Archive for the 'VMWare' Category

Anyone going to VMworld next week?

Just wondering if anyone heading to VMWorld in Las Vegas next week would like to meet? I’ll be at VMWorld Tues-Thurs and would love to hear some experiences with JumpBox, virtual appliances and virtualization or cloud computing in general. If you’re going and would like to meet feel free to contact me through the JumpBox […]

Ubuntu JeOS virtual appliance OS available for download

It looks like Ubuntu has made their JeOS (Just Enough OS) version available for download as a 151MB ISO image. JeOS is based on Ubuntu 7.10. There doesn’t seem to be much other information available beyond their original press release.
JeOS was announced a few months ago, but had been vapor up to this point. It’s […]

JumpBox is going crazy

Disclaimer for anyone who doesn’t know, I’m the CEO of JumpBox.
After a quiet couple months, things are really cracking now with JumpBox. We had some great stuff queued up that took a lot longer to get out than I expected. The funny thing is that the product was ready, but it took a while to […]

Raritan releases IT Operations Monitoring Solution as a Virtual Appliance

Raritan has announced a new virtual appliance for their CommandCenter NOC product. This is another hardware appliance being converted into a virtual appliance although it appears they’ll support the production deployment of the virtual appliance.

SOMERSET, N.J., Aug. 20 /PRNewswire/ — Raritan today announced that its network and systems monitoring appliance has gone virtual. Designed for […]

Levanta releases a Linux Management Virtual Appliance

Levanta has released a virtual appliance for evaluation of their Linux Management system. Levanta is a hardware appliance company who’s now dabbling in the virtual appliance space. This first release looks to be just an evaluation version that is then up-sold to a hardware appliance for production deployment.

Download Levanta’s Intrepid VM, and see how Levanta’s […]

VMware co-founder: Virtual appliance a threat to OS

During a speech this week at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo, VMWare co-founder Mendel Rosenblum was quoted saying:

Asked if he thinks the virtual appliance model is a threat to OS vendors, principally Microsoft, Rosenblum said, “If I were in their shoes … I think the answer is yes.”

This idea is a little fuzzy, because virtual […]

JumpBox Virtual Appliance Library updated with the release of JumpBox Platform 1.0

It’s been pretty quiet around here lately and that’s because I’ve been really occupied with my company and getting our production release out. So today we’re announcing the production release of the JumpBox Virtual Appliance Platform 1.0 and a suite of updated virtual appliances. The pitch I’ve been playing with for these things is that […]

How to install Trac and Subversion in 10 minutes or less

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 […]

rPath simplifies VMWare virtual appliance certification

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 […]

JumpBox virtual appliance platform updated to 1.0 RC1

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 […]