The team at Sun continue to update VirtualBox – 3 releases in 1 month. Of these the 3.0.12 release (November 17) and the 3.1.2 release (December 17) were maintenance releases with bug-fixes, whereas the 3.1.0 release (November 30) was a fairly substantial release containing new features, including Live Migration.
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Desired End State for the Next Generation Desktop
Enterprises and mid-sized businesses (SME’s) face two significant challenges and opportunities with respect to the end user desktops in the next two years. The first opportunity and challenge is how to replace the aging Windows XP installed base with the recently released Windows 7 platform. The second is how to end up with a desktop environment that is inherently more flexible and manageable than what is in place today.
Eucalyptus, a “self-build” Amazon Cloud
Eucalyptus is a software stack that when added to a standard virtualized data-center or co-located server network, turns it into a Cloud which looks exactly like the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). It is a “self-build” Amazon Cloud kit. Just add hypervisor.
We consider Eucalyptus in the context of cloud to datacenter migrations, and standards for cloud APIs.
VMware releases SRM 4.0 – Full Support for vSphere and vCenter Linked clones
VMware have finally released a vSphere compatible version of SRM, and all I can say is about time. I could not believe it when vSphere was released int May without SRM support, that should have been there from day one. Well rant over what VMware goodness does the version 4.0 bring.
News: Less than a week to VM Expo in London
In its second year, VM Expo is the UK’s first and largest event dedicated to Virtualization. From 7th – 8th of October in London at Earls Court Two, this free to attend event has over 190 seminars and 180 vendors. This year’s virtualization keynote address will be delivered by Stephen Herrod, CTO and Senior VP …
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Are Hypervisor Vendors welcoming ISVs?
There is a great debate on which hypervisor vendor works with ISVs and which do not. You have a number of ISVs working with VMware that are just now starting to work with Hyper-V. A number of ISVs that are struggling to catch up in the virtualization space. Hypervisor Vendors that are directly competing with ISVs as well as welcoming ISVs. This story is not about any of this, but about how easy is it to launch a new product for each of the hypervisors available with or without help from the hypervisor vendor. In essence, is there enough documentation, community, and code out there to be interpreted as welcoming ISVs.