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It was evident from VMWorld 2007 that virtualization has gone mainstream in enterprise computing. Virtualization deals with the abstraction of hardware and software resources in a computing environment. The nine-year old company, Palo Alto-based VMware, attracted nearly 11,000 people and scores of partners at VMWorld 2007 in September, a month after it went public. VMware's IPO was a spectacular success in stock market terms. And in her keynote, Diane Greene, President and CEO, VMware called it as, "The IPO of the virtualization industry rather than VMware alone," and recanted its potential to wrought a revolution in computing architecture.

At the event, VMware announced a new hypervisor called ESX Server 3i that comes integrated with server hardware. Server vendors who announced pre-installed hypervisor from VMware include Dell, IBM, HO, Fujitsu Siemens Computers and NEC. The new hypervisor occupies a 32 MB footprint and is OS independent. It can therefore be easily embedded into a hardware that makes the hardware come ready with manageability in a distributed environment.

"ESX Server 3i will have a significant impact on the IT industry," said Peter Amstutz, Chief, Network Design, Defense Contract Management Agency. "IT professionals will stop thinking about virtualization as an operating system or software, but really as a component of the hardware itself."
Hardware vendors are expected to begin shipping ESX Server 3i within their products by the end of 2007 and over the course of 2008.
Other announcements centered around the new product introductions in the virtualization infrastructure like virtual desktop, automation of disaster recovery, data centers, and virtual appliances.

In a step that may be seen to be extending a friendly hand to potential competitors, VMware announced the development of a standard called OVF (Open Virtualization Format) along with Microsoft, which is working on a virtualization product code-named Viridian and Xensource, the open source virtualization technology. The standard is aimed at easing the packaging and distribution of virtual machines. But Greene avers that VMware is ahead of the game than Microsoft citing that the latter's product doesn't support the live migration of virtual machines while they are running purportedly a very powerful feature in virtualization.

The technical benefits of virtualization leads to a larger benefit in the form of savings in power needed to run servers and the cooling of data centers. The gains here are substantial. AMD's Delivering a keynote address, chairman Hector Ruiz gave the example of a 79 percent reduction in power consumption when they consolidated 113 servers using virtualization at their Austin data center.

Intel Corp. executive Patrick Gelsinger gave a variety of updates on Intel's work with the industry on the company's processors, surrounding technologies and "tick-tock" design cadence, including new details on Intel's upcoming 45nm products. He also discussed the industry's recent moves in energy efficient computing, virtualization, broad range of software enabling, as well as recent system architecture initiatives spanning the popular USB interconnect to upcoming lead-free products for the company's Intel® vPro desktop PCs.

"Intel's development model and cadence is a predictive, efficient and effective way to deliver products and provide the industry with an exciting computing roadmap in our relentless pursuit of Moore's Law," said Patrick Gelsinger, senior vice president and general manager of Intel's Digital Enterprise Group, at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. "In addition to our processors, we're focused on delivering energy efficiency via design of better, Hafnium-based High-k transistors as well as enhancements in overall system level architecture to minimize the computer's energy usage."

During his speech, Gelsinger showed the first-ever Intel 45nm High-k metal gate next-generation microarchitecture (Nehalem) dual processor server that uses the element Hafnium instead of silicon in portions of the 700 million-plus transistors inside the processor die, which is about the size of a postage stamp. Nehalem is the codename of a new processor microarchitecture arriving in 2008 that will provide up to three times the peak memory bandwidth of current competing processors. He also showed broad industry support for the Intel QuickPath Architecture. The QuickPath Interconnect provides high-speed data paths to Nehalem's processor cores.

In addition to compute performance and memory bandwidth, Intel continues to provide leadership in I/O when Gelsinger announced the formation of the USB 3.0 Promoter Group. This revolutionary architecture will use a single connector and cable delivering over 10 times the performance of USB 2.0 while preserving backwards compatibility to more than 2 billion existing USB devices.

Along with Intel, the promoter group has been formed with HP, NEC, NXP, Microsoft, and TI. USB 3.0 will be the first I/O interface to include support for both optical and copper interconnects, scalable protocol, and energy efficiency optimizations for use in the PC, consumer electronics, and mobile segments.

Gelsinger reviewed Intel's QuickAssist Technology and its escalation of industry product development. QuickAssist Technology, first disclosed at the IDF in Beijing in April, is Intel's suite of hardware and software technologies addressing the unique requirements of accelerators in enterprise platforms. He reviewed the first Intel device to include the Intel® QuickAssist Integrated Accelerator for cryptography, codenamed Tolapai.

With availability targeted for 2008, Tolapai – a system on a chip – will deliver significant improvements in power-efficient performance and form factor with up to eight times the IP Security throughput, up to 20 percent reduction in power, and up to a 45 percent smaller footprint over previous multi-component security solutions in embedded and communications market segments.

On the heels of the latest-generation roll-out of Intel vPro processor technology, Gelsinger revealed plans to further evolve security and PC management benefits through the 2008 product codenamed McCreary. McCreary will include new halogen and lead-free 45nm dual and quad-core processors, a new chipset codenamed Eaglelake, an integrated Trusted Platform Module (TPM) and a more secure, manageable data encryption solution codenamed Danbury.

