Archive for April, 2009

VirtualBox 2.2.2 released 2009-04-27

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

VirtualBox 2.2.2 this is a maintenance release.

IBM EC2 hourly pricing

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

You can now pay hourly for IBM DB2 & WebSphere sMash licences on Amazon EC2 !

  • Amazon EC2 running IBM DB2 Express – starting at $0.38/hour
  • Amazon EC2 running IBM DB2 Workgroup – starting at $1.31/hour
  • Amazon EC2 running IBM WebSphere sMash – starting at $0.50/hour

AsteriskNow & TrixBox under VMware fusion

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

Howto install AsteriskNow & TrixBox as MAC OS/X VMware fusion virtual machines / software appliances

First DO NOT choose RedHat at your guest OS or your VOIP PBX VM wont recognise the VMware SCSI disk ! You must choose RHEL5 as your guest OS so that scsi0.virtualDev = “lsilogic” is added to your guest VMX file. There’s the danger of Wizards for you !

Both AsteriskNow and Trixbox are based on CentOS 5 with linux kernel 2.6.18.

AsteriskNow has a GUI installer so you can replace the default LVM partitions with standard linux partitions if you wish.

TrixBox has a TEXT installer.

QuteCom is the new name for WengoPhone

Monday, April 20th, 2009

QuteCom is the new name for the open source softphone previously known as WengoPhone

Ubuntu on Amazon EC2

Sunday, April 12th, 2009

Ubuntu Server Edition on Amazon – Beta programme now open

Ubuntu Server Edition on Amazon gives you the power of Ubuntu combined with the flexibility of Amazon’s cloud computing service. Ubuntu’s modularity, virtualization capabilities, range of applications and optimised performance make it the perfect solution if you’re deploying applications on Amazon’s Elastic Computing (EC2) cloud.

http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatisubuntu/serveredition/features/ec2

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EC2StartersGuide

Amazon SQS in Europe

Thursday, April 9th, 2009
Announcing Amazon SQS WSDL Version 2009-02-01 and Amazon SQS in Europe

Amazon SQS now includes shared queue access which, among other things, will give you the ability to grant access to your queue to anonymous users and enable you to integrate non-AWS applications with AWS applications.

VMware Fusion 2.0.3 now available for MAC OS X

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009

VMware Fusion 2.0.3 now available for MAC OS X

rPath finally have a competitor

Monday, April 6th, 2009

Novell SuseStudio alpha now lets you build disk images, Live CD/DVDs and Vmware VMs and you can even test run them inside your browser !

suse studio

suse studio

VMware ESX Server 3.5 Update 4

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009

VMware ESX Server 3.5 Update 4 has a new VMXNET version that improves virtual machine networking performance and requires VMware tools upgrade.

Amazon Elastic MapReduce

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009

Amazon Elastic MapReduce is a web service that enables businesses, researchers, data analysts, and developers to easily and cost-effectively process vast amounts of data. It utilizes a hosted Hadoop framework running on the web-scale infrastructure of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).