Microsoft Windows Server 2008
Microsoft has released the latest operating system catering to Microsoft centric networking environment , Windows Server 2008.
This latest server technology operating system from Microsoft is considered as the major upgrade from its predecessor Windows Server 2003. There a heck lot of new features which are introduced in this new operating system from Microsoft.
The most hyped and perhaps the most wanted feature in a network operating system is the support for virtualization . Virtualization technology allows you to run multiple instances of different operating systems and thus promotes maximum utilization of server resources like network bandwidth, memory, secondary storage and most significantly CPU processing cycles. Windows Server 2008 introduces a new technology called Hyper-V which allows virtualization features to be built in. There is no need for a separate virtualization software like VMware. Hyper-V technology allows to run simultaneously many OS like Linux, different versions of Windows on a single machine.
Moreover, a new feature called remote terminal server allows you to run and access an application remotely instead of installing it on local client machine. There are significant security enhancements in this latest server from the Redmond Giant. Security is of utmost importance in today's connected environment. And for a network operating system this requirement doubles, tripples and even quadruples. A feature called network access protection (NAP) allows only the authorized persons to access the network connections. For this this OS uses the security policy which determines the operating system wide security rules which are applied when anyone tries to access the resources of the hosting system.
The latest version of Microsoft Windows Server uses the IIS 7.0 which is a powerful and fast web server and is used to host web applications developed in Microsoft ASP.NET technology. IIS server 7.0 combined with Microsoft .Net 3.0 provide a fantastic platform for web applications. IIS 7.0 technology can be used to host large websites requiring high security and scalability features. IIS 7.0 integrates well with the new Microsoft technologies like Windows Communication Foundation Web services, and Windows SharePoint Services.
Windows Server 2008 provides an improved Windows Powershell which is technology to automate the routine system administration tasks through simple scripts and even command line. Configuration and management of operating system is a breeze with Microsoft Management Controls (MMC) snap in.
This latest server operating system from Microsoft is available in many editions like Windows Server 2008 Standard which is suitable for small business networking needs. For large enterprises with costly infrastructure there i Windows Server 2008 Enterprise edition. Windows Server 2008 Datacenter caters to the enterprise class virtualization. Windows Web Server 2008 edition enables the easy and fast deployment of web applications. If you need large scale databases with high high scalability Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-Based Systems is the right choice. Windows HPC Server 2008 edition is the High Performance Computing platform for machines utilizing the raw power of 64 bit computing.
The most significant change about this new OS technology is that unlike it predecessors this version is available in a very bare bones form. That is, there is also an option to install just the essential components which has the vital features of this OS for low end machines.
Thus we see latest Server from Microsoft has great potential to emerge as a reliable and scalable network OS technology.
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Monday, June 16, 2008
New Computer Technology From Microsoft LucidTouch
LucidTouch A New Technology
Microsoft is working a new computer technology called LucidTouch which can radically change the way you interact with a hand held device.
The main idea behind this new technology is that there is a big real estate on every hand held device which is not utilized. That is its behind. What if the controls of the hand held device are on the backside and what if there is a way to interact with the hand held device from behind. The main challenge for doing this is how you sense where are your fingers moving when you are looking at the screen of the device. LucidTouch may be the answer.
Microsoft is still experimenting with this new technology. It is a well known fact that touch is the most common way to interact with the hand held device. Whether that device is a mobile phone or a personal digital assistant. Or it maybe a portable games player like Sony playstation portable device. LucidTouch builds on this very fact and if things turn out in favor , this new technology may well be poised to change the way we interact with devices.
Many latest devices are already utilizing this fact the most valid and popular example being Apple iPhone. iPhone dispenses with buttons and employs touch as the only contact point with device. But still there are some hitches. Like when you are interacting with the phone , your fingers come in way of your eyes and the graphics displayed on the phone.
This new technology , LucidTouch , takes care of that. In this technology , while you are interacting with the device a silhouette of your finger or a colored pixel shows where exactly youe fingers are. Once this technology comes to mainstream market this can change the definition of interaction with devices. Imagine having eight mouse cursors at your disposal !!
