Ben Metcalfe has interesting post looking at the costs around Amazon’s new utility computing services S3 and EC2.
It’s touted as being an economical platform way to run your start-up/company/website/whatever from as it makes use of the space capacity Amazon owns from it’s e-commerce platform
These are very much on my radar as well. The […]
Archive for the 'Xen' Category
It’s been a busy couple of weeks around the JumpBox offices and the queue of unposted virtualization topics has gotten rather large thanks to last week’s VMWorld conference. To help clear the queue here are a few quick links that I found interesting over the past couple weeks. The general theme here is the emergence […]
I’ve been covering a lot of announcements from other companies here on Virtualization Daily but today it’s time to make an announcement about my new company JumpBox. This is launch week for JumpBox and it’s been really exciting and should also make it clearer why I’m so interested in the virtual appliance concept.
At JumpBox we […]
$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 […]
rPath has announced that they’re now supporting the creation of Xen virtual appliances using rBuilder and rBuilder Online. This included updating many of the existing appliances for use with Xen.
Reflecting the strong community demand for appliances on the Xen hypervisor, rPath has made many of the most popular projects on rBuilder Online available for download […]
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 […]
ITWeek: Virtual Machines to drive grid adoption
“Adoption of grid is going from HPC and verticals to broad commercial deployments and virtualisation is going to be a big boost for grid computing because it allows you to allocate resources and move applications around without disrupting the application in the VM container,” Zhou said.
ServerWatch: Hardware Today: Server […]
Xenfire is a quick and easy way to get a Xen based virtualization system up and running. It comes as a live CD that can be installed directly on the machine after booting. More information and screenshots are available on the Xenfire Wiki.
Sun is doing a lot of interesting work with Solaris to provide options for partitioning servers. This article on ZDnet provides a brief overview of a number of new technologies they’ll be introducing over the next year or so.
First up is a new virtualization mechanism for UltraSparc T1 based systems.
The technology, called logical domains, or […]
According to IDC the market for virtualization software grew 67% in 2005, following up on 65% growth in 2004. The total market grew to $560 million with the biggest gains coming from linux based virtualization solutions. I assume by that they mean things like Xen and Virtual Iron.
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