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Amazon Brings Virtualized Storage to the Cloud with Elastic Block Storage
Persistent has long been an achilles heel of the EC2 platform. Today Amazon moved to address this issue with the release of Elastic Block Storage (EBS).
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Interview: Jerry Cuomo Discusses Virtualization, Cloud Computing and WebSphere Virtual Enterprise
In this interview, Jerry Cuomo talks about Virtualization and Cloud Computing and what IBM is doing with WebSphere Virtual Enterprise to help virtualize middleware and application stack. He also explains the progression of virtualization using virtual servers, collection of servers, and virtual clusters. Jerry mentions that next release of WebSphere Version 7 will have a virtual appliance option.
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CloudCamp's Reuven Cohen Discusses Virtualization and Cloud Computing
InfoQ recently sat down with CloudCamp founder Reuven Cohen to discuss cloud computing. CloudCamp was formed in order to provide a common ground for the introduction and advancement of cloud computing.
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Eucalyptus Project Delivers Open Source Cloud Computing with EC2 Interface Compatibility
Eucalyptus is an open-source software infrastructure for implementing cloud computing. Among its features is interface compatibility with EC2 (both Web service and Query interfaces).
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VMware Moves into Application Virtualization with ThinApp 4.0
VMware has released ThinApp 4.0 (formerly Application Virtualization Suite). The product provides application virtualization. This is the first release of the product since VMware acquired Thinstall in January.
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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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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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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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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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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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RedHat Shifts Virtualization Strategy from Xen to KVM
Last week at the Red Hat Summit, Red Hat announced a new hypervisor based on KVM. This announcement is particularly interesting given Red Hat's previous support of the Xen hypervisor.
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VMWare Releases Virtual Infrastructure Java API and Jython Scripting Examples
VMWare recently open sourced their VI SDK under the BSD license. The VMware Virtual Infrastructure Java API provides a set of libraries with full support of managed object model and utilities to manage and control VMware virtual machines and servers using the VMwware Virtual Infrastructure Web service interface.