRNewswire/ — Ingres Corporation, the leading business open source database company, today announced the general availability of Ingres Icebreaker(TM), the first fully integrated enterprise-class database and operating system that dramatically […]
Virtual Iron recently recorded a panel discussion about virtual appliances with the Burton Group and rPath. The replay of the discussion is now available for download. The replay is an archived WebEx session that requires the WebEX software to be installed.
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