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VISA PCI Might Kill Your Virtual Servers

Mitchell Ashley — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:08:11 -0500

Did you know the VISA PCI security auditing process guidelines don't recognize virtualized servers, one way or another.

Cloud Computing with openQRM at Linux.conf.au 2009

MattR — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 11:28:45 -0500

For the 10th anniversary of Linux.conf.au 2009, this year hosted by the University of Tasmania in Hobart, the openQRM team contributes a presentation and demonstration about : "Cloud Computing with openQRM"

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Red Hat purchase of Qumranet hits Microsoft where it hurts

Microsoft Subnet — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:06:03 -0400

Red Hat has purchased Qumranet for about $107 million in cash and is grinning silly that it has snagged some desktop virtualization technology to avoid partnering up with Microsoft. Qumranet makes SolidICE, a product which will allow Red Hat to deliver software to a PC (even a Windows PC) from the data center. The Qumranet team created its own open source virtualization technology, Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM).

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Podcast: Only You Can Save The Planet On August 27th

Mitchell Ashley — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 05:32:33 -0400

Power IT Down Day: it's a new initiative by HP, Intel and Citirx to help all of us reduce the power consumption of our workstations, computer, monitors and other electronic devices when we leave our desks at night. August 27th is the day planned to observe this "awareness holiday". Tom Simmons, area Vice President for Citrix Federal, joins me as a guest on the podcast to talk about this initiative.

On the 27th (it's not too far away), turn off all the power consuming devices when you leave your desk at night.

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Virtualization - Breaking up is hard to do

Mitchell Ashley — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:29:52 -0400

Desktop virtualization concepts and benefits have already been proven out, largely through old-school remote-desktop products from companies like Citrix Systems and Microsoft. We know the benefits of standardization, managing better desktop change control, remote desktop access, desktop and data storage, and business continuity. Desktop virtualization has already begun the march to take over previous remote-desktop technologies.

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Podcast: Simon Crosby - Why Simon Loves Hyper-V

Mitchell Ashley — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:59:06 -0400

In part 2 of my interview with Simon Crosby, Citrix CTO Virtualization, we delve deeper into Microsoft Hyper-V, why Simon is so excited about Microsoft's launch of Hyper-V, how Hyper-V is based on Xen as its reference model, why Simon sees Hyper-V as a good solution for SMBs, whether Red Hat's oVirt has any legs or not, and how Xen plans to be the dominant virtualization player in cloud computing. After part 1 and part 2 of this interview, I think we covered a lot of ground about virtualization.

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The hypervisor as commodity, the management tools as big expenses

Microsoft Subnet — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:13:14 -0400

Microsoft quietly announced a new timeline and pricing for the Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2008, the tool intended to manage Hyper-V, Network World reports. The company posted this information in its System Center management blog last week. VMM 2008 is scheduled to ship in the fourth quarter although anyone who follows Microsoft knows that ship-date promises posted in a blog isn't the same as a commitment written in stone. The last time Microsoft discussed VMM 2008, it was talking as if the product would be out by the third quarter, no later than Sept. 1, the article says.

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Podcast: Simon Crosby - The Hypervisor Wars Are Over (part 1)

Mitchell Ashley — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:22:04 -0400

As I mentioned a few weeks ago, Simon Crosby, CTO Virtualization at Citrix and formerly with Xen Source, joined me to record a podcast. This is a two part interview.

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EMC Puts Microsoft Exec In VMware CEO Seat

Mitchell Ashley — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:47:02 -0400

News from Microsoft WPC, Houston, TX: What happens when your over inflated stock price of $120 per share dips down to 1/3rd its value (and still might be over inflated)?

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Limitations Won't Dampen Hyper-V

Mitchell Ashley — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 07:33:24 -0400

Thursday was Hyper-V "hyperventilate day" as everyone reported about Hyper-V's release. I'm sure Windows Server 2008 machines all over the world will be downloading Hyper-V via Windows Update come the 2nd week in July. You can manually download Hyper-V until then. I'm excited to start working with the final bits on my servers as well, something I'll be doing after finishing this blog post.

