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VMware ESXi will be available for download FREE 7/28/08

2008-07-25T01:01:24Z

It seems that some VMware executives, specifically New CEO Paul Maritz, agreed with my idea of celebrating the FREEdoms of July. With the announcement of the release of ESXi at no charge to everyone after July 28, 2008, the bar to virtualize your server environment has been lowered once again.

Today, VMware is taking another step towards making virtualization ubiquitous by announcing that VMware ESXi will be available for download at no cost as of the week of July 28, 2008.

VMware has always believed that virtualization needs to be ubiquitous. Since 2001, VMware has provided the industry’s most popular and reliable hypervisor used by more than 100,000 customers. During this evolution, partners like you have been critical in educating and delivering virtualization to customers of all sizes. In December 2007, VMware announced significant improvements with ESXi - its third-generation, stand-alone hypervisor. With its smaller footprint and OS-independence, ESXi ensures even higher levels of security and reliability while making virtualization easier than ever to deploy.

This really adds an interesting twist to the SMB market, now a small company which couldn’t afford the high cost of VMware may now be able to tap into the rich features and ease of management which it offers.

Bogomil Balkansky, senior marketing manager, said dropping the $495 license price for ESXi to zero will “accelerate adoption of VMware virtualization products and help companies get to 100% virtualization in their data centers.” While VMware is the current market leader, with $1.3 billion in revenues last year, much of the potential market for virtualization products remains untapped, especially among small and medium-sized businesses that that are just getting started.

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VMware to Ship ESXi Hypervisor for Free
VMware Counters Microsoft, Will Make ESXi Hypervisor Free - Yahoo! News

VMware giving it away for free while Verari doubles it up

2008-07-25T00:23:31Z

VMware's new CEO, Paul Maritz, says HE knows how to beat Microsoft! And part of that answer seems to be by giving away products. And while people continue to invest in virtualization to consolidate their data centers, Verari Systems hopes to help push that quest even further with its new solution that doubles VMware virtual machine density and power efficiency. LISTEN!... READ MORE

John Sheehan: Inside Application Virtualization

2008-07-24T23:51:00Z

Application virtualization is different than machine virtualization which virtualizes the machine on which an operating system (and applications) are installed. Machine virtualization provides an abstraction layer between the hardware and the OS that's running on top of it. It also allows managing and simultaneously operating multiple environments on a single machine. Application virtualization takes this concept and applies it to programs. The abstraction layer created by application virtualization lies between the operating system and the applications that run within it, allowing applications to be delivered dynamically as services that can be added or removed without installation....(read more)

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's Memo to His Troops

2008-07-24T23:45:00Z

All Things Digital recently posted the full memo that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer sent out to his employees about big changes taking place within the company. Here is a sample: With FY08 complete, I want to discuss my priorities for the year ahead and share my thoughts about the key strategic topics that are on everybody’s mind, including Windows, competition with Apple and Google, our software plus services strategy, and Yahoo. ...(read more)

VMware Helps More than 40 Universities in Australia and New Zealand Innovate Through Virtualized Infrastructures

2008-07-24T23:42:00Z

VMware Helps More than 40 Universities in Australia and New Zealand Innovate Through Virtualized Infrastructures Virtualization Helps Universities Enhance the Academic Experience for Over One Million Students. Palo Alto, California – July 24, 2008 -- VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the datacenter, today announced that more than 40 universities in Australia and New Zealand are using VMware virtualization to enhance the online experience of its students. VMware is working with the Council of Australian University Directors of Information Technology (CAUDIT) which paves the way for more than 40 member institutions to deliver virtualization solutions at standard and low costs, regardless of a school’s size. CAUDIT members include nearly...

