Interviews
Video Interview: Werner Vogels, CTO Amazon on Virtualization and the VC Threat
At the GigaOM Structure08 conference in San Francisco, we had the opportunity to question Amazon’s CTO Werner Vogels on his virtualization experience, while building the Amazon cloud. He confirmed Amazon Web Services are still powered by Xen hypervisors.
31Jul2008 | Toon Vanagt | 8 comments | ContinuedA Round Table on Virtualization Security with Industry Experts
A conference call about virtualization security (virtsec) with Joe Pendry (Director of Marketing at StackSafe), Kris Buytaert (Principle at Consultant Inuits), Tarry Singh (Industry/Market Analyst Founder & CEO of Avastu), Andreas Antonopoulos (SVP & Founding Partner at Nemertes Research),Allwyn Sequeira (SVP & CTO at Blue Lane), Michael Berman (CTO at Catbird), Chris Hoff (Chief Security Architect - Systems & Technology Division and Blogger at Unisys) and Hezi Moore (President, Founder & CTO at Reflex Security).
30Jul2008 | Kris Buytaert | 3 comments | ContinuedAmazon Loves CloudStatus, And We’ve Got The Proof on Video
At the O’Reilly Velocity conference we attended last month, Hyperic was there to hype the launch of Cloudstatus, which aspires to become the monitoring tool for cloud providers. Get the lowdown on Hyperic and CloudStatus in this video (two parts) from Jon Travis (Principal Engineer) and Xavier Soltero (co-founder and CEO).
29Jul2008 | Toon Vanagt | 2 comments | ContinuedForbes Interviews Paul Maritz
Forbes interviewed newly appointed VMware CEO and Microsoft vet Paul Maritz after last night’s earnings call. This is the most interesting excerpt as far as we’re concerned.
23Jul2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedBritish Library Consolidates Wealth of Digital Data With Virtualization
The UK’s national library, the infamous British Library, is using a new Ethernet networking infrastructure as the basis for a number of projects to digitize huge amounts of content and to consolidate its data center using virtualization.
22Jul2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedRich Wolski on Eucalyptus: Open Source Cloud Computing (Video Interview - 2/2)
We have sent our enthusiastic cloud computing koala Toon Vanagt to San Francisco to interview Eucalyptus Director Rich Wolski at the O’Reilly Velocity conference. You can find the second part of this exclusive video interview right here.
18Jul2008 | Toon Vanagt | 0 comments | ContinuedCisco’s John McCool Talks Virtualization
NetworkWorld published a great interview yesterday with John McCool, senior VP of data center, switching and security at Cisco. McCool sees a great future for virtualization around the company’s most successful product in its entire history, the Catalyst 6500 (and its successor, the Nexus 7000 Series, which was recently unveiled), combined with its own forray into virtualizing the data center with its Data Center 3.0 initiative.
11Jul2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedExclusive Video: VMware In A Nutshell, By Product Marketing Manager John Gilmartin
So what’s VMware all about now on a technology level, now that their stock is tumbling and their CEO has been replaced? John Gilmartin, Group Manager, Product Marketing at VMware answered our questions on virtualization in general and their strategy and product portfolio in particular.
8Jul2008 | Toon Vanagt | 0 comments | ContinuedRich Wolski on Eucalyptus: Open Source Cloud Computing (Video Interview - 1/2)
We have sent our enthusiastic cloud computing koala Toon Vanagt to San Francisco to interview Eucalyptus Director Rich Wolski at the O’Reilly Velocity conference. You can find the first part of this exclusive video interview right here (we’ll post the second part tomorrow).
8Jul2008 | Toon Vanagt | 4 comments | ContinuedVMware and Parallels Are Not Hyperventilating on Hyper-V Launch by Microsoft (video interviews)
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Last week we happened to be at
VMware’s headquarters when
Microsoft launched Hyper-V, Redmond’s much anticipated built-in hypervisor for Windows Server 2008. So we got our camera rolling to capture VMware’s reaction on Microsoft’s free hypervisor offering. Straight after that exclusive interview, we flew from Silicon Valley to New York to collect more video feedback [...]
Microsoft Eats Own Hyper-V Dog Food, Deploys Homegrown Hypervisor In Its Global Datacenters (Video Interview)
A brief video interview with Arne Josefsberg, General Manager Online Infrastructure at Microsoft, about Hyper-V adoption in their own global datacenters.
30Jun2008 | Toon Vanagt | 2 comments | ContinuedRed Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst On The Linux Vendor’s Virtualization Initiatives
A half-year after becoming president and CEO of Linux vendor Red Hat, Jim Whitehurst was in Boston this week for the annual Red Hat Summit, where a lot of announcements were made about Red Hat’s forray into virtualization. Whitehurst sat down with Network World’s Jon Brodkin to discuss open source, a new patent settlement, and Red Hat’s moves in virtualization, reports PC World.
23Jun2008 | Robin Wauters | 1 comment | Continued![[image]](http://mowser.com/img?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.mofuse.com%2Fimages%2Fbadges%2Fbadge_blue.png)
