Virtualization Daily

Six Apart chooses JumpBox to simplify deployment of Movable Type Pro

Kimbro Staken — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 23:22:01 +0000

Last week we announced that Six Apart and JumpBox have been working together to vastly simplify the deployment of Movable Type Pro. This new product called “Virtual Movable Type by JumpBox” is a JumpBox virtual appliance that bundles all the components required to run Movable Type together in a single module that deploys in [...]

Anyone going to VMworld next week?

Kimbro Staken — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:55:17 +0000

Just wondering if anyone heading to VMWorld in Las Vegas next week would like to meet? I’ll be at VMWorld Tues-Thurs and would love to hear some experiences with JumpBox, virtual appliances and virtualization or cloud computing in general. If you’re going and would like to meet feel free to contact me through the JumpBox [...]

Ubuntu JeOS virtual appliance OS available for download

Kimbro Staken — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 00:37:24 +0000

It looks like Ubuntu has made their JeOS (Just Enough OS) version available for download as a 151MB ISO image. JeOS is based on Ubuntu 7.10. There doesn’t seem to be much other information available beyond their original press release. JeOS was announced a few months ago, but had been vapor up to this point. It’s [...]

JumpBox is going crazy

Kimbro Staken — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 06:01:43 +0000

Disclaimer for anyone who doesn’t know, I’m the CEO of JumpBox. After a quiet couple months, things are really cracking now with JumpBox. We had some great stuff queued up that took a lot longer to get out than I expected. The funny thing is that the product was ready, but it took a while to [...]

Poll: What virtual appliances do you find most interesting?

Kimbro Staken — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 05:28:25 +0000

I’m curious to know whether people find Open Source or commercial software based virtual appliances more interesting so that’s the topic for the latest poll. Click here to provide your input.

Poll result: What do you see as the biggest barrier to adoption for virtual appliances

Kimbro Staken — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 05:20:31 +0000

This was a really long running poll, but an interesting one. The question was “What do you see as the biggest barrier to adoption for virtual appliances?” Here are the results. Performance concerns 24% - This isn’t too surprising to me, I seem to constantly hear about how virtualization doesn’t perform well enough for production use. [...]

Virtual appliances spawn new class of Linux distros

Kimbro Staken — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 18:32:39 +0000

From SearchServerVirtualization, Virtual appliances spawn new class of Linux distros” As virtualization continues to permeate IT shops, many independent software vendors (ISVs) are distributing software as Linux virtual appliances: preconfigured virtual machines that include the application’s entire stack, including the operating system (OS). But industry experts say that end users should research and understand the design [...]

Citrix rolls out evaluation virtual appliances

Kimbro Staken — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 01:15:46 +0000

Citrix, the recent acquirer of XenSource, has now announced the roll out of evaluation virtual appliances for Citrix Presentation Server. The new Citrix Evaluation Virtual Appliance (EVA) is a preconfigured, ready-to-go, virtual machine system for evaluating Presentation Server Enterprise 4.5 and Platinum Edition 4.5. The EVA enables you to download a completely configured Presentation Server [...]

Raritan releases IT Operations Monitoring Solution as a Virtual Appliance

Kimbro Staken — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 21:19:06 +0000

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

Kimbro Staken — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 21:03:48 +0000

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 [...]