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 […]
Archive for October, 2006
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 […]
Or so they claim.
Operating system virtualization software Virtuozzo from SWsoft is growing fastest among all vendors — 98 percent — in the hot overall market for virtualization technology, according to industry analyst firm IDC. The worldwide industry sales of virtualization software experienced a 67 percent growth rate from 2004 to 2005 – with revenues topping […]
Ipanto lite freeware IP address management system.
Ipanto Lite is a powerful tool which :
Administers all your subnets and locations within a single repository,
Offers reporting,
Gives access to other IT staff members in read-only mode,
Web GUI and SQL database.
Baynote Image virtual search appliance.
Baynote Image is a pre-configured search engine image built on Apache Nutch. Baynote Image is […]
CRMBuyer has published an interesting article about the changing environment for software licensing. One of the things that’s changing in that environment is the growing use of virtualization technology.
And virtualization will become an issue soon, as it moves out of the test and development phase and into production environments. Lechner says 54 percent of IBM’s […]
Moka5, a company that’s targeting the concept of carrying your own PC with you on a USB drive also has a directory where people are posting what they’re calling “Public Live PCs”. From what I understand, these are really just VMWare virtual machines with software pre-installed similar to a lot of the VMWare virtual appliances. […]
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 […]
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.
Tarry Singh has released an updated version of his Vyatta virtual appliance for VMWare. Vyatta is an open source router project that’s going head to head with Cisco on the low end of the market.
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 […]
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