This new technology can have impact on many applications areas like LucidTouch will make interacting with navigational maps very easy. Moreover it will become very easy to draw images with fingers and lastly it will add more excitement to gaming experience especially in strategy based games.
LucidTouch is a new technology from Microsoft which is all set to change our outlook towards the interaction with devices.
Microsoft is working a new computer technology called LucidTouch which can radically change the way you interact with a hand held device.
The main idea behind this new technology is that there is a big real estate on every hand held device which is not utilized. That is its behind. What if the controls of the hand held device are on the backside and what if there is a way to interact with the hand held device from behind. The main challenge for doing this is how you sense where are your fingers moving when you are looking at the screen of the device. LucidTouch may be the answer.
Microsoft is still experimenting with this new technology. It is a well known fact that touch is the most common way to interact with the hand held device. Whether that device is a mobile phone or a personal digital assistant. Or it maybe a portable games player like Sony playstation portable device. LucidTouch builds on this very fact and if things turn out in favor , this new technology may well be poised to change the way we interact with devices.
Many latest devices are already utilizing this fact the most valid and popular example being Apple iPhone. iPhone dispenses with buttons and employs touch as the only contact point with device. But still there are some hitches. Like when you are interacting with the phone , your fingers come in way of your eyes and the graphics displayed on the phone.
This new technology , LucidTouch , takes care of that. In this technology , while you are interacting with the device a silhouette of your finger or a colored pixel shows where exactly youe fingers are. Once this technology comes to mainstream market this can change the definition of interaction with devices. Imagine having eight mouse cursors at your disposal !!
This new technology can have impact on many applications areas like LucidTouch will make interacting with navigational maps very easy. Moreover it will become very easy to draw images with fingers and lastly it will add more excitement to gaming experience especially in strategy based games.
LucidTouch is a new technology from Microsoft which is all set to change our outlook towards the interaction with devices.
Blinkweb A New Technology To Create Websites
Blinkweb is a new technology to create websites in the blink of an eye. Or so its developer Brad and Matt Callen claim.
Who does not want to have his website today? Having a website ensures your presence on the world wide web. Most of the companies have websites which display their products and services. Professionals have websites to advertise their services. Website is like an online identity which uniquely identifies someone.
But website creation is considered a task more suited to the techie persons with knowledge of a vst array of technologies like html, php, jsp, flash among others. A layman still requires a tool which can make website creation a flash. Blinkweb technology is that tool . It is still in development phase and not ready yet but on Blinkweb website one can subscribe to a mail list which will provide you a reminder when this piece of fantastic software is ready to be released.
If the website is to be believed , Blinkweb will make the task of website creation a breeze. One will be able to conjure up a professional looking without knowing anything about hyper text markup language or any scripting language like JSP.
Much details are not available on the internet about what this software will be like but this software has already started getting its share of attention. According to Brad and Matt Callen this software took 8 months to reach near completion and it is almost ready to be released.
Brad Callen is the same person who was behind the creation of highly successful softwares Affiliate Elite and SEO Elite. Blinkweb will be perhaps a free software and if you watch the video , you will be impressed by the simplicity of the software. You can create a very catchy website in a jiffy.
So if you are a layman and want to have a website of your own without knowing the complex technology stuff Blinkweb may well be your best bet.
Who does not want to have his website today? Having a website ensures your presence on the world wide web. Most of the companies have websites which display their products and services. Professionals have websites to advertise their services. Website is like an online identity which uniquely identifies someone.
But website creation is considered a task more suited to the techie persons with knowledge of a vst array of technologies like html, php, jsp, flash among others. A layman still requires a tool which can make website creation a flash. Blinkweb technology is that tool . It is still in development phase and not ready yet but on Blinkweb website one can subscribe to a mail list which will provide you a reminder when this piece of fantastic software is ready to be released.
