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As many of you are using Hyper-V to host Exchange, SQL and Sharepoint, I’m sure many of you think about backup and recovery of those workloads. If you do, then you’ll be interested to read Jason’s blog post in honor of Data Privacy Day, which is today if you didn’t already have parties planned .

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RT: Happy Data Privacy Day from System Center

I’m sure you’ve all heard about the latest antitrust and IP settlement between Intel and AMD announced a few weeks ago. Not only is this great news for AMD, but it’s also great news for AMD and Intel customers who will all benefit from what will surely become a more fair, open and innovative marketplace. NetworkWorld’s Jon Brodkin posted an interesting story re: what this settlement means for virtualization compatibility and includes a great quote from Gartner analyst Martin Reynolds: “If they [AMD and Intel] were to integrate virtualization more deeply into the processors as a single standard that companies use, it’s possible virtualization could become less expensive.” Personally, I would love to see this kind of standards-based approach to virtualization ( I’ve always been a big fan of this approach ), just as long as we can ensure that innovations in virtualization continue.

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AMD/Intel Settlement and the Cost of Virtualization

As my boss, Wim Coekaerts pointed out on his blog yesterday, there are a number of good, educational videos covering Oracle VM on YouTube, including coverage of some topics for Oracle VM 2.2 (the latest release). Very easy to find, just go to YouTube and search on Oracle VM (or Oracle VM 2.2 to see those specifically). Of course, you’ll also find some videos on reference customers, partners, and even a video interview with me from the Cloud Computing Expo that I mentioned in my earlier blog entry

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Oracle VM Videos On YouTube

It’s been a busy couple of months, as AMD has been working in tandem with Microsoft on their whole suite of “new efficiency” products – namely, Windows® 7 and Windows Server® 2008 R2. There has been a great deal of excitement over these launches for some time now; and rightfully so

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Live Migration: The Best Keeps Getting Better with AMD Opteron™ Processors

While a lot of folks know me for having a passion (or is it an obsession) for virtualization and cloud computing – many people don’t realize that I am really a refugee from the world of High Performance Computing. This week I get to put on my propeller hat and attend SC09 in Portland to catch up on the leading innovations – and have a chance to say “Aloha” to my former colleagues at the Maui High Performance Computing Center (MHPCC). One of the big events of this annual supercomputing conference is the release of the TOP500 Supercomputing List

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AMD CPU and GPU Technology – Flying High in the TOP500 Supercomputer List

We are pleased to announce that Oracle VM Manager Command Line Interface (CLI) 2.2 has been released to Oracle Unbreakable Linux Network (ULN) and Oracle’s Public Yum Repository . The Oracle VM Manager CLI 2.2 is the updated version to work with newly released Oracle VM Manager 2.2 , and it can also work with Oracle VM Manager 2.1.5

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Announcing Oracle VM Manager CLI 2.2

My, my…I just looked back and it has been almost exactly 6 months since my last post to this blog. The time has gone fast as we’ve been working hard on a number of things here ranging from the Virtual Iron acquisition integration (going nicely, thanks…) to a number of other projects that I’ll talk about over the next few posts. I plan to get back into blogging much more regularly as I did all during the Spring

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Virtualization for ‘Cloud’ vs. "Traditional" Virtualization

Enterprise software systems have several needs one of which is supportability. It is critical that your system is supportable in the production environment. Teams that start thinking about supportability during the last stage of a development cycle or when transitioning..

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Service Capabilities Need to Address Supportablility

One of the new features in Oracle VM 2.2 is the ability to set virtual CPU scheduling priority and cap per VM from Oracle VM Manager, which enables you to control access to CPU between multiple virtual machines to align with your IT/business priorities. With this enhancement, users can now control the Quality of Service (QoS) for CPU, network, and disk I/O through the intuitive Oracle VM Manager browser interface. You log into Oracle VM Manager, then proceed to configure the VMs.

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Oracle VM 2.2 New Feature: CPU Scheduling Priority and Cap

Posted an episode on the disadvantages of pursuing a code-first approach to building service capabilities at the reuse podcast series:Download file Episode Highlights: Most development environments provide tools for generating WSDL contracts using annotations or platform-specific tools. Existing classes can…

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Disadvantages of Building Services Code-First

October is pretty active month in the cloud computing space, with two big events happening this week that caught my eye: the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco and the Cloud Adoption Arena virtual event. The Web 2.0 conference is about more than just the Internet; it’s evolved to focus on technologies & business models – particularly cloud computing.

