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Inside Amazon's Cloud: Just How Many Customer Projects?

There's been a lot of discussion the past couple of days about an analysis by Guy Rosen, in which he estimates that Amazon Web Services (AWS) is provisioning 50K EC2 server instances per day. He created this estimate by examining EC2 resource IDs and doing a time-series analysis on how much the IDs are incremented per hour.

By Bernard Golden | 30 September, 2009 07:52

Tags: amazon, amazon ec2, Amazon Web Services, cloud computing, Virtualization

QEMU virtualization reaches 0.11, brings 1400 changes

Open source virtualization app QEMU has reached version 0.11 and brings some 1400 changes from 90 contributors.

By Rodney Gedda | 30 September, 2009 14:06

Tags: emulation, kvm, Linux, open source, QEMU, virtual desktops, Virtualization

Linux kernel 2.6.32: virtualization, power management and more drivers

Less than a week after Linux kernel 2.6.31 was released, the kernel developers are beginning to submit changes and improvements across virtualization, power management, file systems and device driver code for the upcoming 2.6.32 version.

By Rodney Gedda | 16 September, 2009 12:43

Tags: drivers, linus torvalds, Linux, linux kernel, operating systems

Will Apple ever fully liberalize Mac OS X virtualization?

Over the past two years, running Windows and Windows apps virtually on Apple hardware has become a popular way for consumers to dump their PCs in favor of Mac gear.

By Eric Lai | 17 September, 2008 09:06

Tags: Mac OS X

Battle brewing in the cloud

Amazon, better known for peddling books and CDs than selling leading-edge technology, surprised much of the tech world by rolling out, and actually attracting customers to, its version of cloud computing. Sure, there's still plenty of reason to be skeptical -- indeed, cloud computing is one of those technologies that can sound more like a buzzword than a solution to real-world IT problems -- but other players are jumping into the game.

Open source and virtualization: Perfect match?

Virtualization is a hot data center technology that is capturing the attention of IT for its consolidation and cost saving potential. As was evidenced at the LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco last week, open source and Linux platforms are on the forefront of the trend. In fact, given licensing issues with proprietary software, the combination of inexpensive or free open-source software and virtualization platforms may be the most important vehicle to drive widespread Linux adoption in the data center. Here are seven need-to-know points when looking at open source virtualization technology.