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Amazon EVS Offers Enterprises a New Path for VMware Workload Migration
AWS has launched Amazon Elastic VMware Service (EVS), enabling rapid deployment of VMware Cloud Foundation within Amazon VPC. Users can leverage existing VMware expertise without re-architecting, optimizing their virtualization stack seamlessly. With competitive pricing and full root access, EVS empowers businesses amidst VMware licensing changes, supporting efficient migration and modernization.
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Vercel Cuts Build Times with New MicroVM Infrastructure
Cloud platform-as-a-service company Vercel has published a deep dive into Hive, its new low-level compute platform that powers the infrastructure for its customers' builds. Vercel has used Hive since November 2023 for untrusted and ephemeral computing tasks.
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AWS Introduces Amazon Workspaces Core and Support for Ubuntu Desktops on Amazon Workspaces
AWS recently introduced a new addition to Amazon Workspaces with a fully-managed, infrastructure-only Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) offering called Amazon Workspaces Core. In addition, customers can provision Ubuntu desktops on Amazon Workspaces for their developers, engineers, or data scientists.
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VMware vSphere+ and vSAN+ Promise to Bring the Benefits of the Cloud to On-Premises Workloads
Recently announced, VMware vSphere+ and vSAN+ integrate Kubernetes with VMware virtualization technology to help transform on-premises workloads into SaaS-enabled infrastructure and simplify its management and evolution, says VMware.
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CNCF Accepts KubeVirt as an Incubating Project
Recently, the CNCF promoted KubeVirt from the sandbox to incubating project level. KubeVirt enables users to run virtual machine workloads on top of Kubernetes in a Kubernetes-native way.
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Apple Extends macOS Virtualization Capabilities and Introduces Rosetta for Linux Binaries
At WWDC 2022, Apple showcased its latest advancement in virtualization support on macOS. Apple Virtualization Framework enables configuring and creating virtual machines on Apple Silicon to run macOS or Linux. New in the upcoming macOS Ventura, Linux VMs can leverage the GPU and use Rosetta to run unmodified x86-64 Linux binaries.
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How x86 to arm64 Translation Works in Rosetta 2
Along with its plan to transition their Macintosh line from Intel CPUs to its own CPUs, dubbed Apple Silicon, Apple announced Rosetta 2, a binary translation software that aims to smooth out the process. Thanks to Rosetta 2, most x86 programs will be able to execute after an initial translation step.
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Xen Hypervisor 4.10 Focuses on Security and Better ARM Support
The Xen Project released version 4.10 of their hypervisor with an improved architecture for x86, better support for ARM processor hardware updates, and changes to schedulers and the user interface.
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Continuous Delivery of Telecom Software at Ericsson
The telecom industry has seen changes in service delivery processes in recent years via the adoption of DevOps principles and tools. Ericsson’s talk at the DevOps Enterprise Summit 2017 in London and their and continuous delivery paper outline the challenges they faced and how they overcame them.
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Azure Service Fabric Reaches General Availability
At Microsoft’s recent Build conference in San Francisco, the company announced the general availability (GA) of Azure Service Fabric.
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Continuous Delivery for (Smart) Trucks
Peter Thorngren, from Volvo Trucks, explains how the future world of smart trucks and autonomous transportation systems rely deeply on continuous delivery techniques like virtualization, test automation and continuous integration.
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Survey Indicates Rise in Container-based Stateful Applications
A survey revealed that more than 75% of IT decision makers are interested in running stateful applications like databases inside containers.
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VirtualBox 5.0 released
Oracle released Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.0. It supports Paravirtualization for Windows and Linux guests, offers improved CPU utilization, supports USB 3.0, enables bi-directional Drag and drop, and lets you encrypt your disk images. It works seamlessly with current versions of Vagrant.
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Google Release 'Preemptible' VMs with Fixed Pricing in Beta
Google have released Google Compute Engine ‘preemptible’ virtual machines in beta, which are the same as normal instances with the exception that they are limited to a maximum 24 hour runtime, and may be shut down at any time. Preemptible VMs are offered at a fixed price, which is discounted up to 70% off the prices of normal instances.
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The Peril and Promise of the Early Adoption of Technology
At the inaugural O’Reilly Software Architecture conference, Bryan Cantrill shared lessons learnt from building a business around the early adoption of OS-virtualised containers. Core advice included; don’t innovate in too many directions at once; identify the technical differentiators, and focus on ease of use/adoptions for everything else; and don’t give up - technological revolutions take time.