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"Vyatta is delivering a next-generation distributed software networking environment that is capable of an order of magnitude better performance than our previous generation software on the same off-the-shelf hardware," saidRobert Bays, CTO of Vyatta. On Tuesday Vyatta introduced Vyatta...
Updates are now available for ConVirt software that manages open source virtualization technologies KVM and Xen, along with clouds. The updates include Eucalyptus 2.0.3 support and ability to import existing virtual machines in an Amazon EC2 account.
Big Data and virtualization are the two biggest revolutions underway in enterprise datacenters today. In the coming three to five years, they will unquestionably change the face of datacenters as we know them. Interestingly, both phenomena have been going on in parallel with little to ...
Convirture, which makes management software for Linux virtualization, had an excellent 2011. Convirture announced its fifth consecutive quarter-over-quarter growth, including increasing its customer base ten-fold for its commercial product, ConVirt Enterprise. The company now has cust...
Convirture announces that its ConVirt virtualization and cloud management software, which is used by companies worldwide to manage large variety of virtual and cloud environments based on the KVM and Xen hypervisors, is now certified to run on the following operating systems. "We are ...
The CEO of Convirture will be speaking next week at Cloud Expo about the complexities of managing physical and virtual computing assets, plus public, private and hybrid clouds. Cloud Expo Silicon Valley takes place in Santa Clara from November 7-10 and is expected to attract more than...
Convirture has released ConVirt Enterprise Cloud - software that manages virtualized datacenters and cloud deployments built on KVM and Xen virtual machines. ConVirt Enterprise Cloud provides a set of sophisticated tools capable of managing an entire virtual and cloud infrastructure f...
More than 200 technology companies have joined the Open Virtualization Alliance (OVA), the consortium committed to fostering the adoption of Red Hat’s Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM), in the three months since it was launched. Red Hat says more than 50% of them are focused on clou...
Virtualization has been widely accepted as a technique to conserve resources. Virtualization is the process of running a guest operating system on a virtual machine, which is created in a virtualizer running on the host operating system. Large companies do not have to install 100 diffe...
There is now such a thing as the Open Virtualization Alliance, formed by Red Hat, IBM, Intel, HP, SUSE, Eucalyptus and BMC, to push the adoption of KVM, the Kernel-based Virtual Machine embedded in the Linux kernel that Red Hat’s basing its virtualization on. The consortium is suppos...
Red Hat, Inc. and IBM have announced that they have joined hands to expand the open source KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) ecosystem through joint solutions targeting the enterprise. They plan on pooling their resources together to develop cloud management interfaces and virtualizat...
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley has expanded its technical program through the addition of an all-new "Cloud Foundry" track to complement the already extensive selection of tracks. Cloud Foundry is the open platform as a service project initiated by VMware. It can support multiple framework...
Wyse on Thursday previewed Project Pyramid, a new software technology that brings simplicity to the management of virtual desktops. Project Pyramid will enable Wyse to deliver a self-configuring client product line in the desktop virtualization industry a well as automate the deploymen...
Convirture, maker of Linux and open source-based virtualization management software, has partnered with Eucalyptus Systems, creators of the leading independent private cloud platform, to deliver enterprise-grade private cloud management capabilities to Eucalyptus users and customers. T...
It took Novell more than two days after the announcement that it's being bought for its chief marketing officer John Dragoon to say on the company's web site that Novell's Unix copyrights will stay with Novell. God knows it wasn't answering the phone. What Dragoon says still mean...
With the integration of the Linux-based SPICE client, IGEL provides yet another option for configuring virtual desktop (VDI) infrastructuresReading, UK, October 12, 2010: German thin client manufacturer, IGEL Technology, today became the first company in its sector to integrate the ope...
IT managers who are building virtual data centers and private clouds based on the Xen and/or KVM open source hypervisors now have even more advanced management capabilities with the latest version of ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise from Convirture. The newest release adds advanced enterprise f...
Convirture introduces ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise Starter Edition management software for virtual servers based on the Xen and KVM hypervisors.
IBM has launched a new service that lets outside enterprises indulge in software development and testing on its Cloud Platform. IBM currently hosts services on the web like Lotus Live along with a Private cloud option that it launched in 2009. Since then it has steadily expanded its cl...
In a time when many tradeshows are experiencing lower then normal attendance the 8th Annual Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE 8x) had record attendance this past weekend in Los Angeles. I was there exhibiting and conducting a community training day for Zenoss and was very impressed...