Virtually Speaking

Wyse, more than just thin clients

Dan Kusnetzky — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:00:59 +0000

I’ve followed Wyse for the longest time and yet, when I had an opportunity to speak with Jeff McNaught, CMO of Wyse Technology I was surprised at how far they’re business has evolved from that base. The company now is doing interesting things in three areas: virtual clients, cloud computing and green computing. When one [...]

Lanamark Vready

Dan Kusnetzky — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:00:11 +0000

Mark Angelo, CEO of Lanamark, dropped by to tell me about Vready, a new service his company is offering. I’ve spoken with representatives with many smaller organizations and think that Lanamark has a good grasp on the problems these organizations are facing when they choose to embark on the journey to a more virtualized environment. Here’s [...]

Parallels Desktop 4 for Mac or how I lost my socks

Dan Kusnetzky — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:00:23 +0000

Some demonstrations seem fated to be postponed time and again before the stars align and I’m finally able to sit back and enjoy the show some supplier wants to present. My meeting with the good folks from Parallels seemed to follow this pattern. Since I’ve known the executives of this company since I was at [...]

Conversation with Replicate Technologies

Dan Kusnetzky — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:00:06 +0000

Rich Miller, CEO, and Oren Teich, VP Product, both of Replicate Technologies spent a while providing an introduction to the company and an explanation of what they’re doing. It was great catching up with both of them. Rich was the CTO of Univa, a company focused on bringing high performance computing tools to commercial companies [...]

Adventures in CA Support Day 2

Dan Kusnetzky — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:30:39 +0000

As I pointed out in the post Adventures in CA support, I received a routine message from CA telling me that my subscription to their CA Internet Security Suite was coming to an end and I needed to purchase an update. When I did and installed the updated software, problems arose, problems that CA support [...]

Live migration across different platforms demonstrated

Dan Kusnetzky — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:00:06 +0000

A while back I received a note from Red Hat’s PR company that exclaimed that Red Hat and AMD had successfully migrated a running virtual machine from a dual socket Intel Xeon DP Quad Core E5420-based system to a system based on the forthcoming 45nm Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processor, utilizing Red Hat’s open source virtualization [...]

Adventures in CA support

Dan Kusnetzky — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:00:46 +0000

I received an Email notice this morning that my support agreement with CA for their Internet Security Suite was ending and that I should pay for an update. Since I’m well aware of how long a Windows XP system will survive on the network without a security breach, I dutifully went to the online shop [...]

VMware follows in Virtuallogix’s footsteps

Dan Kusnetzky — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:00:29 +0000

My friends at VMware recently sent me a note telling me 1) that they had acquired Trango Virtual Processors and 2) they were jumping into the mobile device virtual machine market.Trago VMware has chosen to rename Trago’s product as VMware Mobile Platform. This isn’t the only entry into this market, however. Others have been engaged [...]

Ncomputing the benefits of operating system virtualization

Dan Kusnetzky — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:00:59 +0000

In a rapid fire presentation, the Ncomputing folks provided a very interesting view into what they’ve been doing to help organizations take advantage of the unused power in today’s desktop systems to support many workloads. As I mentioned in the post Ncomputing: Sharing the power of a single computer, this is not a new idea. [...]

VMware’s MVP brings virtualization to mobile phones

Paula Rooney — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 03:53:07 +0000

VMware provides a full line of virtualization software for the data center and down to the desktop. Now it is reaching down to an even smaller form factor: mobile phones. On Monday, the Palo Alto, Calif. virtualization pioneer unveiled its new VMware Mobile Virtualization Platform (MVP), based on technology it acquired fom Trango Virtual Processors last month. The MVP, as it is known, is [...]