James over at the Wisdom of the Clouds blog recently wrote a blog about “Why virtualization is shaking up IT data centers“, it is an interesting read and well worth taking five minutes over. he (as always) makes some great points and brings up the “car” analogy. This is an ok analogy for virtualization and [...]

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The next version of Ubuntu Linux (9.10 code named Karmic Koala) it has been announced,will be very cloud oriented. This starts with their continuation of work to make it easy to deploy to Amazon AWS EC2 but extends beyond  that to incorporate the Eucalyptus Project in their server version.
EUCALYPTUS, which stands for “Elastic [...]

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Citrix have recently made more features available in Xenserver, that really makes it a competitive option against the encumbant leader in Virtualisation, VMware. The features you can now get inside XenServer: 64-bit Bare-metal hypervisor,Max virtual CPUs 8, Windows® and Linux guests, Unlimited servers, P2V & V2V conversion, Shared SAN and NAS storage, Centralized multi-server management, [...]

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The most common question we get in regard to virtualisation is “How much will it cost me?” which is a fair question to ask. In this post we shall give a example cost for a small to medium sized company. The sort of company that uses Microsoft Windows 2003 SBS for their server(s).
In this example [...]

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