Today AMD and and Linux distributor Red Hat released a video showing the “live migration” of running virtual machines between Intel and AMD servers, using Red Hat hypervisor software.  A feat that was said to be impossible to do between AMD and Intel server platforms. Live migration moves running virtual machines (VMs) from one physical server to another without any service interruption for the end user. This has important benefits including replacing/upgrading hardware servers, balancing server loads,

I thought Marc Benioff a.k.a. “there’s no greener model than our model” made a fool of himself when he painted open source as “un-green”. It not only sends the wrong message especially to cost conscious companies, but worse, Salesforce.com chief comments reflect a complete misunderstanding of what open source really is. “Open source is the most un-green model there is. Because still every customer has to set up there own data centers, set up there own servers, install all those stuffs, its jus

Lloyd Kaplan, COO, iSuppli Speaking at the iSuppli North American Briefing this morning in San Jose, Calif., the company’s COO, Lloyd Kaplan commented on how the electronics value chain has matured with low excess inventories, “a leading indicator of inflection point”, and a concentration of capital investment (CAPEX). “The electronics value chain is much better positioned this time if we look at things like excess inventory… in reduction for the last 4 quarters. We’ve seen consolidation in CAPE

Alan Meckler, CEO, Jupitermedia Yesterday, I’ve met with serial entrepreneur and Jupitermedia CEO, Alan Meckler, at the Mobile Content & Marketing Expo. A show his company is producing in San Jose, Calif. The event which focuses on content (producing, selling, distributing…) for mobile phones attracted about 300 attendees, about a third of what was expected. It was certainly affected by the uncertainty in the economy right now. More on the show’s content in later posts. “Some companies have cancelle

For Credit Suisse managing director Storm Duncan, speaking at the AAMA Connect conference in Santa Clara, Calif., It’s just inevitable that the U.S. Government will loose money buying toxic mortgage assets from financial institutions that are pricing them much more than “fair market value”. Banks are just unwilling to sell those distressed assets, causing the liquidity problem in the market. The hope is that when the Fed starts buying the poisonous assets, the banks will free up some cash and start le

Duncan Storm, Managing Director & Co-Head of Technology M&A, Credit Suisse It’s not over before it’s over. And Credit Suisse’s managing director and co-head of technology M&A alarming comments is a bleak reminder of that. Because for Duncan Storm the end of this economic crisis is nowhere near in sight. Actually, it’s going to get much worse. “The day the Dow plunged [last Monday] everybody priced in the fact that the House is going to vote for the bailout. That was priced in a week ago and still