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Microsoft Executive: Co. Winning Business From VMWare

2008-07-24T23:38:00Z

Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) is winning accounts from VMWare Inc. (VMW) since launching a virtualiation product that competes with that company's products, Bob Muglia, head of that division, said Thursday. Virtualization is software technology that allows one computer processor to do the work of several by reorganizing the way tasks are allocated. Palo Alto, Calif.-based VMware is the market leader. ...(read more)

AppSense Tallies 50 Percent Increase in U.S. Revenue

2008-07-24T23:21:00Z

AppSense Ltd., the leading provider of user environment management solutions for large-scale environments, today reported a 50 percent increase in U.S. revenue for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2008. Its global business—which includes a growing customer base of over 4,000—realized a 30 percent increase in worldwide revenue, continuing its trend of 30 percent growth each year since 2005....(read more)

OpenNebula 1.0 Released for Data Center Virtualization & CloudSolutions

2008-07-24T23:14:00Z

The dsa-research group (http://dsa-research.org) is pleased to announce that a stable release (v1.0) of the OpenNebula (ONE) Virtual Infrastructure Engine (http://www.OpenNebula.org) is available for download under the terms of the Apache License, Version 2.0. ONE enables the dynamic allocation of virtual machines on a pool of physical resources, so extending the benefits of existing virtualization platforms from a single physical resource to a pool of resources, decoupling the server not only from the physical infrastructure but also from the physical location. ...(read more)

VMware Helps More Than 40 Universities in Australia and New Zealand Innovate Through Virtualized Infrastructures

2008-07-24T23:11:00Z

VMware, Inc. (NYSE:VMW), the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the datacenter, today announced that more than 40 universities in Australia and New Zealand are using VMware virtualization to enhance the online experience of their students. VMware is working with the Council of Australian University Directors of Information Technology (CAUDIT) which paves the way for more than 40 member institutions to deliver virtualization solutions at standard and low costs, regardless of a school’s size. CAUDIT members include nearly every university in Australia and New Zealand. ...(read more)

VMware PowerShell Scripting Contest - Win $5000

2008-07-24T11:56:00Z

VMware is challenging the world’s VI administrators to a contest of skill, creativity and raw scripting talent. If you think you have what it takes to be the best, step up and try your skill. Win $5000 or a trip to VMworld 2008, a Macbook Air with Fusion or $2500, or how about an XBOX 360 Elite or $500. Only one way to win, and that's by entering the contest....(read more)

Citrix and VMware Slowing Down the Hiring Train

2008-07-24T11:27:00Z

ComputerWorld is reporting that both virtualization companies, VMware and Citrix, are slowing down in their hiring practices. Citrix Systems Inc. said on Wednesday that it is slowing its hiring pace in response to economic conditions. It is the second IT vendor this week to cut the tempo of hiring, following VMware Inc., which said it was taking a "pause" on gaining new employees....(read more)

Virtualization Growing Fast Down Under

2008-07-24T11:23:00Z

According to a recent article on TechWorld, virtualization is growing pretty quickly in the Australian market. Twice as many Australian businesses are using virtualisation than the rest of the world, according to analysts. ...(read more)

Citrix Reports Second Quarter Earnings Results

2008-07-24T11:07:00Z

Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS), the global leader in Application Delivery Infrastructure, today reported financial results for the second quarter of fiscal 2008 ended June 30, 2008. ...(read more)

Four out of Five IT Decision Makers Value Green IT

2008-07-24T11:06:00Z

Eighty percent of IT decision makers across government and corporate sectors believe that implementing Green IT solutions in their organizations is important, according to a new survey by CDW Corporation. Additionally, almost half (49 percent) report positive reputation as one of the greatest benefits of adopting Green IT. However, 51 percent of IT decision makers hesitate to employ Green IT technologies because of concerns about cost, while 25 percent cite complexity of implementing and maintaining Green IT solutions. Twenty-one percent cite potential disruptions to current systems as a top barrier to adoption. ...(read more)

vmSight Extends Connector ID to Thin Clients

2008-07-24T11:04:00Z

vmSight, the leader in managing virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) for performance, reliability and compliance, today announced that the company’s patented Connector ID technology is now available for thin clients used in virtual desktop deployments. The new capability allows virtual desktop administrators to more effectively manage end-to-end performance and reliability of VDI deployments where thin clients are used, as well as to provide more detailed user tracking for security and compliance. ...(read more)

ParaScale Announces Formation of Advisory Board and Appointment of Pioneering Industry Practitioners and Thought-Leaders

2008-07-24T11:03:00Z

ParaScale, Inc., a startup company developing cloud storage solutions for deep content archives and rich-media content in traffic-intense applications, is pleased to announce the formation of an advisory board and its first appointments. "Our new advisory board members will help guide ParaScale as we introduce a new class of clustered NAS and file storage, delivering unprecedented horizontal scale-out of storage capacity and performance to support the wave of content-intensive applications," said Cameron Bahar, CTO and founder, ParaScale, Inc. "Each of our advisory board members has contributed substantially to the development and adoption of emerging clustered storage technologies. I welcome them to our new advisory board and look forward to their technology and market contributions."...(read more)

