I have already talked about the new Replay Debugging functionality that is now a part of VMware Workstation 6.5 in my previous article (”Replay Debugging: The Future of Software Development“). I truly do believe that this represents the new way that things will be done in the years to come and we will look back [...]
Possibly one of the coolest, and most relevant to the future of my field (software development) features that I had the opportunity to see at VMworld was Replay Debugging. The feature is new and included as part of the just released VMware Workstation 6.5. The feature is considered “experimental” and currently has its limits, but [...]
Virtualization is obviously going to be part of the IT industry for the forseable future. VMware has always had ties to academia as a pioneer in the field, but they recently have taken it a step further by launching govirtual.org. This new website was created specifically for virtualization researchers and academics.
From VMware’s Academic Programs Team:
“Govirtual.org [...]
VMworld 2008 has come and gone and it was a great experience. The IT industry has more than a few conferences and each one has its own unique hallmarks. I wanted to share some of my observations from VMworld in Las Vegas…
1) It felt interactive. Instead of feeling like I was sitting in one [...]
9:04 - “Will it be moist and chewy?” - Additional Desktop Preview tracks now available and roadmap keynote will go more in depth.
9:02 - VMware View will provide Server-Based management capabilities, a full PC User Experience, and Universal Client capabilities.
8:56 - Live demo of VMware View.
Can successfully map virtualized apps even to 3D hardware acceleration on [...]
VMware has let out the annoucement about its Virtual Data Center OS (VDC-OS). Check out Scott Lowe’s blog for all the details:
http://blog.scottlowe.org/2008/09/15/follow-up-on-the-vdc-os-announcement/
Look for some more details to come out of tomorrow morning’s keynote address.
Alistair Croll of GigaOM wrote a great article yesterday about a new tool released for free from Embotics to help “fight” VM Sprawl called ‘V-Scout’.
http://gigaom.com/2008/09/03/embotics-releases-free-tool-to-fight-vm-sprawl/
Why free? According to the Embotics web site, awareness of sprawl is merely the first step. They sell several tools to help get it under control and prevent it in the [...]
Microsoft announced today that it will eliminate its licensing restrictions that prevented customers from being able to move its virtual applications to a different virtual server more than once every 90 days. This is important as the world moves closer and closer to being hardware agnostic. Prior to today, it was technically neccessary for administrators [...]