Some Virtualization Announcements at TechEd
A number of suppliers are launching either new virtualization products or updates to current products at Microsoft's TechEd in Orlando, FL. Here's a quick review of a few of those products.
A number of suppliers are launching either new virtualization products or updates to current products at Microsoft's TechEd in Orlando, FL. Here's a quick review of a few of those products.
Centrix Software is helping organizations know what their Windows-based desktops and laptops are doing. While this can be of major help to organizations, that is no longer sufficient. Organizations are now having to deal with many different types of systems and not all of them run Windows.
MokaFive Suite 3.0, announced today, adds support for Windows 7-based systems and workloads.
Goodbye Zimbra. Hello Hosted Exchange.
How can a person save long-cherished Windows XP applications that don't work with Windows 7.
When a major company is about to announce a new product, service or an enhancement to a product, I often get many pre-emptive email messages from PR people who are hoping to co-opt the larger company's launch messages by providing commentary before the fact. Quite often these are thinly disguised marketing pitches.
Microsoft's Windows Azure and SQL Azure address part of organizations requirements for an open, standards based platform that can support local, private and public clouds.
If you'll remember, I had quite the experience wrestling with HP's 6310v and C5140 printers (see HP Officejet 6310v or Photosmart C5140 plus Windows XP-an exercise in installation futility). The 6310v appeared to do what it was supposed to do.
As Microsoft's Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V makes its way into the market, quite a number of virtualization technology suppliers have announced support. Recently SteelEye, a company with deep expertise in high availability/clustering solutions, joined the party by announcing SteelEye DataKeeper support for the Windows Server 2008 Hyper-VHere's how SteelEye describes their new productDataKeeper is a highly optimized data replication solution for Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008.
Java is a broadly used execution environment for applications in nearly every industry. What's new here is that GigaSpaces thought Java users would like deploy their applications on Microsoft's Azure platform services. The key question is will they?