Category: Virtualization

Hiring software development team in Ukraine: step-by-step guide & major benefits

Karan S

When it comes to hiring software developers, most companies prefer to stick close to home. But instead of hiring a development team in Canada or the US, why not look at hiring an offshore development team in Ukraine instead? Despite the recent conflict, there are many benefits to hiring your development team in Ukraine, including accessing a diverse skill set at a lower cost. Let’s dive into the details. Hiring an offshore development team in Ukraine: What does it involve? Ukraine has been on the map for all the wrong…

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VMware on Android and the Future of Desktop Computing

Karan S

What You’ll Need to Run VMware on Android VMware is virtualization software that can be installed on Android. There are some requirements to run VMware on Android, and this article will go through them. The device needs to be rooted and has an ARM processor to install VMware on Android. The device must also have at least two gigabytes of RAM and a minimum of five gigabytes of storage space available. These requirements are not hard to meet for most modern smartphones. What does VMware Android Mean for the Future…

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Niantic Labs : A Google Startup

Karan S

Niantic? Heard the name a lot lately? For the uninitiated it is the name of company which gave the World Pokemon Go. The company had its humble beginnings as an internal startup at Google in 2010, founded by John Hanke (founder of Keyhole, Inc.). The company is focused on Augmented Realty products. Their first product “Field Trip” was launched in 2012 and later in the year during November, 2012 they introduced Android only app “Ingress”. Both games/apps are based on Google Maps allowing oneself to discover things in their local…

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Run VMWare on iPad, Android, Browsers [WSX Virtual Machine]

Tarandeep Singh

We all prefere native apps on our portable devices, but the web browsers are really becoming more and more capable, thanks to efforts of Apple, Google and Mozilla. We showed you how you can Run Linux in your Browser, now its time to Virtualize any OS and Run Windows, Linux in browser on any platform. Its called WSX, VMware’s latest option relies on HTML5 to act as a VMware Viewer, ditching the native apps in favor of the browser. What this means is that you’ll be able to run Linux, Windows on…

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Install Mac OSX Snow Leopard 10.6.6 VMware on Windows PC

Tarandeep Singh

We’ve shown you how to Install Mac OS 10.7 Lion on PC, and lots of Mac OSX Snow Leopard on PC Guides now its turn to create a virtual machine instance that runs OSX 10.6.6 on VMWARE Workstation on Windows PC. Why 10.6.6? Apple introduced Mac App Store, a versatile store for Mac apps, so if you wish to try them out, here’s your easiest bet! Summary for Snow Leopard 10.6.6 VMware : We’ll download a pre-configured Vmware image for OSX 10.6.6 and then upgrade it to 10.7 Lion. Pre-requisites…

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VMWare Virtualization on LG Android Phones

Tarandeep Singh

Sure we’ve heard of Running Android inside VMWare on PCs, but how about doing the reverse? Sounds crazy? Not really, it has been made possible. Why Virtualization on your Smartphone Most professionals carry two cellphones one cell phone for work and another for personal use. However, if there exists a Phone capable of securely switching between home and work identities, and in a way your IT manager will approve of, you won’t need two. How Virtualization is Possible on Android Phones Smartphones today are powerful enough to multitask apps in…

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Virtualbox 3.2 Beta Features MacOS Guests, more

Tarandeep Singh

VirtualBox has always been leader in performance in the Virtualization world. With more than 30 million copies of VirtualBox downloaded worldwide average a rate of 50,000 per day is now more popular than VMware workstation. With Virtualbox 3.1 came the Live Migration feature as the virtualization industry’s first “Teleportation” capability, allowing running virtual machines to be moved between hosts — including different operating systems, types of computer (server to client) and CPUs (Intel to AMD). Virtualbox 3.2 takes it further, and supports “Experimental support for Mac OS X guests”. We already published…

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VMware, Salesforce create First Enterprise Java Cloud [VMforce]

