Pano Logic, thinner than thin client device

Definitely I like Brian Madden TV and today’s videocast I’ve learned about Pano Logic’s zero client which sounds a fantastic product for VDI/HVD.
 
As I’m looking around for thin client for my VDI project, that kind of videocast is welcome… Anybody has some experience with that product and ready to share his thoughts?
 
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Application Virtualization for Servers

We know all about OS virtualization and get used to it more and more…
Next step, application virtualization, where the application is independent from the underlying OS.
Check out the demo here

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Learn how to implement a Virtual SAN for ESX shared datastores

StorMagic has a very good product called SvSAN.  It allows you to convert DAS into SAN accessible through iSCSI.
And with features like SAN mirroring you create a fault tolerant solution …
 
Great stuff for SMB and home labs and BTW, it’s free J
 
 
 
They are about to give a webinar on Virtual Storage Appliances, visit this page [...]

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Google fires back at VMware about virtualization for cloud computing

At VMworld Europe 2009, the VMware CEO Paul Maritz addressed the Google approach to cloud computing saying that virtualization is the only viable way.
Specifically he said: they don’t realize that they scale so well only by redesigning their applications and hardware
Google answered yesterday, after the worldwide press continues to obsessively covering the cloud computing topic [...]

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VMware and hardware assisted virtualization… What’s the status?

VMware published a very interesting document regarding hardware assisted virtualization and BT (Binary Translation) also known as software assisted virtualization.
BT is where the hypervisor translates ALL calls to the hardware, there is no pass-through technique in this case.  That is used with old processor with no built-in virtualization extensions.
 
Nowadays with powerful processors with built-in virtualization [...]

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Cloud explained with … Lego

Another video explaining what is cloud computing.
Remove the marketing stuff of course. It is at least entertaining J

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rBuilder Now a Free Public Download

Now that you have your cloud computing environment, what do you do next?
You need to feed it with virtual machines and appliances.
 
Ok but how do you create and also manage the life cycle of those virtual machines and appliances?
Here comes products like rBuilder from rPath…
 
rPath today debuted its free version of rBuilder, the company’s solution [...]

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Security & Compliance in Virtual Infrastructure

This is simply the best webcast about the subject I have ever attend!
Here for example a formula to explain that virtual servers are actually less secure by nature than physical servers.
 
 

Also did you know that during vMotion the virtual machine is transferred the clear !?
Did you know SSL keys can be broken by temporal attack [...]

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vSphere Pre-requisites Checklist

This vSphere Pre-requisites Checklist describes the requirements and pre-requisites necessary to begin planning for the upgrade of an existing VMware Infrastructure to VMware vSphere.
This Pre-requisites Checklist is intended for those involved in planning, designing, and upgrading an existing VMware Infrastructure to VMware vSphere

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A demo about a client hypervisor that does full virtualization

There are several vendors promising client hypervisors. VMware announced something called “CVP” (Client Virtualization Platform) back in September 2008, and Citrix announced “Project Independence” this past January. There are also two smaller startups, Neocleus and Virtual Computer, who’ve both announced similar offerings.
Whilst some vendors use full virtualization like NxTop, others go for an hybrid model, [...]

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