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2008-07-24T05:00:00Z

InfoBlox DNS Best Practices from Cricket Liu
This page is a good collection of best practices regarding DNS from an established DNS expert

VMware's new CEO lays out strategy on Q2 earnings call

2008-07-23T19:31:50Z

After announcing a lowered revenue forecast, VMware's new CEO laid out the strategy for competing with Microsoft and for bulking up the company's management software portfolio.

VMware to give away ESXi for free

2008-07-23T19:30:40Z

With VMware soon to offer ESXi for free, the hypervisor will officially become commoditized.

Virtualization Short Take #14

2008-07-23T19:01:40Z

Welcome to another installation of Virtualization Short Takes!

For you Quicksilver lovers out there that also run VMware Fusion, here’s a handy trick to allow you to launch Windows apps to run under Fusion via Quicksilver.
Duncan of Yellow Bricks points out this VMware Communities Forums thread discussing how to determine which host has a lock on a LUN. This thread also makes brief mention of the new VMFS version, version 3.31, that was released with ESX 3.5, which does a better job of handling SCSI reservations than previous versions. Good find, Duncan!
Speaking of the new VMFS version, a summary of the information shared in the VMware Communities Forums threads can be found here.
While we are on a bit of a storage kick, VMware has launched a new VMware Storage blog, and one of the early posts deals with VMFS. The post primarily attacks the notion of VMFS as a “proprietary” file system (which it is) by describing the advantages that VMFS provides. I’m hoping that the new storage blog will get more technical than marketing in the future, but the information is useful nevertheless.
This link falls more into the “ironic” category than anything else. Do you suppose he got into trouble with Citrix for blogging about how to use a competitor’s product to test ICA performance?
John Howard gives us an in-depth look at Hyper-V’s handling of virtual NICs in this article. This is particularly important for users who are interested in cloning VMs hosted on Hyper-V; I would assume that SCVMM 2008 will handle this correctly.
This news emerged several weeks ago via VMblog.com. It’s good to see Leostream getting some recognition; their broker is actually quite good in many respects.
Sven over at Virtualfuture.info recently blogged about XenServer’s HA functionality and how Marathon’s EverRun products play into that functionality. I actually had a conference call with the folks from Marathon several months ago about EverRun, but never got around to blogging about it. I do like the fact that you can control HA functionality on a per-VM basis, whereas VMware HA is applied to all VMs. (Well, I suppose you could disable HA for the VMs that you don’t want restarted, but it’s not quite the same.) I do agree with both Sven and PeterB’s comments regarding “Continuous Availability”; the sooner that VMware gets this functionality out the door, the more of a leg up they’ll have on the competition.
As has been reported elsewhere as well, Reflex Security has released the Reflex Virtual Security Center (VSC). The full press release is here. Based on what I’ve read thus far, it appears that the idea behind the VSC is to combine the information from multiple instances of their Virtual Security Appliance (VSA) so that users get the “full view” of what’s occurring across the virtual infrastructure. In this regard, it is remarkably similar to Altor Networks’ Virtual Network Security Analyzer (VNSA), which is also designed to provide visibility across the entire virtual infrastructure.

As always, feel free to share other interesting links and news in the comments below. Thank you!

Citrix, Fusion, HyperV, Macintosh, Security, Storage, Virtualization, VMFS, VMware, VMwareHA, Xen

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VKernel Named a Byte and Switch "Top 10 Storage Startup to Watch"

2008-07-23T11:35:00Z

VKernel Corporation, a provider of easy-to-use and quick-to-deploy virtual appliances for managing virtual server environments, announced today that the company has been named by the online storage networking news site, Byte and Switch, as one of its "Top 10 Startups to Watch." The decisions by Byte and Switch were based on editorial decision making, including extensive reporting and talks with users, analysts, and suppliers....(read more)

Qumranet Displays Hosted Desktop Virtualization At IBM System X & BladeCenter Technical Conference

