NetFlash: Microsoft nears completion of Virtual Server 2005

Everyone is on the bandwagon for virtualization, even Microsoft. Well, it’s, um, virtually there – the company just put out the first release candidate of Virtual Server 2005, which is a hop, skip and jump away from an actual product. Virtual Server is designed to allow multiple operating systems to run on a single server, as long as one of them is Windows Server 2003. Microsoft nears completion of Virtual Server 2005 http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0614msvs05.html?net

Everyone is on the bandwagon for virtualization, even Microsoft. Well, it’s, um, virtually there – the company just put out the first release candidate of Virtual Server 2005, which is a hop, skip and jump away from an actual product. Virtual Server is designed to allow multiple operating systems to run on a single server, as long as one of them is Windows Server 2003.

Microsoft nears completion of Virtual Server 2005

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0614msvs05.html?net

Security titans intensify rivalry

Network Associates (soon to be McAfee) and Symantec each own about a quarter of the market for anti-virus software. Both want to be much more than that – and still, I can’t tell the difference between them. But this week Network World takes an in-depth look at what differentiates the two rivals and where they might go from here.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0614antivirus.html?net

Vendors, users launch Linux InfiniBand effort

A group of high performance computing users and technology vendors led by Sun, Dell and Intel will launch on Tuesday an effort to make the InfiniBand input/output architecture easier to use with Linux, according to companies involved in the initiative.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0614vendousers.html?net

AMD readies dual-core Opteron

AMD Monday reiterated plans to ship dual-core Opteron processors for servers and workstations next year, saying it had finalized design of the chips that would show up in systems by mid-2005.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0614amd.html?net

Testing volunteers needed

Network World is looking for enterprise networks to be a part of a test to be conducted on security appliances with firewall, IPS, VPN and policy-based management features. Requirements: a T-1 Internet connection, 10 to 200 users sitting behind a security device and a willingness to let a security consultant assist in appliance management. Volunteers will have access to all test results. Contact Christine Burns at:

mailto:cburns@nww.com

Today on Layer 8, where it’s hazy, hot and humorous:

Yahoo to Google: En Garde; take a look at the virtual Studio 54 – if you can get in; how technology is saving lives on Australia’s beaches; and the winner of our Weekly Caption Contest; all this today and more at your home for not-just-networking news.

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