Virtualization - An Overview
Blog Virtualization may seem like a technology comi0ng into vogue for last few years only but in reality has been used in some form or the other since 1960's. It was in that very decade when IBM started working on virtualization.
[August 5, 2008, 9:38]
Energy company promises millions to customers for virtualization
Blog [Live from VMWorld, Los Angeles] Green says: Something I thouught I'd never do at VM World, bring on Roland Risser, the director of Energy Conservation at Pacific Gas and Electric" He's announcing the first power company centre for energy...
[November 7, 2006, 16:06]
Submission to Virtual Mania
Blog I've been using VMWare on Windows XP Pro at work and discovered that maybe there is a purpose for virtualization but it may not be the reasons the programmers were envisioning. BTW virtualization still doesn't make coffee or buttered toast!
[November 15, 2008, 15:10]
Hyper-warped-visor-consolidation Confabulation
Blog Excuse me if I sound stupid but consolidation and virtualization could be two separate processes or system management criteria. I have seen tremendous amounts of IT-spam recently in the last 6 months advertising, announcing or proselytizing...
[July 8, 2008, 2:38]
Microsoft App-V: Helpful Tools
Blog The Microsoft Installer (MSI) Utility for Microsoft Application Virtualization, a utility for SoftGrid Application Virtualization solution that bridges the gap between traditional physical control of installed applications and the new paradigm of...
[October 16, 2009, 9:08]
Microsoft App-V Tools
Blog The Microsoft Installer (MSI) Utility for Microsoft Application Virtualization, a utility for SoftGrid Application Virtualization solution that bridges the gap between traditional physical control of installed applications and the new paradigm of...
[October 28, 2009, 8:37]
More quotes from VMWorld
Blog Various attendees describing what virtualization is. What's the security industry's reaction to virtualization? Andy Bechtolsheim, Founder, Sun Microsystems, answering a question on whether the extreme enthusiasm about virtualization would lead to...
[November 9, 2006, 0:39]
Microsoft Virtual Round Table - Part 2
Blog This time, the boys and I will be discussing Microsoft Virtualization issues. The link (for scheduling and viewing details ) can be found here: http://www.computertech4u.com/springboard-series-virtual-roundtable-windows-7-application-compatibility...
[September 23, 2009, 15:54]
PCA: Microsoft Program Compatibility Assistant
Blog But, as we found out this week from WinHEC 2007, we are going to have to wait a while - for OS level virtualization to be integrated into the server OS will not be released until the end of this year and I feel that we will have to wait another 9...
[September 29, 2009, 7:51]
Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2
Blog More than that, its first attempt had little impact on the virtualization market, despite being given away as part of the Windows Server OS . At first glance it looks good, but virtualization is a fast moving market and Microsoft still has a way to...
[September 7, 2009, 19:40]
Is Red Hat threatening to do a Novell with latest virtualisation move?
Blog The companies signed two agreements: One in which Red Hat joined the Microsoft Server Virtualization Validation Program (SVVP), which validates Windows Server guests running on Red Hat Enterprise virtualization technologies, and the other which...
[February 16, 2009, 16:14]
Virtually Dude. Its Really Cool!
Blog VMWare Workstation has made me a virtualization convert. I have downloaded the Live CD images for OpenSolaris 10, Fedora 9 and 10, Ubuntu 8.04 and 8.1, Mandriva2009 and openSuse11 and installed them into virtual machines running on Windows XP Pro...
[December 18, 2008, 2:43]
Is the cat loose among the virtual pigeons?
Blog Indeed, London town gets its own virtual shindig next January in the shape of the Virtualization Conference & Expo Europe. Don’t be fooled into thinking that VMware is the only company that can create a song and dance over virtualisation at the...
[June 11, 2008, 9:19]
Microsoft, Novell seal Windows and SuSE deal. World goes "Whaa...?"
Blog The companies are also going to "create a joint research facility and pursue new software solutions for virtualization, management and document format compatibility. Microsoft and Novell have just signed the mother of all non-aggression pacts, with...
[November 2, 2006, 23:52]
Citrix declares war on VMware?
Blog But an entry on the well-known virtualisation blog virtualization.info has raised a bit of a firestorm. Straws in the wind suggest that the desktop virtualisation market is starting to warm up. We're quite accustomed to the idea of virtual servers...
[August 10, 2009, 10:23]
Open Virtual Desktop
Blog The Open Virtual Desktop is the result of several months of work for our engineering team, and has been designed with the help of a desktop virtualization expert. Got a note from Gael duval, founder of Mandrake-Mandriva concerning a new service.
[November 21, 2008, 7:10]
Sun upgrades xVM VirtualBox
Blog There is also more support for Mac OS X on Intel Virtualization Technology (VT-x), improved support for VMware's virtual machine disk format (VMDK) and Microsoft's virtual hard disk (VHD) file format, for better transfer of critical business...
[December 19, 2008, 14:46]
Application Syncopation: the ‘irregular’ beat of the virtual desktop
Blog Gartner: "Energy Savings via Virtualization: Green IT on a Budget"; Nov. I want all my applications on my machine all of the time - don’t I? That’s why I installed Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac (it really is better than people say) the other day.
[February 9, 2009, 13:16]
CIO's and Green Data Center
Blog Virtualization of servers, storage, desktop, applications, etc, thus controlling component sprawl. There's a lot that CIO's can do to make the data centers green. The very basic step is to have a green approach towards IT operations and services.
[August 1, 2008, 16:42]
Ballmer memo on where Microsoft is headed
Blog We need to continue to push on all fronts--mail with Exchange, business intelligence with PerformancePoint, virtualization with Hyper-V, and databases with SQL Server. Full text of a memo Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer sent out this message to the...
[July 25, 2008, 12:41]
