Sun Microsystems today released it’s xVM portfolio offering just in time for VMworld 2008 to be held in Las Vegas from September 15th - 18th.
The xVM portfolio includes xVM Ops center, xVM server, xVM Virtual Box and xVM VDI, a comprehensive software offering for server, desktop virtualization and remote management of virtualized infrastructure.
xVM Ops Center [...]
September 10th, 2008 | rp | Comments | ContinuedRedhat has acquired Qumranet for approximately $107 million in cash.Qumranet’s claim to fame has been the KVM module, an open source project for Linux kernel based virtualization using technologies embedded in processors from Intel and AMD.
Redhat has shown a keen interest in building its own virtulization portfolio to entrench itself deeper in customer environments ( [...]
Increasing competition in the area of virtualization brought you a freebie on Monday. VMware announced it would let users download its number one product hypervisor ESXi for free. According to a VMware press release, ESXi 3.5 update 2 is available for download immediately from the link - http://vmware.com/products/esxi/.
ESXi is purpose-built for running virtual machines, minimizing [...]
RedHat has now entered the virtualization market with its own stand alone hypervisor and a new virtualization management platform, oVirt. The new technology offerings have been built out of the Red Hat sponsored oVirt open source project.
Red Hat’s oVirt management platform is a cross-platform management solution for customers to centrally manage their entire virtual infrastructure, [...]
Sun and the global OpenSolaris community today jointly announced the immediate availability of the OpenSolaris Operating Systems at the Sun CommunityOne developer conference.
Code named project Indiana, Sun has been working to build a LiveCD installation and the new network-based OpenSolaris Image Packaging System (IPS) to simplify and speed installation and integration with third-party applications. Debian [...]
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