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Thursday
09Oct
Microsoft releases Hyper-V Server 2008
October 9, 2008 By David Marshall (InfoWorld)
Last week, Microsoft announced that it had shipped its Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 virtualization platform to market. And it is now readily available for download.
So what's new and different? Didn't they already release Hyper-V? This platform is slightly different from the version found in Microsoft's Windows Server 2008 operating system.
Tuesday
07Oct
Red Hat to adopt Qumranet desktop virtualization products
October 7, 2008 By Charles Babcock (InformationWeek)
Many observers of virtualization in the data center believe that the next step will be to virtualize desktops on central servers as well. If that day is coming, Red Hat wants to offer the option of virtualizing desktops from a Linux server as well as Windows Servers.
The KVM engine may offer some efficiencies in running virtual machines that Citrix XenServer and VMware's ESX Server lack, Red Hat said.
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Red Hat Virtualization Monday
06Oct
PacLib performs VMware analysis but chooses Microsoft
October 6, 2008 By Ry Crozier (CRN AU)
The PacLib Group has baulked at a $50,000 quote from VMware to virtualise its environment, deciding instead to take on Microsoft’s Hyper-V.
Thursday
02Oct
Citrix desktop virtualization
October 2, 2008 By Dan Kusnetzky (ZDNet Blogs)
Their desktop virtualization demonstration was outstanding on a number of levels. What caught my eye was how integrated various types of virtualization software, security and management were integrated and appeared to be a single facility.
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Virtualization Citrix Tuesday
23Sep
What's Red Hat doing in the virtualization business?
September 23, 2008 By Steven J. Vaughan-nichols (CIO)
Now that Red Hat owns Qumranet, Scott Crenshaw, Red Hat's VP of the Platform Business Unit, explains that Red Hat made the move for three reasons. First, to "accelerate time to market for a broad virtualization solution;" then to keep KVM open source, and further the investment in it." And, finally to "extend our virtualization product line into the VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) market."
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Red Hat Virtualization Monday
22Sep
Cost benefits of virtualization to be leading light of Interop [New York]
September 22, 2008 By Tim Greene and Jim Duffy (CIO.com)
Users need to warily embrace virtualization was the message put forth by speakers at Interop New York, where attendees tried to sort out how to proceed with technology investments in the face of possible IT budget cuts prompted by the Wall St. financial crisis unfolding just blocks away.
Monday
22Sep
Will Microsoft's virtualization spur a lot more cloud computing?
September 22, 2008 By Jacqueline Emigh (BetaNews)
Microsoft's recent entrance into data center virtualization could bring big benefits to the cloud computing industry as a whole, especially if Microsoft starts to offer a simple enough product line-up and pricing model, said observers at this week's Interop show.
Wednesday
17Sep
VMware, Cisco team to enhance data center virtualization
September 17, 2008 By Scott Ferguson (eWeek)
At the 2008 VMworld conference, VMware and Cisco announced that the two companies have jointly developed a software switch that can be used within virtual environments to help manage, secure and network virtual machines.
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Virtualization VMware Cisco Tuesday
16Sep
Citrix launches XenServer 5.0 and Citrix Cloud Center (C3)
September 16, 2008 By Dan Kusnetzky (ZDNet Blogs)
Citrix fired a one-two punch at VMware today by launching XenServer 5.0 and Citrix Cloud Center (C3). Let’s look at each of the announcements separately. In short, Citrix is taking the open source Xen hypervisor and making it sing and dance.
Tuesday
16Sep
Service virtualization in a Web services world
September 16, 2008 By Mark O'Neill (SOA SYS-CON)
What happens when SOA and virtualization intersect? Service virtualization is a new type of virtualization that comes from the world of SOA. It has some aspects in common with server virtualization, such as the masking of underlying resources. The enabler of service virtualization is the XML gateway.