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Virtual Bridges, a leading provider of desktop and enterprise virtualization solutions for business, has released a major upgrade to its award-winning Win4Lin Desktop product and a specially priced edition for Ubuntu users. With Win4Lin Desktop, home and personal users enjoy unparalleled ease-of-use together with the broadest Windows application support available from desktop virtualization products. SMB users are able to lower costs by standardizing on Linux infrastructure while retaining their tried and true applications like Quickbooks and Filemaker. Enterprises and large organizations benefit not only from being able to run custom and vertical applications unmodified on Linux, but also from incredible easy management and corruption recovery.
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Red Hat Inc. is developing a Linux-based hypervisor for a fully open-source virtualization solution. The Embedded Linux Hypervisor will supposedly host both Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Microsoft Windows operating systems but be compact enough to fit on a flash drive. The new hypervisor is based on the Linux KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) project. Paul Cormier, president of products and technology at Red Hat said
Dell has introduced its new range of full-height blade servers, the PowerEdge M905 and PowerEdge M805 which have built on the ground-breaking virtualization design of the PowerEdge R805 and R905. Based on a four-socket blade, the PowerEdge M905 delivers ultimate virtualization performance. It is also the first blade server that supports as may as 11 tiles along with 66 Virtual Machines in VM mark testing. The PowerEdge M805 offers equal number of DIMM slots in a two-socket blade that needs a four-socket blade from HP or IBM. The servers are available in markets worldwide at a starting price of USD 1,699 and USD 4,999 respectively.
Stoneridge is saving money and data center space worldwide by simplifying its IT operations with Dell PowerEdge servers supported by Dell EqualLogic Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage area networks (SANs). Using Dell PowerEdge R900 and Dell PowerEdge 2900 servers, with VMware Infrastructure 3 virtualization software, Stoneridge retired 89 percent of its active servers in the company’s main data center. Stoneridge is using Dell EqualLogic iSCSI SANs to support the virtualized server infrastructure, providing high transactional performance and scalability while simplifying management and administration.