Amy Newman

The bi-annual Supercomputing show kicked off Tuesday in Austin, Texas, and with it came the release of 32nd bi-annual TOP500 Supercomputer list. IBM’s Roadrunner based out of Los Alamos National Laboratory, which took the top spot on the previous list back in June, once again took the top spot, achieving 105 petaflop/s. Interestingly, Intel processors […]

Editor’s note: Two weeks ago, we quoted Virtual Iron CEO Ed Walsh as saying that Virtual Iron is the most frequently selected virtualization environment for Dell servers. Although many instances of Virtual Iron do ship on Dell boxes, it is not the most popular. We apologize for any confusion this may have caused. There is […]

Many cliches could be applied to Virtual Iron — dark horse, always a bridesmaid. It doesn’t have the market share of VMware and several years ago it opted out of the hypervisor business, even before the technology became a commodity. Last week, Andi Mann, research director at Enterprise Management Associates, called Virtual Iron “a top […]

It’s not surprising that Xen would chose a word synonymous with enlightenment for its open source portability standard. Xen describes Project Kensho as providing a powerful, multi-hypervisor toolkit designed to leverage the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) Open Virtualization Format (OVF) to enable ISVs and enterprises to more easily create hypervisor-independent, portable enterprise application workloads. […]

Managing server loads is a complex endeavor in any environment, and even more so when virtualization and cloud computing comes into play. There are, of course, myriad solutions for managing server loads. On Monday, Librato (which up until recently went by the name Evergrid) unveiled version 2.0 of Librato Load Manager, a product designed to […]

It may not be glossy or nearly as exciting as server virtualization, but storage and a strategy to deal with it is vital to any enterprise. Storage, perhaps in a effort to make it sound more compelling, is now referred to as “data management” or “information management.” Data management lends itself well to virtualization, and […]

The exhibitors have packed up, the attendees have returned home; VMworld 2008 has come to a close. But is the party really over? VMware laid out some very grand plans this week. Its partners and competitors were equally vocal. In the days leading up to the show, the question was, would VMware override the turmoil […]

Virtualizing your environment is more than simply taking a bunch of old servers (possibly laying around since the last Boom in the 1990s), and partitioning them. In most cases it means buying more hardware. This makes virtualizing pretty much a no-brainer for a company starting out or one building a data center from the ground […]

True confession: I have a terrible track record when it comes to computers. Laptops, in particular, don’t tend to last very long with me. Compounding that is a complete inability to remember to back up. (I bet you can guess where this is headed.) So when my computer blue-screened three times in a row in […]

It’s trade show season. This week is Demo and TechCrunch. Next week, “Virtually Anything Is Possible” for VMware. Virtually anything is indeed possible with 14,000 attendees and more than 200 sponsors and exhibitors expected to descend on Sin City for VMworld 2008. VMworld last year bid adieu to the Moscone Center in San Francisco in […]