Well, Egenera - which has no market cap at all because it hasn't gone public
yet - claims it is.
IDC, which coined the term, defines "Virtualization 2.0" as the next step
beyond server virtualization replete with faster provisioning, high
availability, disaster recovery, resource balancing and ultimately
policy-based automation.
Egenera says IDC is speaking its name.
While VMware and its hypervisor are good at virtualizing one server at a time
to improve hardware utilization, Egenera can virtualize the data center,
creating networks of virtual and physical servers, and move individual
servers, groups of servers or entire systems from one place to another
seamlessly and securely with verifiable disaster recovery and uptime.
So - convinced that accounts want more than ser... (more)
WOODCLIFF LAKE, NJ -- (Marketwire) -- 10/16/09 -- SYS-CON Events
(http://events.sys-con.com) announced today that Ulitzer (www.Ulitzer.com)
was named exclusive "new media" sponsor of the 4th International Cloud
Computing Conference & Expo (www.CloudComputingExpo.com) which will take
place November 2 - 3 - 4, 2009, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa
Clara, CA.
4th Internationa... (more)
SYS-CON Events announced today that Altor Networks, a leading innovator and
provider of virtual and cloud security will exhibit and present at SYS-CON's
4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, which will take place on
November 2 - 4, 2009, Santa Clara Convention Center, in Santa Clara,
California. The event is expected to attract over 1,500 developers,
engineers, architects,... (more)
Altor Networks' virtual firewall is finally working inside the VMware
hypervisor kernel, solving a problem created by virtual switches.
It's reportedly the first security product to land inside the hypervisor
complements of the VMsafe APIs network APIs in fast-path mode used to develop
it.
Security inspections processed in the hypervisor kernel are supposed to
improve not only security b... (more)
Betcha IBM is worried that Amazon is gonna wind up owning the cloud. Betcha
other companies are worried about that too.
Amazon said Wednesday that it has extended EC2, its Elastic Compute Cloud, to
Europe.
European developers and businesses can now run their EC2 instances in what
Amazon calls "Availability Zones" that are actually in the European Union. By
operating closer to Amazon's EU... (more)