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Virtual appliances
Blog I first heard of virtual appliances a couple of years ago during a trip to Sweden to hear about Intel's AMT technology. When VMWare ran a competition this year to create virtual appliances, it got several hundred appliances entered.
[October 11, 2006, 15:56]
Oracle wants to sell proprietary appliances? Fat chance...
Blog Put the two together and you can sell closed (and so expensive, high-margin) appliances, runs Oracle's thinking. So Oracle, having bought Sun, wants to retain Sun's hardware portfolio. How much sense does that make?
[May 11, 2009, 15:49]
Novell aims to support mission-critical cloud stacks
Blog Novell’s SUSE Appliance Programme launches this afternoon; buoyant on the promise of giving ISVs the ability to create fully supported software and virtual appliances. Software appliances are the next evolutionary step for software packaging...
[July 28, 2009, 13:34]
Email archiving - who needs it?
Blog So we talked about the company's new status as a distributor for PineApp email archiving appliances: boxes that suck in your Exchange (or GroupWise et al) email files after a given period, and delete them after the retention period required for...
[November 5, 2009, 11:03]
When will virtualisation be real?
Blog There’s been plenty to munch into already reported on ZDNet.co.uk, but what caught my eye most of all was news that VMware had saved up all its pocket money to pump out news today that there is a new product devoted to development, deployment and...
[September 15, 2008, 20:11]
A DC-based culture is growing.
Blog That makes home appliances purchased in Europe incompatible with houses in the U.S.one has to buy a transformer to accommodate the difference. Since 1970 or so, however, a growing number of electrical devices have been produced, requiring low DC...
[July 9, 2007, 1:02]
We saved BT execs from jail, claims Azul Systems
Blog Azul Systems makes corporate Java compute appliances - big boxes of custom multicore processors that run Java virtual machines orders of magnitude faster and at hugely less power than can standard x86 servers.
[September 5, 2009, 22:12]
Best quote of the conference so far
Blog Homeland Internet, on a client video during the Virtual Appliances panel) [Live from VMWorld, Los Angeles] We can download servers as easily as we can music from iTunes"
[November 7, 2006, 16:36]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Designed to do very low power signaling, it promises to glue together all manner of appliances and do loads of useful control stuff. Monday 11/10/2004 ZigBee is starting to make waves -- which is just as well, as it's a wireless protocol.
[October 15, 2004, 19:15]
Intel gets systematic
Blog So far, SoC has been mostly used in appliances, electronic products such as set-top boxes or routers. Intel has formed a new design and development group for 'SoC enablement'. That's System on Chip - in other words, making processor chips that...
[December 17, 2007, 16:01]
Mobile Encryption is not Enough
Blog Firstly, DLP components residing at servers, PCs or dedicated network appliances which intercept and filter data in all communications channels used by those devices. Every instance of data leakage through a mobile device is a two-step process...
[October 19, 2009, 9:43]
iPhone iFear
Blog Nowadays, staff work wirelessly and remotely, and expect to work with a myriad of different appliances and gadgets - many of which are capable of storing anything from customer databases to family albums.
[July 16, 2009, 10:24]
Glorious, Glorious Spam
Blog Sniffing around for a topic of interest this weekend I came upon an e-mail informing me that Network Testing Labs (hang on a moment, I’ll come back to these guys) has found that in head-to-head testing, McAfee's single-appliance Secure Internet...
[September 30, 2007, 16:08]
Juniper offers scalable network options
Blog The idea is that unlike single-purpose security appliances or traditional chassis platforms which will only handle one type of service the SRX Services Gateways can have a range of services at the same time.
[March 12, 2009, 15:53]
Symantec reveals Endpoint Protection
Blog According to a Symantec press release, "NetBackup 6.5 introduces a host of features and enhancements including native disk-based backup, data deduplication, integration with backup appliances and VTLs, heterogeneous snapshot management, granular...
[June 12, 2007, 18:56]
Sun upgrades xVM VirtualBox
Blog Storage support: Comes with built-in iSCSI support to connect to storage systems, such as Sun's Open Storage appliances, the Sun Storage 7000 family, (known as "Amber Road). Sun Microsystems said on Wednesday that it has upgraded its x VM...
[December 19, 2008, 14:46]
Apple announces iPhone OS updates
Blog According to Scott Forstall, the head of app development for the iPhone, another example would be medical appliances such as blood pressure cuffs that could send readings to the doctor. Apple has shown off the new features in the upcoming iPhone OS...
[March 17, 2009, 16:58]
Apple vs Microsoft - the chips are down
Blog At the time, I thought it might be for some custom high-performance circuitry aimed at new appliances, but since then there have been rumours that PA Semi was looking for a white knight, was friendly with Apple anyway and may even have had...
[June 11, 2008, 22:07]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog There will be two or three high-profile startups based on thin-client open source enterprise computing using information appliances; one of these may become a billion dollar outfit in record time. It's been more than ten years since I wrote my...
[October 27, 2006, 18:40]
VMware aims for datacentre unity
Blog Security's a big issue of course, and VMsafe consists of a set of APIs that allow third parties to build trusted virtual appliances. VMware's vSphere 4.0, released just over a month ago, is aimed at helping VMware stay at least two steps ahead of...
[June 1, 2009, 16:34]
