ADARA Networks appears to be doing its best to do just about everything for everyone, everywhere, always. While an interesting concept, I have to wonder about a company trying to have such a broad reach.
Vyatta just launched the Vyatta 3500 network appliances that cost-sensitive organizations are likely to find quite interesting. They are built upon the foundation of Vyatta's open source network virtualization and security technology and Intel's latest technology and are designed to go up against products offered by the big boys in this industry, Cisco and Juniper Networks.
Until very recently, some graphics intensive applications were not good candidates for encapsulation in a virtual machine. Even though using virtual machine technology could offer the administrators and users a number of benefits, the performance would simply not past muster with the "power users" needing those applications.
Platform, if you want potential customers to care about your software in general, and this product in specific, you really must go to the effort to make it very clear what pain its product is intended to address, how it addresses that pain and why people should care about it.
Red Bend's Lori Sylvia stopped by talk about virtualization technology in mobile devices and how the company grew to supporting over 1 billion devices in the field.
As various forms of software virtualization technology have been developed, some folks have looked at the problems software virtualization technology is attempting to address and have thought something different. They thought about the functions that applications and systems were executing, decomposed those functions into individual hardware actions and then went on to develop special purpose hardware.
The good folks at XenSource announced Xen™ 3.1 today.
What would it be like if it was possible to take an executable image that was built for one operating system and processor family, wave a software wand over that software and then simply run it on another platform? Wouldn't that make life for an organization's IT staff quite a bit easier?
I've spoken with a number of vendors who are doing their best to offer tools making it possible to create configurations that process transactions presented by millions of people not just hundreds of thousands people as used to be the high end of the spectrum only a few years ago.