The rumor had been floating around for a while, but after Oracle acquired SUN no one really expected them to still buy Virtual Iron. But they just did… Oracle has agreed to acquire Virtual Iron Software, Inc. (Virtual Iron), a provider of server virtualization management software that enables dynamic resource and capacity management in virtualized data centers. The combination of [...]
I wrote about HyTrust a month ago. Today HyTrust announced a community version. In short, for up to three host you can use a fully featured version of the Hytrust Appliance for free… HyTrust Appliance, Community Edition is now available for download now as a pre-built, VMware-compatible virtual appliance to members of HyTrust Community. To join the community free of [...]
I just received the following email: Duncan, I just wanted to let you know that you have passed the VI3 Design exam, the third of five parts of the VCDX certification program. Next steps are the submission of applications and then the defense. Scoring our exams took a long time because we were in the alpha group. But I passed… [...]
I received this one via E-Mail… the vSphere Launch Screensaver. Pick it up here. It’s only 2MB by the way, and it’s pretty much similar to the flash movie on the announcement website.
There’s hardly any point in covering the announcements of today. There are so many people blogging right now that no one will have the chance to keep up with reading. That’s why I decided not to write or copy any of the announcements. Of course I just might give my thoughts on the webcast this evening but that’s probably it… [...]
What more can I say than W O W: Source (for full aricle) SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 20, 2009 — Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) and Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) announced today they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Oracle will acquire Sun common stock for $9.50 per share in cash. The transaction is valued at approximately $7.4 billion, [...]
EMC has just announced the Symmetrix V-Max. Here are the specs, what a beast: The first new Symmetrix model based on the Virtual Matrix Architecture is the Symmetrix V-Max storage system, the world’s largest high-end storage array, featuring: Up to 128 Intel Xeon processor cores Up to 1 TB (terabyte) of global memory Fibre Channel/FICON/Gigabit Ethernet/iSCSI connectivity Latest generation Flash/Fibre [...]
