The First National Bank of Omaha (FNBO – Nebraska, USA) wanted to insure its data center against any power outage. So they built a new “underground” data center in Omaha, lined with concrete. The facility is powered by hydrogen fuel cells, fully operational “off the grid”, not connected to the national electricity grid. “If the […]
Big news from the Xen Summit in Tokyo in November 2008. Below is the agenda: Welcome & Keynote Hitoshi Matsumoto: Welcome Ian Pratt: Xen Project Status – English – Video (177 MB) Kernel Architecture Andrew Warfield: Services in the Virtualization Plane – English – Video (134 MB) Yoshiaki Tamura: Modernization of Kemari Using HVM with […]
We attended the event organized by Citrix in Rome at the Hotel Melia’, here is the agenda of the day: Agenda 9.30 a.m. Registration of participants 10.00 a.m. Welcome and Agenda of the day 10.10 a.m. Virtually Real: When Virtualization Becomes a Reality Aldo Rimondo Country Manager Citrix Systems Italy 10.30 a.m. Virtualizing IT Environments: […]
On July 28, VMware’s ESXi 3.5 hypervisor, the state of the art of hypervisors It has been made FREE, freely downloadable and installable. Microsoft’s Hyper-V hypervisor is available for free download on October 2nd The Xen hypervisor, notoriously FREE in various versions, can be downloaded in the XenExpress version here The new free version of […]
Yesterday, October 16th, we took part in this very interesting Forum on managerial training at the STOA’ institute in the beautiful Villa Campolieto in Herculaneum. The event, organized in parallel with the conclusion of the management courses organized by the CEK-Lab (Continuous Education & Knoledge Laboratory), included seminar sessions of professional communities after the round […]
Citrix is now open to the standard format of Virtual Machines, which means that now a virtual machine is like a series of settings that exported to VMware ESX or Citrix XenServer or Microsoft Hyper-V will be the same thing, just use the appropriate conversion tool and the game (format migration) is done. OVF according […]
Hewlett-Packard acquired LeftHand Networks on October 1 to open its market to the new logic of storage virtualization, storage clustering, or rather commodity-based storage clusters. LeftHand Networks, a pioneer in iSCSI SAN technology, offers scalable storage software for the standard hardware industry. With the LeftHand, HP’s portfolio of virtualization solutions for small and medium-sized businesses […]
When we came across the embedded version of ESXi in Cannes, but then discovered that it was a pen drive mounted on a USB slot inside the server, we imagined that it was possible to mount the hypervisor on BIOS or on a flash specially mounted on the motherboard and that it would be very […]
This year we missed the event, but fortunately the organization sent us all the slides of the speeches, some really very interesting, such as the new networking technologies associated with storage (FCoE, Infiniband) or storage virtualization understood as efficient use by server virtualization systems, deduplication and green storage. Opening notes and introduction by SNIA – […]
At the SNIA event in 2007, we met some new storage realities, which are not so new, but certainly for the standard approaches we are used to with HP, IBM etc regarding the storage of large amounts of data in security and performance and scalability, it is a revolutionary approach. The fundamental difference between reliable, […]