If the website is to be believed , Blinkweb will make the task of website creation a breeze. One will be able to conjure up a professional looking without knowing anything about hyper text markup language or any scripting language like JSP.
Much details are not available on the internet about what this software will be like but this software has already started getting its share of attention. According to Brad and Matt Callen this software took 8 months to reach near completion and it is almost ready to be released.
Brad Callen is the same person who was behind the creation of highly successful softwares Affiliate Elite and SEO Elite. Blinkweb will be perhaps a free software and if you watch the video , you will be impressed by the simplicity of the software. You can create a very catchy website in a jiffy.
So if you are a layman and want to have a website of your own without knowing the complex technology stuff Blinkweb may well be your best bet.
New Technology In Web services Metro
Metro is a new web services stack technology developed for Glassfish Application Server which enables the delivery of secure and reliable web services on J2EE platform.
Enterprise applications are getting more and more complex with the new technology requirements cropping every day. Moreover the need for integration mechanism is even higher. The service oriented architecture (SOA) is the most preferable technology which allows to view the software applications more as a service rather than a product. Metro is a very high-performance web services stack technology which can handle high load common in enterprise applications. This web services stack can be extended by another new technologies.Best of all it is a very easy-to-use web service stack.
From the simplest web service to highly complex web services which are reliable, secured, and transacted web service that involves .NET services interoperability the Metro is an answer to most of the requirements for web services.
For seamless connectivity among web services developed on different platform this new technology uses protocols like http, soap among others. Moreover, the support for various transport protocols is open to be extended in this technology. In today's complex architecture of enterprise applications it is of utmost importance that messages transported are reliable. In other words , it is required that the messages that are communicated are securely transferred and are not lost over the wire in transit. The underlying technology has to be so much reliable that without user intervention this feature should be able to be implemented. Metro technology provides all of this and more.
Support for transactions is a prominent feature in this new technology. Transaction support ensures that the atomicity of the whole transaction is maintained. Although J2EE technology provides transaction support , this technology provides support for web services transactions. Metro web services stack provides security by using a new technology WS-security. WS-security is a technology specification which enables platform independent security model to be implemented.
Thus we see that Metro web services technology provides a secure, reliable stack to develop web services.
I found some good information
Metro with GlassFish v3 TP2 and NetBeans
Web Services Security in Metro video interview
Metro and GlassFish on the road to yet better interop with Microsoft's Web Services stack
Metro Web Services .NET 3.5 Plugfest 3/08 Results
Enterprise applications are getting more and more complex with the new technology requirements cropping every day. Moreover the need for integration mechanism is even higher. The service oriented architecture (SOA) is the most preferable technology which allows to view the software applications more as a service rather than a product. Metro is a very high-performance web services stack technology which can handle high load common in enterprise applications. This web services stack can be extended by another new technologies.Best of all it is a very easy-to-use web service stack.
From the simplest web service to highly complex web services which are reliable, secured, and transacted web service that involves .NET services interoperability the Metro is an answer to most of the requirements for web services.
For seamless connectivity among web services developed on different platform this new technology uses protocols like http, soap among others. Moreover, the support for various transport protocols is open to be extended in this technology. In today's complex architecture of enterprise applications it is of utmost importance that messages transported are reliable. In other words , it is required that the messages that are communicated are securely transferred and are not lost over the wire in transit. The underlying technology has to be so much reliable that without user intervention this feature should be able to be implemented. Metro technology provides all of this and more.
Support for transactions is a prominent feature in this new technology. Transaction support ensures that the atomicity of the whole transaction is maintained. Although J2EE technology provides transaction support , this technology provides support for web services transactions. Metro web services stack provides security by using a new technology WS-security. WS-security is a technology specification which enables platform independent security model to be implemented.
Thus we see that Metro web services technology provides a secure, reliable stack to develop web services.
