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...
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...
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...
IDC released a new study October 17 (commissioned by Microsoft annually). Microsoft has the largest partner ecosystem in the IT world From the c|net blog by Martin LaMonica: “There are about 14 million people working at companies that touch Microsoft...
I happened to read an article yesterday called “ Microsoft Still Cleaning up with Windows ” by Ivy Lessner in TheStreet.com. Hmm, the title may need a little freshening up, but skipping by that, the article challenges two commonly held myths about what...