Watching virtualization and virtual appliances with a focus on applications in small business and the Mac
While virtualization has a lot of really great things going for it. It’s not a perfect technology and there have been a couple of recent articles that highlight some of the potential issues associated with moving to a virtualization solution too quickly.
From SearchCIO.com we have Lack of virtualization know-how resulting in failed projects looking at […]
The Tribox asterisk virtual appliance is intended to make it easy to get an Asterisk Voice over IP (VOIP) PBX up and running. Compared to the typical virtual appliance, getting this one running is a bit of work, but compared to what it would take to install all the included components from scratch it’s a […]
This is what I like to hear. Virtualization is often talked about in the context of the enterprise, but the growing movement in virtual appliances has substantial benefits for big as well as small companies. Maybe even more for small companies since they lack the staff capable of deploying complex software applications.
The challenge, of […]
At least according to TechNewWorld’s review of Parallels that is. At JumpBox we’re big Mac users and while VMWare and Xen play a big role in our efforts on the server, Parallels is the virtualization solution we turn to first for day to day work. I suppose the GUI is limited compared to VMWare Workstation, […]
Symantic and Intel are working together to bring intrusion detection to every desktop. What they’re looking doing is creating a specialized intrusion prevention virtual appliance that runs alongside the primary operating system on the same machine. This seems like a strange thing to do, but it provides a clear separation between the OS and the […]
esXpress 3.0 is a virtual appliance for VMWare that provides backup facilities for VMWare virtual machines while it self running as a VMWare virtual machine. That’s a mouth full, but it looks like an interesting application and there’s a free version that can be used to try it out.
ProofPoint has announced a Messaging Security Gateway virtual appliance for the VMWare platform. In this case they’re converting what was originally a hardware appliance into a software virtual appliance. This should broaden the reach of their product considerably, however at $10,000, the price is maybe a little steep to make it down to the small […]
Matt Topper has announced that he’s working on building virtual appliances to make it easy to get an Oracle system up and running. I’m not sure how the licensing works in this scenario, but Oracle is certainly something that could make good use of the virtual appliance concept.
Overall these licensing questions are going to be […]
So for our first post, let’s take a look at the list of other virtualization blogs that are around. Lot’s of good info comes from these sites.
Documenting a virtualization project
Linux Virtualization and High Performance Computing
Ryan Glover's Virtualization Blog
The canned OS Project
The Official Parallels Virtualization Blog
The Virtual Intelligence Briefing
Virtual Appliances Blog
Virtual Light Bulb
virtualappliance.info - Home of […]
Virtualization Daily is intended to be a resource for keeping up with what’s going on in the world of computer virtualization and the emerging concept of virtual appliances. In fact, it’s virtual appliances that will often be the focus of the content for this site. My company is heavily involved in the development of virtual […]
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