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VMware and Parallels Are Not Hyperventilating on Hyper-V Launch by Microsoft (video interviews)
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Last week we happened to be at
VMware’s headquarters when
Microsoft launched Hyper-V, Redmond’s much anticipated built-in hypervisor for Windows Server 2008. So we got our camera rolling to capture VMware’s reaction on Microsoft’s free hypervisor offering. Straight after that exclusive interview, we flew from Silicon Valley to New York to collect more video feedback […]
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Virtugo Software seems to have closed shop after one of the co-founders, Chris Dickson, left the company to become a VP at Computer Associates.
2Jul2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedHP To Embed Parallels Virtuozzo In Integrity Server Line
eWeek reports that HP will start selling and supporting Parallels’ container virtualization technology, Virtuozzo, with its Integrity server line-up, starting today.
2Jul2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedQlusters Shuts Down
Qlusters, the company formerly behind the openQRM project shutters only about a year after it raised $10 million in a Series C round. The last 30 employees of the company were informed earlier this week of the company’s decision.
1Jul2008 | Kris Buytaert | 2 comments | ContinuedMicrosoft Eats Own Hyper-V Dog Food, Deploys Homegrown Hypervisor In Its Global Datacenters (Video Interview)
A brief video interview with Arne Josefsberg, General Manager Online Infrastructure at Microsoft, about Hyper-V adoption in their own global datacenters.
30Jun2008 | Toon Vanagt | 2 comments | ContinuedMicrosoft Shipping Hyper-V Tomorrow? (Update: Yes)
Hyper-V, Microsoft’s proprietary hypervisor is currently in Release Candidate mode, but the final, nonbeta version could be shipping tomorrow, according to SearchWinIT. That would be well before the company’s projected release date (which would be in about 2 months).
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24Jun2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedCisco Talks Up Data Center 3.0 Initiative, Wants To “Demistify Virtualization”
Cisco Systems today announced updates to several of its key products to accelerate applications in Data Center 3.0, Cisco’s vision for a virtualized data center tied together by a unified network fabric.
24Jun2008 | Robin Wauters | 1 comment | ContinuedBreaking: Veeam Software Acquires nworks
Veeam Software, known for virtualization management tools and its FastSCP file management freeware for VMware environments, has acquired nworks, a maker of “enterprise management connectors” that link VMware virtual infrastructure tools and enterprise systems management tools from Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft.
23Jun2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedApplication Virtualization Comparison Chart
Sven Huisman and his coworker Matthijs Haverink were unable to find a good comparative list of application virtualization solutions, so they mocked up a useful chart of their own.
20Jun2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedRed Hat Unveils Virtualization Strategy At Boston Summit
Red Hat unveils its virtualization strategy with a new embeddable hypervisor and management console, it announced at the Red Hat Summit conference in Boston.
19Jun2008 | Robin Wauters | 1 comment | ContinuedNeocleus Raises $11,4 M in Series B Funding
Neocleus, a startup yet to release a product who recently unveiled its ‘endpoint virtualization’ strategy, seems to have been convincing enough in validating its approach to investors. The company has raised $11.4M in Series B funding (PDF) in a round led by Battery Ventures and Gemini Israel Funds, its original investors.
19Jun2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued![[image]](http://mowser.com/img?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.mofuse.com%2Fimages%2Fbadges%2Fbadge_blue.png)
