Virtualization is starting to make it into the main stream media, slowly. We are seeing it on gaming systems, in the newspaper and now in comic strips.
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These are a few of the comics including Virtualization I have came across recently.
This comic (above) has been released under:
More comics after the break, including xkcd, comic and Virtualman Read more »
VMware has released a series, currently 19 videos, in an effort to help educate the masses to the methods and practices of using VMware server virtualization.
Here is a sample video, to give you an idea of the style, pace, and level of content provided:
You can also request to download the high resolution version of these video directly by contacting VMware, more information regarding these are available on their youtube page: YouTube - VMwareELearning’s Channel
With a soft launch VMware just opened a couple of online TV channes (one on YouTube and another on Blip.tv) to host a bunch of training videos. No longer than 10 minutes, each video explains how to complete (very) easy tasks with VMware products (just Server 1.0 at the moment).
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Reaching Beyond Physical IT: Explore the Power of Virtualization in Enterprise Computing
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Virtualization, the fundamental technological innovation that allows skilled IT managers to deploy creative solutions to such business challenges, is rapidly evolving from taking one computer and making it appear to be many computers, to virtualizing almost any information technology resource.
Virtualization of distributed computing, of IT resources such as storage, bandwidth, and CPU cycles are all increasing significantly in importance within enterprise IT. Virtualization can also apply to a range of system layers, including hardware-level virtualization, operating system level virtualization, and high-level language virtual machines.
In short, Virtualization is being adopted by IT organizations around the world so rapidly right now that, according to research firm IDC, spending on virtualization software and services is expected to exceed $15 billion worldwide by 2011 - up from $6.5 billion in 2006.
The Virtualization Conference & Expo 2008 East, taking place on June 23-24, 2008 in New York City, is the leading event covering the booming market of Virtualization for the enterprise. Topics will include:
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Parallels has agreed in honor of the 1st birthday of x86Virtualization to offer a Free $15.00 iTunes gift card to anyone who purchases Parallels Desktop for the Mac between now and December 27th. If you are looking for Parallels Workstation, they are going to throw in a free copy of Compressor Workstation with every purchase of workstation. Visit Parallels for these Special Exclusive Offers from x86Virtualization.com
This has been a big year, 1 year ago today the domain was registered and a simple blog with big dreams was setup. It like all great things started out slowly, and has gained a considerable momentum ever since. The site has taken off slowly, with some great milestones, including the 200 Feedburner subscribers and 1000 visitors in a single day.
There are a few companies I would like to thank for making this all possible, in no particular order:
Wordpress.org, for building the best opensource blog platform. Site: http://www.wordpress.org/
Godaddy.com, for providing rock solid hosting and support for x86. Site: http://www.GoDaddy.com/
Google.com, for providing a ton of a quality traffic and visitors, Site: http://www.Google.com/
These are few services, which are free or almost free which I have used over the past year:
Stumbleupon, great way to get people to see new posts Site: http://www.StumbleUpon.com/
MyBlogLog, easy way to build up a community around x86, Site: http://www.mybloglog.com/ (Note: Bought by Yahoo)
Feedburner, easiest way of keeping track of feed readers, Site: http://www.feedburner.com/ (Note: Bought by Google)
Google Analytics, quick simple site visitor tracking, Site: http://www.google.com/analytics/
These are a few services which have made this blog monetarily worthwhile:
Google Adsense, Commission Junction, Text Link Ads, Review Me, Linkshare, Regnow.com
Here are a Few figures from the past year:
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New and Improved Virtualization Videos Section Powered by Youtube.com
Now with better organization, more videos and details descriptions of each video.
After having the video section in disarray since the beginning it was time to look into the page and clean it up and add more content. The previous page had fewer then 10 videos on it, now with well organized categories we are able to display dozens of videos without confusion.
Check out the videos in the following categories, more to be added soon:
Microsoft has announced the official name,for the software formerly know as Microsoft Virtualization Server. The new name is… drum roll please:
Hyper-V. This is the official name of the server virtualization technology within Windows Server 2008 that was previously code-named “Viridian.” Microsoft also announced Hyper-V Server, a standalone hypervisor-based server virtualization product that complements the Hyper-V technology in Windows Server 2008 and allows customers to virtualize workloads onto a single physical server.
