The Low-Down on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 Enhancements
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| On the virtualization front, RHEL 5.1 has been updated to the Xen 3.1.0
| hypervisor, an update that allows Windows guests to be run atop the embedded
| Xen hypervisor inside the Linux platform.
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http://www.itjungle.com/tlb/tlb111307-story05.html
VMware Unveils Next Generation of Free VMware Server
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| VMware, Inc. has unveiled VMware Server 2, the next generation of the
| company's easy-to-use, free-of-charge virtualization product.
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http://www.linuxelectrons.com/news/linux/14395/vmware-unveils-next-generation-free-vmware-server
SGI and SWsoft Team Up to Optimize Oracle Database
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| The SGI server platform, designed for large scale data management, provides
| the optimal environment for Virtuozzo to run the Oracle application. Based on
| industry-standard Intel(R) Itanium(R) and Intel(R) Xeon(R) processors and the
| Linux operating system, the highly scalable SGI platform offers high
| bandwidth and low latency to minimize database downtime. Virtuozzo is the
| first and only virtualization solution to run in an Itanium environment.
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http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/prnewswire/AQTU13413112007-1.htm
Related:
Virtualization: A feature of the hardware, not the OS?
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| "Even though Xen has been part of (Linux products) for a while, it's really
| just now getting ready for prime time," Haff said. "VMware is still very much
| the dominant player in virtualization."
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584_22-6206867.html
VMware Hypervisor Takes Up Residence in New Servers
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| "VMware is trying to get as broad of an installed base as it can in advance
| of the Linux and Microsoft initiatives because once you make a commitment to
| the VMware technology, you're going to be less likely to purchase something
| from Microsoft or Linux," Enck concluded.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/59264.html
RedHat Thinks Software Should Come In A Virtual Machine
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| Wouldn’t it be nice if the enterprise software world were on board with your
| server virtualization efforts? Imagine downloading the latest version of
| PeopleSoft or Crystal Reports in a virtual server format that could be loaded
| on to VMware ESX and would just run – no installation, no configuration
| hassles, just instantiate and go.
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http://blogs.forrester.com/it_infrastructure/2007/11/redhat-thinks-s.html
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