If you want more proof that ARM has data center ambitions, look no further than this article in eWeek. During the Hot Chips conference at Stanford this week, ARM’s architecture program manager, Dave Brash, said that the Cortex A, code-named Eagle, will feature virtualization support. Already, according to Brash, companies including VMware are working hypervisors [...]
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by Pedro Hernandez on August 25, 2010
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How do you make a grab for a bigger slice of the virtualization market in the face of VMware’s expansive portfolio? By going in whole hog. The software company is undergoing a product realignment, corralling all of its virtualization technologies under the Oracle Virtualization banner in a product development and branding exercise that, if all [...]
Read more Oracle Virtualization’s “desktop-to-datacenter” play
by Pedro Hernandez on August 23, 2010
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Today, Symantec and VMware say they are removing the last roadblock to completely virtualized server infrastructures with Symantec ApplicationHA and VirtualStore. The two companies worked together on a solution, based on Symantec’s Veritas Cluster Server and Veritas Storage Foundation, for giving IT managers the confidence to place business critical apps on virtual machines. Of course, [...]
Read more Symantec and VMware: Virtualize those business critical apps
by Pedro Hernandez on August 17, 2010
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According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, Microsoft’s Bob Muglia mentions that even facing VMware’s huge headstart Hyper-V is gaining marketshare. Of course, specifics are lacking, but he did let slip that it’s making substantial gains in the…
Read more Microsoft: SMBs Fuel Hyper-V Adoption
by Pedro Hernandez on February 23, 2010
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Tips for an effective data deduplication implementation – SearchStorage.comFor example, one significant argument is whether inline deduplication is more efficient than post-processing dedupe. While dedupe requires processing, which takes time and resources, the issue is where to spend the time:…
Read more Green IT News Roundup – Thursday, July 30
by Pedro Hernandez on July 30, 2009
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Companies Report That Virtualization Investments Are Indeed Paying Dividends – eWeek The most recent example: San Francisco-based IT services provider BEAR Data Systems, a Cisco Systems gold-certified partner, revealed June 24 that its hardware and virtualization tools are enabling clients…
Read more Green IT News Roundup – Friday, June 26
by Pedro Hernandez on June 26, 2009
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Games are taxing enough on PC hardware, why would you want to add virtualization’s overhead? Over at Gamasutra, Neil Gower writes that capable, modern-day hardware makes virtualization something game developers should consider for their development environments and all but the…
Read more Virtualization and the Game Developer
by Pedro Hernandez on June 23, 2009
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