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Ubuntu 12.04 gets bare metal provisioning tool

Canonical has brought techniques used to manage virtual instances to physical 'bare metal' servers in Ubuntu 12.04. The 'Metal-as-a-Service' tool... Read more

5 April, 2012
AVMM: Virtualize Network Client With a <endeca_term>Bare-Metal</endeca_term> and Asymmetric Partitioning Approach

AVMM: Virtualize Network Client With a Bare-Metal and Asymmetric Partitioning Approach

...presents the design, implementation, and evaluation of AVMM, a symmetric partition-based bare-metal client virtualization approach that tries to achieve maximum near-native performance... Read more

8 April, 2011
ELI: <endeca_term>Bare-Metal</endeca_term> Performance for I/O Virtualization

ELI: Bare-Metal Performance for I/O Virtualization

...involvement. But even with device assignment, guests are still unable to approach bare-metal performance, because the host intercepts all interrupts, including those interrupts generated... Read more

12 January, 2012
Moving SAS Applications From a Physical to a Virtual VMware Environment

Moving SAS Applications From a Physical to a Virtual VMware Environment

VMware vSphere 4 provides ESX and ESXi "Bare-metal" hypervisors that install directly on top of a physical server and... Read more

1 March, 2011

Ubuntu gets a facelift with Precise Pangolin 12.04

...at Canonical. Another enterprise-friendly feature is Metal-as-a-service, a 'bare metal' server management tool that takes its cues from virtual instance management... Read more

26 April, 2012 by Jack Clark
Windows Small Business Server 2011 Standard

Windows Small Business Server 2011 Standard

This welcome update brings Microsoft's Small Business Server into line with the rest of the Windows Server family, while also simplifying management and enhancing remote access. It's far from cheap, however, and smaller companies may be better off evaluating the Essentials version. Read more

2 February, 2011 by Alan Stevens
Open-source projects that deserve your cash

Open-source projects that deserve your cash

...for a cloning tool, Clonezilla is a strong candidate. It allows for bare-metal backup and recovery and resembles Norton Ghost and Symantec Ghost Corporate... Read more

25 November, 2011 by Jack Wallen
Image for Windows 2.71

Image for Windows 2.71

...as eSATA, USB or 1394) and allows you to easily perform a bare-metal restore for efficient disaster recovery. It can also be used for... Read more

1 May, 2012
ShadowProtect Desktop Edition 4.2.5

ShadowProtect Desktop Edition 4.2.5

...save backups to any storage device or network location; quick and simple bare metal system recovery Read more

13 April, 2012

vmProtect 7: Even better virtual backup

...the entire vSphere host. Indeed, if disaster strikes you can perform a bare-metal recovery of the hypervisor and guest VMs to the same or... Read more

3 April, 2012
Acronis update aims to make VMs safer

Acronis update aims to make VMs safer

...be recovered from one server to another with dissimilar hardware via a 'bare metal recovery' (BMR) feature. The software is targeted at small businesses, who... Read more

6 March, 2012 by Jack Clark

Red Hat credits Gluster buy in quarterly results

...time. "This software-only solution addresses storage of unstructured data, spanning from bare metal to virtualised instances and in cloud deployments," he said. "This [is... Read more

20 December, 2011 by Jack Clark

Azul Zing: moving its JVM from silicon to software.

...a big improvement in performance over the previous version, with its own bare-metal OS (a custom Linux kernel) you still needed to proxy your... Read more

9 November, 2011

Samsung joins VMware's mobile virtualisation push

...Labs believes that because its technology uses the OKL4 microvisor — a lightweight, bare metal hypervisor — its technology has better security than VMware as it has... Read more

30 August, 2011

Citrix upgrades XenDesktop with RingCube technology

...recent RingCube acquisition. – Bob Schultz, Citrix The new version of XenDesktop, a bare-metal hypervisor designed to reproduce normal PC desktop environments remotely on desktops... Read more

25 August, 2011 by David Meyer

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