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- Microsoft comes to the virtualization market late, should VMWare be concerned?
- In a move that is so rare it is a little stunning, Microsoft announced the availability of a product ahead of schedule. Hyper-V, their first generation hypervisor, has released to manufacturing and should hit the market shortly. by Andy Moon
- Tags: Hypervisor, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Hyper-V, Virtualization, Hardware, Andy Moon
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- TechNet Webcast: Understanding Windows Hypervisor and Virtualization in Windows Server Codenamed "Longhorn" (Level 200)
- This webcast provides a technical overview of the Microsoft Windows hypervisor, a technology that allows more than one operating system to run on the same computer. The Windows hypervisor is the foundation of the Windows virtualization solutions from Microsoft that are planned for release with Microsoft Windows Vista (formerly code...
- Tags: Hypervisor, Webcast, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Longhorn, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft TechNet, Windows Hypervisor, Virtualization, Microsoft Windows, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Operating Systems, Hardware, Software, Storage
- Webcasts
- Container-Based Operating System Virtualization: A Scalable, High-Performance Alternative to Hypervisors
- Hypervisors, popularized by Xen and VMware, are quickly becoming commodity. They are appropriate for many usage scenarios, but there are scenarios that require system virtualization with high degrees of both isolation and efficiency. Examples include HPC clusters, the Grid, hosting centers, and PlanetLab. The authors present an alternative to hypervisors...
- Tags: Container, Hypervisor, Operating System, High-performance, Virtualization, Hardware
- White papers
- Red Hat goes for virtualization
- Red Hat is geared up to take a bigger slice of the virtualization pie. Its plan? To build virtual machine management into the Linux operating system. by Paul Mah
- Tags: Hypervisor, Red Hat Inc., Virtual Machine, Linux Workload, Linux, Virtualization, Open Source, Desktop Virtualization, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2008-06-23
- Virtualisation: Architectual Considerations and other Evaluation Criteria
- Of the many approaches to x86 systems virtualisation available in the market today, the hypervisor architecture—in which virtual machines are managed by a software layer that is installed on bare metal—has gained the greatest market acceptance. This fact has translated into rapid growth and a large and expanding customer base...
- Tags: Hypervisor, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage
- White papers 2008-05-15
- Certification Services Firm Uses Hypervisor Solution to Cut IT Costs, Improve Service
- Sporton International is a mobile communications certification company in Taiwan. Sporton had an overcrowded data center, incurring rising electricity and cooling costs for underutilized servers. Using manual provisioning and administration processes, IT employees were unable to respond quickly to requests from Sporton's developers for test environments. All that changed when...
- Tags: Hypervisor, Information Technology, IT Cost, Sporton International, Virtualization, Servers, Strategy, Hardware, Management
- Case studies 2008-05-01
- Want to test Hyper-V? Use dual-boot or a spare machine
- As new technology is released, I like to play with it. This is especially true given that I write on a wide variety of topics. Back inthe days of old, when I was tasked to write an article that required a complex lab setup, I had to drag out physical...
- Tags: Processor, Hypervisor, Virtual Machine, Hyper-V, VT, Guest Hardware, Virtualization, Processors, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Scott Lowe
- Blog posts 2007-12-17
- Adaptive Memory Management for Virtualized Java Environments
- The Java Virtual Machine JVM is one of the great success stories in computing over the last two decades. It is the JVM that gives Java technology the "Write once, run anywhere" character that has made Java ubiquitous in IT, running everything from large, enterprise applications to mobile devices. Now...
- Tags: Hypervisor, Virtual Machine, JVM, Virtualization, Programming Languages, Java, Hardware, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- White papers 2007-11-30
- Security Implications of the Virtualized Datacenter
- With enterprise-class virtualization software hitting the market from VMware and Microsoft (ESX Virtual Infrastructure and Virtual PC, respectively), large names and support dollars are backing the virtual data center migration. Microsoft's Longhorn platform will ship with a native hypervisor, allowing direct virtualization via the operating system without the installation of...
- Tags: Security, Hypervisor, Data Center, F5 Networks Inc., Operating System, Data Centers, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Storage, Operating Systems, Hardware, Data Management, Software
- White papers 2007-08-17
- Solving the Hypervisor Network I/O Bottleneck: Solarflare Virtualization Acceleration
- With increased pressure on IT departments to do more with less, IT is turning to server virtualization to get the most out of their server platforms. The adoption of virtualization technology to address these business conditions in enterprise data centers has lead to improvements in scalability, manageability, and availability. Solarflare's...
