Even before the onset of spring training, Paul Desmond of Network World reports "A virtual hit for MLB Advanced Media," that he predicts will play a major role in MLB's new data center. According to Desmond, virtualization has enabled MLB Advanced Media director Ryan Nelson to find room in the nearly tapped out datacenter for the introduction of new products that fans will see from the new datacenter in Chicago set to open in time for the 2008 season.
Sun's Project Wonderland is a useful candidate system for facilitating collaboration among a company's far-flung employees. From the outset, Project Wonderland was planned with business collaboration in mind, according to architect Paul Byrne. Project Wonderland is a new kind of virtual world, one that mimics the physical realm when it needs to but improves on it when that's what is called for.
A new perspective on floating point operations comes from the plans of International Data Security (IDS) which aims on housing datacenters aboard decommissioned cargo ships. IDS plans as many as 50 of these installations, 22 of which are planned for North America.
Veteran blogger Andre Wenas has assembled a blog that outlines Sun VM, including products, installation instructions, and using Windows XP on Sun xVM. The blog includes hyperlinks to several xVM-related sites. Wenas defines Sun xVM as a family of technologies that addresses both desktop and server virtualization, leveraging work from open source communities like Xen that is being built on proven Sun technology.
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