Linux startup moves desktop Windows to the data center

Linux & Open Source News Alert This newsletter is sponsored by NetApp Whitepaper: Server virtualization for SMBs Server virtualization is not only meant for the largest enterprise organizations. In this whitepaper, Server Virtualization for Small and Medium-size Businesses, learn how this technology is ideal for smaller IT shops. This whitepaper explains how simplifying hardware and server applications with virtualization software allows for key operational improvements. LinuxWorld's Linux and Open Source News Alert, 09/26/07 LinuxWorld.com Feature Story Linux startup moves desktop Windows to the data center - LinuxWorld, 09/24/07: Qumranet, the company behind one of the hottest Linux kernel features, is scheduled to announce its first product, a new desktop virtualization system, offering today at the DEMOfall conference in San Diego. Qumranet's Solid ICE product moves desktop users' Linux or Microsoft Windows installs onto virtual machines in the data center, allowing the users to run their applications and OS of choice from thin clients or from Windows or Linux PC clients. Unlike VMWare's ESX server, the Solid ICE server runs on a host with a standard Linux distribution from Red Hat, Novell, or Canonical. The company already has five Fortune 1000 customers participating in an early adopter program, says John-Marc Clark, the company's VP of Marketing. Get more out of your IT dollar Business Services Management lets you get more out of your IT investments by aligning business goals and your core infrastructure. Network World Editor-in-Chief John Dix and IDC Research Manager Stephen Elliot examine BSMs benefits and how enterprises are starting to take advantage of this strategy. Attend now! Qumranet offers a physical to virtual (P2V) tool for converting a customer's physical OS images to virtual machine templates, says Rami Tamir, the company's President, VP of R&D, and co-founder. The company offers a remote desktop protocol it calls SPICE, which Tamir says is suitable for use over a LAN and supports high-bandwidth uses such as bidirectional audio and video. Solid ICE also supports RDP for lower-bandwidth links, but Tamir recommends "remote presence"—moving a running guest machine from its original server to one closer to the user. Solid ICE does not have support for offline use independent of the server. (Read more.) More Linux news Microsoft's secretive standards orgs in Former Yugoslavia - LinuxWorld, 09/24/07: Microsoft quietly got its proposed Office Open XML format through two European standards bodies. A member of the Free Software Foundation Europe looks at the low-profile process that made it happen. Open source vendor takes on Microsoft Project - LinuxWorld, 09/24/07: A new open source player is taking on Microsoft’s project management suite, but faces a tough challenge. Bhutan Government comes back for a second taste of Linux - LinuxWorld, 09/24/07: The Bhutan government liked its first taste of Linux so much that it has come back for seconds, releasing an updated version of its Debian-based operating system that it launched last year. How open source saved a school district’s IT department - LinuxWorld, 09/21/07: A California school district used open source software to stave off a potential budget crisis and upgrade technology for students and teachers. Lawsuit charging GPL violation is first ever - LinuxWorld, 09/21/07: In what may be the first action of its kind in the U.S., the Software Freedom Law Center has filed a lawsuit to enforce an open-source license. Apple’s options for stopping open source iPhone use - LinuxWorld, 09/20/07: With Steve Jobs’ recent declaration of war on iPhone hackers, we look at Apple’s options for stopping open source iPhone use. IDF : Intel project aims to boost power efficiency in Linux - LinuxWorld, 09/20/07: Intel plans to announce an open source project called LessWatts.org, which aims to improve the power efficiency of the Linux operating system and applications. The end of booth-babe culture? - LinuxWorld, 09/20/07: The Wall Street Journal last week ran a page-one, above-the-fold, front-and-center article on a topic you don't normally read much about: the role of sexuality on the sales side of the IT business. LinuxWorld Community Mark Hinkle reacts to Qumranet's new virtual desktop environment. "Qumranet is interesting is that desktop virtualization has many interesting advantages from a management standpoint. What really interests me is that Qumranet includes Moshe Bar as CTO and co-founder. Moshe is a virtualization icon who co-founded Xensource, the openMOSIX Project, and Qlusters . He's got significant virtualization street credit and based on that I would assume their product is going to have merit. With VMware's IPO and the Citrix acquisition of Xensource virutalization is white hot but I believe their is plenty of room for another player."

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