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Sunday, January 4. 2009
Phishing Scam Spreading on Twitter
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Saturday, January 3. 2009
VMworld 2008 Video Confessionals are online
Virtually anything is possible. Many of you have proven that to be true. If you confessed, VMware recorded your story about how you've accomplished the virtually impossible with VMware virtualization products and solutions. Your story was featured at the VMworld in Las Vegas throughout the conference, in networking lounges, registration areas, hallways and general sessions.
Interview with Srinivas Krishnamurti about the MVP hypervisor
"Your phone is becoming a combination of your PC and wallet all rolled into one. This could become the most important device a consumer can own."
MVP would allow, for example, a user's work profile and personal profile to each have a virtual machine (VM) on a single phone, thus eliminating the need for separate phones for business and personal use. Additionally, upgrading to new phones would be as simple as moving the VM containing the persona from the old phone to the new one. That kind of complexity will require management products in much the same way that VM proliferation today pushes the need for similar management. But for the moment, VMware seems content to focus on the MVP hypervisor.
Right now, VMware only has a few competitors in the mobile hypervisor space, and Krishnamurti is correct when he says, "mobile virtualization is very much in its infancy."
Current competitors include VirtualLogix Inc. and Open Kernel Labs Inc., but that number is sure to swell. If the field is as potentially lucrative as VMware believes, expect serious contenders to start lining up -- similar to what's happened in data center and desktop-based virtualization. "[Mobile] processors are getting more and more powerful, phones are getting more and more memory. If there's value that virtualization is bringing to the table, people will start optimizing for it," Krishnamurti says.
Read the full interview by Keith Ward over at Virtualization Review magazine.
Interview with Bogomil Balkansky about VDC-OS
The first step toward understanding VDC-OS is to properly define the term. It's not a product, but rather a category of software, a generic term for a flexible, agile datacenter, Balkansky explains. "Just like 'operating system' is a category no one owns, [VDC-OS] is a category," he says. "The brand name continues to be VMware Virtual Infrastructure [VI]." Balkansky further compares it to the operating system being the category, and Windows and Linux being brands within the category. "VDC-OS is the category, VI is the product," Balkansky says.
"There are a lot of ecosystem products that play a crucial role in VDC-OS ... Being partner-friendly has always been an imperative for us."
The paradigm shift will occur when an admin sets parameters for an application, and VDC-OS does the rest, Balkansky explains. "The sys admin world will be changed. To deploy an application, [the administrator] will specify the service levels the application requires: availability, security, scalability. [Whether an app] needs five-nines availability, security-it needs to scale to this point. Then the infrastructure that supports and runs the application will interpret policies, execute and guarantee service levels, and do it at the lowest total cost of ownership [TCO] possible. TCO is really a parameter" in VDC-OS, Balkansky adds.
Read the full interview by Keith Ward over at Virtualization Review magazine.
Friday, January 2. 2009
Windows 7 running in Fusion
In the following video you can take a peek (sneak preview) at the upcoming Windows 7. The Beta Build 6.1.7000 is running within VMware Fusion on an Apple iMac. Even things like Wlan, sound and Bluetooth are working fine. The new version of Windows is even better on the Mac.