From eChannelLine, “Virtual machines slated to go mainstream”
Virtual appliances are ideal for SMBs that lack sufficient IT expertise in the configuration and installation process, stated Eunice. “Configuration can be extraordinarily daunting.”
That’s exactly where virtual appliances will have the most impact. They dramatically simplify the deployment of server based software and the SMB market doesn’t have […]
Archive for December, 2006
Cohesive FT has released two new virtual appliances for Parallels and VMWare. These appliances implement tools for managing Financial Information Exchange messages based on the FIX protocol. They’ve released Alpha 2 of the FIX - Drop Trade Consolidator and Alpha 1 of the FIX - Execution Gateway Router.
Following up on my post “The OS is under attack” with some input from a few more people.
First Scott Lowe has posted his thought on the subject to his blog, in a post titled the future of the OS.
I guess that depends on how you define the operating system. I tend to agree […]
It seems nobody loves the operating system these days. On one hand you have people saying the OS doesn’t matter.
If you can run Mac OS and Windows on the same machine and use whichever program you want, and drag data back and forth at will between the two, what does an operating system mean? In […]
As a solution for something that’s way harder than it should be, Microsoft has released a virtual machine with Windows XP and Internet Explorer 6 & 7 preinstalled. The target for this is web developers who are looking to test their sites against both of the IE versions. The virtual machine has XP installed and […]
A couple days ago I wrote about how to convert a VMWare appliance to Parallels, now today I see Dave over on Dave’s Virtual Cave has posted how to convert a JumpBox virtual appliance to work with Microsoft Virtual Server. Actually, what he does will work for any appliance that has a VMDK disk […]
We just announced that JumpBox is now a VMWare technical alliance partner.
“We are extremely pleased to announce this partnership with VMware,” says Sean Tierney, CEO of JumpBox. “Teaming up with the global leader in virtual infrastructure software will give JumpBox tremendous credibility in the virtualization industry as well as access to the other major […]
Virtualappliances.net has added a Cacti virtual appliance to their collection of appliances. From the Cacti home page:
Cacti is a complete network graphing solution designed to harness the power of RRDTool’s data storage and graphing functionality. Cacti provides a fast poller, advanced graph templating, multiple data acquisition methods, and user management features out of the box. […]
Over on the VMTN blog the following statement was made.
The security blogosphere is very active, with lots of shouting and hand-waving. Great fun. Mike Rothman’s Daily Incite is a good place to start, and I’ve been enjoying reading StillSecure’s Chief Strategy Officer Alan Shimel as well. The virtualization blogosphere could probably stand to step up […]
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