With Windows 7 slowly getting more acceptance, many of us want to get a hand on it. As a geek myself we often too excited & quickly upgrade from the faithful XP after years of surviving guide without considering whether some of our loyal application can run on Windows 7?
With the current new buzz word in town every IT vendor from network switches, storage, server, software & the list go on and on …….is talking about “Cloud”. It is getting very “cloudy” to me & it seems going to rain. I just wonder how many of our local ISV know about it & getting their piece of software to ready for cloud. What about our SME & Enterprise? In January 15, 2010 Gartner conducted a survey
Just bump into this article about Cisco Unified Computing while reseraching on virtualization. It seems something is brewing in the backyard. Is there going to be another giant releasing something interesting to the market? Take a look at “Introducing Unified Computing to the Data Center”. I guess this may be the same thing what Craig is referring to “Consolidate Server, Network Virtualization & Storage”.
Ha …! Ha…! I thought I am the only person disappointed with the fact no Open Source database support. Luckilly I was not so extreme compare to what I have read. Take a look at “Dissappointing Tech preview of the vCenter on Linux” I was still giving some chances hoping VMware will take some serious action. No doubt someone commented they plan to have DB2 included but it is still a “monster” compare to some other light weight databases.
For those who missed VMworld 2008 in Las Vegas hope this piece of info will trigger some excitement. Under the “Explore Technology & Architecture” category Breakout Session #TA3201 : Linux Strategy & Roadmap outline some interesting stuff for those pure Open Source or Linux house. It will definitely a good news if you plan or already virtualize with VMware. As most of us know the “legacy” VirtualCenter or the new name to be release vCenter required to have a AD or MS server in house to manage VI3 & ESX.
Beside OS dependancy it also require a database which currently so sad only work with Oracle or MSSQL. During TA3201 session under “Linux Initiatives“ mentioned vCenter will have a Linux appliance version as well as a Cross Platform Client. As follow are some highlight what’s is in the vCenter Linux appliance. The interesting part is there is no mention whether it will support OpenSource databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL.
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