http://www.redmondpie.com/how-to-install-chrome-os-in-windows-7-9140127/ has a great link to some pre-built vmdk virtual machines of Google Chrome OS from gdgt ! However you will need to create a gdgt account before you can download them !
The latest version of Eucalyptus features new multi-cluster support and enhanced concurrency management for improved scaling, enabling users to seamlessly overlay their Eucalyptus cloud on top of virtually any existing IT infrastructure, regardless of size or configuration.
JumpBox Omeka Amazon AMI & VMware VM pricing
Sun have launched a Sun Cloud Wiki however unfortunately it is a closed community so you will need to create a Sun Online Account before you can see any content such as the Cloud Patterns page !
Sun BigAdmin System Administration Portal have published a “HCL” for Virtualization Platforms that includes some certified confgurations that Sun can support such as a SUSE 11 host with an OpenSolaris 2009.06 guest!
Oracle have recently added a Oracle VM Template for PeopleSoft which delivers a “quick start” of PeopleSoft HCM with Oracle Database on Oracle Enterprise Linux to the Oracle VM Template library.
Oracle announced on 13 May 2009 that it has agreed to acquire Virtual Iron Software, Inc. (Virtual Iron), a provider of server virtualization management software.
The combination of Virtual Iron technology and Oracle VM’s scalable, high performance and highly available server virtualization product is expected to provide more comprehensive and dynamic resource management across the full software stack. Customers are expected to benefit from rapid application deployment, streamlined virtualization server configuration and improved visibility and control across Oracle’s enterprise software stack. In addition, we anticipate that the combination of Virtual Iron technology with Oracle Enterprise Manager will enable customers to be more agile in meeting application service levels for virtual environments.
According to TommyReynolds on the Oracle Forum the Oracle Xen VM (OVM) is a virtualization platform and is a separate product (to OEL & RHEL) with different rules.
The latest announcement from Red Hat about Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers says Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization features a unique and revolutionary virtualisation technology called KVM and that they have virtualised a workload of 12.5 VM’s per core (ie 400 VM’s) using a 32 core 1TB server ! And unlike Oracle Xen VM Server, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, includes SELinux secuirty technology !
Yahoo! have released the Yahoo! Distribution of Hadoop — a source code distribution that is based entirely on code found in the Apache Hadoop project. This source distribution includes code patches that we have added to improve the stability and performance of our clusters.
The Yahoo! Distribution of Hadoop can be downloaded from:
http://github.com/yahoo/hadoop-common/tree/yahoo-hadoop-0.20
If you want an installable image of the code, Cloudera has included the Yahoo! Distribution of Hadoop in raw package form available at: