Virtualization
KVM Cloud: Red Hat wins another cloud vendor in Netherlands
By Tarry Singh at 11 June, 2010, 3:25 am
Interesting to note why virtualization vendors need to have the VM numbers from all their partners. Oxilion said it has been working for more than a year to put together the technology for its Virtual Data Center public cloud, and while not naming names, said that other alternatives were too costly and “the traditional proprietary [...]
Read More >>HP buys Phoenix’s virtualization division for $12M
By Tarry Singh at 11 June, 2010, 3:19 am
Very good move by HP. Phoenix was founded in 1979 and said it January it wanted to sell off non-core assets and return its attention to BIOS. In April it sold off FailSafe and Freeze. Unfortunately for Freeze users, the buyer decided shortly afterwards to stop supporting the product. Exactly what HP intends to do [...]
Read More >>Star Cloud Storage start-up Nasuni launches Dashboard with billing/consumption reporting
By Tarry Singh at 26 May, 2010, 6:41 am
This is very important, especially for incumbent ISVs and SIs, that could include AWS and other Indian players who want to go after the monolithic SIs with the breakthrough billing/reporting tooling. I am personally watching Nasuni for its other economical features that could be very effective for many customers/buyers. Check out their portal which gives [...]
Read More >>JP Morgan Analysis: NetApp beats EMC in ease of implementation in Data Centers
By Tarry Singh at 26 May, 2010, 6:29 am
NetApp is becoming the lead storage vendor in virtualised environments because it offers a more seamless and cost-effective approach than EMC. That’s the view of Mark Moscowitz, a J P Morgan analyst, in a note published on May 25. He says there is a secular shift to mid-range storage which is benefitting NetApp more than [...]
Read More >>Oracle unleashes x64 version of VirtualBox
By Tarry Singh at 21 May, 2010, 4:41 am
Large-page support is now enabled on Intel chips with VT-x and Advanced Micro Devices AMD-V virtualization electronics, which can boost the performance of guest VMs. VirtualBox also has dynamic memory ballooning to allocate or deallocate main memory for the VM on 64-bit hosts. A feature called page fusion allows for the memory used by multiple [...]
Read More >>HDS aligns its unified computing strategy with Microsoft; takes on Cisco/EMC
By Tarry Singh at 20 April, 2010, 1:29 am
With Hyper-V as a bold statement in its partnership, HDS is making clear that it does not want to be left behind. HDS has now signalled it is entering the lists against the VCE coalition and its V-Blocks (VMware, Cisco and EMC), HP and its Matrix, IBM and Oracle with its app-to-storage integrated stack. Dell [...]
Read More >>HP Networking emerges; ProCurve and 3Com to be rebranded
By Tarry Singh at 20 April, 2010, 1:24 am
As HP moves closer to absorbing its giant EDS acquisition, its real all-round play emerges. With HP Networking, it goes directly after Cisco which lacks system integration, data center outsourcing and other services market presence. Cisco is still working on its Acadia initiative which still only involves software/hardware vendors like VMware and EMC, which certianly [...]
Read More >>Extreme Networks Introduces Direct Attach Architecture to Increase Data Center Performance and Reduce Network Tiers
By Tarry Singh at 19 April, 2010, 1:02 pm
ANTA CLARA, CA, April 19, 2010 — Extreme Networks, Inc. today announced its innovative “Direct Attach” architecture for data centers, a network architecture designed to bring virtual machine switching back into the network and out of the server. Extreme Networks Direct Attach data center architecture is an evolutionary approach that allows Virtual Machines (VMs) to [...]
Read More >>VMforce: VMware and Salesforce to announce a joint-product on 27th April 2010!
By Tarry Singh at 15 April, 2010, 1:55 am
See the action erupting on VMforce.com soon
Read More >>VMware unveils its hybrid cloud vision
By Tarry Singh at 26 March, 2010, 12:17 am
While this is your private version which VMware already had running for its current customers and channel partners, it now wants a piece of public cloud and thus challenging the might of Amazon, Google and others who don’t use VMware’s product for public consumers. But it is very wise for VMware to start leveraging its [...]
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