Not all hypervisors have reached a level of parity in features, functionality and performance (regardless of what some marketing campaigns might say). However, the virtualization heavyweights are beginning to see real competition, and they realize that the gaps between the … Continue reading
Public voting for VMWorld 2010 will be live through May 26, so please make sure you stop by, review the submissions and vote for the ones that you would like to see. This year, VMware received a record number of … Continue reading
I wouldn’t begin the funeral procession just yet, but the server OS may have to come to grips with its own mortality soon. As virtual appliances progress, they are returning the focus to the application and moving the OS from … Continue reading
Back in 2007, I was fortunate enough to beta test one of the early virtual appliances, BEA Systems’ WebLogic Server Virtual Edition, and speak about it at both the BEAWorld and VMworld conferences. Unfortunately, the marketplace did not embrace the … Continue reading