Microsoft is continuing to tiptoe towards the concept of virtual appliances. They still have licensing challenges and it’s unclear if anyone other than Microsoft can build these, but it’s a first step. In typical Microsoft fashion they had to come up with a different name so they’re calling these things Virtual Hard Drives (VHD). Right […]
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Published November 15th, 2006 in Virtual Appliances, Virtualization, Windows Virtual Server and Commercial. 0 Comments
$2.7 billion by 2009, that’s the prediction by IDC for the size of the virtualization market by 2009 according to the headline of the article from Computerworld NZ. This article is a little confusing though. I think that number is actually from Humphreys rather than IDC and it’s in New Zealand dollars. In US dollars […]
SearchServerVirtualization has a pretty intresting article looking at virtualization usage in the data center.. Of particular interest was hearing about how Pacific Gas and Electric has a program to encourage companies to adopt virtualization.
PG&E is offering rebates of up to 50% of the cost of moving to virtualization, based on yearly energy savings. The limits […]
According to Computerworld, “Despite the technology’s promise, most businesses have yet to deploy virtual servers.”. A bit of a reality check maybe, but at the same time the fact that the question is even being asked for a technology that’s so new is pretty impressive.
In Computerworld’s latest quarterly Vital Signs survey, 51% of the 314 […]
InfoWorld has an article up, The Truth About Vista Virtualization Licensing. There has been a lot of discussion about exactly what Microsoft is allowing Windows Vista users to do with virtualization. The conclusion according to InfoWorld is that Microsoft is not going to allow Windows Vista Home editions to run under virtualization. From the article.
This […]
According to ICT business news and information VMware reported 86% growth in third third quarter. That’s pretty significant, but what I found more interesting was this claim.
More than 20,000 companies now run VMware technology, including 99 of the Fortune 100 companies.
Hmm, I wonder which single company from the Fortune 100 isn’t using VMWare technology … […]
Microsoft has announced the availabily of its virtual machine hard drive specification under the terms of their Open Specification Promise which says.
Microsoft irrevocably promises not to assert any Microsoft Necessary Claims against you for making, using, selling, offering for sale, importing or distributing any implementation to the extent it conforms to a Covered Specification (“Covered […]
RedMonk is looking into how application providers are supporting or not supporting deployment of their applications on virtualization systems and has posted a request for more input. So if you develop an application, do you currently offer support for it running on top of virtualization systems or does it have to be installed on the […]
A couple days ago I posted a link to an article on SearchServerVirtualization.com about the hidden costs of virtualization. I thought it made a lot of good points, and figured I’d take a little different angle to look at some of the less obvious benefits that come from the issues raised in the article.
Power and […]
Over on VMBlog, David is reporting that Microsoft has released its first download of what can loosely be considered a virtual appliance. This is a technology preview of Visual Studio, but it’s significant because to this point Windows has never been distributed this way. Of course the machine only works on Windows Virtual PC 2004 […]
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