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KVM Gains Additional Support in Linux 2.6.26 Kernel and Native Network IO Performance
The new 2.6.26 version of the Linux kernel has been released after three months of development with enhanced KVM support. In related news the KVM development team has announced achieving native network IO performance using pci passthrough with VT-d technology.
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Erlang and Ruby Roundup: Vertebra, Scaling with Fuzed, Github
Recently a few popular Ruby projects have started using Erlang. We look at how EngineYard's Vertebra, Powerset's Fuzed and recently Github make use of Erlang.
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Article: Virtualization and Security
While virtualization provides many benefits, security can not be a forgotten concept in its application. A new InfoQ article examines this relationship in detail.
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Interview: Billy Newport Discusses Virtualization and WebSphere Virtual Enterprise
In this interview, Billy Newport talks about different types of virtualization, eXtreme Transaction Processing (XTP) and how WebSphere products like WebSphere Virtual Enterprise (formerly XD) support virtualization. He discusses hardware, hypervisor, JVM, application and data virtualization.
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Eclipselink 1.0 released
EclipseLink last week released version 1.0. First announced at EclipseCon 2007, it was chosen by Sun as the reference implementation for JPA 2.0 at EclipseCon 2008.
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Engine Yard Closes $15 Million in Series B Financing
Investment from New Enterprise Associates, Amazon.com, and Benchmark Capital to help company keep position as leading Rails in cloud provider.
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PowerShell Management Library for Hyper-V Posted on CodePlex
James O'Neill from Microsoft has posted the PowerShell Management Library for Hyper-V Beta 0.9 on CodePlex. The library currently contains 66 functions used to manage the virtual machines running in Hyper-V.
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Article: Beyond SOA, a New Type of Framework for Dynamic Business Applications - Part II
In the second part of their article, Vasile and Michael explore the architecture of Dynamic Business Application as a possible standard architecture for server-side applications. The authors note that in this architecture concepts like SOA play a minor role while components like BPM engines, schedulers, messaging have a definite role.
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VMware Replaces CEO as Competition Grows
Today to the surprise of industry analysts VMware replaced long time CEO and company founder Diane Greene with Paul Maritz
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Oracle Announces WebLogic Suite
Following their acquisition of BEA Systems, Oracle has announced new company product offerings based on the various technologies carrying the WebLogic brand.
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Article: An Introduction to Virtualization
It is easy to think that virtualization applies only to servers. In reality the concept is being applied at a variety of levels including networking, storage, and application infrastructure.
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Opinion: Multiple Processor Computing Challenges go Beyond Purely Technical Issues
In his position statement for the International Computer Music Conference 2008, Peter Van Roy raises a number of issues related to the emergence of multi-core processors and loosely coupled systems and suggests possible solutions. Though challenges brought by these two forms of concurrency computing are very different in their nature, both they go beyond purely technical problems.
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Microsoft Unleashes Hyper-V to the Virtualization Masses
Today Microsoft released Hyper-V, their entry into the bare metal hypervisor virtualization space. Hyper-V supports 32/64 bit operating systems including SUSE Linux 10.
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Releasing JBoss AS 5: Q&A with Project Lead Dimitris Andreadis
After a rather long development cycle the JBoss AS 5 RC1 is only a handful of days away from its release. InfoQ caught up with project lead Dimitris Andreadis to discuss the new features and release timeline. Dimitris also comments on Java EE 6 features, the advantages of JBoss AS with respect to competition and their choice of having a pluggable components model instead of sticking just to OSGi.