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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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Friday, 18 July 2008 |
Citrix, the newest player to enter the hypervisor space when it
acquired XenSource in October 2007, has unveiled “Project Kensho”,
designed to make virtual machines portable across the major hypervisor
platforms, including XenServer from Citrix, VMware's ESX and
Microsoft's recently released Hyper-V.
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by David M Williams
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Thursday, 17 July 2008 |
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Computing is on the verge of a major paradigm shift with the modern rise in prominence of virtualisation. Fuelled by big corporates interested in the consolidation and energy saving potentials, improvements in virtualisation have hit the point where Linux could be a casualty.
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by Stan Beer
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Wednesday, 16 July 2008 |
Large commercial operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, will no longer exist within five to ten years, according to a senior VMware executive. Instead there will only be very thin open source operating systems supporting virtual appliances.
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by Stan Beer
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Tuesday, 15 July 2008 |
According to tech market analyst firm Ovum, Microsoft is in serious damage control over the huge technology gulf it needs to bridge in the virtualisation space. The problem for Microsoft is that market leader VMware is so far ahead of it in its hypervisor software and associated management tools, that it could even threaten the Windows revenue.
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by David M Williams
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Monday, 14 July 2008 |
Virtualisation is a technology that can work wonders: provide a testing environment, enhance your processing power, consolidate your computing resources, decrease running costs, preserve legacy apps and more! Here’s how virtualisation can benefit you and why the Linux route really beats out the competition.
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by Stuart Corner
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Friday, 11 July 2008 |
VMware has struck an OEM agreement with China's leading server brand, Inspur, to help push uptake of VMware virtualisation in China.
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by Stuart Corner
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Friday, 11 July 2008 |
Virtualisation specialist, VMware has acquired B-hive Networks to enable it to offer performance management and service level reporting for applications running within VMware based virtual machines.
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by Stuart Corner
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Friday, 11 July 2008 |
The Tasmanian government has standardized on VMware Infrastructure 3 to consolidate its server farms throughout the state.
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by Stuart Corner
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Friday, 11 July 2008 |
AAPT plans to deploy VMware's data centre virtualisation technology running on Sun servers to reduce server numbers in its data centre from 300 to 13.
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by Stephen Withers
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Friday, 27 June 2008 |
It's a widely held belief that 'software project' and 'behind schedule' go together like fish and chips, but Microsoft's Hyper-V virtualisation product has arrived well inside the promised timeframe. The early arrival of Hyper-V may indicate how desperate Microsoft is to become a serious player in the rapidly growing virtualisation market, where it currently lags behind VMware.
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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Tuesday, 27 May 2008 |
Watch out VMware and Citrix: Microsoft’s wants its value-added
virtualisation strategy to turn victorious one of these days, and has
not only bought up Kidaro to boost its Optimised Desktop pack but
continues investing big money, saying its seeing big success.
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by Stephen Withers
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Friday, 09 May 2008 |
A new release of Sun's xVM VirtualBox provides Macintosh users with a fresh virtual machine option, and delivers improvements for other host operating systems.
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by Ian Grayson
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Wednesday, 27 February 2008 |
Many organisations risk missing out on the benefits offered by virtualisation technology because their IT infrastructures are not up to the task, an industry expert has warned.
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by Stephen Withers
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Tuesday, 12 February 2008 |
NetApp aims to further support its customers' transition to virtualised environments with a set of products and services announced today.
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by Stephen Withers
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Tuesday, 22 January 2008 |
A swag of announcements from Microsoft set out the company's plan to bring virtualisation to a wider market, along with a dose of 'co-opertition.'
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by Stephen Withers
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Tuesday, 22 January 2008 |
Mac owners planning to run Windows Vista under virtualisation software such as Parallels Desktop or VMware Fusion have previously been forced by Microsoft's licensing terms to buy one of the more expensive versions.
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by Stephen Withers
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Tuesday, 11 December 2007 |
Apple has given its customers the go-ahead to use virtualisation software to host multiple copies of Mac OS X 10.5 Server.
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by Stephen Withers
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Wednesday, 14 November 2007 |
Microsoft and VMware have each released more details of their upcoming virtualisation products.
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