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By John | August 26, 2009
These are my links for August 25th from 16:49 to 18:51:
- Parallels to make switching to the Mac easier, safe and painless | VentureBeat – In the Windows vs. Mac war, we are at a crossroads. Apple is launching its Snow Leopard version of the Mac operating system on Friday at the low price of $29. Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system will launch in October with the primary aim of fixing the problems created by Windows Vista.
- The Xen 4.0 roadmap emerges | virtualization.info – xen logo
In June Xen reached version 3.4 introducing out-of-the-box support for Hyper-V and a series of enhancements that will make the platform a good client hypervisor.
- People Over Process » Putting Agile Infrastructure into Practice – Agile Executive Episode 007 – Last week over at The Agile Executive we finished up the the short series on Agile Infrastructure (part one and part two), addressing the topic of putting Agile Infrastructure into practice:
- How Google Manages Data Across Data Centers « Data Center Knowledge – How does Google manage data across the many data centers the company operates? At the Google i/o Developer Conference in May, Google’s Ryan Barrett discusses “multihoming” across multiple data center locations with large scale storage systems. Barrett’s presentation examines different approaches to multi-homing, with a particular focus on how Google engineers the App Engine datastore. This video runs about 1 hour. (Link via High Scalability, which has additional commentary).
- Rackspace Launches Cloud Tools Ecosystem « Data Center Knowledge – Rackspace Hosting wants to make using the cloud easy for its users, and is enlisting partners in its effort. This morning the company rolled out Cloud Tools, a portal to showcase partner solutions that offer applications and services built atop The Rackspace Cloud, its cloud computing suite.
- NEW: Immutable Service Container Podcast : Glenn Brunette’s Security Weblog – Things have certainly been busy around here lately! Over the last two months, we have announced the Immutable Service Container project, published an OpenSolaris-based ISC Construction Kit (Preview) and a corresponding pre-configured OVF image, shared a number of network architecture and autonomic security models leveraging the ISC concept, and even published an ISC Technical Overview presentation. Well, as it turns out, we are not done yet!
- blog.dsa-research.org » Archives » Topic on Virtualization Technologies in DATE2010 – The 13th DATE conference includes a new topic on “Virtualization Technology”, focusing on the following themes (submission deadline is September 8th).
- Supporting SLA’s on the Cloud | Cloudiquity – What does it take to make a Cloud Computing infrastructure enterprise ready ? Well, as always, this probably depends on the use case, but support for real-time scaling and SLA support must figure highly.
- Virtualization and the Network: Key Voices and Events « ARCHIMEDIUS – As I ranted about how networks today resemble yesterday’s factories I think I inadvertently stirred up an even larger issue. My buddy Doug Gourlay pushed the implications a bit further in his Network World blog, suggesting that the network could be at a kind of turning point:
- Talking to the Co-Founder of Rackspace Cloud « Barton’s Blog – Earlier this month at Cloud World/Open World I bumped into Jonathan Bryce one of the two founders of the cloud platform formerly known as “Mosso” (now known as Rackspace Cloud).
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