Virtualization News & Articles

Word on the street is virtual infrastructure purveyor VMware is preparing a reduced-footprint version of its existing ESX hypervisor, dubbed ESX Lite. The slimmed-down solution is set up to run directly within a server’s firmware — a notion that, while talked about, is virtually unheard-of in practice.

In a mad dash to keep its bases covered in the volatile OSS and virtualization frontiers, Microsoft has developed a cross-license patent agreement with LG Electronics. The announcement comes just days after it released news of a similar agreement with Xandros.

With the introduction of the Sun Blade 6000 Family of server hardware, Sun Microsystems is hoping to make it easier for IT administrators to provide the kind of flexibility that software developers need to build truly innovative and revolutionary products.

Deviating a moment from its mobile endeavors, the prolific Sun Microsystems took the time out of its busy year to release StorageTek 9990V, an enterprise storage system that boasts storage virtualization and thin provisioning features.

If you thought virtualization couldn’t get any sexier, your mind is about to be blown. Last Thursday Parallels 3.0 was announced for the Mac, and the 3D gaming support it has going on is crazy-gorgeous.

Continuing a trend that began with Office 2007 and was followed by Windows Vista, Microsoft announces that the Beta 3 version of its next generation server operating system is available for download and will go into manufacturing before the end of the year.

Now open source software implementation can be as simple as unwrapping a pretty brown package tied up in string. (And that is one of our favourite things.)

JumpBox has just released two new apps - one for open source darling Joomla, and one for SugarCRM, a customer relationship management resource.

What is JumpBox? We’re so happy you asked.

Time can be a severe dictator. To keep on-schedule for a promised virtualization technology release, Microsoft announced Thursday that it plans to pull features out of its “Viridian” hypervisor to keep on schedule.

This news comes after a previous delay in which the launch date for the beta, scheduled for the first half of 2007, was moved to the second half.

This Thursday we witness the anticipated release Ubuntu Linux 7.04, known to Linux aficionados by code name Feisty Fawn. And the new components are feisty indeed: the aforementioned Fawn possesses virtualization features and improved installation management tools, courtesy of project sponsor Canonical.

The solution makes it possible to upgrade servers automatically while simultaneously granting admins the ability to control that process, letting them override decisions and enable task upgrades and dependency checking as-needed.

In its ongoing efforts to leap beyond the monitor, Socialtext unveils its Virtual Edition. The solution lends users more flexibility in taking advantage of what Socialtext does best: wikis, knowledge sharing and collaboration.

In an impressive feat of kicking-software-to-the-door timing, virtualization champ Parallels unleashes an update on steroids, mere days after Vista’s release to the not-so-breathless public.

The short ‘n sweet of it is that those who’d still like a perfectly integrated Microsoft OS experience on their Macs, in tangent with OS X, need waste nary a week feeling stone-aged.

In The Virtues of Virtualization, Acronis CEO, Walter Scott, expounds on how IT professionals can meet ambitious company expectations with fewer funds, less staff and minimal hardware.

His answer lies in virtualization, which we mentioned recently in our article on Parallels. But right now we’re not talking about floating PC applications on Macs. We’re talking about something way more serious: divorce. From a server-based infrastructure to a virtual one, that is.

Oxcyon, the harbingers of virtualization for CMS infrastructure have updated their constantly updating software. Centralpoint CMS Lifecycle Management v7.2.18 not only has a long and mystifying name, but apparently some new features too.

Virtualization is the trick of masking physical computing resources from the end user or from the client operating system. The term, once an electric buzzword in the IT marketing world, has been around so long it’s now loosely used for almost any computing work that involves an abstraction of resources.

But the topic of virtualization is seeing a revival, and from a corner at which lots of eyeballs are pointing: Apple Computer. And all because of a tiny Parallels upgrade called the Parallels Beta Build 3036 for Mac OS X.