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A virtual world of opportunity
Leader With AMD's Pacifica and Intel's VT both due to see widespread deployment in 2006, there's not much time left for those who don't know or don't care about the implications of a technology that for once will genuinely change the rules.
[February 7, 2006, 14:15]
AMD releases virtualisation details
News AMD has released full details of technology called Pacifica that will let computers run multiple operating systems more easily, an idea the computing industry is embracing enthusiastically. Much like a competing product from Intel, AMD's Pacifica...
[May 26, 2005, 10:45]
AMD appeals for virtualisation support
News AMD wants software developers to catch the wave of Pacifica, its forthcoming virtualisation technology. The chipmaker disclosed on Wednesday several details behind Pacifica, which is designed to help a computer run multiple operating systems and...
[March 31, 2005, 8:50]
Yankee Group slams 'Linux extremists'
Talkback It is a wonderful source of information but it remains a place where a lot of people will sound off, the way they used to on Pacifica Radio Stations before Pacifica got so big and scary. As a brainless Linux extremist who found out about this...
[April 8, 2005, 16:20]
AMD outlines chip strategy
News On the high end, AMD will release chips with two processing cores in 2005, and then follow in 2006 with chips based around a new chip core code-named Pacifica. The company is relatively tight-lipped about Pacifica, but said it will be a dual-core...
[November 15, 2004, 7:25]
Xen masters Windows problems
News Intel's chief rival, AMD, has a parallel technology called Pacifica that it plans to introduce in 2006. Though Pacifica and Intel's systems work somewhat differently, Xen employs a software layer called VMX that is designed to handle differences...
[August 24, 2005, 10:25]
Xen getting multiprocessor support
News AMD's answer to Intel's VT is a technology code-named Pacifica. Xen support for Pacifica is a "work in progress," Pratt said. It's likely a single version of Xen will be able to support both VT and Pacifica, Pratt said.
[June 13, 2005, 18:10]
Security Implications of the Virtualized Datacenter
White Papers CPU manufacturers are rapidly working on implementing hardware-based hypervisors, such as AMD's Pacifica project. With enterprise-class virtualization software hitting the market from VMware and Microsoft (ESX Virtual Infrastructure and Virtual PC...
[April 26, 2008, 1:02]
Mac pioneer dead at 61
News Raskin, the author of The Humane Interface, died of cancer at his Pacifica, California, home, according to his family. Jef Raskin, the computer interface expert who launched the Macintosh project for Apple Computer, died on Saturday at age 61.
[February 28, 2005, 9:05]
Virtual server 2007 delayed
News Service Pack 1 for Virtual Server 2005 R2 will include support for two chip features, Intel's Virtualization Technology and AMD's Pacifica, that ease the task. Microsoft has delayed until early 2007 an update for Microsoft Virtual Server, a...
[March 29, 2006, 10:05]
AMD and Intel lock horns over virtualisation
News But AMD, whose rival Pacifica technology won't debut in processors until half way through this year, is trying to set its own technology as a standard for virtualisation of computer communications, an element not present in Intel's VT.
[February 7, 2006, 8:25]
Sun and AMD play the same game
Leader Meanwhile, AMD is starting to let the world know about Pacifica - a high performance x86 64-bit chip that will combine dual cores with virtualisation and built-in security features. The IT industry thrives on visions of the future.
[November 15, 2004, 11:40]
AMD details Opteron upgrade plans
News Also coming with the Rev F chips will be Pacifica and Presidio, features for improved virtualisation abilities and security. AMD will launch Rev F versions of its Opteron chips in the third quarter, a move that ends the single-core server processor...
[March 7, 2006, 12:35]
Virtual Server upgrade plans expanded
News Microsoft said the software also will support AMD's equivalent to VT, called Pacifica. Microsoft on Wednesday detailed changes to its Virtual Server plans, announcing it will shift its next update of the software from a maintenance release to a...
[August 25, 2005, 9:35]
Microsoft Virtual Server R2 ships with Linux support
News This ability for software to run at a 'deeper' level than the OS is enabled at the processor level by Intel's Virtualisation Technology and Pacifica from AMD, both of which are due to feature in chips shipping next year.
[November 16, 2005, 12:05]
Opteron prices cut
News AMD is also expected to introduce its Pacifica virtualisation technology in the upcoming Opteron processors. AMD cut prices on several Opteron processors this week as the company prepares to introduce new memory technology and a new socket for its...
[February 16, 2006, 12:05]
Intel extends desktop virtualisation
News AMD plans to introduce its equivalent technology, code-named Pacifica, in the first half of 2006. Intel launched new Pentium processors on Monday that have the ability to subdivide tasks using a hardware feature called Virtualisation Technology...
[November 14, 2005, 17:20]
Linux in the virtual world
News AMD Virtualisation, set to debut in months and formerly known by its code name Pacifica, and Intel's corresponding VT, which started arriving in 2005, permit Xen to run an unmodified operating system.
[April 3, 2006, 16:40]
VMWare to set virtualisation product free
News AMD's rival technology, code-named Pacifica, is scheduled to arrive later this year in the company's "Rev F" Opteron models. VMware, an EMC subsidiary whose software lets multiple operating systems run on the same computer, is expected to announce...
[February 3, 2006, 16:35]
AMD prepares new Opteron offerings
News Those models will include two major new features: Pacifica - virtualization technology that makes it easier to run multiple operating systems simultaneously in separate partitions called virtual machines - and Presidio, a technology to improve...
[March 6, 2006, 8:20]
