Alliances & Partnership Advising
A few weeks ago VMware internally released a best practices guide for running Java in Virtual Machines on ESX (pdf download). Recently it was posted on the VMware Support Technical Papers portal. This document covers subjects like:
Also check out the VROOM! post discuss how ESX Runs Java Virtual Machines with Near-Native Performance.
Sometimes you run across a technology that just makes you start salivating, something that is either so cool or so useful you want it immediately. Thanks to KentLangle I recently came across a company that has been working on wireless power and I had that moment. Imagine using your laptop anywhere in your house or office and, with no wires, and always having a full battery. That’s what wireless power promises.
Powercast’s Lifetime Power is a solution that uses special batteries and an RF receiver module to receive power wirelessly from a RF transmitter module. Image a RF transmitter built into each of your electrical outlets and all of your portable electronics using the special batteries with the RF receiver modules built into them. You would never have to plug in your devices again! Truely lifetime power for your devices…how sweet would that be! It would definitely stop the complaining about Apple’s new sealed internal batteries.
Assuming there is no health concerns from this technique, and that they can increase the wattage that can be transmitted to provide the power needs of most mobile devices today, this is truly a revolutionary technology. Now, if Powercast can only get some more funding to get the technology off the ground; based upon their website, it looks like that is what is currently holding them back.
Back before the Holiday’s the marketing team at VMware put together a great demo video of SRM (Site Recovery Manager). SRM has been getting a lot of attention from my customers lately as cost effective way of providing Disaster Recovery for virtualized applications and services.