Archive for the ‘virtualisation’ Category

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) is a secure and seamless bridge between a company’s existing IT infrastructure and the AWS cloud. Amazon VPC enables enterprises to connect their existing infrastructure to a set of isolated AWS compute resources via a Virtual Private Network (VPN) connection, and to extend their existing management capabilities such as security services, firewalls, and intrusion detection systems to include their AWS resources.

VM Expo & Cloud Expo

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

IP Expo now incorporates 4 must attend events – bringing together converged network IP Infrastructure, Virtualisation, Wireless and Cloud Computing in one unmissable expo.

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