- Tags: Hypervisor, I/O, Solarflare Communications, Solarflare, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware, Storage
- White papers 2007-10-09
- Performance Comparison of Commercial Hypervisors
- IT infrastructure virtualization, and in particular server virtualization, has become a primary consideration for all IT managers and CIOs because of the tremendous financial benefits that it delivers through reduced server count, power savings, automated management of data center resources, and because it simplifies the delivery of high availability, disaster...
- Tags: Hypervisor, Data Center, Performance, Server, VMware Inc., XenSource Inc., Data Centers, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2007-03-15
- A Performance Comparison of Commercial Hypervisors
- This paper studies the enterprise readiness of hypervisor-based virtualization products from VMware and XenSource. Using the award-winning VMware ESX Server hypervisor as a de-facto industry benchmark for performance and enterprise readiness, this paper present comparative results from an assessment of XenSource's XenServer virtualization product family using industry standard benchmarks for...
- Tags: Hypervisor, Performance, XenSource Inc., Virtualization, Performance Management, Hardware, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- White papers 2007-03-05
- Microsoft insults our intelligence on Virtualization security
- With the announcement that Microsoft will not ease up on its EULA End User License Agreement terms for virtualizing lower-tiered versions of Windows Vista, Microsoft has once again pulled out the security argument for its decision again and I must say that I find it rather insulting. It's not that...
- Tags: Vista, Virtualization, Security, News, Microsoft, Intel, Hardware, Desktop, AMD
- Blog posts 2007-06-20
- A Performance Comparison of Hypervisors
- Virtualization has rapidly attained mainstream status in enterprise IT by delivering transformative cost savings as well as increased operational efficiency, flexibility and IT service levels. Intel and AMD have independently developed virtualization extensions to the x86 architecture called hardware virtualization. This and other hardware advances such as multicore processors are...
- Tags: Hypervisor, Performance, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage
- White papers 2007-02-01
- Pre-Virtualization: Soft Layering for Virtual Machines
- Para-virtualization ties a guest operating system and a hypervisor together, which restricts the system architecture; e.g., when Linux uses the Xen API, Linux is unable to run on alternative hypervisors such as VMware, Linux itself, or a security kernel such as EROS. Furthermore, the lock-in obstructs evolution of its own...
- Tags: Hypervisor, Operating System, Virtual Machine, University Of Karlsruhe, Para-virtualization, Virtualization, Linux, Operating Systems, Hardware, Software
- White papers 2006-07-15
- Hypervisor, Virtualization Stack, and Device Virtualization Architectures
- This presentation provides an overview of the powerful new virtualization infrastructure that is a core capability in Windows Server Longhorn and in subsequent releases. The presentation presents an architectural overview of the three pillars of Microsoft Windows virtualization: the hypervisor, the virtualization stack, and device virtualization.
- Tags: Hypervisor, Presentation, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage
- Presentations 2006-09-21
- Which virtualization vendor will woo you?
- XenSource is really helping to make virtualization popular on the Linux platform. VMware and Microsoft formerly Connectix have really made virtualization popular on the Windows end with products such as VMware Workstation and Virtual PC. Enterprise products such as VMware Server formerly GSX Server and Microsoft’s Virtual Server have...
- Tags: xensource, Vmware, Virtualization, virtual iron, steven s. warren, Microsoft, General
- Blog posts 2007-03-31
- Building a MAC-Based Security Architecture for the Xen Open-Source Hypervisor
- This paper presents the sHype hypervisor security architecture and examines in detail its mandatory access control facilities. While existing hypervisor security approaches aiming at high assurance have been proven useful for high-security environments that prioritize security over performance and code reuse, the approach aims at commercial security where near-zero performance...
- Tags: Security, Hypervisor, MAC, Xen, sHype, Virtualization, Hardware
- White papers 2005-10-10
- Secure hypervisor-based virtual server environments
- As the cost of hardware continues to decline and virtualization technology improves, organizations are looking more closely at server virtualization. Most of the techniques used to secure non-virtualized servers apply to virtualized systems, but there are some differences. In this article, I step through how hypervisor-based virtualization works,...
- Tags: Hypervisor, It Management, memory, networking, Security, Tom Olzak, virtual machine, Virtual Server, virtualization, Worm, Xen
- Blog posts 2007-02-26
- Secure hypervisor-based virtual server environments
- How do you secure your virtual server environments?How do you secure your virtual server environments?
- Tags: Tom Olzak, virtual server, virtual server environment
- Discussion threads 2007-02-26