2008-07-23T11:32:00Z

Qumranet, the commercial sponsor of KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine), will display its Solid ICE desktop virtualization solution at the upcoming IBM System X & BladeCenter Technical Conference in San Diego from July 28-30. Solid ICE provides enterprises with the benefits of centralized desktops while delivering a superior end-user experience including the ability to run multiple monitors, high-quality video streaming, VoIP and video-conferencing. The Qumranet virtualization software can reduce desktop cost of ownership by more than 50 percent. ...(read more)

Virtualize Top to Bottom – Or Suffer the Pitfalls of Going Halfway

2008-07-23T11:27:00Z

It’s not uncommon. The short term gratification from freeing rack space and lowering the electric bill soon gives way to the realization that all these VMs crowded in tight spaces significantly stress I/O channels, increase disk allocation complexity and compound the casualties from single points of failure. Face it, those discomforts will remain until you finish the job by virtualizing your storage. Only then will you be able to rapidly provision / migrate workloads, automatically load balance and fail over VMs, and non-disruptively backup and upgrade your equipment to attain the richer rewards of virtualization....(read more)

Forbes Interviews VMware CEO Paul Maritz After Financial Analyst Call

2008-07-23T11:20:00Z

Forbes interviewed VMware's new CEO, Paul Maritz, after the financial analyst call on Tuesday. After the call, the company's stock reached an all time low, almost back to the IPO stage. In after hour trading, it dropped to $32.86. In this interview, Forbes asked what Maritz thinks about the stock price, what he thinks about the analysts saying VMware doesn't have a solid or innovative growth plan for the future, and question whether he thinks VMware should be part of EMC or not, where Diane Greene wanted to break away from EMC. In addition, he was also asked and answered the following questions: ...(read more)

Ultimate Virtualisation Conference in India

2008-07-23T11:12:00Z

The era of virtualisation is now fully upon the technology industry. For businesses to thrive, adapting to the changing needs of their customers is paramount. For businesses to win, they must deliver the right solutions at the right time, and offer propositions that are more attractive to their customers than a competing solution. One word describes the nature of this kind of business environment: dynamic. The ability of business and the people that constitute it is not just to survive, but thrive in the face of these dynamic demands; and that is a direct function of the capability and fitness of the infrastructure of business systems that underpin and support their work. Business Technology Summit 2008, held 22-26 September 2008 in Mumbai and Bangalore, offers a program, replete with technical and business insights that guarantee you the keys to a flexible and dynamic IT. ...(read more)

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2008-07-23T05:00:00Z

Speed Up Your Windows 2003 Servers
This article outlines a Registry change that can possibly improve performance for Windows Server 2003-based VMs

VMware makes ESXi embedded hypervisor free

2008-07-23T04:46:27Z

VMware CEO Paul Maritz goes on the offensive against Microsoft Hyper-V by announcing its embedded hypervisor product, ESXi, will be free. READ MORE

VMware shares fall after full year outlook expressed

2008-07-23T04:07:10Z

VMware's stock price drops after Q2 earnings report conference call completed. READ MORE

Researcher Offers Malware Analysis Tool Using Intel Virtualization

2008-07-22T23:55:00Z

Paul Royal, principal researcher at botnet hunter Damballa Inc., will make, on Aug. 6, a Black Hat presentation on a tool called Azure, which will be published as an open-source proof of concept, available for free to enterprises or vendors. Azure is an external hardware tool that is based on Intel VT, a hardware-assisted means of virtualizing the PC. It allows the user to create the equivalent of an x86 processor-based machine that can be used to detect and analyze malware at the instruction level or at the Windows API level. ...(read more)

Simon Crosby from Citrix Talks Virtualization

2008-07-22T23:39:00Z

Barry Flanagan shared this information on his blog today, showing just how busy Simon Crosby has been as of late. Doing the virtualization podcast circuit now are we, Simon? We always appreciate getting Simon's point of view on things. Check out these podcast recordings for your listening pleasure. ...(read more)

Reflex Security Sheds Light on Virtual Infrastructure with Virtual Security Center

2008-07-22T23:35:00Z

Reflex Security, the industry leader in virtualization security management, today announced the availability of Reflex Virtual Security Center (VSC), pioneering a new level of security through heightened visibility and control for virtualized environments. Reflex VSC provides a single authoritative visual interface to secure the virtual data center. Coupled with the award-winning Reflex Virtual Security Appliance (VSA), the VSC brings essential functionality to round out the Reflex virtual security management solution....(read more)

