virtualization

ScaleMP's vSMP Foundation aggregation platform enables the creation of high-end x86-based symmetric multiprocessor (SMP) systems, providing superior performance at prices significantly lower than traditional SMPs and comparable to managed x86 clusters.

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HowtoForge: "OpenVZ is the open-source branch of Virtuozzo, a commercial virtualization solution used by many providers that offer virtual servers.

The OpenVZ kernel patch is licensed under the GPL license, and the user-level tools are under the QPL license."

Information Week: "Our open source expert foresees the future of Linux: By 2012 the OS will have matured into three basic usage models.

Web-based apps rule, virtualization is a breeze, and command-line hacking for basic system configuration is a thing of the past."

This "Linux Product Insider" features the Robot, Gizmo & Gadget Show, Microway's NumberSmasher vSMP servers, Excito's Bubba Two Home Server, Van Lindberg's Intellectual Property and Open Source and Running Xen: A Hands-On Guide to the Art of Virtualization.

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Packt: "The virtualdomains file is one of the most powerful, useful, and stunningly simple mechanisms for configuring qmail.

Virtual domains and even virtual users can be created, independently of one another, and assigned to controlling users.

Virtual domains are fully independent, and as they are assigned to users (or, more accurately, prefixes) they can be in different UNIX protection domains if desired."

LinuxPlanet: "While you probably won't run Vista as a virtual machine on your cell phone, there are many viable use cases of virtualization for embedded applications.

The most simplest, cheapest, feature rich is using Linux and KVM..."

Virtualization is the latest IT buzz, but virtualization is not all the same. Products that drive Hardware Virtualization and O/S Virtualization have different architectures and are designed with different workloads and environments in mind.

This independent white paper demystifies the differences, highlights the market pressures that tend to drive an organization's selection and gives you the tools to select the best solution for your needs.

Get it now from the Tech Library! (PDF, 7 pages)

eWeek Mid-Market: "Novell and SAP have announced that they will customize SAP's enterprise applications to work even more efficiently with SUSE Linux Enterprise and its associated virtualization and identity management technologies..."

Linux-Watch: "Red Hat's next update to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 5.2, with major upgrades to the desktop and virtualization, is ready for beta testing.

If your business depends on RHEL, you'll want to download this beta to get an idea what your servers are going to be working with in a few months.

According to the Red Hat letter making the announcement, the newly renovated RHEL will use the 2.6.18-84.el5 Linux kernel."

Although 54 percent of large enterprises around the globe rate management of their virtual server environment as a critical or high IT priority, fewer than half (45 percent) think their companies are doing it effectively, according to CA's global survey about virtualized environments released this week.