According to SearchSMB.com small to mid-size businesses are more likely to broadly deploy virtualization than larger enterprises.Of course they’re less likely to look at the technology to begin with.
In a recent survey of 1,500 IT professionals, Info-Tech determined that more than 80% of companies with more than 5,000 employees have adopted or plan to […]
Archive for November, 2006
This is an interesting development, Malware writers are starting to write detection routines for detecting when an OS is running under virtualization. The goal with that is to foil researchers who use virtual machines to test malware in a safe environment. Yet another benefit of running Windows under virtualization.
Link from: Run-virtual
It’s going to take a few years for virtual appliances to become mainstream, but they bring some substantial benefits over existing software deployment mechanisms such as software installers and hardware appliances. Here are a few ideas to think about:
Vastly simplified installation of complex server software - Virtual appliances bundle the operating system, application code, all […]
There’s a very interesting article up on internetnews.com that is claiming BEA will be rolling out a version of Weblogic that will run directly on top of a hypervisor with no underlying operating system.
BEA’s initiative will include WebLogic Server Virtual Edition (WLS-VE) 1.0, an application server that will help “Java applications to run directly […]
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 […]
Microsoft is continuing to tiptoe towards the concept of virtual appliances. They still have licensing challenges and it’s unclear if anyone other than Microsoft can build these, but it’s a first step. In typical Microsoft fashion they had to come up with a different name so they’re calling these things Virtual Hard Drives (VHD). Right […]
Along with the release of the VMWare Virtual Appliance Marketplace, VMWare has also announced a certification program for virtual appliances.
This is actually really good to see, because a lot of the things VMWare calls virtual appliances, really aren’t.
VMware is committed to ensuring that customers have the best possible virtual appliance experience through the VMware […]
VMWare has updated the VMWare virtual appliances directory to become the VMWare Virtual Appliances Marketplace. The goal with this is to allow companies to sell virtual appliances with VMWare’s site acting as the middleman. Right now though this really just looks like a pretty minor makeover of the site. They’ve added VMWare certified virtual appliance […]
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 […]
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