Avnet Technology Solutions Launches VirtualPath University

2008-07-22T23:30:00Z

With Gartner predicting that virtualization will be the highest-impact trend changing infrastructure and operations through 2012, Avnet Technology Solutions today furthered its commitment to enable its value-added reseller partners to excel in this fast-growth market. Avnet Technology Solutions, an operating group of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE:AVT), announced a dedicated training program called VirtualPath™ University for value-added resellers in the United States. Based on Avnet’s successful HealthPath University and GovPath University programs, VirtualPath University provides partners with virtualization market understanding, knowledge, technology drivers and tools. ...(read more)

NetEx Earns FalconStor Certification for HyperIP Data Transport Optimization Appliance

2008-07-22T23:29:00Z

NetEx®, the leader in high speed data transport, today announced that its HyperIP® bandwidth optimization appliance has been certified by FalconStor® Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: FALC), providing FalconStor users with a tested and proven application acceleration solution. The certification follows joint performance testing by the NetEx and FalconStor to prove interoperability and validate the value proposition of HyperIP in accelerating data rate performance across TCP/IP transports for FalconStor data protection applications, including DiskSafe, FileSafe, VTL and others. ...(read more)

Seanodes Awarded $2.4 Million in Funding from French Innovation Agency OSEO

2008-07-22T23:27:00Z

Seanodes, the creator and leading developer of Shared Internal Storage solutions, today announced it has received about $2.4 million in funding from OSEO, France's national agency for industrial innovation, in the form of a no-interest loan to support ongoing technology development and company growth. ...(read more)

Verari Systems Announces Blade-Based Solution That Doubles VMware Virtual Machines and Power Efficiency

2008-07-22T23:23:00Z

Verari Systems®, a premier developer of energy efficient data center consolidation platforms utilizing independent blade-based computing and storage solutions, and VMware Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) program member, today announced that the Verari Systems’ VB1257 VMware ESX 3.5 certified blade delivers twice the number of VMware virtual machines per blade than similar competitive blade offerings while consuming 50% less power. On a per VMware image basis, the VB1257 for the BladeRack® 2 XL (BR2-XL) platform provides significantly better total cost of ownership than any competing blade server products. VMware provides TAP program members with tools to develop products that are complementary to VMware virtualization software and help deliver high-value solutions to our joint customers. ...(read more)

New DataCore Customer Selects SANmelody Storage Virtualization and Citrix XenServer to Provide Replication and Ensure Full Disaster Recovery

2008-07-22T23:22:00Z

DataCore Software, the leading provider of storage virtualization software, today announced that its SANmelody software is serving as the foundation of a replication and disaster recovery (DR) plan at Alameda County Medical Center (ACMC) that was orchestrated by DataCore partner Entisys. The IT environment at ACMC was fundamentally based upon products from Dell and EMC as well as virtual machines from VMware. ACMC is comprised of multiple sites and as a county hospital the organization is under a number of budget constraints. Entisys presented the Citrix XenServer and DataCore SANmelody DR solution based upon XenServer, which provides great savings to the medical center. “Instead of buying another EMC product to replicate the SAN, we showed them what DataCore can do and ACMC was able to complete a replication scenario for pennies on the dollar with XenServer and DataCore,” said Thad Morrow, Director of Sales, Entisys. “But it is not so much about the cost savings as much as it is a case where ACMC could use DataCore to support a very distributed environment where multiple vendors’ products are deployed and make a full-on disaster recovery solution possible.” ...(read more)

VMware Reports Second-Quarter 2008 Results

2008-07-22T21:04:00Z

VMware the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the datacenter, today reported financial results for the second quarter of 2008: Revenues for the second quarter were $456 million, an increase of 54% from the second quarter of 2007. GAAP operating income for the second quarter was $61 million, compared to $47 million for the same period last year. Non-GAAP operating income was $112 million, an increase of 52% from the second quarter of 2007. GAAP net income for the quarter was $52 million, or $0.13 per diluted share, compared to $34 million, or $0.10 per diluted share, for the second quarter of 2007. Non-GAAP net income for the quarter was $92 million, or $0.23 per diluted share, compared to $52 million, or $0.16 per diluted share, for the second quarter of 2007. Cash exceeded $1.5 billion and deferred revenue was $721 million as of June 30, 2008. ...(read more)

VMWare looks ahead at Microsoft, year-end financials and morale

2008-07-22T20:17:34Z

updated: VMWare, whose recent headlines have included an ousted CEO and a re-pricing of its employee stock options, reported second-quarter earnings of $92 million, or 23 cents per share, up from $52 million, or 16 cents per share, for the same quarter a year ago. Revenues were $456 million, an increase of 54 percent over [...]