Danbury technology builds data encryption and decryption directly into the hardware providing greater protection of encryption keys and allows much simpler system management and key recovery. Intel Active Management technology also enables these operations to occur in "out-of-band" environments, meaning even if the OS is down or inoperable.

Bob Heard, founder and chief executive officer of CREDANT Technologies, discussed how their software security solutions can be improved in the future by leveraging Danbury and vPro technology. Mark B. Templeton, chief executive officer of Citrix Systems, showed how data protection and centralized data management can be balanced with an end user's desire for mobility and a responsive PC experience.

John Fowler, executive vice-president of Sun Microsystems, appeared with Gelsinger and pointed to the virtualization "wave" that Intel and other technology leaders are driving through the industry. Parallels demonstrated how they are taking advantage of innovations such as Intel Virtualization Technology and Intel Trusted Execution Technology to provide protection for virtual environments in future workstations and desktop PCs.

Gelsinger pointed to a wall of computer systems that Intel will deliver to suit most users' computing and cost needs. He showed how customers, such as Paradigm, will use Intel Xeon-based workstations with a new 1600MHz front side bus and Intel software tools to solve scientific problems, such as oil and gas exploration. Mark Barrenechea, president and chief executive officer of Rackable Systems, discussed Rackable's ICE Cube Modular Data Center on Wheels, which has 1400 quad core Intel Xeon servers in a single 40-foot truck container.

Gelsinger also discussed the improvements that solid state disk technology can bring to enterprise server and storage technology for IA platforms. He announced that products delivering substantial improvements in read performance and power savings from Intel utilizing non-volatile memory technology will be available next year.

Gelsinger shared his vision for I/O consolidation on Ethernet and steps to get to a converged network that supports both Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and local area networks. In support of this vision, he announced availability of Intel® 82598 10 Gigabit Ethernet Controller now with full support for FCoE solution stack coming in 2008

The Itanium Solutions Alliance, in collaboration with Red Hat today announced that in the upcoming release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 5.1 (RHEL), integrated software virtualization will be supported and optimized for Itanium 2-based systems. This release broadens Itanium-based solutions in the marketplace.

The reliability, availability, serviceability (RAS) and security features of the Intel Itanium processor allow users to confidently deploy industry-standard software virtualization, enhancing customers' ability to consolidate multiple applications on Itanium-based systems.

"Itanium Solutions Alliance founding sponsors worked with Red Hat to test, validate and optimize this fully integrated virtualization solution. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 provides customers with the maximum choice among enterprise systems when deploying open source applications on Itanium," said Scott Crenshaw, vice president of product marketing at Red Hat.

He added, "Also, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform 5.1 provides additional high availability and storage virtualization technologies, and scales to support any number of processors and guest environments – making it the perfect solution for today's large, high-performance Itanium systems."

"The Itanium Solutions Alliance is pleased to have the opportunity to coordinate efforts with Red Hat to expand software solutions for Itanium-based systems and contribute to the growth of the Independent Software Vendor ecosystem," said Yoichi Murakami, Fujitsu Limited, Chairman of the Itanium Solutions Alliance Enabling Committee.

The collaboration with charter member Red Hat comes as the Itanium Solutions Alliance reaches its two year anniversary. Since its inception in 2005, the Itanium Solutions Alliance has grown in membership to more than 200 companies and application availability for Itanium-based systems has surpassed 12,000.

Alliance membership is open to any enterprise and technical software supplier looking to optimize applications for Itanium-based environments or enterprise and technical computing providers looking to network with other leaders in delivery of leading computing solutions.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform 5.1 for Itanium systems are scheduled for availability in Q4CY07.

Yahoo Inc. is shutting down Yahoo Photos, an online photo storage site, and asking users to move instead to its Web 2.0 photo sharing site, Flickr, a Yahoo official said.

In June, tens of millions of registered users of Yahoo Photos will be notified of various options including upgrading to Yahoo's Flickr service or various outside-photo storage sites, according to Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield.

Server and software maker Sun Microsystems Inc. has agreed to use chips from Intel Corp. in some of its servers and for Intel to endorse Sun's Solaris operating system, a person close to the deal told the AP late Sunday night.
An announcement is expected Monday, according to the person, who requested anonymity because the deal had not been made public. Specifics of the arrangement were not disclosed.

The Spanish start-up FON wants you to help it unwire San Francisco and other cities around the globe by providing ubiquitous Wi-Fi access.

On Friday, the company will give away its Wi-Fi routers that allow broadband subscribers to share their Internet connections with Wi-Fi users throughout their communities. "Freedom Friday", as the company is calling the event, will kick-off at noon in San Francisco's Union Square.

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One of our key messages is that "As a Triber, you get to be part of the team that finally gets Indians to be viewed as an innovative group, rather than just developers and back-office professionals." It is really exciting to think about the changes this could bring about in India.

Google Inc. is set to introduce on Wednesday information-sharing software that combines the company's Web-based Google Spreadsheets with Writely, the word processor it acquired in March.

The combination of Writely and Google Spreadsheets seeks to solve the problem of how people manage and collaborate information stuck in different word processors and spreadsheets by giving individuals or groups Web access to the same data.