Watching virtualization and virtual appliances with a focus on applications in small business and the Mac
TechWorld has a good article looking at some of the common mistakes people make when deploying virtualization.
Too much, too quickly
Stumbling on security
Failure to sell the benefits
Falling into the departmental divide
The licensing trap
Read the original article to get the details on these items. There were a couple things in there that I’d never considered before.
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 results are in for the “How many virtual machines do you have running?” poll.
1-10 60%
> 100 18%
10-50 13%
0 6%
50-100 3%
What was interesting about this poll (other than the 6% of readers who don’t have any virtual machines) was how it changed over time. When I first posted it, it appeared on the VMWare site […]
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 […]
VMWare has released the Beta 3 of VMWare Fusion their virtualization solution for Mac OS X. With this release they also announced that the final product will indeed be called VMWare Fusion. Fusion was originally just a code name.
This release brings a number of improvements, the biggest of which may be the ability to turn […]
ITJungle is running an article that asks the question, “Is the Adoption Rate of Server Virtualization Technology Over Estimated”
According to the survey respondents, 720 of the 808 companies that participated in the CA-commissioned server virtualization study said that they had either deployed virtualization technologies or planned to do so within the next 18 months, with […]
ZDNet has an interesting article looking at how Foster’s is using virtualization for disaster recovery.
Each mobile worker has an image of their laptop computer–a copy of everything stored on that piece of hardware–stored centrally on the virtual infrastructure with this updated automatically every three hours.
This is a fascinating idea and something that would be pretty […]
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 […]
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