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 […]
Archive for the 'Xen' Category
Citrix, the recent acquirer of XenSource, has now announced the roll out of evaluation virtual appliances for Citrix Presentation Server.
The new Citrix Evaluation Virtual Appliance (EVA) is a preconfigured, ready-to-go, virtual machine system for evaluating Presentation Server Enterprise 4.5 and Platinum Edition 4.5. The EVA enables you to download a completely configured Presentation Server […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
At JumpBox we have released an update to the vTiger CRM JumpBox and added a new PunBB discussion forums JumpBox. A JumpBox is a virtual appliance that can be deployed on Parallels, Xen and VMWare. At this time these appliances are suitable for evaluation and testing. As the platform matures, JumpBox will offer support for […]
From Virtual Build Appliances
Let me be clear about this: this is the way that software will be distributed. Virtualization solutions like this (be it VMWare or Xen) will allow us to leave the current mess of software dependencies behind. No worrying about target Operating systems, their versions, their current state of configuration, or (for Windows […]
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