E-Commerce News: Virtualization

Thursday - June 18, 2009

Less than three months after announcing a slew of products and services to propel its thrust into the data center market, Dell on Wednesday released several out-of-the-box virtualization solutions targeting both enterprises and SMBs. These are aimed at simplifying virtualization and helping customers cut their costs. In addition to hardware and hypervisors, Dell is offering virtualization, lifecycle and system management capabilities. Dell also announced a set of flexible, modular virtualization consulting services. [More...]

Wind River Releases Hard and Heavy Hypervisor

Wednesday - June 17, 2009

Wind River on Tuesday announced the availability of a high-performance Type-1 hypervisor as the latest addition to its VxWorks product portfolio. The Wind River Hypervisor Multicore Software Solution for device development supports virtualization on single and multicore processors. [More...]

IBM Offers Platform for Diving Into the Cloud

Monday - June 15, 2009

IBM had added a new service-and-hardware offering to its cloud computing repertoire. The bundle targets users seeking a single jumping-off point for deployment of a cloud environment focused on a discrete task, such as a test bed for application development. IBM CloudBurst is a set of preintegrated hardware, storage, virtualization and networking tools with built-in service management. [More...]

Fedora Sets Leonidas Loose, Builds Collaboration Portal

Tuesday - June 9, 2009

The Fedora Project on Tuesday announced Fedora 11, the latest version of its free open source operating system. Code named "Leonidas," Fedora 11 takes another whack at virtualization, a technology market in which its sponsor, Red Hat, is working hard to carve out a niche. It also has several features that make things easy for desktop users. [More...]

The Mainframe Bridge to the Cloud

Monday - June 8, 2009

How can mainframes can help enterprises reach cloud-computing benefits faster? Let's look at what defines cloud computing, with an emphasis on private clouds or those computing models that enterprises can control on-premises, but that also favor and provide cloud-like efficiency with lower-end costs and a heightened ability to deliver services that support agile business processes. [More...]

Bite the Bullet and Throw Away Your Data

Wednesday - June 3, 2009

It should come as no surprise to any IT manager that your organization's appetite for data keeps growing every minute. No sooner than a new set of storage tools is deployed, it becomes clear there's a need for more, and you start planning the next wave of hardware purchases. [More...]

EMC World 2009 - Traveling the Cloud's Byways

Tuesday - June 2, 2009

The recession's effects on technology budgets, corporate belt-tightening and simple business survival have been well-documented, but less attention has been paid to how IT industry client and developer conferences can help end customers stabilize or even improve their situations. Make no mistake -- the economy is affecting attendance and participation at 2009 events. [More...]

Is Windows App Envy a Thing of the Past?

Tuesday - May 26, 2009

A few years ago, a computer buyer who wanted an Apple Mac may have been forced back into the PC store in order to run the applications he already had, needed, or wanted. Now, though, the Mac and its OS X operating system have risen in popularity and permeate the consciousness of computer buyers around the world -- thank the iPhone and iPod for that. [More...]

Wine: Can't Live With It, Can't Live Without It

Monday - May 18, 2009

Wine may maketh glad the heart of man, as the saying goes, but when that man is a Linux geek, all bets are off. That's at least one conclusion that could be drawn from a contentious two weeks or so on the Linux blogs following comments Mark Shuttleworth made at the Ubuntu Open Week workshop series over IRC late last month. The topic, indeed, was Wine. [More...]

Citrix Stresses Virtualization With New Certification Requirements

Thursday - May 7, 2009

Citrix Systems is revamping its certification processes for engineers and architects to focus more on virtualization and provide an easier path to upgrade preexisting certifications. The updated certifications are Citrix Certified Enterprise Engineer for Virtualization and Citrix Certified Integration Architect for Virtualization. [More...]

Steering Clear of a Cloud Boondoggle

Wednesday - May 6, 2009

In the world of IT, it's important to maintain an open mind and be willing to consider new approaches to addressing problems. People often have a tendency to get locked into a particular approach and hold onto it long past the point at which it has ceased being a best practice. On the other hand, it's also important to maintain a certain level of skepticism. [More...]

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