virtualization software

Part of the problem is the x86 platform itself. The 30-year-old architecture locks the processor and memory capacity together. To solve this problem IBM embarked on a three-year engineering effort to decouple the process and memory and improve the economics of operating enterprise-size x86 systems.

The concrete results of this next generation machine are exciting, and the roadmap has 'knock-your-socks-off' vision   -David Guzman

 

Speaking at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Universal Parallel Computing Research Center, Microsoft kernel architect Dave Probert said that today's operating systems aren't doing a good job with new multi-core chips. "Why should you ever, with all this parallel hardware, ever be waiting for your computer?" he asked. Probert suggested that perhaps processors will eventually have enough cores that each core could be assigned a particular program.  

Microsoft's gearing up to hit the road in a 100-city whistle stop tour to promote its latest virtualization push, and Citrix is going along for the ride. The two companies have come forward with details about their new partnership, which is taking direct aim at VMware with new licensing offers designed to lower the barriers to adoption in the enterprise. Server Watch has the details about Microsoft's joint venture with Citrix , which kicks off the promotion with a new virtual desktop interface.  

Business computing's recent shift to virtualization has been mind-blazingly fast. Companies everywhere are experiencing the cost reductions and process improvements that come with that jump to virtual computing. Yet there's one critical element of your basic, run-of-the-mill systems administration that hasn't necessarily gotten easier: Backup and restore.  

Corporate America has made some painful adjustments over the past year, but for data center managers, the pressure to contain costs has always been unrelenting--it's impossible to maintain a low profile when your area of responsibility consumes the bulk of the IT budget. This year in particular, though, we're really feeling the heat, and not just from overloaded racks. Just 30% of the 370 respondents to our latest InformationWeek Analytics data center survey say they'll see larger budgets for 2010 compare  

I have been flooded by a stream of people asking what hardware it will run on / if it will run on their system. The short answer is: If it can run Windows 7, it can run Windows Virtual PC. Note that Windows 7 has a requirement of needing a 1GHz processor – so that should help you qualify your system.  

CINCINNATI , March 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Roughly 60 percent of virtualized servers are expected to be less secure than their physical server counterparts, according to a recent Garter Inc. study. While virtualization itself is not inherently insecure, the methods through which virtualized workloads are deployed can be. With proper training and more advanced tools and processes, however, these issues can be averted.  

Blue Coat Systems has announced new virtual WAN optimization appliances that it says will be valuable to VARs wrangling with server virtualization and branch office challenges. As noted in this Channel Web story, rather than create a virtualized environment for consolidating branch office applications, Blue Coat has instead virtualized the appliances themselves to run on industry servers. "The Proxy SG Virtual Appliances operate in VMware vSphere environments, meaning they're also compatible with Window  

In virtual environments, all products in the Per Processor licensing model are licensed by virtual processor. If you run the software in virtual Operating System Environments (OSEs), you need a license for each virtual processor used by those OSEs on a specific server, rather than all the physical processors in the server. If you run the software in physical OSEs, you need a license for each physical processor used by the physical OSE.