by Peter Galli on February 16, 2009
Microsoft and Red Hat announced this morning that they have recently signed agreements to test and validate their server operating systems running on one another's hypervisors. This is deeply significant as it means that customers will be able to confidently... more
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by Peter Galli on November 18, 2008
It is two years this month since Microsoft and Novell struck their ground-breaking technical collaboration agreement , a move that has effectively ensured greater interoperability between Windows Server and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. This technical... more
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by Peter Galli on October 27, 2008
It's all about developers, all the time - well, at least for the next week here in Los Angeles at Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference. The first day of the show started off with an opening keynote by Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie, who welcomed... more
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by Sam Ramji on February 27, 2008
When I think about what works really well in open source development and technology, the following things stand out: Modular architectures You can find these wherever you see participation at scale – and often a rearchitecture to a more modular system... more
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by jcannon on October 23, 2007
A quick note to let our community know that Virtual Machine Additions for Linux 2.0 has been released - bringing the version number up to 2.0. For those unfamiliar with Virtual Machine Additions for Linux, it is technology layer designed to improve the usability and interoperability of running Linux operating systems as guests or virtual machines inside of Virtual Server. From the release notes, it... more
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by MichaelF on August 13, 2007
I had the opportunity to present at both OSCON in Portland and at LinuxWorld in San Francisco in the last three weeks – both O’Reilly and IDG were gracious enough to grant me a session on the work that Microsoft is doing with Novell, XenSource, and others on Linux and Windows interoperability.
Overall our focus is on three critical technology areas for the next-generation datacenter: virtualization... more
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by MichaelF on February 20, 2007
Just a quick note to let Port 25 readers know that yesterday Microsoft released Virtual PC 2007 as a free download...... more
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by MichaelF on October 17, 2006
Today Microsoft announced the addition of it's Virtual Hard Disk Format (VHD) to the list of specifications covered by the Open Specification Promise (OSP). In light of the announcement we thought it would be a good time to catch up a bit with Xensource to discuss virtualization...
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by MichaelF on October 06, 2006
In the IT industry it is axiomatic that whatever is new will be old, and will then be new again! Consider the “Service Bureau” approach that was used in the mainframe days, in which an organization’s computing needs were taken care of by a “Service Bureau” that maintained the infrastructure, served up the applications and provided the support for the users. The Service Bureau typically served many... more
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by MichaelF on August 22, 2006
Just returning from Linux World in San Francisco, and virtualization was once again the topic du jour. A lot of you outside of the technology vendor-sphere (where we like to speak in weird acronyms and corporate buzzwords), might wonder why Microsoft and many others can’t stop talking about virtualization...... more
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by jcannon on July 18, 2006
By now, many of you have seen the Xensource announcement released today. If not, I reccomend checking it out. It describes Microsoft’s partnership with Xensource (www.xensource.com). For those who do not know anything about the technology and what they would use it for, I will give a brief description. Many years ago when processors where not so fast, memory was expensive and general computing hardware... more
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