Given all the cacophony around JeOS , and the vigorous (and probably correct) assertions that virtual appliances are the future model for application delivery and deployment, you could be excused for tolling the death knell for server operating systems...
This year at DEMO 08 I met with a company called Silobreaker. They showed off a cool new search tool that was fun to play with. Recently, during a Europe tour I took with Don Dodge, I met with Per Lindh, the CTO of SIlobreaker in their Stockholm, Sweden...
Golf is an activity that requires a tremendous amount of overhead. Aside from actually learning how to swing, aspiring players also have to set aside continuous time blocks of 4 hours, gain membership at a suitable course, acquire an expensive bouquet...
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...
There has been much discourse about when solid state drives will replace the traditional hard disk drive. While PCs with solid state drives are already on the market (but not moving many units) and hybrid drives have some traction, most solid state storage...