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TThe Five Dwarves. Exploring non-Amazon IaaS Options

11.20.2011 — In Tech

With IBM moving towards Cloud Computing and the zEnterprise turning into a “Cloud-in-a-box,” it is increasingly important to track developments in the public infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) space. Most everyone familiar with Cloud Computing knows about Amazon Web Services (AWS). IBM even offers pre-built images for…

EEvolution of x86 Hypervisors

09.20.2011 — In Tech

VMWare and Full Virtualization In the early days of distributed computing, many experts considered x86 virtualization near to impossible due to the complexity of the platform. In contrast to the virtualization-friendly IBM mainframe, x86 operating systems depended on sensitive and privileged instructions that could…