I found some good information
Metro with GlassFish v3 TP2 and NetBeans
Web Services Security in Metro video interview
Metro and GlassFish on the road to yet better interop with Microsoft's Web Services stack
Metro Web Services .NET 3.5 Plugfest 3/08 Results
Friday, June 13, 2008
Latest Technology For Mobile Applications Adobe Flash Lite
Flash Lite is a latest technology from Adobe which makes it easy to develop interactive and rich user interface applications developed in Flash for mobile devices. This technology directly competes with J2ME which is a technology from Java to develop mobile and personal device applications.
Flash Lite is currently in version 3 and it provides a runtime environment which is used to host the Flash mobile applications. This technology allows software developers to develop software for mobile devices and bring the rich user experience to the mobile users.
Flash Lite technology is not an operating system . Rather, this technology is more about client side development. Flash Lite allows you to develop and prototype the applications rapidly and there by improves developer productivity and reduces the turnaround time of the product to market.
This technology is more like Java mobile technology in that is requires that Flash Lite runtime environment be installed on the mobile device just like Java kilobyte virtual machine is required to run J2ME platform applications. The most attractive thing about this mobile technology is that the graphics system used in the Flash Lite is vector based. Vector based graphics are lossless meaning whether you rotate vector images or stretch or transform in any way , there is no quality loss for the picture.
Moreover , this technology also allows you to convert desktop based Flash content to mobile compatible content and vice versa.
There is a downside too for this technology. Since this technology is relatively new , there are not many mobile handsets offering Flash Lite runtime system which required to run applications developed in this technology. Although this scene is all set to change as Sony Ericsson and Nokia have started manufacturing handsets with this technology enabled. Thus we see that Flash Lite technology enables manufacturers to provide customers with complete web browsing experiences, video, and compelling interactive content.
Some relevant links
Flash Lite 3.0 application: StreamMobile Tv
Flash Lite free content site: Flash Stock site is been updated
Flash Lite Game Review: Magic Beans from Pixelthis Mobile
Flash Integration with the BREW Mobile Platform
Flash Lite is currently in version 3 and it provides a runtime environment which is used to host the Flash mobile applications. This technology allows software developers to develop software for mobile devices and bring the rich user experience to the mobile users.
Flash Lite technology is not an operating system . Rather, this technology is more about client side development. Flash Lite allows you to develop and prototype the applications rapidly and there by improves developer productivity and reduces the turnaround time of the product to market.
This technology is more like Java mobile technology in that is requires that Flash Lite runtime environment be installed on the mobile device just like Java kilobyte virtual machine is required to run J2ME platform applications. The most attractive thing about this mobile technology is that the graphics system used in the Flash Lite is vector based. Vector based graphics are lossless meaning whether you rotate vector images or stretch or transform in any way , there is no quality loss for the picture.
Moreover , this technology also allows you to convert desktop based Flash content to mobile compatible content and vice versa.
There is a downside too for this technology. Since this technology is relatively new , there are not many mobile handsets offering Flash Lite runtime system which required to run applications developed in this technology. Although this scene is all set to change as Sony Ericsson and Nokia have started manufacturing handsets with this technology enabled. Thus we see that Flash Lite technology enables manufacturers to provide customers with complete web browsing experiences, video, and compelling interactive content.
Some relevant links
Flash Lite 3.0 application: StreamMobile Tv
Flash Lite free content site: Flash Stock site is been updated
Flash Lite Game Review: Magic Beans from Pixelthis Mobile
Flash Integration with the BREW Mobile Platform
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Glassfish Application Server Introduction
Glassfish is a popular open source application server that hosts J2EE applications like servlets, java server pages ,enterprise java beans.
Glassfish includes the latest features of J2EE 5.0. and this application server includes some of the latest versions J2EE technologies like Java Server Faces,Java API for Web Services. J2EE 5.0 is a comparatively new specification from Sun Microsystems regarding enterprise applications. And to date very few applications are available which comply with those complex specifications and Glassfish application server is one of them.
Glassfish is based on the source code for Sun Java System Application Server PE 9 which was donated by Sun Microsystems and it is a result of the buzzing community which advocates open source software and wants to contribute to the next generation of Sun Java Application Server.
