Watching virtualization and virtual appliances with a focus on applications in small business and the Mac
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 […]
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 […]
From Inforworld in the Netherlands, Virtualization beats bare metal at wine company.
Online wine storage and trading portal Cellarit Pty Ltd. has migrated its database and applications from physical to virtual servers resulting in a reduction in operating costs and an increase in flexibility.
It sounds like this company is actually using some kind of utility computing […]
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.
Macworld is running an interesting comparison between VMWare Fusion and Parallels. This is kind of unfair since VMWare Fusion is still in Beta, which they state repeatedly, but it may be useful to help you decide if you should wait for a stable VMWare release or jump on the Parallels bandwagon now.
Running benchmark tests within […]
As part of the beta program for the JumpBox virtual appliance platform, we’ve released a new virtual appliance for the Wordpress blogging platform. Wordpress is a very popular blogging tool and it runs both Virtualization Daily and the JumpBox web site. The Wordpress JumpBox provides a pretty easy way to install Wordpress on Windows and […]
VMWare has posted a tutorial on how to build a virtual appliance for the VMWare platform.
So you are intrigued… You have read a little about what virtual appliances are. You have seen the growing numbers of virtual appliances on the VMTN Virtual Appliances Directory. You have read about the benefits of building virtual appliances. […]
Another interesting Enomaly project, VMCasting is a way to distribute virtual appliances that allows you to subscribe to an RSS feed in a manner similar to Podcasts. From the VMCasting web site.
VMcasting is an automatic virtual machine deployment mechanism based on RSS2.0 whereby virtual machine images are transferred from a server to a client securely […]
Enomaly has announced a search engine focused on virtual appliances and associated technology. The site is vmfind.com. It’s based on Google search results customized via Google Co-op. Could be a good source if you’re looking for a virtual appliance for a particular purpose.
Virtual Iron is hosting a webcast on streamlining software deployment with virtual appliances. The webcast is Wednesday Feb. 21 at 11:00AM EST and lasts one hour.
The growing acceptance of virtualization technology is about to revolutionize the way IT consumers deploy applications. A major part of this shift is being driven by software vendors who provide […]
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