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Red Hat CEO hints at the future of KVM virtualization
Since months now a serious number of companies and open source contributors is looking at Red Hat to understand its new virtualization strategy.
The company took a major step in June when it thrown out of window years of efforts on Xen to fully replace it with KVM.
Just two months after, Red Hat acquired Qumranet, the company that started KVM, that maintains it, that managed to inject it into the Linux kernel, and that sells a very interesting VDI solution.
What...
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CA works with VMware to enrich Stage Manager
So far the CA activity in the virtualization space has been more than silent.
Yes, the company issued many press announcements stating that it’s reworking many of its products to support virtualization, but the software giant never took major steps to become a virtualization leader like almost every other major IT player did in the last two years.
Hiring the former co-founder of Virtugo (a virtualization startup that mysteriously disappeared shortly after its merge with uXcomm), Chris Dickson, as Vice President didn’t seem to...
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Whitepaper: Performance of AMD Rapid Virtualization Indexing (RVI)
In September 2007 AMD was the first on the market to introduce an implementation of the much awaited nested page tables technology that promises unprecedented performance for virtualization platforms: the Rapid Virtualization Indexing (RVI).
As every virtualization professional knows, even the most enhanced CPU extension it’s useless without a virtualization vendor that supports it in its hypervisor.
VMware introduced support for AMD-V RVI almost one year ago with the release of VI 3.5.
Today most hypervisors support it (to see which ones you...
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Symantec SVS becomes Workspace Virtualization
In January 2007 Symantec started its slow entrance in the virtualization market acquiring Altiris, a company mostly known for its enterprise management products than for its brand new application virtualization product SVS (Software Virtualization Solution).
After the acquisition Symantec released just a minor update of SVS (that became the acronym of Symantec Virtualization Solution), still using the Altiris brand, in June 2007 and then nothing else.
For a long time the security giant strategy for the application virtualization market has been totally obscure, until March 2008 when
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PlateSpin former CEO joins Embotics Advisory Board
In February the most popular virtualization company for P2V migrations , PlateSpin, was acquired by Novell for $205 Million.
In October, the founder and CEO Stephen Pollack left his own creature for personal reasons, but he couldn’t stay away of the virtualization market for much time: today the startup Embotics announces that he joined its Advisory Board.
Pollack certainly has the position to facilitate the acquisition of Embotics or at least the introduction to the thousands of PlateSpin customers.
For sure this is...
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VMware and Intel are skeptical about cross-CPU live migration
Just one week ago AMD demonstrated that performing a virtual machine live migration from an Intel CPU to an AMD one is possible.
Today SearchServerVirtualization publishes a very interesting article with VMware and Intel comments on that demonstration:
…"VMware currently provides full support for Enhanced VMotion Compatibility, which allows live migration of enterprise workloads across different processor families within the same CPU vendor. This technology provides customers the flexibility to move these workloads across different processor iterations in a stable and reliable way,"...
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Is ISVs support still a top issue in virtualization adoption? Ask Symantec.
As most loyal virtualization.info readers know, this website publishes a report detailing the top 10 challenges in virtualization adoption.
The report didn’t change a single bit from 2007 to 2008: the report still lists ISVs support as the top issue in embracing virtualization.
Of course things change in two years, so we wanted to verify how our readers rate such issue at the end of 2008.
To do so not one but two questions of our Hardware Virtualization Adoption...
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IBM acquires Transitive
IBM announced today its intention to acquire Transitive, the company that offers an emulation layer (billed as cross-platform virtualization) to run applications on non-native hardware platform.
The company’s engine is behind the Apple Rosetta software that runs Mac OS applications for IBM PowerPC CPUs on Intel x86.
Transitive is also able to translate Sun Solaris applications developed SPARC architecture in a way that they can run on Linux on any x86/x64 or on Intel Itanium architecture.
In January 2008 Transitive also powered a...
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Pano Logic ditches Microsoft RDP for its own remote desktop protocol
The startup Pano Logic releases today version 2.5 of its VDI platform.
Its Virtual Desktop Solution (VDS) is comprised of a connection broker, the Pano Management Server, that currently supports VMware Infrastructure, and a minimal thin client that doesn’t require an operating system or any other software.
This 2.5 release is specially important for the company as it ditches Microsoft RDP as the remote desktop protocol of choice.
Pano Logic developed its own remoting protocol called Console Direct, which delivers audio, video and USB...
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Microsoft will use Visual Studio 2010 and SCVMM for virtual lab automation
Finally Microsoft has decided to leverage the opportunity that its huge developers community represent for virtualization.
The company announced that the next version of its IDE, Visual Studio 2010, will seamlessly work with Hyper-V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) to offer a complete virtual lab automation solution.
Specifically, the VLA feautres should appear in the Team System version of the product, now available as Community Technology Preview (CTP).
And because SCVMM supports 3rd party hypervisors (namely VMware ESX)...
