Parallels, today announced that it is extending its server virtualisation offerings for Apple environments with the introduction of the world’s first bare metal hypervisor solution for the Apple Xserve: Parallels Server for Mac Bare Metal Edition. The new edition offers greater performance for applications running in virtual machines on the Xserve, enabling businesses to standardize on the Apple… This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]

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Network stability is a concept most system administrator instinctively know about: however, no organization actually had any need to willingly enforce it or even care about until recent years. It’s only with the huge rise of mobile devices and their penetration inside enterprise environments that network – or better, infrastructure – stability has indeed become an issue. What do we mean with infrastructure stability? Stability is a property of any system behaving in a consistent, somehow foreseeable way.

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Xsigo Systems today announced that Xsigo Systems Japan partnered with Itochu Techno-Solutions Corporation (CTC) and Hitachi to jointly offer I/O virtualisation solutions to the Japanese market. The companies offer immediate availability of a jointly developed solution that will allow enterprise customers to rapidly implement cloud computing environments. The combined solution includes Hitachi… [[ This is a content summary only.

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At the end of January VMware revealed that is working to increase its virtual machines density up to 16 VMs per core , mostly for VDI environments. That is twice the average amount of VMs that customers seems able to accommodate today, and VMware suggested that this record depends on new Intel Xeon 5500 (codename Nehalem) CPUs . Anyway, that number came out during an interview, with no additional details, so there’s a lot of analysis to do before getting excited. Nonetheless, the claim generated much interest (and skepticism), at the point that Citrix decided to answer .

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Cisco, NetApp and VMware have announced that they are expanding their collaboration to deliver new design architectures that help customers evolve virtualized data centers to be more efficient, dynamic and secure. The three companies introduced an end-to-end Secure Multi-tenancy Design Architecture that provides enhanced security in cloud environments by isolating the information software (IT)… This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]

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virtualisation.info started this year questioning the industry interest in virtualisation benchmarks . In that article we reported that Intel discontinued its vConsolidate platform, giving the customers no other choice that using the VMware VMMark system and its non-competitive EULA. Intel was kind enough to answer, confirming that vConsolidate was discontinued in early 2009, and providing some insights behind the choice, that we quote here integrally: Early 2009, we stopped development and maintenance of the benchmark.

SafeNet today announced a software agnostic solution for software license authorization and enforcement on virtual machines (VMs). Software vendors can now introduce licensing and pricing models that support and control the utilization of their application in virtual environments, enabling them to protect their applications from copy and duplication, ensure their competitive position, and even… This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]

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