VMware Reports Second-Quarter 2008 Results

2008-07-22T17:34:00Z

VMware Reports Second-Quarter 2008 Results Supplemental Financial Tables PALO ALTO, Calif., July 22, 2008 — VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the datacenter, today reported financial results for the second quarter of 2008: Revenues for the second quarter were $456 million, an increase of 54% from the second quarter of 2007.GAAP operating income for the second quarter was $61 million, compared to $47 million for the same period last year. Non-GAAP operating income was $112 million, an increase of 52% from the second quarter of 2007.GAAP net income for the quarter was $52 million, or $0.13 per diluted share, compared to $34 million, or $0.10 per diluted share, for the...

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Containers mini-summit and Linux Symposium

2008-07-22T15:51:42Z

While I am writing this, people are discussing the future of containers in the Linux Kernel at the containers mini-summit which is happening in Ottawa at the moment. You can check some rough notes from the event here. Three guys from OpenVZ team are there: Pavel Emelyanov, Denis Lunev, and Andrey Mirkin.

If you are attending Linux Symposium in Ottawa, note that this Friday, 25th, Andrey Mirkin will talk about containers checkpointing and live migration (12:00, Rockhopper room). It's going to be an interesting talk, do not miss it.

Also, this Wednesday, 23rd, Balbir Singh will lead a BoF on Memory Controller (17:45, Fiordland room). Memory controller is quite important for containers, and while some stuff are already in the mainline kernel, there's still lots to be discussed and developed in the area. You can think of this BoF as an extension to containers mini-summit.

Virtual Iron's CEO Ed Walsh to Speak Today at UBS Technology Forum

2008-07-22T11:33:00Z

Ed Walsh, CEO at Virtual Iron Software ( www.virtualiron.com), a provider of comprehensive server virtualization software solutions, will be a featured speaker at the UBS Technology Forum. The event is taking place on Tuesday, July 22 at the Four Seasons Silicon Valley in East Palo Alto, California. It features senior executives at the forefront of technology innovation and offers perspectives on business opportunities across the technology spectrum. ...(read more)

TRANGO Hypervisor Demonstrates Secure Platform Virtualization on Texas Instruments' OMAP3430 Processor

2008-07-22T11:10:00Z

TRANGO Virtual Processors(R), the leading provider of embedded virtualization IP, delivers greater isolation and portability of operating systems and drivers on the TI OMAP(TM) 3 platform. The TRANGO Hypervisor offers a broad choice of operating system (OS) and real-time operating system (RTOS) including Linux, Windows Embedded CE, Symbian OS, eCos, uC-OSII, uITRON and other proprietary RTOS, while the OMAP 3 platform, based on ARM Cortex-A8 processor, offers up to 3X performance gain over ARM11 based processors. The combination delivers isolation, flexibility and cost optimization benefits to the design of today's convergent wireless devices. ...(read more)

Brocade Buys Foundry

2008-07-22T03:09:52Z

A colleague at work just turned me on to the news that Brocade will be buying Foundry for $3 billion. This sets the stage for Brocade to compete even more directly with Cisco, not only in storage networking but now also in Ethernet networking.

Thanks for the heads-up, Greg!

