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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 »
Virtualisation security threatened: XenSource
XenSource and VMware, two major figures in virtualisation security have warned of challenges facing IT managers in implementing secure virtual environments. Read more »
Windows Server 2008 'over-complicates' virtualisation?
Microsoft officially launched Windows Server 2008, Windows Visual Studio 2008, and announced SQL Server 2008, which is due in the third quarter of this year. Read more »
Virtual rootkits cannot avoid detection: researchers
Rootkits that use virtualisation techniques should not present detection problems, according to researchers from Carnegie Mellon and Stanford universities in the US. Read more »
Desktop virtualisation opens new doors for users
When Apple released Parallels Desktop in June 2006, it showed most users for the first time what they could achieve with desktop virtualisation. Read more »
VMware dangles next-gen virtualisation goodies
VMware has some new ideas for tackling an age-old problem for system administrators: how do you keep a computing service available when the server it's running on fails? Read more »
Standard coming to virtualisation format
Major virtualisation companies are co-operating to bring some simplicity to the world of their mutual interest, the format used to save virtual machine images to disk. Read more »
Virtualisation: Is it all about the hardware, or the OS?
The virtualisation specialists are fighting back. Companies like VMware, and more recently XenSource, got their start with standalone virtualisation software -- but Linux sellers and Microsoft, unwilling to cede their influential position selling the foundational software of a computer, are trying to make virtualisation a feature of the operating system. Read more »
Ex-XenSource CEO touts desktop virtualization
Virtualisation start up Pano Logic, which founded by ex-CEO of XenSource, intends to offer a new solution to the desktop thin client market. Read more »
Citrix to pay a real US$500m for XenSource
Citrix has made an unexpected move into the virtualisation market with its intended US$500 million acquisition of XenSource. Read more »
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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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Hypervisor price tag: 500 million dollars!
-- 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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