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Today, with a nod to millions of merchants worldwide that accept credit card payments, VMware Inc. announced that it has joined the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) to incorporate awareness of virtualization into forthcoming versions of PCI regulations.
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If you think VMware Inc. is all about x86 virtualization, think again. Today, the Palo Alto, Calif.-based company announced plans to ship a bare-metal hypervisor for the ARM processors that power mobile devices such as the Apple iPhone and RIM BlackBerry. Called the VMware Mobile Virtualization Platform (MVP), the new hypervisor is based on technology developed by Trango Virtual Processors, a French startup that VMware acquired last month for an unspecified sum.
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Where are Anil Desai's most recent answers to questions? You've come to an archive of Anil Desai's answers, seen on the previous Ask The Expert page. Anil is still answering IT pros' questions about virtualization. Check out his...
My company uses video streaming technologies a great deal. Are there any options for virtualization here? Depending on the performance requirements, front-end web or database engines delivering the video can most likely be virtualized... What are the data deduplication options in server virtualization? Data deduplication in virtualization was highly anticipated soon after VM adoption in the data center. There are numerous options in this space with all of the major... VIRTUALIZATION GLOSSARY
A comprehensive listing of information technology-related blogs selected by the editors of WhatIs.com that cover selected industry verticals and technologies.
Virtual networking is a technology that facilitates the control of one or more remotely located computers or servers over the Internet... (Continued)
A virtual machine (VM) is an environment, usually a program or operating system, which does not physically exist but is created within another environment. In this context, a VM is called a "guest" while the environment it runs within is called a "host." Virtual machines are often created to execute an instruction set different than that of the host environment. (...Continued)
SERVER VIRTUALIZATION TIPS
Cloud computing is fraught with challenges, including proper definition, interoperability and common standards and security. An expert examines these challenges and how their impact on initiatives like VMware's vCloud.
Regardless of which virtualization platform you use, virtual machine backup poses challenges, such as how to retrieve individual files. An expert explains how to back up VMs using Microsoft's Hyper-V.
PlateSpin's PowerConvert program allows you to convert physical machines to virtual ones across different platforms. In this tip, an expert explains how to convert a Windows Server 2003 physical machine to a XenServer virtual one.
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