Archive for August, 2007

Raritan releases IT Operations Monitoring Solution as a Virtual Appliance

Raritan has announced a new virtual appliance for their CommandCenter NOC product. This is another hardware appliance being converted into a virtual appliance although it appears they’ll support the production deployment of the virtual appliance.

SOMERSET, N.J., Aug. 20 /PRNewswire/ — Raritan today announced that its network and systems monitoring appliance has gone virtual. Designed for […]

Levanta releases a Linux Management Virtual Appliance

Levanta has released a virtual appliance for evaluation of their Linux Management system. Levanta is a hardware appliance company who’s now dabbling in the virtual appliance space. This first release looks to be just an evaluation version that is then up-sold to a hardware appliance for production deployment.

Download Levanta’s Intrepid VM, and see how Levanta’s […]

VMware co-founder: Virtual appliance a threat to OS

During a speech this week at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo, VMWare co-founder Mendel Rosenblum was quoted saying:

Asked if he thinks the virtual appliance model is a threat to OS vendors, principally Microsoft, Rosenblum said, “If I were in their shoes … I think the answer is yes.”

This idea is a little fuzzy, because virtual […]