Xen™ 3.1 is launched bringing a 64-bit hypervisor, live relocation and XenAPI
The good folks at XenSource announced Xen™ 3.1 today.
Virtualization reaches from hand-held devices to the data center to the clouds. Virtually Speaking examines the forces behind this expansion, the suppliers of the technology and the organizations using the technology.
Daniel Kusnetzky is a distinguished analyst and the founder of the Kusnetzky Group LLC. He's also the managing partner of Lux Sonus LLC, an investment firm.
Paula Rooney is a Boston-based writer who has followed the tech industry for more than two decades.
Kenneth 'Ken' Hess is a full-time Windows and Linux system administrator with 20 years of experience with Mac, Linux, UNIX, and Windows systems in large multi-data center environments.
The good folks at XenSource announced Xen™ 3.1 today.
As mentioned in my post titled, Virtualization and Green Computing, green computing the industry catch phrase for finding ways to make the most efficient use of computing resources. In this post, I'd like to look at processing virtualization and the role it plays in green computing.
As mentioned in my post titled, Virtualization and Green Computing, green computing the industry catch phrase for finding ways to make the most efficient use of computing resources. In this post, I'd like to look at storage virtualization and the role it plays in green computing.
"Green computing" seems to be seems to be the up and coming thing for suppliers offering virtualization software as well as management software for virtualized environments. It's a topic that has come up over and over again in my discussions with suppliers recently.
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Virtualization is abstracting functions or complete stacks of software away from the underlying infrastructure to increase scalability, reliability, performance, utilization, agility, manageability or just to reduce overall costs in some fashion.
Virtual Iron (VI) has released version 3.6 of their product, which is cleverly named "Virtual Iron" by the way.
About a month ago, in the post What Does it Really Mean if Microsoft’s Virtual Machine Software is Delayed?, I analyzed what would happen if Microsoft delayed the release of its Virtual Machine Software for its new server operating environment.
Surgient has developed a set of applications allowing systems to provisioned, used for a time, and then re-provisioned in an automated process that's fast enough to support the new "throw away" world.
Kevin Epstein, VP of Marketing for Scalent Systems, and I enjoyed a wonderful, rambling discussion of virtualization and what Scalent is doing.