When my laptop was stolen, I was forced to rebuild a number of Virtual
Machines since my new external hard disk had not come in yet for me to back
them up. On my previous laptop, I was running VirtualBox 3.1.8 and my
SharePoint 2010 images worked great. When I got my new laptop, I decided to
grab the latest version (at the time 3.2.4). I noticed immediately that the
product was rebranded from Sun VirtualBox to Oracle VirtualBox. I did have
a few existing virtual hard disks in various formats (.vhd and .vmdx) so I
created new virtual machines and attached them as normal. I tried to boot
each one of them only to immediately receive a BSoD with a STOP error of
0x0000007F. At some point during this process, 3.2.6 came out, so I decided
to upgrade. No change. After doing some research, I discovered this was
hard disk controller based. I looked at my settings and... (more)
Virtuon announced on Thursday it has unveiled a Virtual Desktop service based
on cloud computing and virtualization technology. The desktops are accessible
from any web browser and deliver full functionality of the Microsoft Windows
operating system. Starting at $39.95 per month, the desktops are offered
through a subscription service and are available with Windows XP, Vista, or
Windows 7.
Users of the Virtual Desktops can install any number of applications and
configure desktop personal preferences. As a “follow-me” application
environment, users access the desktop from any dev... (more)
This is part of an ongoing series of short industry trends and perspectives
blog posts briefs.
These short posts compliment other longer posts along with traditional
industry trends and perspective white papers, research reports, solution
brief content found at www.storageio.com/reports.
The topic of this post is a trend server virtualization and recent EMC
virtual storage announcements.
Virtual storage or storage virtualization has been as a technology and topic
around for some time now. Some would argue that storage virtualization is
several years old while others would say man... (more)
IBM claims to have created new species of custom-built, industry-standard,
Linux-based rack server for Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing companies with
massive data centers and tens of thousands of servers, like online gaming,
social networks, search and Internet firms.
A relatively limited marketplace of maybe a thousand companies with fat
wallets capable of shelling out tens of millions for such system.
IBM means to replace the white boxes they use now or build themselves like
Google does.
It says it’s got a few hundred early adopters and potential customers
in China, Germany, ... (more)
FalconStor announced that, as part of its ongoing support of Microsoft
Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V virtualization technology, FalconStor Network
Storage Server (NSS) software works seamlessly with Microsoft Windows Server
2008 Failover Clustering to provide instantaneous disaster recovery over the
wide-area network (WAN) in both physical server and Hyper-V virtual server
environments.
Integrating both logical and virtual worlds, the combination of Microsoft
Windows Server 2008 Failover Clustering and Hyper-V virtual servers enables
automatic failover of business-critical applica... (more)
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