The Monash Report is reporting on the success of the VMWare virtual appliance program and the Proofpoint antispam appliance.
I talked with Proofpoint today, and got a more positive view about VMware’s virtual appliance strategy than I’ve gotten from other appliance vendors. They cite over 500 downloads in the past couple of months, of which a […]
Archive for January, 2007
Wiki vendor MindTouch has just released their Deki wiki software as a VMWare virtual appliance. MindTouch had been distributing Deki as a hardware appliance for sometime so it’s not surprising to see this come about.
MindTouch, the most comprehensive vendor of business wiki solutions, today unveiled MindTouch Deki, the world’s first business wiki implemented as a […]
EMC is reporting that revenue for VMWare is up 101% in 2006.
VMware grew revenue 101% in 2006 to $709 million. VMware spokesmen attributed the growth primarily to its Infrastructure 3 suite of virtualization software, which provides tools to manage multiple brands of virtual machines, as well as VMware’s ESX Server and Virtual Server products.
What I […]
More discussion of the diminished role of the operating system, this time from eChannelLine.
Tony Iams, senior analyst with research firm Ideas International Inc., said virtualization “weakens the importance of OSs for managing hardware,” which is a major development because “you can potentially get greater flexibility for managing workloads. In a way, that makes the OS […]
At JumpBox we have released an update to the vTiger CRM JumpBox and added a new PunBB discussion forums JumpBox. A JumpBox is a virtual appliance that can be deployed on Parallels, Xen and VMWare. At this time these appliances are suitable for evaluation and testing. As the platform matures, JumpBox will offer support for […]
Linux.com is running an interview with Brett Adams VP of development at rPath where they talk a bit about virtual appliances. Brett expects to see virtual appliances really catching on in the second half of 2007.
“It’s not entirely clear whether we’re going to see it gaining momentum in the first half of the year,” Adams […]
VirtualAppliances.net has released a new LAMP virtual appliance.
Our new LAMP Virtual Appliance provides turnkey Apache HTTP Server, PHP,
Perl, Python, and MySQL in one easy to use 65MB download.
Uniquely, this Virtual Appliance shares the web content via CIFS/Windows
Networking for extremely easy to use content publication and management.
This appliance features optional use of virtual hard disks for […]
Virtual Iron is starting to push the concept of virtual appliances for deployment on their virtualization system. At this point it’s mainly a collection of appliances in their forums, but it’s good to see the concept spreading beyond VMWare and being supported by other virtualization providers.
The first Virtualization Daily readers poll is now online. I’m interested in learning a little about people’s thoughts on virtual appliances. Please take a second and add your input to the poll. The poll is available in the sidebar on the right on the Virtualization Daily website. Thanks.
InfoQ has an interesting interview with Jim Sherburne from BEA where he talks about BEA’s effort to run Weblogic directly on top of the hypervisor. I had posted about this previously, but this interview adds a little more info.
The first product to be released using the Liquid VM technology will be WebLogic Server - Virtual […]
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