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VMworld 2009: VMware! Shutting HP out, is it worth the risk?

Update 2 28th June 2009: After the whole twitter world getting a bit fired up by this post I just want to say one thing of all the possible [and unrealistic, according to some, circumstances] that the following are the observations I can make now:
1. Cisco doing what it should be doing: Cisco is and [...]

Introducing Jit - a VMware phreak, programmer and a Linux lover as co-blogger!

Prasenjit is a rather experienced and smart dude who works for HP in India and does some excellent work there. I’ve known him for quite a while and am glad to have him play the expert here who will tell you some really cool stuff about VMware that you may have never heard of, so [...]

RNA Networks launches RNAcache, its Memory Virtualization Platform

RNAcache: Analytics, Simultaneous Users, Clusters and Clouds
RNAcache works in all network environments including GbE, 10GbE, and InfiniBand. RNAcache removes data center bottlenecks caused by contention for application memory, the most scarce and limited resource in the data center. During customer testing, RNAcache significantly enhanced performance in the following use cases:
– Predictive Analytics and Modeling: [...]

Mokafive Suite launches: Desktop as a service is … at your service

I am not that much of a supporter of VDI or desktop virtualization. It really is a matter of time before we have gen3 apps move to RIA/RWA gen4 apps and all that VDI will end up in the dead pool of all software vendors…but Mokafive, since its inception, always has intrigued me. This is [...]

MC Logic, Security SaaS vendor, readies itself for Global Delivery!

MX Logic® today announced the global expansion of its massively scalable, multi-tenant MX SecureNet Platform. With established facilities in the United States and Japan, MX Logic has extended its Software as a Service (SaaS) platform into Europe and Asia with new facilities in London and Hong Kong. The expansion positions the company and its channel [...]

Oracle/Sun releases Virtual Box 3 beta with cool gaming level graphics!

Well it has loads of stuff that will make you wonder someday: “Why didn’t we invest in Virtual Box’s OVF strategy to deploy our Cloud desktop/instances?”
Version 3.0 will be a major update. The following major new features were added:

Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only)
Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D [...]

5nine P2V planner for Hyper-V is released!

This is very interesting given that some of my customers want a true comparison between VMware and Hyper-V and now I can tell them to check this independent tool for sincere advice. This tool is really excellent. I am asking Ratmir to send me a copy of it so I can try it out!
Enterprise P2V [...]

How Google and Amazon’s Clouds will kill Data Centers worldwide

The Elephant in the Room: Google
Google has been using the cloud as one of its strategies to poach in areas that Microsoft has traditionally owned. Gmail and Google Apps are quietly pecking away at Microsoft Office, and no one seems to mind – or even notice – that these are cloud-based applications.
Of course, these are [...]

Hyper-V platform optimizer V-locity launches!

Burbank, CA—June 23rd, 2009—Diskeeper Corporation today launched V-locity™ virtual platform disk optimizer—a brand new product designed to eliminate virtual disk I/O bottlenecks, maximize virtual server speeds and free up vital disk space on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V.
Taking Virtualization to the Next Level
All computers suffer from fragmentation. Virtual systems suffer twice as much, fragmenting at [...]

IBM Cloudbursting with ESXi

Our security friend at VMW, Charu, is reporting that ESXi is being used at IBM for Cloudbursting.