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A really interesting discussion has been going on in the LinkedIn IT Architect group. If you aren't a member of the group, I highly recommend you join. The question that fired off the discussion was, "Is 'the cloud' just another name for a hosted / out-sourced (web application) service? If not …
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ReadWriteWeb is highlighting the recent hubbub around the fact that IT staffs aren't shrinking despite the rapid adoption of cloud computing. It's always been assumed that outsourcing IT infrastructure would result in reductions in IT staffing. Although that is still generally assumed to be the future, recent studies have shown …
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Behold, the benefits of virtualization!
I spent most of the evening preparing to move a few websites. I decided to do some benchmarking just to see what sort of improvement I was getting from the new server setup. Although the old server didn't feel slow when browsing sites, the results …
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Although this process is well documented on the Ubuntu community site, I decided to take notes of the exact steps that I took so that I wouldn't have to fumble through that long document next time. I'm installing the tools in a clean install of Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS …
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![Wikibon: How Big is the World of Cloud Computing? [Infographic]](https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_LF9bAucktRs/Tb9LKNPdQPI/AAAAAAAACY8/u1ILrKs4aFQ/s640/wikibon-graphic-how-big-is-the-world.png)
Via: Wikibon
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The Influences Driving Virtualization is a new white paper from the guys at ReadWriteWeb. I recently downloaded and read through it. If you're curious about virtualization, but aren't sure about giving up your contact info to ReadWriteWeb, here are some notes about what you'll find after you download.
"Organizations that …
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In vCenter Chargeback version 1.6, VMware added the ability to define a pricing matrix for virtual machines in a virtual data center (vDC). A pricing matrix associates a fixed cost with the virtual machine based on the number of allocated vCPUs and RAM. If you're implementing a bundle-based pricing …
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Oracle announced the release of VirtualBox 4.0.4 today. This maintenance release addresses many bugs experienced by hosts of all operating systems. You can find a full list of fixes and additions in the Changelog.
I use VirtualBox on both my Macs for my various testing needs. If you've …
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Oracle's VirtualBox 3.2.10 was released today. This another maintenance release for 3.2 that includes a wide variety of bug fixes. Check out the Changelog for more details.
I use VirtualBox on both my Macs for my various testing needs. If you've got a favorite desktop virtualization program …
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Users of Citrix XenServer 5.6 are experiencing a problem where the cdrommon process begins consuming all CPU resources and affecting virtual machine performance. Using 'top' or 'ps auwx' from dom0 shows that the process is consuming 99% or more CPU resources. Users of Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) 0.5 …
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Engineering firm CH2M Hill recently began moving away from VMware ESX to Microsoft's Hyper-V. CH2M Hill has been using VMware technology since 2005, but recently began the push toward Hyper-V in an effort to increase savings through more virtualization. The engineering firm believes it will save over \$280,000 in …
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Oracle's VirtualBox 3.2.8 has been released. This is a maintenance release that mainly focuses on bug fixes rather than new features. Although I don't think the changes in this release are as prolific as the fixes in 3.2.6, it's definitely worth downloading.
One key feature buried …
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As every system administrator is aware, keeping precise time on your servers can be critical. For example, if you use QueueMetrics for your Asterisk-based call center and the QM and MySQL servers are running with different times, users will notice confusing behavior as calls seem to arrive in the future …
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After all this time, I still love VirtualBox, the open source hypervisor from Sun (now Oracle). I use it almost everyday on my iMac to either test something in Windows XP or see what's going on in some version of Linux. It's been almost a year since the release of …
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I use VirtualBox to run a Microsoft Windows guest
on my iMac. For some reason, VirtualBox did not notify me that version 3.0 had
been released. This new version includes symmetric multi-processing (SMP) for
guest systems, Direct3D 8 and 9 for Windows guests, and OpenGL support for Windows,
Linux …
