Tag: Virtualization

New blades, new storage, new switches, new services, all built around virtualization. Dell is not playing games with this trend.

Dell sure has embraced EqualLogic, the storage vendor provider it acquired in January, with gusto.

The company has announced new offerings under the EqualLogic brand as well as new blade systems built with storage in mind, rather than as an add-on service. Overall, the product mix represents a strategy shift for Dell.

The PowerEdge M805 and M905 are full-height, two-socket and four-socket blades, respectively, both running AMD Dual Core or Quad Core Opteron processors. The M805 supports up to 128GB of memory while the M905 supports 192GB of memory.

Both are available with a choice of Citrix XenServer, VMware, and Microsoft's Hyper-V. Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) claims the M905 can run up to 66 virtual machines per blade. The new blades are available now, starting at $4,999 for the M905 and $1,699 for the M805.

One of the cornerstones of the landmark interoperability deal between Novell and Microsoft was virtualization.

Two years after they struck their agreement, Microsoft and Novell have extended their partnership. The partners are now finally rolling out a supported Linux on a Windows virtualization solution.

The new supported Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization offering comes as the Microsoft ramps ups it products and rhetoric ahead of VMware's own big conference in Las Vegas next week.