Interviews

British Library Consolidates Wealth of Digital Data With Virtualization

The UK’s national library, the infamous British Library, is using a new Ethernet networking infrastructure as the basis for a number of projects to digitize huge amounts of content and to consolidate its data center using virtualization.

22Jul2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

Rich Wolski on Eucalyptus: Open Source Cloud Computing (Video Interview - 2/2)

We have sent our enthusiastic cloud computing koala Toon Vanagt to San Francisco to interview Eucalyptus Director Rich Wolski at the O’Reilly Velocity conference. You can find the second part of this exclusive video interview right here.

18Jul2008 | Toon Vanagt | 0 comments | Continued

Cisco’s John McCool Talks Virtualization

NetworkWorld published a great interview yesterday with John McCool, senior VP of data center, switching and security at Cisco. McCool sees a great future for virtualization around the company’s most successful product in its entire history, the Catalyst 6500 (and its successor, the Nexus 7000 Series, which was recently unveiled), combined with its own forray into virtualizing the data center with its Data Center 3.0 initiative.

11Jul2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

Exclusive Video: VMware In A Nutshell, By Product Marketing Manager John Gilmartin

So what’s VMware all about now on a technology level, now that their stock is tumbling and their CEO has been replaced? John Gilmartin, Group Manager, Product Marketing at VMware answered our questions on virtualization in general and their strategy and product portfolio in particular.

8Jul2008 | Toon Vanagt | 0 comments | Continued

Rich Wolski on Eucalyptus: Open Source Cloud Computing (Video Interview - 1/2)

We have sent our enthusiastic cloud computing koala Toon Vanagt to San Francisco to interview Eucalyptus Director Rich Wolski at the O’Reilly Velocity conference. You can find the first part of this exclusive video interview right here (we’ll post the second part tomorrow).

8Jul2008 | Toon Vanagt | 4 comments | Continued

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 [...]

3Jul2008 | Toon Vanagt | 0 comments | Continued

Microsoft 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 | Continued

Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst On The Linux Vendor’s Virtualization Initiatives

A half-year after becoming president and CEO of Linux vendor Red Hat, Jim Whitehurst was in Boston this week for the annual Red Hat Summit, where a lot of announcements were made about Red Hat’s forray into virtualization. Whitehurst sat down with Network World’s Jon Brodkin to discuss open source, a new patent settlement, and Red Hat’s moves in virtualization, reports PC World.

23Jun2008 | Robin Wauters | 1 comment | Continued

“Benchmarking” The Citrix / XenServer Combo with Ian Pratt (Video Interview - Part 4)

Some time ago, we had a chance to sit down (on a bench) for a video interview with Xen Guru Ian Pratt, well known for co-founding and ultimately selling XenSource - the company behind the open-source Xen project - to Citrix in October 2007.

15Jun2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

A Conversation About Virtualization Security, The Quotes

Last week, an interesting conference call took place with several industry leaders in the virtualization security (virtsec) area, initiated by Virtualization.com. Here are some of the most interesting quotes from that conversation.

11Jun2008 | Kris Buytaert | 2 comments | Continued

Jeff Woolsey and Scott Lowe Discuss Hyper-V

IT pro and virtualization expert Scott Lowe had an interesting discussion with Jeff Woolsey, Senior Program Manager for Hyper-V at Microsoft. Scott posted a summary of their conversation on his blog.

11Jun2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

Video: Vinod Khosla On His Green Tech Investment Strategy

This video features the legendary entrepreneur turned venture capitalist Vinod Khosla, interviewed briefly by Om Malik at the recent D6 Conference. Khosla shares some insight in his investing strategy, as well as some info on his recent data center plays.

5Jun2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued
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