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Oracle VM 3 Expected to be Released This Spring

The Oracle virtualization portfolio got a boost with the company’s acquisition of Sun, and it has signaled a willingness to take on VMware. Oracle VM 3, which is expected this spring, will give Oracle credible Xen-based server virtualization that could challenge VMware, Microsoft and Citrix Systems Inc. — at least in the tens of thousands of Oracle database and application shops. A SearchServerVirtualization.com article explores Oracle’s virtualization play.

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Three Reasons Why it is Inevitable

Inevitably IT will be more open by the end of 2010, contends Evan Powell, who cites these three reasons on why the momentum toward openness is certain:

• 1. Moore’s Law -> abstraction -> freedom and flexibility and openness
• 2. Tight budgets -> open minds
• 3. Open source critical mass cannot be stopped

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Offers Details on the Virtualization Solution

Anyone interested in the Oracle VM may want to read Roddy Rodstein’s underground manual on Oracle’s server virtualization software. Broken down into seven topics, Rodstein, who is a member of the Virtualization and Linux team at Oracle, offers an introduction and architectural review, along with information on hard and soft partitioning, upgrading, OVS repository configurations, guest disk storage options, and manager command line interface.

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Engineers Understand the Term to Mean Something Different from Marketers

“Demystifying Enterprise-Class Server Virtualization,” a Sun BluePrints Online paper by Chad Prucha defines and classifies the various subtypes of server virtualization and provides an overview of the various enterprise-class server virtualization offerings available today from Sun Microsystems and other vendors.

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Short Items of Interest to the OpenSolaris Community

• OpenSolaris 2006.06 Reinvents Network, Storage and Compute
• OpenSolaris Logical Domains Rapid Service Provisioning
• Protocol Analyzer WireShark in OpenSolaris
• Postgres 8.4 beta1 on OpenSolaris
• Use of FX Scheduler on OpenSolaris with Postgres
• Installing Zones on OpenSolaris
• OpenSolaris Just Enough Operating System (JeOS)
• OpenSolaris Developer Conference 2009
• Civilization on UNIX

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