Showing posts with label Microsoft. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Microsoft. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Microsoft & RedHat sign deal on Virtualization interoperability

Red Hat and Microsoft have signed reciprocal agreements today to enable increased interoperability for the companies' virtualization platforms. Each company will join the other's virtualization validation/certification program and will provide technical support for their mutual server virtualization customers.

Server virtualization is moving towards the commodity model and this is a natural transformation. Crucially, Red Hat's interoperability deal with Microsoft does not include any patent covenants.


Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Kidaro - Microsoft Desktop Virtualization

Microsoft released the beta version of a enterprise desktop virtualization, MED-V, based on Kidaro. This would allow execution of any Windows OS applications on Vista.

MED-V is a solution for Application-to-OS incompatibility and accelerates the usage path on Windows Vista and any future OS. You can download the beta of MED-V here.

This is a step towards IT management of OS images across the corporate on any type of hardware (including flash drives) and data management using Active Directory controls.

The picture here would be self-explanatory on the architecture & lifecycle of virtual images: