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Red Hat boosts enterprise virtualisation portfolio

Red Hat has released new components in its enterprise virtualisation portfolio, including a stand-alone hypervisor and management platform for servers. Read more »

Red Hat adds virtualisation, cloud to RHEL

Open-source software company Red Hat has made a bid at cloud virtualisation with the release of the latest version of its operating system, which includes a built-in hypervisor. Read more »

Microsoft releases Hyper-V Server R2

The latest version of Microsoft's Hyper-V standalone hypervisor, which includes new functionality for the live migration of servers, is now available for download. Read more »

Canonical readies its latest Ubuntu Linux for launch

Canonical will release the newest version of its Ubuntu version of Linux on Thursday, chief executive Mark Shuttleworth said Monday, but the company's profitability isn't on such a fast track. Read more »

Major vendors in virtualisation moves

Microsoft, Citrix, Novell and Sun Microsystems all made announcements around virtualisation overnight. Read more »

Red Hat: The hypervisor will be free

Linux vendor Red Hat has predicted that virtualisation software will be included in all operating systems for free, while setting out the roles of the two hypervisors it is working on for its own product range. Read more »

Red Hat dolls up Linux with embedded hypervisor

Linux specialist Red Hat has announced it is developing an embedded hypervisor product that it claims will complement, rather than compete with, its existing virtualisation strategy. Read more »

Photos: iPhone running Windows XP

Citrix used its thin client technology to demonstrate an Apple iPhone running Windows XP, at the Citrix Application Delivery Conference in Melbourne recently. Read more »

Novell finalises OpenSuse 11

Novell has released the last public version of OpenSuse 11.0 for testing -- but significant problems still need to be ironed out before the software's final release later this month. Read more »

Sun's OpenSolaris ready for developers

Sun Microsystems gave developers a gift at the CommunityOne developer conference on Monday — a packaged version of OpenSolaris with a new logo. Read more »

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Preparing for Exchange Server 2010's hardware and software requirements

Exchange 2010 is out and about and ready to deploy. This article provides you with some assistance on getting prepared for this latest release in the Exchange line. Read more »

Install OpenVZ on CentOS to create a virtual container

This article shows you how to install OpenVZ on CentOS. OpenVZ is an OS-level virtualisation product that allows you to completely isolate processes from each other, increase security by keeping bits separate, and tightly control resource utilisation. Read more »

Running Exchange Server 2007 in a virtual environment

In efforts to virtualise everything from the lowliest application server to the highest-end database server, Exchange servers look like scrumptious candidates. After all, those servers just run e-mail, right? Not so fast. Although Microsoft does support virtualising Exchange in certain scenarios, there are a number of caveats and requirements. Read more »

What virtualisation tools are available for testing?

This article talks about some of the free or inexpensive tools you might use to accomplish your virtualisation testing. Read more »

10 things you should know about virtualisation

Virtualisation has been a major buzzword in the IT world for a few years. Microsoft has promised that the Hyper-V virtualisation component (formerly called Viridian) will follow within 180 days of the Windows Server 2008 release. Read more »

The reality of virtual server management

Some organisations believe that "less equipment" equates to "easier administration" and maybe "fewer administrators". Nothing could be further from the truth. We explain some of the reality behind server virtualisation. Read more »

10 tech skills you should develop during the next five years

If you want a job where you can train in a particular skill set and then never have to learn anything new, IT isn't the field for you. But if you like to be constantly learning new things and developing new skills, you're in the right business. In the late 80s, NetWare and IPX/SPX administration were the skills to have. Today, it's all about TCP/IP and the Internet. Read more »

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Production-quality XenSource virtualisation is the main selling point here, with optional clustering and storage virtualisation to go with it. But there's a lot more besides, making the new Red Hat Enterprise Linux a compelling solution for businesses of all sizes. Read more »

Despite its aging design, the x86 is still in charge

With most of the world's software written with x86 in mind, it's doubtful that any future chip architecture would be able to displace it. Read more »

KVM steals virtualisation spotlight

A new open-source virtual-machine project has quickly won Linux allies, but its arrival brings complications. Read more »

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Oracle President talks virtualisation

At Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco Monday, Oracle President Charles Phillips unveils the company's plans for virtualization and discusses the partnerships and software to make it happen. Read more »

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Ellison reflects on Oracle history

At Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco, CEO Larry Ellison shares his insights into the company's 30-year history, including its contract with the CIA to build the first commercial relational database. Read more »

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Hypervisor price tag: 500 million dollars!

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- In this week's roundup we look at Citrix's purchase of XenSource, whether Sharepoint is Microsoft's new platform for lock-in, as well as a plethora of Google news. Read more »

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