Tarandeep Singh

Last weekend, Oracle announced it’s latest offering that enables Virtualization-Aware Java Applications on top of Weblogic webserver. Taking it further, is Salesforce and VMware, who are turning cloud computing into a Java runtime environment. The companies have partnered to together enable Spring framework based Java cloud. The foundation would be VMware’s vSphere virtualization infrastructure and will be hosted, of course, at Salesforce.com. VMforce (the name is obvious) will be able to host any Java application that can be built to utilize existing Salesforce’s database infrastructure. So what this means is…

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VirtualBox 3.1 Killer Features

Tarandeep Singh

VirtualBox has always been leader in performance in the Virtualization world. With more than 20 .5 million copies of VirtualBox downloaded worldwide average a rate of 40,000 per day is now getting beaten with the release of new version. Targeted at server, desktop and embedded use, it is now the only professional-quality virtualization solution that is also Open Source. What comes new in the 3.1 is the Live Migration feature as the virtualization industry’s first “Teleportation” capability, allowing running virtual machines to be moved between hosts — including different operating…

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VMWare Fusion 3: Run, Migrate Windows seamlessly to Mac OS

Tarandeep Singh

With the downfall of Windows in 2006, launch of Vista, Apple managed to get a good share in the Desktop OS world. This is the reason why we have seen phenomenal growth of Mac OS. Of course, this growth cannot leave Windows behind. Since the announcement of the new hero, Windows 7, it’s worth the hype to have it running with Mac OS. Virtualization has been around for more than decade in Zen, VMWare, VirtualBox, parallels, and several others. Of these VirtualBox is the fastest but not as feature-Rich as…

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Cisco, VMWare create “Disaster Avoidance” VMotion over Long Distance

Tarandeep Singh

VMotion, a VMware product, provides seamless OS Load balancing. VMotion allows individual virtual machines to be dynamically moved to another VMware server without impact to users. Cisco and VMware announced a method for using VMotion across data centers that are located as far apart — 200 kilometers. Users have been pushing VMware to offer a method of allowing VMotion to be used between data centers, and this reference architecture is a step in the right direction. But it is only a step and not a true failover technology. It does…

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VMWare Acquires Spring Source - Java Framework Giant - Cloud Computing Plans

Tarandeep Singh

VMWare and Java — What do the have in Common? VM - Virtual Machine. Just the name, underlying infrastructure, technology is 99.9% different. Did any one ever thought a Virtualization giant like VMWare would buy Java based Framework developer Company “Spring Source”, popular for it’s “Spring Framework”, used in most J2EE web applications today. VMWare’s acquisition of SpringSource, is the most significant development in the history of the Java development platform, after the Oracle-Sun deal. VMWare is now into serious Cloud Computing. The company sees its role in the cloud,…

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How to Run Android in VirtualBox, VMWare

Tarandeep Singh

Yea, You heard that right, Its now possible to install Google Android (mobile based OS) to your Laptop/Netbook. In actual, you don’t even have to install, it’s as easy with this live CD method. All you have to do is create a Live CD image of Google Android. Update: Install Android on PC, Netbook Natively Update 2: Install Android Froyo on PC Update 3: Run Android apps on Windows A new Project has developed that will enable you to try this new Mobile OS in a Virtual machine environment such…

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Cisco Serious on Accelerating Virtualization VN-Link

Tarandeep Singh

As we all know, virtualization and cloud computing is getting faster and more featureful. As time sneaks by, more clearer picture is being drawn in the cloudy world where things were bit smoky months back. But there is one company who’s getting therir best into Virtualization to make it a big driver for SaaS. Cisco is looking to accelerate the rate at which customers adopt and implement virtualization in their data centers. Cisco Officials said. “Demand for virtualized data centers is high due to the complexity of managing and provisioning…

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Cisco CCIE Lab Emulator, Virtualization now goes Portable. Simulate Networks

Tarandeep Singh

If you are a network professional or an enthusiast prepairing for CCNA/ CCNP / CCIE exams, probabaly you understand the true value of the Lab equiment. It’s not cheap to get allt eh routers just to pass the exam or play around with networks. Network Emulation/virtaulization has helped us to achieve this at almost no cost. The main revolution was brought by Dynamips, which exposes a flexible platform for emulation of wide range of Cisco devices. The second step was GNS3. GNS3 brought the features of dynamipps into the GUI world,…

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