Networking cool cat Vyatta is now Citrix Ready!

Belmont, CA – 2009-06-09 05:00:00 – Vyatta, the leader in open networking and network virtualization, today announced it has joined the Citrix Ready™ product verification program to create solutions for customers deploying cloud computing infrastructure. The two companies have verified product compatibility between Vyatta’s open networking solutions and the Citrix Cloud Center(C3) product family to [...]

Is Amazon AWS APIs for EC2, S3 etc poised to go Open Source? I don’t think so.

I am not sure if that will help Amazon get its feet inside the enterprise customers. Enterprises have heard of those open source start-ups but won’t do any business with them unless there is some sense of security and trusted advisory role of the vendor.
Although it’s only a rumor, Reuven Cohen reports hearing from [...]

Xen 3.4 launches with XCI (Xen Client Initiative), Power Management features!

The new release, Xen 3.4, furthers the vision of creating a powerful, efficient, and ubiquitous virtualization hypervisor. As part of the Xen community’s commitment to continuous improvement, the new hypervisor offers significant enhancements in the following areas:
•    Xen Client Initiative (XCI) Enhancements –Xen.org continues develop industry virtualization standards for desktop and client devices. Xen 3.4 [...]

Why a firm chose for KVM instead of Xen or VMware

From the horse’s mouth.

Cost.  Although our virtualization requirements are minimal–we need to run only two guest servers on a single host machine–VMware would have cost an astonishing amount of money.  With features like VMware motion factored in, we were looking at a huge hit to the budget–and it didn’t help that VMware charges per CPU, [...]

VMware launches partner innovation program with Open Source offerings!

Desktop virtualisation is in its infancy, but is increasingly popular owing to its ‘low-cost, on-demand, secure, green IT’ positioning. With this move, VMware is helping the market to mature and is rightfully extending its influence over it by building on its strength as a server virtualisation technology provider.
The open sourcing of VOC is intended to:
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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 [...]

Open Source Virtualization & Cloud Computing group exceeds 800 members; even after LinkedIn’s 50 Groups restriction

I lost a couple of hundreds of “marketing and recruiting” connection hungry lurkers after LinkedIn limited members from joining more than 50 groups. I’m still happy to see the members joining in great numbers. Great thing is that we can engage each other in great number of ways, obviously there is lot to be done [...]

Confirmed:Open Source Storage Project Aperi is dead!

Very very sad, just when we needed some storage freedom, we get to hear this. I see Google silently making it all history with its community storage drives we all are hearing lately called, GDrive.
Like Monty Python’s famous dead parrot, the futile Aperi open source storage system management project has fluttered to earth because IBM [...]

VMware developers release “Parasite”, debugging tool for GTK+

VMware’s Christian Hammond and David Trowbridge have released a new tool called Parasite that can hook into GTK+ applications to facilitate interactive GUI debugging.
Parasite will provide a visual outline of the widget hierarchy and allow you to dynamically modify various widget properties while the program is running. It also includes a built-in Python shell interface [...]

Nearly 50% Open Source developers are working on the Cloud; Expect torrential RIA rain

My good friend, Kevin Lawton, who also writes for SeekingAlpha, send me a nudge on this article. My long due Cloud Computing article on controlled openness will soon be published. Here is an open statement that if you are not looking at the open source to help you out on the LCO path and Low [...]