Archive for the ‘virtualisation’ Category

VMware vSphere

Saturday, May 30th, 2009

VMware vSphere is a Cloud Operating System designed especially for small IT environments with fewer than 20 physical servers, the Essentials and Essentials Plus editions of VMware vSphere 4 deliver enterprise-class capabilities in a cost-effective solution packages for organizations that want optimize and protect their IT assets with minimal up-front investment.

By adopting vSphere Essentials, customers can more effectively utilize server, network and storage resources dynamically as a single pool or “internal cloud” to protect business-critical applications and data.

Compare ESXi and vSphere

VMware ESXi

Saturday, May 30th, 2009

VMware ESXi is the easiest way to get started with virtualization—and it’s free-of-charge.

Consolidate your applications onto fewer servers and start saving money through reduced hardware, power, cooling and administration costs.  VMware ESXi has been optimized and tested to run even your most resource intensive applications and databases with minimal performance overhead.

Why not compare ESX v ESXi and then download a copy !

New Amazon Web Services

Monday, May 18th, 2009

New Amazon Web Services

  • Amazon CloudWatch – Amazon CloudWatch is a web service that provides monitoring for AWS cloud resources
  • Auto Scaling – Auto Scaling allows you to automatically scale your Amazon EC2 capacity up or down according to conditions you define.
  • Elastic Load Balancing – Elastic Load Balancing automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple Amazon EC2 instances.

OpenNebula and Ubuntu

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

OpenNebula on Ubuntu allows virtual machines to be placed and re-placed dynamically on a pool of physical resources. This allows a virtual machine to be hosted from any location available.

WaveMaker Studio Cloud Edition

Sunday, May 10th, 2009

The WaveMaker Studio Cloud Edition test drive program is now open

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

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.

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

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).

HAProxy

Friday, March 27th, 2009

HAProxy

HAProxy is a free libre open fast and reliable solution offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP based applications. It is particularly suited for web sites crawling under very high loads while needing persistence or Layer7 processing.