In brief: Intel's virtualization technology available for desktops

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• Intel last week announced that its Vanderpool virtualization technology is available for desktops. With virtualization, customers can run management or security services in a virtual machine without interrupting end-user applications running on the same system. The technology is available in Pentium 4 processor-based PCs offered by Acer and Lenovo, among other vendors. Intel recently began shipping Xeon MP processors with hardware-enabled support for Intel Virtualization Technology on servers. Intel is expected to start shipping virtualization technology on Itanium processors by mid-2006.
• Dot Hill, which supplies disk drives to Sun Microsystems and white-box storage companies, has announced the SANnet II U320 storage system. The product offers twice the performance of an earlier system dubbed the SCSI-160 but costs the same. The new offering, which is backward-compatible with the SCSI-160, supports data rates as high as 320M bytes per second. The system will come in 3.6T- to 10.8T-byte capacities and is expected to be available later this fall.

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