Watching virtualization and virtual appliances with a focus on applications in small business and the Mac
WhatPC has a nice article looking at how to build a Network Attached Storage device using the FreeNAS VMWare virtual appliance running under VMWare player.
Loading and running a virtual appliance this way is easy. Rather than buy a custom Nas appliance, a virtual implementation can be downloaded and set to work on a redundant Windows […]
InfoWorld is reporting that VMWare desktop for Mac has the code name “Fusion”. I’m dying to get my hands on a copy of that thing. I didn’t get into the beta. We use Parallels extensively and I think it’s great, but I also need to do a lot of work with VMWare which we currently […]
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 […]
Last week I was at the Office 2.0 conference in San Fransico and I heard the term Office 2.0 so many times it was making me ill. The conference was mildly interesting, but by the end of it the Office 2.0 term was just tired. I’ve felt the Web 2.0 term has been useful, but […]
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 […]
Proofpoint, the developer of messaging security solutions, has reported their best quarter ever. In the quarter, they released their first virtual appliance and are considering it to be a key competitive advantage.
“Not only did we record our first sales of the Proofpoint Messaging
Security Gateway Virtual Edition within days of its introduction, but
Proofpoint’s overall virtualization strategy […]
This falls into the category of a rumor, but it sounds like Oracle may be gearing up to start releasing appliances, perhaps even of the virtual variety.
Egbert says she thinks Oracle could introduce either a dedicated hardware appliance with a pre-loaded software stack, or a soft appliance bundle; it could happen either at the upcoming […]
Tarry Singh has released a new virtual appliance for the Open Ticket Request System (OTRS). From the OTRS site.
OTRS is an Open source Ticket Request System (also well known as trouble ticket system) with many features to manage customer telephone calls and e-mails. The system is built to allow your support, sales, pre-sales, billing, internal […]
Another ServerWatch article, “Virtually Speaking: The Not-So-Humble Hypervisor”. Of particular interest is the claim by Gartner analyst Brian Gammage that most PCs will ship with virtualization support by the end of 2007.
The pervasiveness of virtualization will not be limited to servers. Gartner analyst Brian Gammage noted in a statement, “Virtualization support is now being embedded […]
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