In this article Brian and Joe discuss their tips and tricks learned from 5 years of migration off of hardware to a virtual world. The good points, the bad points, and how we have found best to mitigate it.
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Novell’s de Icaza on VMware’s Potential GNU/Linux Distribution
New rumours circulate about Microsoft-dominated VMware's plans for GNU/Linux
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VMware Turns Sour After Microsoft Intervention
VMware shows signs of Linux neglect, just like Xen after receiving funding, staff and acquisition from Microsoft-tied entities
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Microsoft Linux Move Puts Pressure on VMware
Microsoft's historic embrace of Linux technology could have wide-reaching impacts on the virtualization market and Microsoft's rival VMware.
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Microsoft Keeps ‘Taking Over’ VMware
VMware's new COO is... a former Microsoft executive, just like the new CEO
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Large Hadron Collider - powered by Linux
The most powerful physics project in the history of the known universe - The $10 Billion Large Hadron Collider (LHC)- shot its first light speed beam this morning around its 27 km circuit. Beyond the 20 years it took to build and half of all the world's astrophysicists, it also takes another key ingredient to make LHC work -- Linux.
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VMware and the GPL: Round two
The "Is VMware violating the GPL" question is circulating again (Matt Asay follows up his own post here) so I thought it would be useful to dust off an Illuminata Perspectives that I wrote when this same thing cropped up about a year ago. I've excerpted the most salient points from the original post and added a little updated commentary.
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andLinux: A great way to virtualize Linux inside of Windows
There's been a lot written about virtualization recently. However, the traditional apps like VMWare and VirtualBox have always had the problems of speed and integration into the host. Luckily, there is another option: andLinux, a full-blown Ubuntu Gutsy-based distro that has been around for quite a while.
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Microsoft's forthcoming Windows Server 2008 provides a two-for-one bonus: virtualization software with the operating system itself, and potentially closer integration with some Linux operating systems than it has ever offered before, according to an early, initial look at the server's Release Candidate 1.
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Marines Find Value in Virtualization
The U.S. Marine Corps plans to take server virtualization software into war -- literally -- as part of an effort to improve the way it deploys IT on the battlefield. "The Marine Corps has always packed stuff up and taken it to the field -- that is not new," said Maj. Carl Brodhun, the USMC's project officer for enterprise virtualization.
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Is VMware too close to Linux?
Maybe you've heard of VMware. You know, EMC's baby, huge IPO, Bloomberg called it the hottest tech stock since Google in 2004, drove a member of our staff mad?
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