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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 [...]
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
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
50 percent That’s how much of SAP’s energy use is derived from renewable energy sources (solar, wind, etc.) as of this past quarter ending June 30, 2010. Kudos! Additionally, the enterprise software maker — which also markets carbon accounting software — is reporting huge strides in improving data center energy efficiency and cutting CO2 emissions [...]
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
Photo Credit: Flickr user SunGardAvailabilitySvcs – Creative Commons I’ve been covering Green IT for a while now, but this is the first year I that recall not being able to keep track of all the new green data center…
Read more 2009: Year of the Green Data Center
Mind you, he has servers to sell, so salt, grains and all that good stuff… Erik Dithmer, general manager of Small Medium Business Americas for Dell is telling SMB’s to hold their horses on virtualization. Gene Marks, author of “Penny…
Read more Dell's Dithmer to SMBs: Virtualization? Not so fast
Reuters is reporting that VMware is offering a 40 percent discount to Virtual Iron customers if they make the switch. Virtual Iron, which tailored virtualization solutions toward SMBs, was bought by Oracle in May and was promptly shuttered as a…
Read more VMware Courting Virtual Iron Customers with Price Breaks
The FAA is nearly finished with a modernization project that relies heavily on virtual machines to process messages for the National Airspace Data Interchange Network, segmenting data for federal and civil air traffic and bringing legacy functionality and newer IP…
Read more Virtualization Anchors FAA Air Traffic System Modernization
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
For the uninitiated, it may be hard to tell the difference between emulation and virtualization. The overarching concept is similar to a degree, but as you can probably already tell, they are worlds apart when talking about their purpose and…
Read more Virtualization 101: Emulation and Virtualization, Apples and Oranges
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