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Cloud Computing: A Look Back and a Look Forward

It’s been about a year and half since we first released Intel® SOA Expressway for Healthcare , which is a purpose-built, easy-to-deploy integration appliance for connecting islands of information together to enable a secure, high-performance, best-of-breed health information infrastructure. We have now begun shipping release 2.2, which contains a number of new feature enhancements

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New Intel® SOA Expressway for Healthcare Release Powers Patient/Provider Community Exchange at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center

When I was attending VMworld in September, one of the most frequently asked question was “how do I decide whether to use 2P Intel Xeon 5500 processor-based servers or 4P Six-Core AMD Opteron TM processor-based servers for virtualization?” Over the past few weeks I have done a lot of research and put together a solid picture of where a 4P server can provide an amazing amount of value and efficiency. Low and behold – I was not the only person working on this thought thread. We recently sent Johan De Gelas with AnandTech a 4P Six-Core AMD Opteron processor-based system.  And in his review, “Expensive Quad Sockets vs

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Simply Spectacular Virtualization with 4P Six-Core AMD Opteron™ Processor-based Systems

Last week I was in San Francisco at the kick-off of the Microsoft New Efficiency Launch where Steve Ballmer showcased the new releases of three key products used by the businesses around the world: Windows® 7, Window Server® 2008 R2, and Exchange 2010. AMD is a sponsor of this launch and we are excited about the excellent alignment of AMD Opteron TM processor-based servers and AMD Business Class technology-based clients

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New Efficiencies with AMD and Microsoft – How Silicon and Software Make Virtualization Happen

Oracle OpenWorld 2009 will be held in Moscone Center, San Francisco on Oct. 11-15, 2009. Don’t miss the many exciting Linux and Virtualization activities at Oracle OpenWorld, including expert-led sessions, technology demos, partners, customers, keynotes, and more! Use this daily planner as a checklist to get the most out of your week and visit oracle.com/linux and oracle.com/virtualization for more!

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Oracle VM Blog: Linux and Virtualization Sessions at OpenWorld

Oracle VM Templates are complete, pre-installed and pre-configured software packaged as Oracle VM virtual machines (VMs) complete with an OS ( Oracle Enterprise Linux ). Customers enjoy the benefits of faster application deployment with Oracle VM Templates – for Oracle software as well as non-Oracle software. Zeus Technology recently announced the availability of the Zeus Traffic Manager Template – a pre-installed, pre-configured virtual machine, for Oracle VM.

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Oracle VM Templates for 3rd Party Software

Hi, I’m Mike Neil, general manager of Windows Server and Server Virtualization. Back in February we announced our work with Red Hat to enable cooperative technical support for virtualized environments. I’m excited to announce we’ve completed certification in each others’ programs! Customers now can deploy Microsoft Windows Server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux and a range of select applications, virtualized on Red Hat and Microsoft virtualization products, knowing that the combined solutions will be supported by both companies.

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Microsoft and Red Hat Complete Cooperative Technical Support

This is a Hypervisor 101 case that keeps showing itself every so often the forums, mailing lists, etc: A message to the effect of “The Hypervisor is not running” when a user tries to launch a VM. Felipe Ayora, one of our awesome UA people, has created this video that steps through how to investigate such a failure and fix it http://www.microsoft.com/video/en/us/details/25d07f2e-b2e0-4c0c-b456-79b08bfe58be

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How to fix: Hypervisor not running

Microsoft has a comprehensive portfolio of technologies when it comes to Virtualization ranging from Presentation Virtualization with Remote Desktop Services to Server Virtualization using Hyper-V with many more in between as below.

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Announcing the availability of the updated Infrastructure Planning and Design Guides for Virtualization and System Center

The AMD booth has been a busy place during the VMworld Conference. One of the big draws in our booth has been three proof of concept demos that showcase up and coming technology – graphics virtualization, I/O virtualization, and secure boot of a hypervisor. We have just posted images of these demos for folks who could not attend the conference and to showcase AMD’s continued efforts to drive the maturation of virtualization technology.

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AMD Showcases Virtualization Innovation at VMworld Conference