Tag: Virtualization
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It’s a VM Wasteland – A Near Optimal Packing of VMs to Machines Reduces TCO by 22%
Algorithm Design for Performance Aware VM Consolidation: Consolidation of multiple workloads, encapsulated in virtual machines (VMs), can significantly improve efficiency in cloud infrastructures. But consolidation also introduces contention in shared resources such as the memory hierarchy, leading to degraded VM performance. To avoid such degradation, the current practice is to not pack VMs tightly and…
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DBSeer: Making Database Cloud Computing more Efficient
Making cloud computing more efficient: For database-driven applications, new software could reduce hardware requirements by 95 percent while actually improving performance. DBSeer – an open source machine learning algorithm to improve DB performance in VMs, being developed at the MIT.
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Red Hat Acquires ManageIQ To Beef Up Hybrid Cloud Capabilities
Red Hat Acquires ManageIQ To Beef Up Hybrid Cloud Capabilities: Red Hat today acquired ManageIQ for its IT management software. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. ManageIQ is in the data center automation and virtualization business. ManageIQ getting acquired was just a matter of time… although I didn’t contemplate as much who it’d be…
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Nutanix Google-like Storage Architecture
At times it’s difficult to judge what things are really about. Look at the following announcement by the folks at Nutanix. They got Aster Data, Google File System and Oracle Storage Layer (incl. Exadata, they say) background, but what’s the point of this appliance? Hope we’ll soon here more from them. The key to Nutanix…
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