Last weekend, Oracle announced it’s latest offering that enables Virtualization-Aware Java Applications on top of Weblogic webserver.

Taking it further, is Salesforce and VMware, who are turning cloud computing into a Java runtime environment. The companies have partnered to together enable Spring framework based Java cloud. The foundation would be  VMware’s vSphere virtualization infrastructure and will be hosted, of course, at Salesforce.com.

VMforce (the name is obvious) will be able to host any Java .. Read Further »

With the downfall of Windows in 2006, launch of Vista, Apple managed to get a good share in the Desktop OS world. This is the reason why we have seen phenomenal growth of Mac OS. Of course, this growth cannot leave Windows behind. Since the announcement of the new hero, Windows 7, it’s worth the hype to have it running with Mac OS.

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VMotion, a VMware product, provides seamless OS Load balancing. VMotion allows individual virtual machines to be dynamically moved to another VMware server without impact to users.

Cisco and VMware  announced a method for using VMotion across data centers that are located as far apart — 200 kilometers.

Users have been pushing VMware to offer a method of allowing .. Read Further »

VMWare and Java — What do the have in Common? VM – Virtual Machine. Just the name, underlying infrastructure, technology is 99.9% different.

Did any one ever thought a Virtualization giant like VMWare would buy Java based Framework developer Company “Spring Source”, popular for it’s “Spring Framework”, used in most J2EE web applications today.

VMWare’s acquisition of SpringSource, is the most .. Read Further »

Cisco and VMware have collaborated to address new challenges that have arisen from the introduction of bladed server architectures and subsequently of server virtualization. With Cisco VN-Link, you will find a portfolio of networking solutions that can operate directly within the distributed hypervisor layer and offer a feature set and operational model that is familiar and consistent with other Cisco networking products. This approach provides an end-to-end network solution to the new requirements created by server virtualization.

Is it State-of-the-Art or pre-launch advertising? In any case I believe that Cisco’s overview of this new (and at least partially proprietary) hardware-centric approach to Network Virtualization is a must read. It contains a very sound .. Read Further »

One of VMware’s key – and extremely cool – features is VMotion. VMotion allows individual virtual machines (let’s say a Windows 2003 Server) to be dynamically moved to another VMware server without impact to users. Reading right from VMware’s VMotion page:

VMware VMotion technology, unique to VMware,
leverages the complete .. Read Further »