Although Glassfish is open-source , it does not mean that this server lacks feature. In fact, this application server is of production quality meaning the industry strength applications and the fully functional enterprise applications can be developed for this server right away. Enterprise applications are supposed to face high traffic loads which may bog down the applications. The scalability is built right into the architecture of glassfish. This server can take loads of traffic without any hiccups.
Glassfish installation comes with many helpful softwares like high performance database JavaDB and many ready to use samples which makes it easy to see Glassfish application server in action. Large corporations require complex enterprise applications which are secure and easy to administrate. This application server includes a very comprehensive administration console which makes the task very easy. Moreover, one can easily configure security features like role based authentication right from within the console which can be accessed from remote systems too.
Java persistence API (JPA) is latest technology in the field of Java persistence and glassfish offers all the features that makes it compatible with JPA. Web services are getting more and more popular in Java world and it is considered very fruitful to write web services in Java. These web services require an efficient web services stack to work. The Web service stack is a group of computer networking protocols that are used to define, locate, implement, and make Web services interact with each other. The more efficient this stack is , the more efficient is web service. Glassfish boasts of a very good web services stack. Moreover the latest version of this application server supports Ajax and scripting.
The glassfish server community is rapidly snowballing and Sun and Oracle engineers themselves are contributing to this fantastic application server. Glassfish is bound to become the application server of choice due to its robustness and latest technology features.
I found a very good blog on Sun
GlassFish Solution GlassFish is a product, GlassFish is a community, but GlassFish is also a solution. A solution is something where software, hardware, and support ... More
Glassfish includes the latest features of J2EE 5.0. and this application server includes some of the latest versions J2EE technologies like Java Server Faces,Java API for Web Services. J2EE 5.0 is a comparatively new specification from Sun Microsystems regarding enterprise applications. And to date very few applications are available which comply with those complex specifications and Glassfish application server is one of them.
Glassfish is based on the source code for Sun Java System Application Server PE 9 which was donated by Sun Microsystems and it is a result of the buzzing community which advocates open source software and wants to contribute to the next generation of Sun Java Application Server.
Although Glassfish is open-source , it does not mean that this server lacks feature. In fact, this application server is of production quality meaning the industry strength applications and the fully functional enterprise applications can be developed for this server right away. Enterprise applications are supposed to face high traffic loads which may bog down the applications. The scalability is built right into the architecture of glassfish. This server can take loads of traffic without any hiccups.
Glassfish installation comes with many helpful softwares like high performance database JavaDB and many ready to use samples which makes it easy to see Glassfish application server in action. Large corporations require complex enterprise applications which are secure and easy to administrate. This application server includes a very comprehensive administration console which makes the task very easy. Moreover, one can easily configure security features like role based authentication right from within the console which can be accessed from remote systems too.
Java persistence API (JPA) is latest technology in the field of Java persistence and glassfish offers all the features that makes it compatible with JPA. Web services are getting more and more popular in Java world and it is considered very fruitful to write web services in Java. These web services require an efficient web services stack to work. The Web service stack is a group of computer networking protocols that are used to define, locate, implement, and make Web services interact with each other. The more efficient this stack is , the more efficient is web service. Glassfish boasts of a very good web services stack. Moreover the latest version of this application server supports Ajax and scripting.
The glassfish server community is rapidly snowballing and Sun and Oracle engineers themselves are contributing to this fantastic application server. Glassfish is bound to become the application server of choice due to its robustness and latest technology features.
I found a very good blog on Sun
GlassFish Solution GlassFish is a product, GlassFish is a community, but GlassFish is also a solution. A solution is something where software, hardware, and support ... More
Monday, June 2, 2008
Open ESB V2 Review
Software plays a big role in giant enterprises today. And large corporations use very complex softwares which may not belong to same vendors. So there is a need of a platform which provides and facilitates the inter-communication between different modules. Open ESB V2 and Open ESB V3 provide just that service.