Cisco, Networking, SAN, Storage

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Endeavors Application Virtualization and the Suspension of Shares

2008-07-22T02:57:00Z

The application virtualization and streaming market is really just starting to come into its own. And Endeavors is one such player in this market, a holder of numerous patents, and as of late, making a nice splash in the media with a number of positive news items: ...(read more)

Virginia Tech Deploys the First 40Gb/s InfiniBand Large-Scale Compute Systems Based on Mellanox Interconnect

2008-07-22T02:40:00Z

Mellanox® Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ:MLNX) (TASE:MLNX), a leading supplier of semiconductor-based, server and storage interconnect products, today announced that its 40Gb/s InfiniBand technology interconnects the new 29TFlops computer systems research cluster at the Center for High-End Computing Systems (CHECS) within the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. 40Gb/s InfiniBand was introduced in June 2008 and this compute cluster showcases the quick industry acceptance and adoption compared to other high speed interconnect technologies. Mellanox 40Gb/s InfiniBand technology provides the necessary scalability and performance for the CHECS research activities and will be the foundation for the development of next generation, power-aware high-end computing resources. ...(read more)

RELDATA Recognized by CRN Magazine as One of the 25 COOLEST Emerging Vendors

2008-07-22T02:38:00Z

RELDATA, the leading provider of consolidated storage solutions that deliver unified iSCSI SAN, NAS and WAN replication from a single virtualized storage platform, today announced that it has been recognized as “One of the 25 Coolest Emerging Vendors” by Everything Channel’s CRN Magazine. RELDATA was chosen from the list of 178 companies in the CRN 2008 Emerging Technology Vendors report. ...(read more)

VirtualLogix Introduces Carrier Grade Virtualization

2008-07-22T02:34:00Z

VirtualLogix™, Inc. today announced Carrier Grade Virtualization™, the industry’s first solution that meets the performance, security, serviceability and availability needs of next generation, multicore-based carrier grade systems. VirtualLogix Carrier Grade Virtualization reduces the cost and complexity of maintaining carrier grade properties in edge and core network elements such as IP Multimedia System (IMS) nodes. As a result, networking and telecommunication original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) can now reuse existing investments in their carrier grade systems while gaining the benefits of using VirtualLogix VLX real-time virtualization software. These benefits include faster adoption of multicore architectures and consolidation of hardware, reduced bill of materials, increased availability, improved time to market, and more efficient designs as a result. ...(read more)

VMware Infrastructure Wins Best of Tech Ed 2008 in Virtualization Category

2008-07-21T23:12:00Z

VMware Infrastructure Wins Best of Tech Ed 2008 in Virtualization Category PALO ALTO, Calif., July 21, 2008 – VMware, Inc., (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the datacenter, today announced that VMware Infrastructure 3, the industry-leading virtualization and management suite, was named the winner of the Best of Tech Ed 2008 IT Professional Award in the virtualization category by Penton Media’s Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine. The winners were announced at the Tech Ed 2008 IT Professionals Conference in Orlando, Florida last month. More information is available at www.WindowsITPro.com/awards. The Best of Tech Ed 2008 IT Professional Awards recognize companies who offer the most innovative products in the...

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Aussie Data Centre’s and the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme

2008-07-21T21:52:25Z

Last week the Australia Government released a paper on the “Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme”. So [I imagine] soon anyone who burns great quantities of power (aka your data center), will be up for review.

Although the whitepaper doesn’t [appear to] explicitly mention data center’s, I’m sure it will be up there on the list – so if you’ve been thinking about virtualization, now’s a great time to check the press release and download the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Green Paper.

I’ve been working with customers here in Brisbane to reduce their power consumption (desktop and server), So I’ll post more info as I go along.

VMware engineer praises AMD's Nested Page Tables

2008-07-21T14:49:02Z

A VMware engineer says that the Nested Page Table technology in AMD's quad-core processor Barcelona is the answer to problems in virtualizing large workloads.

SteelEye real-time replication runs on Citrix XenServer

2008-07-21T13:23:50Z

Designed for Citrix XensServer, SteelEye offers real-time replication software to make a Xen environment highly available and to enable virtual machine migration.

SteelEye Introduces Disaster Recovery Protection for Citrix XenServer Virtual Machines

2008-07-21T11:43:00Z

SteelEye Technology, Inc., a leading provider of business continuity and disaster recovery solutions for multi-vendor IT infrastructures, today announced general availability of SteelEye Protection Suite, a comprehensive solution that provides disaster protection of virtual machines running on Citrix XenServer™. SteelEye Protection Suite delivers real-time LAN and WAN replication of XenServer virtual machines. It is designed for companies that have migrated critical enterprise applications to XenServer virtual machines and want enhanced protection against data center outages to ensure business continuity. ...(read more)