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VMware Has Launched vSphere, the OS of the Cloud
VMware has announced vSphere, dubbed the operating system of the cloud, a virtualization solution that helps business to transform their data centers into private clouds and moves VMware ahead in the virtualization market.
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Running Silverlight and Any Other Windows Application in a Sandbox
Xenocode, an application virtualization company, has recently added support for Silverlight allowing companies to publish Silverlight applications in a sandbox without needing a runtime to be installed. Actually, any Windows application can run in the same manner regardless to the browser or underlying operating system.
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Interview: Tim Bray on the Future of the Web
In this interview made during QCon SF 2008, Tim Bray talks about why he is not convinced with the buzz surrounding Rich Internet Applications and shares his ideas on Cloud Computing. He also expresses his opinion regarding the debate REST vs. WS-* and the future directions web technologies will be taking.
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Red Hat and Microsoft Get Together in the Virtualization Arena
Red Hat has announced an agreement with Microsoft to support each other’s guests on their virtualization servers including coordinated technical support.
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Drive Testing in the Cloud for One Hour
JumpBox, a vendor offering application’s images running on many virtualization platforms, offers free one hour trials for their images running on Amazon’s EC2 cloud. All the products offered are open source and cover several basic areas: Content Management, CRM, Project Management, Collaboration, Network Monitoring, and Development Tools.
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Citrix Changes the Virtualization Market by Giving XenServer for Free
After buying XenSource 18 months ago for half a billion USD, Citrix offers their last version of the XenServer “free of charge to any user for unlimited production deployment”. This move will certainly have a significant impact on the virtualization market in the cloud computing era that has begun.
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Windows 7 Adding Native VHD Support
Windows 7 will be adding native support mounting VHD files as if there were normal hard drives. This takes the form of MMC snap-ins, command line tools, and COM interfaces.
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VMware Open Sources the View Client
VMware has open sourced its View Client software which enables connections from Linux clients to remote Windows desktops managed by VMware View. VMware would like to see their partners developing the client for non-x86 devices using operating systems other than Windows XP or Linux.
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Solo: Engine Yard on Amazon EC2
Solo is a new offering from Engine Yard to run their software stack on Amazon EC2. We talked to Engine Yard's founder and architect Jayson Vantuyl to learn the differences between Solo and their present hosting services and what their target audience is.
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Article: Beyond Consolidation: Building a Better Development Environment with VMware
In his article, Mak King presents the benefits of using VMware as a virtualization solution in order to create a better development environment that proves to be ecologically greener if the process is taken beyond server consolidation.
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Is the Cloud Strategic to Virtualization?
Chris Preimesberger and Bob Waldie see 6 red flags to data center virtualization. Patrick Kerpan responded to these concerns by pointing to the Cloud as a possible mitigation factor. Have you experienced some of these red flags in your virtualization projects? Is the cloud on your radar? Will the cloud replace data centers?
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Windows Will Soon Enter Into the EC2 Cloud
After years of offering its Cloud Computing Services to run Linux or Solaris, and after receiving support for running Java EE applications, Amazon is promising its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) will support Microsoft Windows later this fall.
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Article: More Than Just Spin (Up) - Virtualization for the Enterprise and SaaS
A new InfoQ case study takes a look at how the benefits of virtualization can be harnessed inside enterprise data centers to increase reliability, ease maintenance, and enable Saas deployments.
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Software Manufacturing: Custom Application Stacks for Virtualized Infrastructure and Cloud Computing
CohesiveFT just released a white paper detailing a new trend in the industry, Software Manufacturing, fueled by Open Source Software and Cloud Computing. They explain why they feel this trend will disrupt traditional, single-sourced, middleware stacks. Could Software Manufacturing be the trigger of a second wave of success for Open Source Software?
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VMware Infrastructure 3 Book Excerpt and Author Interview
The new book VMware Infrastructure 3: Advanced Technical Design Guide and Advanced Operations Guide details both the design environments and operational processes of VMware Infrastructure 3. InfoQ is proud to provide both a book excerpt and an interview with the authors Ron Oglesby, Scott Herold, and Mike Laverick.