I'm fairly sure the hypervisor part of the virtualization-stack will become a commodity... (Though i prefer the ESX-model, with a dedicated, stripped down virtualization host).
The real business in virtualization will be management tools, - I bet VirtualCenter/Lab Manager will be VMware's main business in a few years.
It's only a matter of time before the hypervisor/virtualization layer is a commodity - and with standardized interfaces, the vendors can focus on infrastructure management software.
VirtualCenter is imho way ahead of anything else available - and will be VMware's most important product going forward.
VMWare's real "killer app" in my opinion is VirtualCenter/VMotion. The management tool is better than anything else I've seen for managing virtual infrastructure - and the ability to move live VMs between hardware nodes is just impressive:)
Why haven't WD released 146 GB drives until now ? Is it just a question of price ? (Since 10K 146 GB SCSI/FC drives have been available for a long time - and even 300 GB SCSI/FC drives are pretty common now).
I've had three Raptors running in RAID0 since the original release of the 36 GB version ('03?) - time for an upgrade methinks:)
The standard 360 cooler uses liquid to transfer heat more efficiently from the CPU/GPU afaik. Maybe in the next revision they should consider taking this idea further and add a radiator and pump...:)
MacOS X x86 ? I know it was leaked after it got announced - but they kept it pretty well hidden considering it had been under development as long as the PPC version...
NetMail is also an MTA, a POP3 server, an IMAP server, fancy message store(NMAP protocol) with (at least in NetMail, dunno about Hula) nice support for LDAP/eDirectory and HA/Load Balancing.
Why do people insist on calling these projects such silly names ?:P I've been trying to get my company to go with NetMail, but... Hula ? My boss will just laugh at me:(
We run ~ 200 servers on 15 or so Avocent DSR's, and it's been running fairly well. DSView used to be SERIOUSLY unstable, but when they switched to the java based viewer from DSWebView it got better.
The DSR's themselves are pretty stable, but occasionally (2-3 times pr. month) a box hangs and we have to cycle power to get them to communicate with clients.
Also, be prepared to pay for everything. Even the firmware upgrade to better video compression cost money - though it was worth it - the difference was very noticeable.
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MS supports running Linux on Virtual Server 2005 R2...
u alserver/evaluation/linuxguestsupport/default.mspx ...though I have no idea how well it works.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/virt
The guest OS' supported are pretty much the same ones as under VMware VI3.
I'm fairly sure the hypervisor part of the virtualization-stack will become a commodity... (Though i prefer the ESX-model, with a dedicated, stripped down virtualization host).
The real business in virtualization will be management tools, - I bet VirtualCenter/Lab Manager will be VMware's main business in a few years.
It's only a matter of time before the hypervisor/virtualization layer is a commodity - and with standardized interfaces, the vendors can focus on infrastructure management software.
VirtualCenter is imho way ahead of anything else available - and will be VMware's most important product going forward.
VMWare's real "killer app" in my opinion is VirtualCenter/VMotion. The management tool is better than anything else I've seen for managing virtual infrastructure - and the ability to move live VMs between hardware nodes is just impressive :)
and in other news...
Funny thing is - in Norway, the price on the cheapest new iMac is the equivalent of $1821... Gotta love it... :(
I'd hoped for a drop in pricing when apple moved to "commodity" processors...
I installed konfabulator, and never really "got it"... To those using it daily - what widgets do you use ?
Why haven't WD released 146 GB drives until now ? Is it just a question of price ? (Since 10K 146 GB SCSI/FC drives have been available for a long time - and even 300 GB SCSI/FC drives are pretty common now).
:)
I've had three Raptors running in RAID0 since the original release of the 36 GB version ('03?) - time for an upgrade methinks
Because it costs money ?
Original article from New Scientist - (also) stolen from digg.com :)
Early Vista kernel codename: Heart of Darkness
Something tells me it'd leave a mess on the carpet...
The standard 360 cooler uses liquid to transfer heat more efficiently from the CPU/GPU afaik. Maybe in the next revision they should consider taking this idea further and add a radiator and pump... :)
MacOS X x86 ? I know it was leaked after it got announced - but they kept it pretty well hidden considering it had been under development as long as the PPC version...
*cough* check links *cough*
So, theoretically.... Would you prefer Google or Microsoft ? :)
The acting was equally hairy, though...
Yup, I'm amazed Apple would choose to associate themselves with something so un-appleish as that thing. Poor design, poor specs...
:)
I guess Apple might be a bit desperate to get into the whole phone/mediaplayer market, but they really need to produce something better than this...
Ship Jonathan Ives off to Motorola for a year, and maybe we'll get an innovative product
Wow! -400 degrees Celsius... That's pretty damn cold! ;)
...torrent ? :D
NetMail is also an MTA, a POP3 server, an IMAP server, fancy message store(NMAP protocol) with (at least in NetMail, dunno about Hula) nice support for LDAP/eDirectory and HA/Load Balancing.
Why do people insist on calling these projects such silly names ? :P I've been trying to get my company to go with NetMail, but... Hula ? My boss will just laugh at me:(
We run ~ 200 servers on 15 or so Avocent DSR's, and it's been running fairly well. DSView used to be SERIOUSLY unstable, but when they switched to the java based viewer from DSWebView it got better.
The DSR's themselves are pretty stable, but occasionally (2-3 times pr. month) a box hangs and we have to cycle power to get them to communicate with clients.
Also, be prepared to pay for everything. Even the firmware upgrade to better video compression cost money - though it was worth it - the difference was very noticeable.
http://www.electoral-vote.com was running Apache on Linux when last queried at 1-Nov-2004 15:33:26 GMT :)