Virtualization

Virtual Box 3.0 released; Reddit fans are excited!

Look at it yourself.
and here are the features

This version is a major update. The following major new features were added:
* Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only; see chapter 3.7.2.2 of the user manual)
* Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications [...]

Gartner: Will VMware become the next Novell?

While some comments there [including mine] were re-pondering over the Gartner ponder, I just couldn’t help wondering over the session I just gave on Smart Metering the Clouds about the “stupidity” of us people/humans and how we always tend to choose/make the “right” decisions.
History teaches us just one thing: “A distant memory of pain/defeat experienced [...]

VMware Arms for Microsoft Battle

Former Microsoft executives Paul Maritz and Tod Nielsen know a thing or two about how the software giant snuffs out budding threats. They helped Microsoft battle upstart Netscape in the late 1990s. Now they’re on the receiving end.
Maritz and Nielsen run VMware, a software company with $1.9 billion in revenue that has become the standard-setter [...]

VDI joint-venture: Sun and Ringcube integrate desktop virtualization stuff

Sun’s SunRay technology is pretty cool and is definitely the best stuff to look at, after all Sun has been using it for a long time for its corporate employees.

The partnership will bring to enterprises that are using Sun’s Sun Ray VDI technology the ability to more effectively and cheaply roll out personalized virtual desktops, [...]

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 [...]

HP’s storage blades for the future!

Very interesting indeed. We must not forget HP, IBM are powerhouses that will not take notice of the noises and will work harder on making their vision of being a one-stop-shop a reality. Many others are still trying to find common ground by bunging storage/virtualization/networks together. HP, with it’s ever increasingly popular PODs, will have [...]

Oracle’s InterCloud Initiative: Oracle VM 2.1.5 released with Web Services API

From Oracle’s virtualization blog
We are pleased to announce the availability of Oracle VM 2.1.5, bringing customers and partners the benefits of better interoperability with the new Oracle VM Manager Web Services API.
In addition, the latest Oracle VM 2.1.5 release has integrated accumulated bug fixes, security update, and enhanced hardware drivers to help customers confidently deploy [...]

Dell Introduces Virtualization Consulting Services

Dell has expanded its virtualization technology portfolio to assist organizations striving to make datacenters and IT operations work more efficiently.
The company has introduced virtualization and datacenter consulting services, business-ready virtualization configurations, new Dell PowerEdge servers and the EqualLogic PS4000 storage array.
Dell officials announced new “flexible and modular” virtualization consulting services. The Dell ProConsult offerings use [...]

VMlogix CEO explains Lab Automation within Public and Private Cloud

Excellent video, Sameer explains very well.

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 [...]