Leostream and NoMachine team up to deliver Linux VMs on Demand
By Tarry Singh at 16 March, 2009, 8:25 am
Rome, Italy and Waltham, MA – March 16, 2009 – NoMachine, award-winning provider of remote desktop and application delivery software, and Leostream(tm) Corporation, a leading developer of virtual hosted desktop software, today announced a partnership that will fully support and integrate NoMachine’s NX protocol into the Leostream Connection Broker. This combined solution will allow enterprises [...]
Read More >>Biggest Desktop Virtualization project ever: 324,000 desktops delivered by Userful, ThiNetworks & Positivo
By Tarry Singh at 6 February, 2009, 12:02 pm
How on earth can you ever validate the high initial investments when it comes to this large scale. BRIC is opening up faster than you can imagine. I have been yelling for quite a while about it. I have been involved in international projects, purely CSER driven where we just don’t have that kind of [...]
Read More >>Red Hat releases version 5.3 with Virtualization enhancements
By Tarry Singh at 22 January, 2009, 12:20 pm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux updates provide: Feature enhancements and stable new features Security hardening Consolidated bug fixes The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 Release Notes note over 150 updates and upgrades, but here are a few key highlights: Virtualization enhancements: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 supports larger x86-64 systems. The number of supported physical CPUs [...]
Read More >>Cohesive-FT adds KVM to its Cloud offerings
By Tarry Singh at 7 January, 2009, 5:19 pm
And I’m sure like my friends out there at Q-layer, Cohesive-FT’s buddies won’t tell me about some conversations they may be having with interested parties. So if I take the liberty to make some wild guesses on possible lovers: Redhat maybe? CohesiveFT (http://www.cohesiveft.com), the leader in automated software assembly, today announced support to automate the [...]
Read More >>JoliCloud and Netbooks: End of the PC, Laptop era in sight?
By Tarry Singh at 10 December, 2008, 12:39 am
Michael is running this story about an ex-CEO of Netvibes, who plans to provide a much robust and feature richer netbook, quick-boot OS with all you may need to get on the Cloud. Avastu advisory for investors Wait till 2010, there are a lot more little start-ups, many names I can’t reveal as they are [...]
Read More >>Linux is a bare metal Hypervisor!
By Tarry Singh at 27 October, 2008, 11:41 pm
Kevin Lawton, a friend and one of the pioneers on x86 Virtualization, has finally launched his blog and he starts elegantly with: here’s been a lot of talk about bare-metal hypervisors in the virtualization realm. All academic arguments aside, the reality is that Linux + KVM is a bare-metal hypervisor. You can create a small [...]
Read More >>Cloudera = Cloud Computing what Red Hat = Linux?
By Tarry Singh at 16 October, 2008, 11:14 am
I am preparing for my keynote speech at the Cloud Camp and I noticed something that suddenly every discussion is beginning to involve is, you guessed it: Da Credit Crisis! Many conferences are getting rather poor attendence, firms are really panicking and losing focus. So I am going to avoid using Credit talk in my [...]
Read More >>Cloud Computing: HP developing Operating System for mass markets
By Tarry Singh at 13 September, 2008, 9:17 am
Given that HP ships 50M pcs worldwide annually. They might just give Microsoft a very hard time. Market is changing dramatically and its just about as devious around the detours. Why is all this happening: Globalization Middle-class rising/New consumers are joining Fat PC/Desktops are dying Thin, smaller units are emerging Cloud computing will go and [...]
Read More >>VMware joins Linux Foundation
By Tarry Singh at 6 August, 2008, 3:56 pm
“A growing number of organizations run their Linux environments on VMware virtualization, and the Linux Foundation gives us a collaborative forum to effectively address the needs of our customers,” said Dan Chu, vice president of emerging products and solutions at VMware. “We are delighted to become a member of The Linux Foundation and look forward [...]
Read More >>KVM: Real threat to VMware/Xen, says Industry insider
By Tarry Singh at 7 July, 2008, 10:43 am
Ok so all those whisperings were getting ouder and louder in my head and I had to just let it out. The video is by Greg Hartman and my industry insider friend, who wishes anonymity, had some pointers: Featured opinion from an industry insider/researcher (This individual has no affiliation to VMware, Citrix , Microsoft or [...]
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