New Eee PC, I want one.

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Discover a New Perspective with 8.9 Inch Eee PC 900: This new generation of the ever popular PC packs in a whole range of hardware that includes a 8.9 inch widescreen, a 1.3M pixels webcam, the new innovative FingerGlide and 12GB and 20GB storage capacities for Windows and Linux platforms respectively.

Mobility is one of the major factors attributed to the Eee PC’s success; and this is in part due to the use of the built-in Solid State Disk (SSD) technology – which offers a quiet, energy saving and shock proof design for stable computing on-the-go.

Through extensive R&D, the inclusion of the 8.9″ display screen does not affect the overall weight of the Eee PC 900, which remains below 1kg and maintains the ultra portable theme that has become synonymous with the Eee PC. With this large screen size of 8.9″, a resolution of 1024 x 600 is achieved – allowing users to view a single A4 page without the need to scroll left or right and making it much easier and more effective when reading or working on documents.

Identify Capacity Bottlenecks in VMware

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One of the main issues in Virtualisation is finding out where the capacity bottleneck’s are, or just to be happy that there aren’t any.

I have found the following Virtual Appliance (fully configured virtual machine) which says it will do that for you, I have not had a chance to test it yet but from the on-line demo it looks pretty good.

Check out the flash demo and download the beta from here…

http://www.vkernel.com/downloads/all/

Microsoft Hyper-V HA?

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Towards the end of last year, I went to a technet event which was billed as a must see Virtualisation event. We’ll be showing how you can get virtual servers to failover with just Microsoft technologies they said.

And they did, with Virtual Server and Windows 2003 Clustering. It was a very big let down and it wasn’t even automatic. Most people had left before then end of the day, especially as we all thought they were going to show us Hyper-V. In fact, the Vista after hours event afterwards was by far the best part of the day.

Anyway, a few months later and Windows 2008 is out, Hyper-V is at RC and, well, Microsoft are still flogging the horse over clustering as being the solution:-

http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/archive/2008/04/09/hyper-v-quick-migration-vmware-live-migration-part-1.aspx

Yes, Windows 2008 clustering is much easier to configure, but I think the key point is towards the end – “all of the virtual machines will automatically restart to another node without user intervention”. Restart? I want them to carry on running, with, perhaps a small pause. It’s not live migration if the server’s not live!

Rumors of IBM or Cisco buying Citrix?

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The markets are buzzing today on the rumor (here and here, for example), that either IBM or Cisco might try to buy Citrix. Of course the world is full of rumors, but there’s at least anecdotal evidence that people are listening to this one as Citrix’s stock moved up about 7% today, which is the biggest single-day move they’ve had in a while. (Although half-way through the day the stock has dropped about half that new value.)

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Virtualisation Congress

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Virtualization.info, the leading virtualisation news and analysis site since 2003 has announced the launch of Virtualization Congress (http://www.virtualizationcongress.com), the world’s first vendor independent virtualisation event, bringing together the industry’s biggest selection of virtualisation players, from the recognized leaders to the newest start-ups.

The conference, to be held at London’s ExCel, 14th-16th October, 2008, presents an ideal opportunity for current and prospective users of virtualisation technologies to hear directly from the companies at the cutting edge of their development; at the same time, in the same place for the first time ever.