======================================================================== CTO SOURCE http://www.infoworld.com ======================================================================== Tuesday, November 9, 2004
TOP STORIES ======================================================================== * Virtual servers * The reality of virtual servers * VMware delivers a datacenter in a box * Virtual Server 2005 offers Windows upon Windows * Sending software to do hardware's job * Emulation software makes something out of nothing ADVERTISEMENT -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- US IPv6 Summit 2004 - Dec. 7-10, Reston, VA, http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=9D7796:2B910B2 The New Internet is transforming American enterprise. Come learn how, when, and why, and meet virtually all of the key players in the US industry, including the Chief of the DoD IPv6 Transition Office and his team, as well as father of the Internet Vint Cerf, and over 40 other world-class speakers. Meet 24 leading vendors, and get prepared to take advantage of the new opportunities! See http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=9D7796:2B910B2 or call 310-717-7745 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Virtual servers ======================================================================== Posted November 5, 2004, 3:00 p.m. Pacific Time Server virtualization turns one server into many, reducing cost while increasing reliability and manageability. Here's how it works -- and how the top products from VMware and Microsoft stack up. For the full story: http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=9D7793:2B910B2 The reality of virtual servers ======================================================================== Posted November 05, 2004, 3:00 p.m. Pacific Time Server virtualization is one of those rare technologies that sounds too good to be true, but it's real. Its earliest use was to consolidate underutilized server hardware onto a smaller number of machines. Since those early days, it has grown into a multipurpose solution that enables greater reliability, improved management, and other benefits that make it an all-but-indispensable tool for enterprise datacenter administrators. For the full story: http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=9D778F:2B910B2 VMware delivers a datacenter in a box ======================================================================== Posted November 05, 2004, 3:00 p.m. Pacific Time VMware (Profile, Products, Articles), now owned by EMC (Profile, Products, Articles), created its ESX Server virtualization product for businesses that need truly enterprise-class virtualization. ESX Server 2.1.1 implements the consolidation, dynamic provisioning, resource pooling, and all-bases-covered availability assurance of expensive system and storage hardware. But ESX Server does it with ordinary servers, modular SANs, and vanilla operating systems. For the full story: http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=9D778A:2B910B2 Virtual Server 2005 offers Windows upon Windows ======================================================================== Posted November 05, 2004, 3:00 p.m. Pacific Time Microsoft's (Profile, Products, Articles) Virtual Server 2005 is probably best viewed as a direct competitor to VMware's (Profile, Products, Articles) well-entrenched GSX Server , but the degree to which Virtual Server integrates with other Microsoft server products puts it in a class of its own. For the full story: http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=9D778B:2B910B2 Sending software to do hardware's job ======================================================================== Posted November 05, 2004, 3:00 p.m. Pacific Time The top-notch developers at VMware (Profile, Products, Articles) and Connectix (now Microsoft (Profile, Products, Articles)) have spent much of their time inventing intricate work-arounds for design shortcomings of the x86 architecture. But that needn't be the case. When virtualization gets help from hardware, its performance skyrockets. Such hardware assistance is commonplace on mainframes and other big iron, but few today remember that Intel (Profile, Products, Articles) set the precedent for hardware virtualization support on x86 chips nearly 20 years ago. For the full story: http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=9D778C:2B910B2 Emulation software makes something out of nothing ======================================================================== Posted November 05, 2004, 3:00 p.m. Pacific Time Virtualization solutions such as VMware ESX Server use emulation technologies to trick operating systems into seeing hardware that isn't there. But emulation is also used as a stand-alone technology across a broad range of industries. AMD shipped an emulator to get developers working on Opteron/Athlon 64 technology well in advance of the chip's availability. Palmsource, Nokia (Profile, Products, Articles), and Microsoft (Profile, Products, Articles) bundle device emulators with their mobile development environments, not only to speed development but also to allow coders to validate their software on mobile platforms they don't own. Intel (Profile, Products, Articles) and Transmeta rely on low-level emulation to run 32-bit x86 software on VLIW (very long instruction word) processors. For the full story: http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=9D778D:2B910B2 ======================================================================== Now the InfoWorld Test Center reports to you It's like having your own multimillion dollar IT test facility, with lab reports in your inbox each Monday. The weekly "Test Center Report" newsletter delivers product and technology evaluations, trend analysis, and advice from the legendary InfoWorld Test Center. It will save you lots of time - and maybe money, too. But it's free, fast, and easy to subscribe. 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