Archive for the 'Virtualization' Category



Virtualization: Beyond the Buzz

Baseline Magazine has an interesting article titled “Virtualization: Beyond the Buzz” that’s looks at some of the emerging areas in the virtualization space that go beyond server virtualization.
Clearly, we’re well down the path toward expanding the concept of virtualization beyond products such as virtual operating systems. What’s significant is how a whole class of products […]

The Virtualization Daily Book Store

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.

Poll: How many virtual machines do you have running?

The “How are you using Virtual Appliances” (see results) poll is closed, the new poll is “How many virtual machines do you have running?”. The last poll only received 54 responses, we can do better than that.

Poll Result: How are you using Virtual Appliances

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 […]

The growing war between VMWare and Microsoft

Over the past few days there’s been quite a storm brewing related to a conflict between VMWare and Microsoft. This was sparked by a paper VMWare posted criticizing Microsoft’s recent licensing changes.
Microsoft is trying to restrict customers’ flexibility and freedom to choose virtualization software by limiting who can run their software and how they can […]

Zimbra CTO on Software/virtual appliances

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, […]

VMWare Fusion for Mac OS X Beta 2 Released

VMWare has released the second beta of Fusion for Mac OS X. The most notable feature of this new release is limited games support, basically meaning they’re accelerating 3D video in a virtual machine. Support is currently limited to a small set of DirectX 8.1 based games, but it’s an interesting start.
One of the […]

Parallels advances Mac OS X virtualization war with new release

Parallels has released a new update to Parallels Desktop with substantially improved integration for running Windows under Mac OS X. Coherence mode is a particularly interesting feature of this release.
RENTON, Wa. – February 27th, 2007 – Parallels announced today an update to its Desktop for Mac software, which enables users running Intel-powered Apple Macs to […]

Ingres Releases Icebreaker Database Software Appliance

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 […]

KVM steals virtualization spotlight

ZDNet is running a really interesting article on the linux virtualization system KVM and its relationship to Xen. In particular, it’s interesting to see how quickly KVM has been integrated directly into the Linux kernel. That should give it a substantial boost in long term adoption and will also give more Linux systems out of […]