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Citrix Virtualization CTO Disputes Red Hat Hypervisor Strategy

Mitchell Ashley — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 04:07:56 -0400

My recent blog post "Red Hat Takes Hypervisor Control Back From Citrix" appears to have elicited a response from Simon Crosby, CTO for Virtualization at Citrix. I say appears because the comment isn't verified so I can't attest for sure it was posted by Simon, so keep that in mind as you read this blog post. (Too bad NWW doesn't use Intense Debate so comments could be authenticated. I guess that's for another upcoming blog post.) I take away three main points Simon is making in his comments: 1) oVirt (a.k.a.

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Red Hat Takes Hypervisor Control Back From Citrix

Mitchell Ashley — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:12:14 -0400

Red Hat announced two important moves this week; open sourcing of Red Hat Network Satellite, and its own virtualization hypervisor oVirt. Open sourcing RHN Satellite is fundamentally about showing the industry Red Hat is still the keeper of the open source flame but the real strategic move is the development of oVirt. OVirt is built upon Kernel Virtual Mode, or KVM, which is virtualization built right into the Linux operating system, and has been maturing over the past two years. Until now Red Hat's virtualization strategy has been built around open source Xen, much like other players such as Oracle and Sun.

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$200?

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:32:56 -0400

Is this a sufficient budget for an organization for over 5 years?? I guess something is missing here. Shouldn't it be Million, Billion or something like that?

The virtual desktop grows more sophisticated

Microsoft Subnet — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:53:55 -0400

Are we moving forward or backward in time? The virtual desktop is growing more sophisticated now that Citrix owns Xen and is beefing up features like its Access Gateway to work with the XenDesktop virtual desktop platform. The more we move ahead, the more it seems as if we are regaining the functionality of the good old mainframe terminal. But in this case, its PCs and its anywhere/anytime access.

Microsoft's own flavors of desktop virtualization and cloud computing have a lot to compete with and it remains unclear how Citrix and Microsoft will remain partners while also competing for virtualization market share.

Interesting

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 14:10:42 -0400

VMware is still the best.

In what ways can Citrix extend Hyper-V?

Microsoft Subnet — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:09:52 -0400

Lord knows the technology won't be perfect when it ships, but XenServer is essentially a competing hypervisor. So what is Citrix planning that will both work with Hyper-V and increase use of XenServer? Management? Extra features? If you have an idea, spill it here or on this post on Microsoft Subnet.

What exactly is Citrix working on to extend Hyper-V?

Microsoft Subnet — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:07:34 -0400

Everyone knows that Microsot and Citrix are partners and that Citrix will be doing something to extend Hyper-V. Exactly what that "something" is has not yet been announced by Citrix although Citrix execs have promised that they will spill the beans when Hyper-V ships.

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Microsoft & Citrix Accidently Create Virtualization Battleground

Mitchell Ashley — Wed, 21 May 2008 02:01:45 -0400

Introducing the Citrix Branch Repeater from Microsoft and Citrix. Next... the brouter and the Ethernet vampire tap. I thought I'd slipped into a Star Trek time wrap when I read the news Microsoft and Citrix introduced their Branch Repeater Tuesday... star date, circa 1988? I wonder how much money these to titans spent coming up with that product name?

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Three versions of Xen desktop virtualization arrive

Microsoft Subnet — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:55:47 -0400

So, on May 20, Citrix will be shipping three version of its XenDesktop software that virtualizes the desktop. As expected, it integrates with System Center.

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Cisco to buy Citrix?

Cisco Subnet — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:30:35 -0400

What would Cisco want with Citrix? Apparently IBM and Cisco are rumored to be interested in purchasing the application delivery company. Citrix, which makes GoToMyPC and WANScaler, among other products, last year got its claws into the virtualization market via its purchase of XenSource. A XenDesktop is expected in the first half of this year. With Cisco - and other major vendors - building their virtualization offerings, perhaps an acquisition of this sort would make sense for Cisco.

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