XenSource teams up with Symantec for storage virtualization
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| Open source virtualization software vendor XenSource will today announce that
| it has struck a deal with security and storage giant Symantec through which
| it will develop unified server and storage virtualization capabilities.
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http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=2680A175-CCB0-449C-B0C9-1F4A9F99B3DD
Rivals Challenge Benchmark Tool
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| But VMware has not always been as impartial as it claims to be, said John
| Bara, vice president of marketing for XenSource, a VMware competitor.
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| Bara says VMware released a white paper earlier this year comparing VMware's
| ESX Server hypervisor to XenSource's Open Source Xen hypervisor on a Windows
| operating system and the results showed VMware performed better. Bara says
| the comparison was not fair because Open Source Xen is optimized to run best
| on Linux, not Windows. XenSource's Xen Enterprise product is optimized to run
| Windows and would be a more balanced comparison to VMware's ESX.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,134927-c,unresolvedtechstandards/article.html
Related:
VMware learns to measure itself
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| The VMmark test suite includes load generators for the various workloads
| described earlier and includes SPEC's own SPECjbb and SPECweb code for
| testing Java and order entry. Half of the benchmarks run on Linux, while the
| other half run on Windows. Customers will find the Linux-friendly software
| wrapped up in handy virtual appliances. Microsoft's licensing restrictions
| blocked a similar deal for the Windows code, so some self-assembly is
| required.
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http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/07/23/vmware_vmmark_benchmark/
Microsoft flip-flops on Vista virtualization
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| Software like Parallels Desktop for the Mac or Microsoft's own Virtual
| PC for Windows allow multiple operating systems to run simultaneously.
| When it announced licensing rules for Vista last year, Microsoft said
| that only Vista Business and Vista Ultimate could run as guest
| operating systems. The company said virtualization presents inherent
| security risks and that it hoped by limiting which versions of the OS
| could act as virtual machines, only sophisticated users and businesses
| would employ the tactic.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6191787.html
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