Leostream and NoMachine team up to deliver Linux VMs on Demand

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 to easily deploy and manage [...]

Biggest Desktop Virtualization project ever: 324,000 desktops delivered by Userful, ThiNetworks & Positivo

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 [...]

Red Hat releases version 5.3 with Virtualization enhancements

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 is increased to 126, while [...]

Cohesive-FT adds KVM to its Cloud offerings

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 deployment [...]

JoliCloud and Netbooks: End of the PC, Laptop era in sight?

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 still in [...]

Linux is a bare metal Hypervisor!

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 [...]

Cloudera = Cloud Computing what Red Hat = Linux?

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 [...]

Cloud Computing: HP developing Operating System for mass markets

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 grow massively as demand increases, [...]

VMware joins Linux Foundation

“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 [...]

KVM: Real threat to VMware/Xen, says Industry insider

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 whoever):
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