Virtualization

Mon, May 05, 2008 - In 2005, Intel, and later AMD, built extensions to their x86 chip architectures that took much of the resource-management load off the hypervisors, making it much easier to build a hypervisor that could run guest operating systems as virtual servers without having to modify them first.

Mon, May 05, 2008 - As the leading player in data-center hardware, software and integration services, IBM is in an admirable position to welcome all comers to the virtualization market with the storage and server products to support many servers running on one box, and the services to build complex virtual data centers.

Mon, May 05, 2008 - As a leading server vendor, HP has spread the love among the competitors in the virtualization market, not taking favorites or competing too directly with its own products.

Mon, May 05, 2008 - Storage firm EqualLogic became known for its iSCSI storage-area network (SAN) products, which have now been optimized for virtualization.

Mon, May 05, 2008 - Embotics aims to reign in the problem of "rogue VMs" that IT may not know about, and lets IT apply policies and automation to the job of tagging and tracking each VM in the company.

Mon, May 05, 2008 - Like other hardware vendors, Dell is happy to promote virtualization as a technology that can help sell more servers and storage.

Mon, May 05, 2008 - After being left out of the buzz over virtualization for too long, and seeing the market shift toward VMware's approach, Citrix made itself VMware's only real rival by buying developer XenSource last fall.

Mon, May 05, 2008 - CiRBA's Data Center Intelligence Software can help IT leaders analyze and visually map how to migrate and consolidate servers to a virtualized environment.

Mon, May 05, 2008 - Blue Lane designed its VirtualShield security technology to protect VMs no matter what the state of the patches in each individual guest OS. Runs in close integration with VMware's hypervisor, preventing attacks on known vulnerabilities from penetrating to the VMs.

Mon, May 05, 2008 - Akorri's BalancePoint suite can help solve one of the toughest questions IT teams have around virtualization: How far can I push this physical server by adding on more VMs without affecting application service levels?