Microsoft Hyper-V Server
“Microsoft Hyper-V Server, a hypervisor-based server virtualization product, complements the Hyper-V technology within Windows Server 2008, allowing customers to consolidate workloads onto a single physical server. In addition, Microsoft Hyper-V Server will increase original equipment manufacturer (OEM) partners’ ability to offer customers simplified, reliable and cost-effective virtualization solutions that can easily plug in to their existing infrastructure. Partners including Dell Inc., Fujitsu Siemens Computers, Fujitsu Ltd., Hitachi Ltd., HP, IBM Corp., Lenovo, NEC Corp. and Unisys are already committed to working with Microsoft to offer solutions based on Microsoft Hyper-V Server once it is available. The estimated manufacturer’s suggested retail price (MSRP) for Microsoft Hyper-V Server is $28 (U.S.).”
x86Virtualization.com Thoughts: Why $28? just make it FREE Microsoft. Haven’t you noticed the trend in Virtualization, Free and Open Source is taking the lead over pricey closed products. Also what is with the name? Really had to work hard for that one? One of the top result on google for “hyper-v” is a pair of shoes in Japan. These shoes, which retail for $29.50USD are just slightly more expensive then Hyper-V from Microsoft. the original name was pretty long, but why not WVS? Anyway, thanks for finally finalizing the product line up for Windows 2008 Server.
x86 virtualization has always been a fan of the rarely mentioned Sun “Project Blackbox”. The idea of having a fully virtualized portable datacenter is awesome. Being able to pull up to a work site, plug in electrical, cooling and data and it is up and running.
There are many posts in the past, and now it is time for a new one, with Video.
Sun does a full 6.7 earthquake on a running blackbox. The box survives, with minimal damage. A few loose screws and some dented fixtures. Not bad for an initial test.
For anyone not familiar with the project here is a video overview:
I just wanted to get the word out about a new contest I saw recently. As I myself may be entering the contest I don’t believe that I will infact release any more details about my ideas, but I would like to draw attention to the contest in hopes that other people may be intersted in entering.
AWS has just launched the AWS Start-Up Challenge, a contest for entrepreneurs and software developers that will award the winner $50,000 in cash, $50,000 in AWS credits, an investment offer from Amazon.com, and more. What are you waiting for? Submit your idea now.
Please read all the fine print before entering, as there is a great deal of it. The few quick notes which I saw, please read them yourself in case I didn’t understand them correctly is that is isn’t open to people making over 10 million per year or people using the free web services, such as ECS. I’m looking forward to playing around with the Elastic computing cloud and seeing how many parallels systems I can power up (depending on my budget). O the joys of a contest.
The MacHome, home for home theater, homework, and home gaming is the newest mac in the mac lineup. This computer takes the classic Macintosh LC case and crams a ton more features and speed into the small, but manageable, form factor. With the best of both worlds, bringing together the iMac, Mac Pro and Mac Mini 1 small package. For the home theater buff there are full HDTV HDMI ports, for bringing in high definition video to edit, and then send it back out to a HDTV to watch. For the home gamer, 16x PCI express slot, allows the addition of a high quality graphic card, no longer stuck with the onboard video like the mac mini or iMac. The capablities to support dual monitors, or the amazing 30″ Apple Display are both supported with select video cards. For students needing to complete their homework, they now have a choice of running the standard Mac OS 10.5 or running bootcamp and booting into Windows XP or Vista. For the power user, Parallels Virtualization technology would even allow XP or Vista without rebooting while running the native OSX operating system.
Here is a screenshot of the progress for the day. Microsoft has done a great job building a step by step tutorial for those of us who really are more IT Geeks and not programming nerds. This screenshot is a customizable Virtual Server control panel, which can control local and remote virtual servers.
I’m looking forward to adding more customization to it, and I see how this would be a powerful tool for a small hosting company or similar who want to script machine tasks, such as creation, suspension, and deletion.