Open ESB is an open source platform which provides services which allow you to host different modules of software in containers and facilitates the communication among them. In other words, Open ESB is a software which facilitates collaboration of services . Furthermore, it is a set of technologies which allows us to integrate heterogenous softwares to work as a single functioning system.
Open ESB is currently in version 3 but Open ESB version 2 is practically used in enterprises. It will take a while before industry accepts the latest version of this technology. As an alternative to closed source ESB and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) softwares Open ESB shines by providing equivalent and sometimes better performance.
Open ESB provides the runtime environment in form of containers which host separate module to facilitate global service collaborations. These collaborations take place in form of communication in form XML. Since XML is platform independent , the collaboration takes place effortlessly.
Open ESB extends the Java Business Integration (JBI) to create a fast , reliable and scalable enterprise service bus which allows us to integrate various software modules. JMS architecture is used for communication.
Open ESB has its own complex architecture. The first thing that is required is an application server on which ESB components are hosted.Open ESB is fully integrated with Sun Application Server Glassfish which allows you to leverage the reliability, scalability,deployment, and management capabilities of GlassFish.
The second concept that is very crucial while implementing Open ESB is the composite application. As the name says these are the self contained entities which may consist of sub entities. Due to its inter operable nature Open ESB can combine the existing ERP solutions and modules to work with the new modules.The Open ESB provides a Web Administration Console to enable the administration of various components.
There are many open source ESB implementations available today. Mule is one of the Open ESB product which has the Ingres and MuleSource behind it. Celtix, the open-source ESB from ObjectWeb. JBoss has its own ESB which is ESB 4.0. ServiceMix is a ESB solution from Apache.
Today Open ESB is a buzzing community with Sun Microsystems involved in it. Sun has expanded Project GlassFish with the creation of the GlassFish Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) community. This community will help enable the development and collaboration of global services using Java Business Integration (JBI)-based technologies for integration of new and existing services.
In today's scenario more and more software developers are adopting SOA which requies composite applications. There is a need of integrating application components and various application services. JBI provides a standard to address these challenges. And Open ESB integrates well with JBI.
Some good links for Open ESB
OpenESB - (New) Beginnings...
OpenESB or Java CAPS ... or Fuji or GlassFish ESB
Open ESB is an open source platform which provides services which allow you to host different modules of software in containers and facilitates the communication among them. In other words, Open ESB is a software which facilitates collaboration of services . Furthermore, it is a set of technologies which allows us to integrate heterogenous softwares to work as a single functioning system.
Open ESB is currently in version 3 but Open ESB version 2 is practically used in enterprises. It will take a while before industry accepts the latest version of this technology. As an alternative to closed source ESB and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) softwares Open ESB shines by providing equivalent and sometimes better performance.
Open ESB provides the runtime environment in form of containers which host separate module to facilitate global service collaborations. These collaborations take place in form of communication in form XML. Since XML is platform independent , the collaboration takes place effortlessly.
Open ESB extends the Java Business Integration (JBI) to create a fast , reliable and scalable enterprise service bus which allows us to integrate various software modules. JMS architecture is used for communication.
Open ESB has its own complex architecture. The first thing that is required is an application server on which ESB components are hosted.Open ESB is fully integrated with Sun Application Server Glassfish which allows you to leverage the reliability, scalability,deployment, and management capabilities of GlassFish.
The second concept that is very crucial while implementing Open ESB is the composite application. As the name says these are the self contained entities which may consist of sub entities. Due to its inter operable nature Open ESB can combine the existing ERP solutions and modules to work with the new modules.The Open ESB provides a Web Administration Console to enable the administration of various components.
There are many open source ESB implementations available today. Mule is one of the Open ESB product which has the Ingres and MuleSource behind it. Celtix, the open-source ESB from ObjectWeb. JBoss has its own ESB which is ESB 4.0. ServiceMix is a ESB solution from Apache.
Today Open ESB is a buzzing community with Sun Microsystems involved in it. Sun has expanded Project GlassFish with the creation of the GlassFish Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) community. This community will help enable the development and collaboration of global services using Java Business Integration (JBI)-based technologies for integration of new and existing services.
