2006 was supposed to be the coming out party for holographic storage. Multiple product launches were eagerly anticipated. There was a fair amount of media buzz, complete with analyst estimates of 45M unit shipments and a $125M market by 2010. The reality...
It can be a challenge today to find a large enterprise that’s not tinkering with desktop virtualization in some way, shape or form. Marketers have been capitalizing on the virtualization hype to repackage what’s essentially an old technology as the latest...
Jeff Fisher from Desktone has posted some thoughts on desktop virtualization. One interesting scenario he paints is a future where employees will be expected to provide their own physical PCs for corporate IT departments to deliver a virtual PC to. While...
One of the more intriguing ideas to bubble out of the virtualization ecosystem is VMCasting – the notion of distributing virtual appliances via RSS feeds. Coined by Enomaly , an open source consulting firm best known for Xen management tool Enomalism...
Many virtualization startups I’ve met with recently have expressed some degree of hesitation, even skepticism, about developing support for Hyper-V . I find this perplexing. First, VMware is likely to accelerate their annexation of adjacent markets currently...
I have always been skeptical of clean tech startups that rely entirely on their green credentials to stay in business. Government subsidies come and go - solar energy veterans will recall the carnage that resulted from the Reagan administration. And while...
RackSpace , a web hosting data center based in Dallas had a major power outage yesterday. The outage affected GigaOm , Laughing Squid , 37 Signals , and many others. TechMeme , my favorite blog news aggregator, has lots of blogs following the story.  ...