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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

VMworld 2009 is just around the corner and you can be sure that AMD will be front and center at what has become one of the premier technical conferences of the year.  I’m honored once again to be speaking at one of the breakout sessions during the week.  I invite you to come join me on Thursday at 10am for a discussion on Virtualization and Cloud Computing with AMD Opteron TM processor-based platforms.  I’ll be covering the latest in AMD Opteron TM processors including exciting new features from our most recent introduction of the Six-Core AMD Opteron TM processor (formerly codenamed “Istanbul”). It is the industry’s only six-core process for 2, 4 and 8 socket servers and offers 34% higher performance-per-watt than Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor-based servers in the same power and thermal envelopes.  I promise this will be much more than just a product presentation. I will provide valuable insight into what we’re seeing in the world of virtualization and cloud computing.  I’m very excited to announce that we also plan to have a special guest speaker during this session.   Not to give too much away, but we expect to have a very special customer that will discuss their experiences as they move towards their goal of being 96% virtualized in their datacenter.  This particular customer has been using virtualization for past several years for server consolidation and high availability and they have implemented over 1500 hosted virtualized desktops running on AMD Opteron TM processor-based servers and VMware software

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Countdown to VMworld – Hear the latest trends in Virtualization Straight from the Masters

The AMD virtualization team is doing final preparation for VMworld 2009 , to be held at Moscone Center in just a few weeks.  I was fortunate enough to have attended the first VMworld conference in San Diego in 2004 – and to have made every VMworld conference since then. In this timeframe the AMD Opteron TM processor has grown from its humble single core roots to an impressive six-core processor with hardware assisted virtualization called AMD Virtualization TM (AMD-V TM ) technology that is designed to deliver a perfect balance of price, performance, and power. Since its introduction in June , Six-Core AMD Opteron processor-based servers have been achieving some solid virtualization proof points.

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Countdown to VMworld – Six-Core AMD Opteron™ Processor Flexes Its Muscle

We are pleased to announce the availability of Oracle VM Template Builder, an open source, graphical utility that makes it easy to use Oracle Enterprise Linux “Just enough OS” (JeOS) – based scripts for developing pre-packaged virtual machines for Oracle VM. Now, end-users and ISVs have the option to develop their Oracle VM Templates by using these JeOS-based scripts directly or via the graphical Oracle VM Template Builder. Oracle VM Template Builder uses “JeOS” to facilitate building an operating system instance with only the absolute minimum packages needed for an Oracle VM Template, helping to reduce the disk footprint by up to 2GB or more per guest virtual machine, and to improve security and reliability.

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Announcing Oracle VM Template Builder

The attack of the cores is in full swing.  Between CPUs and GPUs we have a growing number of cores offering an amazing amount of processing capabilities on our computing systems. To use these cores effectively we need to create smart software that can understand the underlying capabilities of the hardware and fully utilize these resources.  Bottom line: we need to make our universe parallel! Virtualization is a technology well positioned to use multi-core processor technology. A virtualized server is really a “parallel environment” containing multiple virtual machines, each with their own operating system and applications spawning threads.

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Making the Universe Parallel

I have recently returned from the HP Technical Conference and, although attendance was down a bit this year (likely due to the economy), there were still plenty of enthusiastic AMD customers and partners in attendance.  The buzz around the availability of the recently released Six-Core AMD Opteron TM “Istanbul” processor and HP Proliant G6 servers was tremendous.  HP has announced seven HP ProLiant platforms based on “Istanbul” processors as well as the availability of upgrade kits for existing G5/G5p platforms.  I’m also happy to report that I had a packed room during my virtualization session on Tuesday. In our booth on the exhibition floor we demonstrated the ability to use VMware’s VMotion to seamlessly migrate a running virtual machine  between an HP Proliant G2 server running Dual-Core AMD Opteron “Rev F” processors (released in 2006), G5 server running Quad-Core AMD Opteron “Shanghai” processors, (released in 2007) and the newest G6 server with Six-Core AMD Opteron processors.  We’ve just released a video on YouTube featuring a similar demo — except that it also includes our upcoming processor codenamed “Magny-Cours” . I’m constantly getting questions on the topic of live migration and VMotion in particular.  Customers want to be assured that they can use VMotion to migrate virtual machines between older and newer versions of their AMD processer-based platforms.   Apparently we and our technology partners could do a better job of getting the word out.  So let’s be clear — the answer is a resounding YES! Here are the facts.  With the launch of our first quad-core processors, AMD formalized a functionality that had existed in our processors for a while under the feature name of Extended Migration.  This capability enabled virtualization software vendors like VMware to support the live migration of a virtual machine between different versions of AMD processors starting with Rev E, which was released in 2004.  Subsequently, with ESX 3.5 u2, VMware released a feature as part of VMotion called Enhanced VMotion Compatibility (EVC) that uses AMD Extended Migration to support VMotion between AMD Opteron processor generations.  In order to utilize the feature, each server must be configured for EVC.  For information on configuring EVC, see the “Migrating Virtual Machines” chapter in the Basic System Administration Guide for your ESX release

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Live Migration: Here to Stay

We are pleased to announce that Oracle VM Manager Command Line Interface (CLI) was released to Oracle Unbreakable Linux Network (ULN) today. The CLI is written in Python and uses the Oracle VM Manager Web Services API to communicate with Oracle VM Manager. You can use the CLI to perform the same functions as Oracle VM Manager, such as managing all your server pools and guests.

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Announcing Oracle VM Manager Command Line Interface (CLI)

Congratulations to Microsoft as Windows 7 has reached an important milestone with its “release to manufacturing” (RTM), which means it is on its way to becoming pre-loaded on new hardware or a box on a retail shelf. In addition to a sleek interface and a number of new features, this new operating system  continues the maturation of the client virtualization and also makes use of AMD innovations.

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A New Window on Client Virtualization

I’m excited today to tell you about a virtualization webinar that AMD recently hosted with valued hardware partner, Dell .  A few years ago Dell and AMD c ollaborated to create some of the industry’s first servers optimized for virtualization — the Dell PowerEdge R805 and R905 rack servers. In fact, earlier this year the Dell PowerEdge R905 won an InfoWorld Technology of the Year Award for Best Virtualization Server. Since then, we’ve continued to work together to fine-tune virtualization and are now expanding our efforts to reach SMBs — a rapidly growing area for virtualization.

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AMD, Dell Talk Virtualization for SMBs

We are pleased to announce the general availability of Windows PV Drivers for Oracle VM to bring customer boosted network throughput and higher disk I/O while running Microsoft Windows guests in a virtual environment on Oracle VM. You can download the software today for free from Oracle E-Delivery . You choose Oracle VM and select 2.1.5.

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Announcing Windows PV Drivers for Oracle VM

The Xen Directions 2009 event was recently held in Berlin, Germany. Christian Rothe from Oracle presented the topic of Xen Virtualization with Oracle: Commitment, Integration, Mission-critical Virtualization at the event. I’d like to summarize the key points in this presentation

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Oracle VM Blog: Xen Virtualization with Oracle: Commitment, Integration, Mission-critical Virtualization

Virtualization and Cloud Computing are terms we normally apply to server-based computing. However, with the concept of virtual client becoming mainstream and social media sites like FaceBook, YouTube, and Twitter changing the way people interact with the Internet, the future of the Client OS is becoming, ahem, partly cloudy.

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Cloudy Forecast for the Client Operating System