It’s the age old battle of top-down or bottom-up. IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS) is clearly being driven from the top down in organizations. Large vendors and consultants are working with their executive counterparts to change expectations for how IT provides services to the enterprise. DevOps, on the other hand, is the traditional bottom-up grassroots movement that like…
Tag: virtualization
Predictions for Virtualization in 2014
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According to a prediction made by IDC back in 2010, 70 percent of servers would be virtual by 2014. Gartner now estimates Windows being at between 60 and 70 percent virtualized and Linux being at between 35 and 45 percent virtualized, making IDC’s largely accurate. In addition, very few systems shipped today are not virtual,…
Docker Raises $15M to Advance Open-Source Container Virtualization
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It often takes real money to move virtualization technology forward, which is why open-source virtualization vendor Docker is now raising new funds. Source: Tech
The Three Most Important Open Computing Trends to Watch in 2014
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Editor’s Note: This is a guest blog post by Adam Jollans, Program Director of Linux and Open Virtualization Strategy at IBM. The key events of 2013 set up many of the changes in open computing that we can expect to see in 2014. This year, KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) will go cross-platform, Linux will increasingly be deployed…
Open Computing Accelerated Sharply in 2013
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Editor’s Note: This is a guest blog post by Adam Jollans, Program Director of Linux and Open Virtualization Strategy at IBM. Open computing has been steadily growing in enterprise acceptance and, in 2013, that trend accelerated sharply. Many factors contributed to the upward trajectory of open computing in the last year. However, there were three notable developments…
IBM Will be Bringing KVM Linux Virtualization to Power in 2014
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KVM, the long a popular x86 Linux virtualization technology, will appear in IBM’s Power architecture in 2014. Read more at Enterprise Open Source Toolkit Source: Linux
Are All Applications Going to be Virtual in the Future?
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People want to be able to access applications and data from wherever they are, using their favorite device. Is application virtualization the answer? Spoon’s Kenji Obata thinks so. Read more at Enterprise Open Source Toolkit Source: Linux
8 Habits of High-Performing IT Teams
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Accenture says higher-performing IT teams are more open to new projects, cloud and virtualization. Read more at Enterprise Open Source Toolkit Source: Linux
Surprise: Top Executives are Really Bullish on Virtualization, Survey Says
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Top executives are enthusiastic about the benefits of virtualization, while middle managers’ responses are a collective ‘meh.’ Say again? Read more at Enterprise Open Source Toolkit Source: Linux
MontaVistaA ARMs Telecom to Attack the Cloud – Virtualized…
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Carrier Grade Edition 7 Linux now also includes advanced virtualization features to enable seamless hardware acceleration for the performance sensitive Software Defined Network and Network Function Virtualization market. Source: Tech