In today's scenario more and more software developers are adopting SOA which requies composite applications. There is a need of integrating application components and various application services. JBI provides a standard to address these challenges. And Open ESB integrates well with JBI.
Some good links for Open ESB
OpenESB - (New) Beginnings...
OpenESB or Java CAPS ... or Fuji or GlassFish ESB
Sunday, June 1, 2008
Innotek VirtualBox The Latest Virtualization Technology
VirtualBox is a very powerful virtualization technology developed by Sun Microsystems.
VirtualBox is opensource and free software targeted at almost all the popular operating systems. VirtualBox is can be run on Windows, Linux , Macintosh. There is a host operating systems. As is true with most of the open source projects , VirtualBox is a community project. What is more Sun Microsystems itself is involved in this project so this software is bound to be a quality product.
In fact , VirtualBox has already become very popular more than 5 million copies have already been downloaded. VirtualBox installs itself in a meagre 30 mb disk space and the memory requirement is around 512 mb. This virtualization technology is based on virtual machines so the actual size will depend on the OS you want to host on VirtualBox. In fact, most of the operating systems are several mb in size today so a typical VirtualBox solution will cost around 500MB-2GB in disk space.
VirtualBox runs on many Windows flavours like Windows Vista, Windows XP etc. Since VirtualBox is open source you can download binaries from the site and rebuild it to suit your software platform. What is more exciting is that VirtualBox can be translated to other languages.This technology is really amazing. Being free does not mean that it lacks the features found on the professional virtualization softwares like Microsoft Virtual PC. VirtualBox boasts of some of the features found only on its closed source cousins like Remote Display Protocol (RDP) Server which allows you to connect to a remote machine using RDP client. VirtualBox also includes a virtual USB controller which allows you to access physical USB devices on the virtual machine.
Considering the features found on the VirtualBox one can easily conclude that it can revolutionize the way we see virtualization.
Sun xVM VirtualBox Breaks Five Million Download Mark; First Free ...
Sun Introduces Free Virtualization System, Includes Mac
Sun’s xVM VirtualBox: Free Virtualization
Sun VirtualBox virtual machine software hits 5 million downloads
Sun VirtualBox virtual machine software hits 5 million downloads
VirtualBox is opensource and free software targeted at almost all the popular operating systems. VirtualBox is can be run on Windows, Linux , Macintosh. There is a host operating systems. As is true with most of the open source projects , VirtualBox is a community project. What is more Sun Microsystems itself is involved in this project so this software is bound to be a quality product.
In fact , VirtualBox has already become very popular more than 5 million copies have already been downloaded. VirtualBox installs itself in a meagre 30 mb disk space and the memory requirement is around 512 mb. This virtualization technology is based on virtual machines so the actual size will depend on the OS you want to host on VirtualBox. In fact, most of the operating systems are several mb in size today so a typical VirtualBox solution will cost around 500MB-2GB in disk space.
VirtualBox runs on many Windows flavours like Windows Vista, Windows XP etc. Since VirtualBox is open source you can download binaries from the site and rebuild it to suit your software platform. What is more exciting is that VirtualBox can be translated to other languages.This technology is really amazing. Being free does not mean that it lacks the features found on the professional virtualization softwares like Microsoft Virtual PC. VirtualBox boasts of some of the features found only on its closed source cousins like Remote Display Protocol (RDP) Server which allows you to connect to a remote machine using RDP client. VirtualBox also includes a virtual USB controller which allows you to access physical USB devices on the virtual machine.
Considering the features found on the VirtualBox one can easily conclude that it can revolutionize the way we see virtualization.
Sun xVM VirtualBox Breaks Five Million Download Mark; First Free ...
Sun Introduces Free Virtualization System, Includes Mac
Sun’s xVM VirtualBox: Free Virtualization
Sun VirtualBox virtual machine software hits 5 million downloads
Sun VirtualBox virtual machine software hits 5 million downloads
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