It's a feature which could be ubiquitous in more data centers if it could just get out of the labs: the ability to move running virtual machines between platforms with next-to-zero downtime. Now, it' read more » DiscussBury
In an exclusive interview, Red Hat's Jim Whitehurst opens up about the open source software firm's short-term prospects in troubled times and longer-term opportunities for growth.
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Novell Tuesday took aim at rival and Linux market leader Red Hat with a migration service designed to help move Linux users onto Novell's Suse enterprise servers.The SLES (SUSE Linux Enterprise S read more » DiscussBury
Dave Whiting, the principal at Red Newt Cellars winery in upstate New York, was tired of chasing vendors to try to get them to support clunky custom content management systems on his site at RedNewt. read more » DiscussBury
The vendors posted a YouTube video showing the migration of a running virtual machine from an Intel Xeon-based server to one running AMD's quad-core Shanghai processor.
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Even as virtualization management tools have improved steadily this year, enterprises remain stuck with an unpleasant reality about their ability to move virtual machines between physical servers. If read more » DiscussBury
During a trip to Australia, the CEO of Red Hat predicted that open source will be better off than proprietary software after the end of the financial crisis. But lately, other observers have been say read more » DiscussBury
Unhappy with definition of 'management'<br />The Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit entity behind the Wikipedia online encyclopedia, has finished the porting of its IT infrastructure - including most servers and desktops - to the Ubuntu variant of Linux.… read more » DiscussBury