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Virtuozzo 4.0 beta on display at VMworld
I wanted to give everyone a heads up that today we unveiled Virtuozzo 4.0 beta, and that we'll have the new version on display at our booth at VMworld, which is running this week from Tuesday-Thursday at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. We're at booth #1312 and will be sharing the space with our cohorts from Parallels, who will be showing off ( Read more... ) -
Virtuozzo blog has moved to http://virtuozzoblog.swsoft.com/
Virtuozzo blog has moved to http://virtuozzoblog.swsoft.com/
Please, updated your bookmarks
Thanks!!!
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Viridian features cut
Mike Neil, via his blog, advised that in order to ship on time without sacrificing quality, some of the high-end features of Windows Virtualization (a.k.a. Viridian) have been postponed to the subsequent releases:
· No dynamic addition or removal of CPU and memory
· No live migration
· No more than 16 cores overall
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Virtualization hurdles
Time to comment on old news J
Infoworld had an article that cites a study commissioned by Computer Associates, which says that 44 percent of all virtualization deployments are not successful or cannot be assessed. It is noteworthy that 71 percent of the respondents also said that they deployed more than one server virtualization technology. And, ( Read more... ) -
Benchmarking saga continues
Benchmarking of virtualization technologies has apparently become a popular news subject.
XenSource has just published a paper that compares VMware ESX 3 and XenSource Enterprise 3.2 - as already reported by VMblog.com and virtualization.info. Individual results have been already available, but VMware kindly allowed XenSource to publish the results ( Read more... ) -
The Virtuozzo Blog is moving
Hi everyone,
Virtuozzo Blog is moving to http://virtuozzoblog.swsoft.com - please, update your references.
Thanks a lot,
Ilya Baimetov
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VMware attacks Microsoft
The MSFT licensing “whitepaper” by VMware generated a lot of buzz. Some even went as far as comparing it to Netscape and suggesting that we all should expect a lawsuit by VMware - oh, please. Few comments in this regard:
· Before blaming MSFT, VMware needs to take an effort to be more forthcoming with their APIs and formats. Unlike MSFT’s ( Read more... ) -
SWsoft signs support agreement with Microsoft
Let me explain few things about our recent press release - http://www.swsoft.com/en/news/id,12003
· SWsoft will be a true single point of contact for support for Virtuozzo customers. Our customers won’t have to contact Microsoft support in addition to SWsoft support for Virtuozzo for Windows issues. Instead, if there is any issue that ( Read more... ) -
Virtual appliances - from idea to reality
For quite a while, virtual appliances have been one of the hottest server virtualization themes. The idea is to package an application as a pre-built, pre-configured and ready-to-run virtual machine. Virtual appliances provide important benefits:
· An ISV can pick and custom-configure the OS, which becomes merely a library, much like QT, STL ( Read more... ) -
VMware goes public
Yesterday, EMC announced its plans to sell 10% of VMware in an IPO. It attracted so much attention I decided to throw my 2 cents into the pile of news hype. OK, trying to be brief:- VMware’s IPO is definitely a sign that virtualization market is quickly going from red-hot to white-hot, which is very good news for any virtualization vendor. Especially ( Read more... )