Tuesday 16 March 2010
VMware
Virtualization software company VMware has opened a new development centre in Pune, India’s emerging IT city. Mr. Carl Eschenbach, Executive Vice President, of VMware, inaugurated this centre.
In the beginning of this month VMware has appointed T Srinivasan as MD of VMware India with responsibility for markets under India and the SAARC region.
VMware, Inc. is a US-based company specializing in virtualization software. The company was founded in 1998 and is based in Palo Alto, California. The Company is majority owned by EMC Corporation. The name “VMware” comes from the acronym “VM”, meaning “virtual machine”, combined with ware from the second part of “software”.
VMware’s desktop software runs on Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. VMware’s enterprise software, VMware ESX Server, runs directly on server hardware without requiring an additional underlying operating system.
The Top Virtualization Solutions people are looking for in 2009
This is the summary of Survey conducted by onCloudComputing.com in which the participants were asked only one simple question “What they are looking for in 2009 in relation to Virtualization”. So we can also call the following as “Virtualization Trends 2009”
1. Windows Virtualization
Windows takes advantage of virtualization assistance in hardware that is based on Intel Virtualization Technology and AMD “Pacifica.” By doing this, Windows virtualization enables workloads such as server consolidation, efficient software development and testing, resource management for dynamic data centers, application rehosting and compatibility, and high-availability partitions.
2. Server Virtualization
Server virtualization is the masking of server resources, including the number and identity of individual physical servers, processors, and operating systems, from server users. The server administrator uses a software application to divide one physical server into multiple isolated virtual environments. The virtual environments are sometimes called virtual private servers, but they are also known as partitions, guests, instances, containers or emulations
3. VMware Virtualization
An automated datacenter, built on a VMware virtualization platform, lets you respond to market dynamics faster and more efficiently than ever before. VMware vSphere delivers resources, applications—even servers—when and where they’re needed. VMware customers typically save 50-70% on overall IT costs by consolidating their resource pools and delivering highly available machines with VMware vSphere.
4. Intel Virtualization
Increasing manageability, security, and flexibility in IT environments, virtualization technologies like hardware-assisted Intel Virtualization Technology combined with software-based virtualization solutions provide maximum system utilization by consolidating multiple environments into a single server or PC
5. Virtualization Software
Virtualization software allows a single host computer to create and run one or more virtual environments. Virtualization software is most often used to emulate a complete computer system in order to allow a guest operating system to be run, for example allowing Linux to run as a guest on top of a PC that is natively running a Microsoft Windows operating system.
6. Microsoft Virtualization
Microsoft virtualization enables workloads such as server consolidation, efficient software development and testing, resource management for dynamic data centers, application rehosting and compatibility, and high-availability partitions.
7. Hardware Virtualization
Hardware virtualization is when the virtual machine manager is embedded in the circuits of a hardware component instead of being called up from a third-party software application. The virtual machine manager is called a hypervisor. The job of the hypervisor is to control processor, memory and other firmware resources.
8. Application Virtualization
Application virtualization (also known as application portability or application service virtualization) is the practice of running software from a remote server rather than on the user’s computer. Application virtualization is an umbrella term that describes software technologies that improve portability, manageability and compatibility of applications by encapsulating them from the underlying operating system on which they are executed.
9. Xen Virtualization
The Xen hypervisor, the powerful open source industry standard for virtualization, offers a powerful, efficient, and secure feature set for virtualization of CPU architectures. It supports a wide range of guest operating systems including Windows, Linux, Solaris, and various versions of the BSD operating systems
10. Windows 7 Virtualization
With Windows Server 2008 now shipping with hypervisor-based virtualization capabilities, it’s obvious that this technology will be making its way to the Windows client as well. Will it happen in time for Windows 7? Yes, it probably will. But Windows 7 will natively support the VHD virtual hard drive format utilized by Virtual PC and Hyper-V regardless.
Other popular Virtualization Solutions
Windows Xp Virtualization
Bios Virtualization
AMD Virtualization
Virtual PC
Virtualization Open Source
OS Virtualization
Cisco Virtualization
Oracle Virtualization
Fedora Virtualization
Centos virtualization
For other such reports and more Virtualization and Cloud Computing news please check on Cloud Computing News
Flat IT budget growth also means that organizations that face critical datacenter limitations, such as a shortage of floor or rack space, are looking to software or outsourcing alternatives to building new datacenters or upgrading existing facilities. Those alternatives include IT leasing, managed services, virtualization software, cloud computing and software-as-a-service (SaaS).
Datamonitor believes datacenter resources will increasingly be hosted in a cloud computing environment, which should - at least theoretically - fall under the green IT banner.
However, the greatest demand for datacenter green IT will be for datacenter virtualization. Datacenter virtualization is becoming more holistic, whereby various assets, including servers, storage, communications infrastructure, and business applications, are being virtualized across a pool of datacenter hardware. Datamonitor believes business applications are the next frontier of datacenter virtualization.
VMware's new software to let companies access Cloud Computing internally
VMware most famous for making “virtualization” software that can reduce the need for new, physical computers announced the new software, named vSphere 4, which will help companies create virtual computing infrastructure. vSphere 4 software will bring the benefits of cloud computing to internal IT and the internal data center.
About 1,000 VMware engineers have been fine tuning and testing the product for three years, the company says, and chief executive Paul Maritz has mentioned the new product. The stakes are high, however, since VMware and its partners are releasing it into a tough market for corporate computer spending and at a time when at least one prominent study has questioned cloud computing’s ability to cut IT costs
Cloud computing means the services offered over the Web from remote data centers. Still a relatively new technology, many IT companies are pinning their hopes on its future success.
Bogomil Balkansky, vice president of product marketing in VMWare’s server unit, said vSphere allows customers large and small to simplify internal IT and use only what they need, thereby saving money. It collects and manages processors, storage and networking as a flexible operation, he said.
VMware says adopting vSphere 4 could save companies an extra 30% on server hardware, an additional 50% in computer-storage costs and an extra 20% on electricity.
VSphere will be available in the second quarter in six editions, starting at $995 for three physical servers for small offices
