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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 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 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 […]
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